AUSTIN WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL 9th SUMMER READING 2018

Dear students,

Listed below are the summer reading requirements and suggestions:

REQUIRED READING: 1. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (all school summer reading for first day of school).

OPTIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL READING and Activities: (All are optional and not required. Book titles are relevant to 9th grade Humanities blocks). 1. House of Purple Cedar by Tim Tingle 2. Go to an art museum and sketch 3. Go see a play and write a brief commentary 4. Use an atlas or map to chart your summer trips

For your own enjoyment-please choose as you wish from the list below: NINTH GRADE RECOMMENDED READING LIST – Fiction: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Any in series) Douglas Adams Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven Sherman Alexie Warriors Don’t Cry Melba Patillo Beals Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck The Alchemist Paulo Coelho I Am the Cheese Robert Cormier The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven Boy Roald Dahl Great Expectations Charles Dickens A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier Silas Marner George Eliot The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time Mark Haddon The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Dune Frank Herbert A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving The Word for World is Forest, The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. LeGuin Zenzele J. Nozipo Maraire The Life of Pi Yann Martel The Old Order (Short stories) Katherine Anne Porter Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Travels with Charley, The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Treasure Island Robert Lewis Stevenson The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings (Any of the trilogy) J.R.R Tolkien Life on the Mississippi or others Mark Twain A Story Like the Wind or others Laurens van der Post 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne The Time Machine H.G. Wells The Once and Future King Theodore H. White The Journey to the West (aka Monkey or The Monkey King) Ch’Eng-En Wu

Drama, Poetry, and Sacred Writing: Maya Angelou: Poems A Raisin in the Sun (Drama) Lorraine Hansberry The Rumi Collection (Poems) ed. Kabir Helminski The Glass Hammer (Poems) Andrew Hudgins Most Way Home (Poems) Kevin Young Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It William Shakespeare

Non-Fiction: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Narrow Road to the Interior Matsuo Basho Silent Spring Rachel Carson Talking Peace Jimmy Carter My Land, My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet The Essential Gandhi Louis Fischer, ed. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Coal: A Human History Barabara Freese A Reason for Hope Jane Goodall Black Like Me John Griffin All Creatures Great and Small James Harriot Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy Ishi, Last of His Tribe Theodora Kroeber Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela The Science of Sherlock Holmes E.J. Wagner