In an Effort to Maintain High Academic Standards, Summer Reading Is a Requirement at John A

JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2009 In an effort to maintain high academic standards, summer reading is a requirement at John A. Ferguson Senior High. Required books are listed below for each grade level and academic level. Students will be held responsible for the book(s) listed at their academic level. Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school year. Students who read at least one of the non-required books listed on their grade and academic level can be eligible for extra credit at their teachers’ discretion.

Grade 9 Regular (* is required & choose 1) Grade 11 Regular (* is required & choose 1) *The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima *To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Maus I by Art Spiegelman Sunshine by Robin McKinley The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher Dead Zone by Stephen King

Grade 9 Honors (* is required & choose 1) Grade 11 Honors (* is required & choose 1) *The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima *To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Watchmen by Alan Moore Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Grade 9 Gifted (* is required) Grade 11 Gifted (* is required) * The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima * To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee *Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury *Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon Watchmen by Alan Moore It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Grade 9 Pre-I.B. (all) Grade 11 Int. Baccalaureate (all) The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Perfume by Patrick Suskind The City of Beasts by Isabel Allende 1984 by George Orwell MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Grade 10 Regular (* is required & choose 1) *Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin A.P. Language & Composition - Grade 11 (* is Lee required & choose 1) Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers *Love is a Mix tape: Life, and Loss, One Song at a Time Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley by Rob Sheffield Tell No One by Harlan Coben In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Grade 10 Honors (* is required & choose 1) * Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Grade 12 Regular (* is required & choose 1) Edwin Lee *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Krik?Krak! by Edwidge Danticat Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

Grade 10 Gifted (* is required) Grade 12 Honors (* is required & choose 1) * Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Edwin Lee Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel *Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Siddartha by Herman Hesse Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Krik?Krak! by Edwidge Danticat Grade 12 Gifted (* is required) A.P. Literature – Gr. 10 Pre-I.B. (all) *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen In Cold Blood by Truman Capote *Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Siddartha by Herman Hesse Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition 2008 Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Grade 12 International Baccalaureate (all) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood All My Sons by Arthur Miller

A.P. Literature and Composition – Grade 12 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë