Summer 2013 Reading Book List

Incoming Grades 10 - 12 Book Title Author Incoming Grade The Runner Cynthia Voigt 10th grade

Thwonk Joan Bauer 10th grade

Big Field Mike Lupica 10th grade

The Painted House John Grisham 10th grade

The Rescue Nicholas Sparks 10th grade

Cuba 15 Nancu Osa 10th grade

Always Running: La Vida Loca Luis Rodriguez 10th grade

Armageddon Summer Jane Yolen 10th grade

Backfield Package Thomas Dyard 10th grade

Romiette & Julio Sharon Draper 10th grade

Maximum Ride Series James Paterson 10th grade

Downsiders Neal Shusterman 11th grade

Where are the Children? Mary Higgins Clark 11th grade

The Rescue Nicholas Sparks 11th grade

The Natural Bernard Malamud 11th grade

The Color of Water James McBride 11th grade The Good Earth Pearls S. Buck 11th grade

Romiette & Julio Sharon Draper 11th grade

Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 11th grade

The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka 11th grade

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley 11th grade

Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 11th grade

Barak Obama 12th grade Dreams from my Father: a story of race & inheritance Toni Morrison 12th grade The Bluest Eye Rita Williams-Garcia 12th grade Fast Talk on a Slow Track Jamie Ford 12th grade Hotel on the Corner of Bitter Sweet Pearl S. Buck 12th grade The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Truman Capote 12th grade In Cold Blood Chris Crutcher 12th grade Whale Talk Jack Gantos 12th grade Hole in My Life Tim Tebow & Nathan 12th grade Through My Eyes Whitaker John Prendergras & 12th grade Unlikely Brothers Michael Mattocks AP LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 11th grade

Things They Carried Tom O’Brien 11th grade

AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 12th grade

The Stranger Albert Camus 12th grade