FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading 2017 The purpose of summer reading in FBISD is to engage students in an enjoyable reading experience that maintains and fosters literacy.
Austin High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Select one book from the AHS 9th grade Summer Reading List found at Select from the AHS 9th grade Summer http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ English Reading List found at I http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ Read the Selected Short Stories – To access the stories and assignments, go to http://austinapenglish.weebly.com Required: Lord of the Flies by William Golding AND English One book from the 10th grade Young Adult Library II Services Association (YALSA) novel found at http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/. This website also has information and assignments.
Required: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein AND English Locate six editorials/commentaries/essays from III reputable newspapers or magazines on topics of interest to you. See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for summer reading assignments and information. Required: Choose one of the following: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley King Lear by William Shakespeare English Dune by Frank Herbert IV The Firm by John Grisham See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for summer reading assignments and information. Bush High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Choose one book from the list Required: Choose one fiction and one nonfiction from below: the list below. Fiction: Fiction: Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Chbosky The Fault in our Stars by John Green The Fault in our Stars by John Green Maze Runner (any in the series) by James Dasher Maze Runner (any in the series) by James Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica Roth English Dasher Crossover by Kwame Alexander I Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton Roth Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson Crossover by Kwame Alexander Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton The Uglies by Scott Westerfield Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse The Uglies by Scott Westerfield Anderson FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Tomboy by Liz Prince Halse Anderson Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman Tomboy by Liz Prince Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King Riggs Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman Non-fiction: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon Children by Ransom Riggs The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell Non-fiction: Getting Away with Murder by Christopher Crowe The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Getting Away with Murder by Christopher Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs Crowe Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Alex Haley Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Larson as told to Alex Haley Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
English II Required: Required: English The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne AND III Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Hope, and Death in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo English Required: Required: IV The Metamporphosis by Franz Kafka Grendel by John Green Clements High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card English See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for information I on assignments. Required: 1984 by George Orwell AND choose one of the following: English The Help by Kathryn Stockett II The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas No Required Reading (translated and abridged by Lowell Bair) Please refer to the general district Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers summer school information for book Required: The Crucible by Arthur Miller suggestions. AND one of the following non-fiction texts: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell English Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner III David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for information on assignments. Required: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Peavear and Larissa Volokhonsky AND one of the following (not previously read): One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger English OR select a title from the list of former Question 3 IV prompts on the College Board website: https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap- english-literature-and-composition/exam-practice Scroll down to the “Free-Response Prompts” (2001- 2016). Click on “Free-Response Questions.” Scroll down to “Question 3” with a list of titles for the year you clicked. For more titles, click on another year, and repeat steps 1-3. Dulles High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Choose one of the following: Required: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Blink by Malcolm Gladwell The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson and AND choose one of the following: English the Olympians) by Rick Riordan The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros I Stiff-The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque by Mary Roach The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time by Mark Warm Bodies-A Novel by Issac Marion. Haddon The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar Required: Choose one of the following: Required: Scorpions by Walter Dean Meyers 1984 by George Orwell Gone (the series) by Michael Grant Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly The Goats by Brock Cole So Yesterday by Scott Westerfield English I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak II The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night- time by Mark Haddon Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
Required: Choose one of the following: Required: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly AND English The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Choose one of the following: III Rebeccas Skloot My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Heaven by Sherman Alexie Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
No Country for Old Men by Cormac The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead McCarthy True Grit by Charles Portis The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver The Girls in the Garden by Kamila Nair
Required: Choose one of the following: Required: How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien Thomas Foster Blood Meridian by AND English The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Choose one of the following: IV The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Underground Railroad by Colson The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Whitehead A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Elkins High School On Level PreAP/AP English Required: The House on Mango Street by Sandra I Cisneros English Required: Lord of the Flies by William Golding II English Required: Beloved by Toni Morrison AND Pilgrim on III Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Foster AND choose one of the following: Required: Choose ONE title from the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce current or past Texas Library Association In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lone Star Award Lists. You can see the lists Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston at Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving or Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky English past Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte IV A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Awakening by Kate Chopin All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Frankenstein by Mary Shelly Life of Pi by Yann Martel Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Hightower High School On Level PreAP/AP English Required: Required: Buried Onions by Gary Soto I The Color of Water by James McBride AND choose one of the following: FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lam The Color of Water by James McBride Required: Required: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines English The Help by Kathryn Stockett II Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals Required: Required: English All the Pretty Horses by Cormack The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien III McCarthy The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Required: Required: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Brave New World by Aldous Huxley English
IV College Now Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Kempner High School On Level PreAP/AP Choose one title from the Texas Library Association’s English Lone Star Reading List 2017. Find the list at I http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star Choose one title from the top ten books on the Texas Library Association’s TAYSHAS List 2017: The Reader by Traci Chee Court of Fives by Kate Elliott Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue English Hitchcock II Burn Baby Burn by Med Medina No Required Reading Replica by Lauren Oliver Please refer to the general district Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel summer school information for book Salt to the Seai by Ruta Sepetys suggestions. The Emperor of AnyPlace by Tim Wynne-jones The Serpent King by Jeff Sentner English Required: Dune by Frank Herbert III Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster AND Life of Pi by Yann Martel
English AP Art History IV The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol Strickland and John Boswell Marshall High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Required: English Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd I The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Required: Required: Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to English the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo II Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals Beals Lord of the Flies by William Golding Lord of the Flies by William Golding Required: I Know Why the Caged Bird Required: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya English Sings by Maya Angelou Angelou III Night by Elie Weisel Night by Elie Weisel Required: Required: English The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe IV Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Ridge Point High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Choose ONE of the following: Required: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Buried Onions by Gary Soto OR Hiroshima by John The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Hersey, English AND I I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education…by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb OR The Color of Water by James McBride
Required: The Pearl by John Steinbeck Required: 1984 by George Orwell, English AND II The Pearl by John Steinbeck Required: Choose ONE of the following: Required: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, English Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton AND III The Firm by John Grisham China Boy by Gus Lee, OR Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston Required: Choose ONE of the following Required: The Stranger by Albert Camus titles: AND Choose one of the following: Ulysses by James Joyce The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr English Kesey The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt IV Life of Pi by Yann Martel College Now Required: The Stranger by Albert Camus AND David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell,
Travis High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Choose ONE from the following Required: list: The Color of Water by James McBride A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly AND The Enemy by Charlie Higson Choose ONE from the following list: English The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch Mexican White Boy by Matt de la Pena I The Color of Water by James McBride A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Enemy by Charlie Higson Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch I Am Malala by Malala Youszafi The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros GSA Choose ONE book from the following list: A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly The Enemy by Charlie Higson The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch The Color of Water by James McBride Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden I Am Malala by Malala Youszafi The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Required: Choose ONE book from the Required: following: The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green AND and David Levithan Choose ONE book from the following: Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-time The Alchemist by Paul Coelho English by Mark Haddon Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri II Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray In the Time of Butterflies by Julie Alvarez Bradbury The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the last Tsar by Robert Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals Zimmerman Unwind by Neal Shusterman The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Required: Choose ONE of the following: Required: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger AND choose ONE of the following: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr English GSA III Required: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky AND choose ONE of the following: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Required: Required: English Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick AND IV War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Willowridge High School On Level PreAP/AP Required: Choose one of the following: Animal Farm by George Orwell English Animal Farm by George Orwell AND I House on Mango Street by Sandra Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper Cisneros FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
Required: Lord of the Flies by William Golding English Lord of the Flies by William Golding AND II Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Required: Choose one of the following: Frekonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dauber English Black Boy by Richard Wright AND III Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer OR Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Required: Choose one of the following: Required: The Underground Railroad by Colson How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas English Whitehead Foster IV Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement AND choose One of the following: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Song of the Shank by Jeffrey Renard Allen The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner