RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING LIST – SUMMER 2012 Supplemental for enrichment

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CAN VISIT THE COLLEGE BOARD WEBSITE: 101 BOOKS FOR COLLEGE BOUND READERS http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html

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11TH/12TH Regular and Honors: Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Passage to India E. M. Forster A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

9TH /10TH Regular and Honors: The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck I heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Animal Farm George Orwell Required Summer Reading: The Time Machine H.G. Wells The Illiad Homer

8TH Rip Van Winkle & the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving The Captive Scott O’Dell Authors: Charles Dickens, Collier & Collier, Susan Cooper, Tolkien

7TH The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank The Last of the Mohicans James Fennimore Cooper Authors: Gary Paulsen, Katherine Patterson, Paula Fox, Lloyd Alexander

(Elementary Reading on Back)

ELEMENTARY STUDENTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO JOIN THEIR LOCAL LIBRARY SUMMER READING PROGRAM

6TH Escape from Warsaw Ian Serraillier The Great Brain John Fitzgerald The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster One More River to Cross: The Stories of Twelve Black Americans James Haskins

5TH The Eighteenth Emergency Betsy Byars The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth G. Speare Island of the Blue Dolphin Scott O’Dell The Rescuers Margery Sharp

4TH Henry and Beezus Beverly Clearly Abel’s Island William Steig Ben and Me (one in the series) Robert Lawson The Enormous Egg Oliver Butterworth The Borrowers Mary Norton

3RD Ralph S. Mouse Beverly Cleary Boxcar Children (series) Gertrude Chandler Warner Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Betty MacDonald Encyclopedia Brown (one in the mystery series) Donald Sobol The Chocolate Touch Patrick Catling Swindle Gordon Korman Magic Tree House (series) Mary Pope Osborne The Mouse and the Motorcycle Beverly Clearly Ramona Quimby Beverly Clearly Geronimo Stilton Geronimo Stilton

2ND Henry & Mudge (one in series) Cynthia Rylant Cam Jansen (one in series) David Adler Amelia Bedelia (one in series) Peggy Parish Frog and Toad series 3 Arnold Lobel

1ST Arthur’s Reading Race Marc Brown Clifford the Big Red Dog Norman Bridwell The Berenstain Bears, Ready, Get Set, Go! Jan and Stan Berenstain Biscuit Capucilli, Alyssa Satin Hop on Pop Dr. Seuss Is Your Mama a Llama? Guarino, Deborah Young Cam Jansen (one in series) David Adler