H. Frank Carey High School

Instructions: Students will be expected to read one required book and one book of their choice (suggestions can be found following required reading lists) and complete the independent reading assignment (also below).

Students Entering 7R: Homecoming by Cynthia Voight

Students Entering 7A: Homecoming by Cynthia Voight

Students Entering 8R: That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton

Students Entering 8A: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Students Entering 9R: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Students Entering 9A: House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Students Entering 10R: Fahrenheit 45 by Ray Bradbury

Students Entering 10A: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Students Entering 11R: Secret Life of Bees by Susan Monk Kidd

Students Entering 11AP: Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Students Entering 12R: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Students Entering 12AP: Teacher's Discretion

Suggested Titles for Junior High Students

Around the World in 80 Days Bud not Buddy The Million Dollar Shot Car Trouble A Murder for Her Majesty The Cases that Haunt Us Nancy Drew Mystery City of Ember Number the Stars Corner of the Universe Race for the Sky Dollhouse Murders Series of Unfortunate Events Eldest Star Girl Eragon Stranger with My Face Gathering Blue The Supernaturalist Harry Potter The Swiss Family Robinson Hatchet A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Holes Treasure Island House of Tailors Vanishing Act Inkheart The Uglies Trilogy (only one of them) Inkspell The Watsons go to Birmingham Last Shot The Wave Library Card The Westing Game Little Women The Witches The Lost Boy

Suggested Titles for SENIOR HIGH Students

All Around the Town The Fabric of the Universe On The Road America Fast Food Nation Only if You Could See Me Angels and Demons Fight Book Now Annie's Baby The Five People You Meet The Origin of Time Anthem in Heaven The Other Boleyn Girl Are Men Necessary? Flags of our Fathers Over the Wall Artemis Fowl The Fountainhead The Pact Black Hawk Down Freakonomics Painting the Black Blood and Chocolate George's Passion Pandora's Box The Bluest Eye Girl Interrupted Perks of Being a Wallflower The Body of Christopher Go Ask Alice The Picture of Dorian Gray Creed Green Angel The Prince The Boy Who Saved Harry Potter The Princess Bride Baseball The Hobbit The Princess Diaries Bright Lights Big City I'm Not Who You Think I Am Prozac Nation Candide Infinite Jest Rainbow Six Children of the Mind Just Listen The Real Panda Confessions of an Ugly Leadership Secrets of Attila The Red Tent Stepsister the Hun Running with Scissors Letters from Rifka The Scarlet Letter The Da Vinci Code Life Expectancy The Secret Daddy's Little Girl The Life of Pi Sherlock Holmes Series Daughters of the Moon Lily's Crossing Sophie's Choice Deception Story of a Girl Define Normal The Lovely Bones The Tender Bar The Devil Wears Prada Loves Music, Loves to The Thirteenth Tale Diary Lullaby Dance The Time Machine Don't Die My Love Madam Bovary They Cage the Animals at Doors of the Moon and Suns The Memory Keeper's Night of the Dark Daughter Tuesdays with Morrie Eldest Middlesex Twilight Emma and Me A Million Little Pieces Uncle Tom’s Cabin Enough About Me My Sister's Keeper War and Peace Eragon The Namesake Wicked Everything is Illuminated New Moon Extremely Loud and No Second Chance Incredibly Close The Notebook Independent Reading Assignment

Students will read a book of their choice and complete ONE of the following creative projects. The length of the written assignments should be between one and two pages.

Junior High Students (Grades 7 & 8)

Choose an astrological sign for each of the main characters and explain why the character fits the sign’s criteria. Create an original book cover. Choose a scene in the book and create a two-minute soundtrack for the scene. Design and draw costumes for the main characters. Write a letter to one of the characters about an incident in the book. Create a comic book of one of the events in the novel. Write a poem that expresses the novel’s theme.

Senior High Students (Grades 9-12)

Retell part of the story from the point of view of another character. Create a board game that reflects the plot of the novel. Compose a two minute soundtrack that expresses the theme of the novel. Write an alternative ending for the book. Write a news story on an important event in the novel. Create a comic book of the novel. Create a power-point presentation of the novel. Write diary entries for the main characters during crucial points in the story.