New Kid by Jerry Craft and One Book from Either List

2021 Summer Reading

REQUIRED READING FOR ENGLISH 7: N ew Kid b y Jerry Craft AND one book from either list below.

REQUIRED READING FOR ENGLISH 8: H ow the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents b y Julia Alvarez AND one book from either list below.

REQUIRED READING FOR ENGLISH 9: T he 57 Bus b y Dashka Slater AND one book from EACH list below.

In the fall, your teachers will assign both classwork and homework related to the required text. Each book is selected to connect with the rst unit of the school year. In addition, you are expected to annotate each book you read.

CONTEMPORARY

● Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

● The Red Pencil b y Andrea Davis Pinkney ● A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson ● All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan ● Beast Rider by Tony Johnston ● Black Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald Smith ● Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson ● Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram ● Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos ● Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick ● Dry by Neal Shusterman ● Endurance by Alfred Lansing ● Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott ● Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger ● Ghost by Jason Reynolds ● Girls Like Us by Gail Giles ● Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly ● How to Be a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery ● Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai ● Internment by Samira Ahmed ● Lovely, Dark and Deep by Justina Chen ● Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar ● One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia ● Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar ● Sparrow by Sarah Moon ● The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown ● The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts ● The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo ● Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson ● Warcross by Marie Lu ● We Were Liars by E. Lockhart ● Wires and Nerve by Marissa Meyer

CLASSICS

● A Separate Peace by John Knowles

● Anne of Green Gables b y L. M. Montgomery ● Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ● Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ● Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne ● Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ● Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass ● The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ● The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ● The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver ● The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ● The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin ● The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma ● The Giver b y Lois Lowry ● The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien ● The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ● The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton ● The Princess Bride by William Goldman ● The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells ● The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare ● Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ● To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ● Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls