Grades 9-12 Reading Lists

Summer Reading Challenge Summer Reading Survey

This summer, read any 10 books from the FBS Library’s Top 20 recommendations for 9th-11th grade to earn a trip to Sky High in Which book was your favorite? the fall. The 9th grade list and covers for the 10th-11th grade lists are inside. All lists are online. All logs must be submitted by the end of Back to School Night to qualify for Sky High. What did you like about it? As you finish each book, record the title, author, and date finished on one of the lines below. (Only 1 book per series or author counts for the challenge.) When all 10 lines are complete, turn it in to the school library or office. Complete the survey on If you had the opportunity to be in a movie version of one of the the back for an extra treat. books, which book would you choose, and which character would CHALLENGE All single titles and a selection of each series listed may be SUMMERSUMMER borrowed from the school library. Some titles are also available you play? digitally, as marked inside. Summer library hours will be posted at the school office. READINGREADING Reading Log How many of the books have you read before?

Student Name Grade in Fall

How did you choose which books to read? Parent Signature - indicates student has read all 10 books listed

1. Did you read any other books this summer?

2. If so, about how many? FAITH BAPTIST SUMMER 2017 Optional: On a separate sheet of paper, draw a picture of a 3. READING CHALLENGE scene from any of the books. Which book did you draw a scene Grade 9 4. from?

8. LAUNCHLAUNCH OUTOUT ON A 9. GALACTIC EXPLORATION 10. Over Sea, Under Stone The Hawk that Dare Not Hunt by Day FBS Library’s Top Twenty Susan Cooper Scott O’Dell

Three modern children find themselves on a Set during the reformation, this historical fiction Recommendations for Summer Reading quest for the grail from the legend of King novel tells the story of William Tyndale through Going into Grade 9 Arthur. (196 p., F COO s.Dar v.1) the eyes of a young smuggler. (222 p., JF ODE)  Marked titles are available digitally through MackinVia.com

Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure Blind Spot On Hope’s Wings Chris Fabry Melody Carlson in Words and Numbers Pendred Noyce The first in a 4-book series switches between 2 Set just after WWII, Allison runs away after different, suspenseful Nascar stories involving a finding a clue about the father she has never Two cousins puzzle their way through a boy who has grown up riding the circuit with known. (188 p., F CAR s.All v.01) strange world to rescue the lost children of his father and a girl who intends to be the first Lexicon. (304 p., F NOY s.Lex v.1) female cup winner. (230 p., F FAB s.RPM v.01)

Where the Sidewalk Ends The Sign of the Beaver No Promises in the Wind Shel Silverstein Elizabeth George Speare Irene Hunt

A collection of humorous poems and drawings A young boy is on his own for a summer after 15-year-old Josh, his best friend Howie and his including Sick (reasons to miss school), For Sale his father has to return East for his mother and younger brother Joey set off on their own in (one sister) and It’s Dark in Here (written inside sister. (135 p., JF SPE) the midst of the Great Depression. a lion). (166 p., 808.81 SIL) (184 p., F HUN) 

When the Legends Die The Hound of the Baskervilles The Devil’s Arithmetic Hal Borland Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jane Yolen

A Native American couple raise their young boy in When a militated body is found, fear frozen in 12-year-old Hannah is tired of the Holocaust the old traditions in the 1910’s, but when he is its eyes, rumor claims the man was yet another stories told at every family gathering, but discovered in the woods after both have died, he is victim of a supernatural hound. Join Sherlock when she opens the door at Passover she forced to return to society. (304 p., F BOR) Holmes as he takes the case. finds herself transported back in time to see it  (124 p., C DOY Hou) for herself. (170 p., F YOL)  Game Changer When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit The Underdogs Margaret Peterson Haddix Judith Kerr Mike Lupica

When a softball star blacks out, she wakes up in An autobiographical novel of a 9-year-old Jewish Will Tyler loves football, but his small town is a world where everyone learns sports and the girl whose normal life is shattered when her almost a ghost town and there is no money left after-school extracurricular activities are aca- father disappears shortly before her mother for things like sports teams. Can Will and his demic. (250 p., F HAD) hurries the rest of the family out of Germany. teammates –or what is left of them– find a way (191 p., F KER) to play? (294 p., F LUP)

Death Trap All the Broken Pieces Life Behind the Wall Sigmund Brouwer Ann Burg Robert Elmer

14-year-old virtual reality specialist Tyce was Matt is adopted by an American family after Three books in one, each about teens living born in an experimental colony on Mars. Now being air-lifted from the warzone in Vietnam. near the Berlin Wall. the air supply is running dangerously low. Told in poetry, this story shares his struggles (528 p., F ELM) (288 p. F BRO s.Rob v.01) between his current life, his past, and the views Note: Any 1 of the 3 stories counts for the of those around him. (218 p., F BUR) challenge.

The Unwanteds Rifles for Watie Viking Quest Lisa McMann Harold Keith Lois Walfrid Johnson

Creativity is so unwanted in Quill that children A Civil War novel focused on the lesser- Two Irish teens are captured by Vikings. who show any sign of it are sent to be elimi- known Western campaign will be especially (208-304 p., F JOH s.Vik) nated… as far as everyone knows. enjoyed by fans of Johnny Tremain or Across (400 p., F MCM s.Unw v.01) Five Aprils. (332 p., JF KEI) Summer Reading Challenge Summer Reading Survey

This summer, read any 10 books from the FBS Library’s Top 20 recommendations for 10th-12th grade to earn a trip to Sky High Which book was your favorite? in the fall. The 10th grade list and covers for the 11th-12th grade lists are inside. All lists are online. All logs must be submitted by the end of Back to School Night to qualify for Sky High. What did you like about it? As you finish each book, record the title, author, and date finished on one of the lines below. (Only 1 book per series or author counts for the challenge.) When all 10 lines are complete, turn it in to the school library or office. Complete the survey on If you had the opportunity to be in a movie version of one of the the back for an extra treat. books, which book would you choose, and which character would CHALLENGE All single titles and a selection of each series listed may be SUMMERSUMMER borrowed from the school library. Some titles are also available you play? digitally, as marked inside. Summer library hours will be posted at the school office. READINGREADING Reading Log How many of the books have you read before?

Student Name Grade in Fall

How did you choose which books to read? Parent Signature - indicates student has read all 10 books listed

1. Did you read any other books this summer?

8. LAUNCHLAUNCH OUTOUT ON A 9. GALACTIC EXPLORATION 10. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Katy’s New World FBS Library’s Top Twenty Mildred D. Taylor Kim Vogel Sawyer

A family struggles against racism in depression- Katy longs to learn more and finally gets the Recommendations for Summer Reading era Mississippi in this sad portrait of life at the elders approval to attend the local high school time. (210 p., JF TAY) and learn beyond the ninth-grade level that is Going into Grade 10 normal in her Mennonite community.  Marked titles are available digitally through MackinVia.com (203 p., F SAW s.Kat v.01) 

All Fall Down The Diary of a Young Girl Book of a Thousand Days Ally Carter Anne Frank Shannon Hale

After moving to the US Embassy to live with her A translation of the actual diary kept by 13- Rewritten as a fantasy book for teens, this ambassador grandfather, a teen overhears two year-old Anne Frank over the two years her story is based on Maid Maleen, a little-known men plotting. When one moves into view, she family spent hidden in a secret portion of an tale from the Brothers Grimm. (305 p., F HAL) realizes he is the man she saw kill her mother. office building before being discovered by the (304 p., F CAR s.Amb v.01) Gestapo. (304 p., B 940 FRA)

Hero Jane Eyre Mark of the Thief Mike Lupica Charlotte Bronte Jennifer Nielsen

14-year-old Billy is determined to learn the Having survived cruel relatives and an oppres- A slave boy escapes the Roman mines only to truth behind his father’s death, and in the pro- sive boarding school, Jane Eyre lands a gover- find himself in the middle of a conspiracy be- cess discovers he has inherited superpowers he ness position only to encounter a dark secret tween the emperor and the leaders of Rome. never knew his father had. (293 p., F LUP) at her first posting. (186 p., C BRO Jan) (352 p., F NIE) 

Hattie Big Sky If the Witness Lied Theodore Boone: The Accused Kirby Larson Caroline B. Cooney John Grisham

When Hattie inherits her uncle’s claim in Mon- Still reeling from a media hounded tragedy, 3 After a kid lawyer is accused of robbing a com- tana, she decides to move west and finish the teens try to protect their 3-year-old brother puter store, evidence begins to build against work needed to own the land. Based an true from even more publicity as well as something him. Meanwhile, the suspect in a local murder events in the life of the author’s grandmother. much more dangerous. (213 p., F COO) trial disappears. (285 p., F GRI) (289 p., F LAR)

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Counting by 7s Asking for Trouble Joan Aiken Holly Goldberg Sloan Sandra Byrd

Two cousins find themselves in an orphanage When the adoptive parents of a young, special A 15-year-old who just moved to London lies after their governess falsifies paperwork in an needs genius are killed, she struggles to func- about her past experience to get her dream attempt to steal their inheritance. tion as she manipulates her circumstances to spot writing for a school newspaper. (160 p., F AIK) keep things as normal as possible. (272 p., F BYR s.Lon v.01)  (384 p., F SLO)

Red Thread Sisters Chosen Real TV Carol Antoinette Peacock Ted Dekker Wendy Lawton

After an 11-year-old orphan is adopted from Four teens, selected from thousands, are sent on A fictional Christian series based on popular China she struggles with worry that she will be a mission to recover the seven Lost Books of reality shows, these books show the truth sent back as she tries to find a way for her 13-year History before the Dark One can find them. behind the reality and put it into perspective. -old red thread sister to be adopted before turn- (260 p., F DEK s.Los v.01) (192-224 p., F LAW s.Rea) ing 14, when it will be too late. (236 p., JF PEA)

Anne of Green Gables The Last of the Mohicans The Wormling L.M. Montgomery James Fenimore Cooper Chris Fabry & Jerry B. Jenkins

Matthew and his sister, Marilla, decide to adopt The last few Mohicans and the British live in Ordinary Owen finds himself in a battle that a boy to help on the farm, but their lives are peace with each other until the daughters of a will affect two worlds - his own and a strange turned upside down by a dramatic girl with a British officer are kidnapped during the French new one. (336-368 p., F JEN s.Wor) big imagination who arrives instead. and Indian War. (427 p., C COO Las) (308 p., JF MON s.Ann v.01)   Summer Reading Challenge Summer Reading Survey

This summer, read any 10 books from the FBS Library’s Top 20 recommendations for 11th-12th grade to earn a trip to Sky High Which book was your favorite? in the fall. The 11th grade list and covers for the 12th grade list are inside. All lists are online. All logs must be submitted by the end of Back to School Night to qualify for Sky High. What did you like about it? As you finish each book, record the title, author, and date finished on one of the lines below. (Only 1 book per series or author counts for the challenge.) When all 10 lines are complete, turn it in to the school library or office. Complete the survey on If you had the opportunity to be in a movie version of one of the the back for an extra treat. books, which book would you choose, and which character would CHALLENGE All single titles and a selection of each series listed may be SUMMERSUMMER borrowed from the school library. Some titles are also available you play? digitally, as marked inside. Summer library hours will be posted at the school office. READINGREADING Reading Log How many of the books have you read before?

Student Name Grade in Fall

How did you choose which books to read? Parent Signature - indicates student has read all 10 books listed

1. Did you read any other books this summer?

8. LAUNCHLAUNCH OUTOUT ON A 9. GALACTIC EXPLORATION 10. The Meeting Place Prisoners of Hope FBS Library’s Top Twenty Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer

Two women, one French and one British, meet Two young women were serving the poor in Recommendations for Summer Reading while picking wildflowers. Their fast friendship Afghanistan when they landed in a Taliban is threatened by growing political tensions in a prison. This is their story. Going into Grade 11 Canadian branch of the French and Indian War. (309 p., B 266 CUR)  Marked titles are available digitally through MackinVia.com (282 p., F OKE s.Son v.01) 

The Pinball Effect Stick a Geranium in Your Hat Danger in the Shadows James Burke and Be Happy! Dee Henderson Explore cause and effect as you flip from one Barbara Johnson Her life depends on her ability to stay out of section to another and see how seemingly the spotlight. As she fights to remain in hiding, With the them that “pain is inevitable but random topics are interconnected. mementos from her childhood kidnapper get misery is optional” the author humorously (310 p., 600 BUR) more personal. (320 p., F HEN s.Oma v.0) shares ways to find the joy of the Lord. (179 p., 248.8 JOH)

The Phantom of the Left Behind The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Opera Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins John Boyne Gaston Leroux After millions of people suddenly and simulta- Bruno’s new home next to a strange fence lead neously disappear, a widowed airline pilot and A girl takes voice lessons from an insane and to the discovery of a boy in striped pajamas his only surviving child join the world in a disfigured genius who helped build the opera living a life very different from his own. search for answers. (342 p., F LaH) house and now lives there in secret. (231 p., F BOY) (206 p., C LER Pha)  Wine of Morning Christy The Giver Bob Jones Catherine Marshall Lois Lowry

The story of Christ as seen through the eyes 19-year-old Christy leaves home to teach in a When Jonas becomes a Receiver of Memory of Barabbas, who was released to the Jews small mountain community in 1912. The he begins to realize that the ideal world he instead of Jesus. (138 p., F JON) impoverished culture is a far cry from what lives in is held together with dark secrets. she is used to, and she learns much in her (240 p., F LOW) struggle to understand a new way of thinking. (512 p., F MAR) Ben Hur Lorna Doone An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Lewis Wallace R.D. Blackmoore Ambrose Bierce A story of courage, revenge, redemption, and A classic novel with a complicated plot of adven- A soldier caught trying to destroy a bridge is salvation set during the time of Christ and ture and romance, this book starts slow but is sentenced to hang. (32 p., F BIE) based on aspects of the author’s own life. worth wading through the first few chapters. (352 p., F WAL) (566 p., F DOO) 

Lincoln’s Grave Robbers 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Ready or Not Steve Sheinkin Sean Covey Chautona Havig

This true crime thriller gives readers a view A combination of cartoons, real-life stories, Aggie has scarcely finished college when she is into a world of counterfeiting, grave robbery, and step-by-step guides, this book helps teens met with the shock that her sister and broth- and the early days of the Secret Service. develop personal road maps of their lives. er-in-law have died and left her sole guardian (214 p., 973.7 SHE) (288 p., 158.08 COV) of their 8 children. (348 p., F HAV s.Agg v.01)

In Between Sanctuary A Young Man/Woman Jenny B. Jones Beverly & David Lewis After God’s Own Heart

Katy doesn’t even want to give her new foster When Melissa’s husband comes home he finds Jim/Elisabeth George

parents a chance. She just wants to go back to a deserted house and a short note: "Please Discover the adventure of pursuing the familiarity of the group home. Just as she trust me... don't look for me.... " God in these Bible studies for teens. starts to feel comfortable, she ends up in trou- (320 p., F LEW) (208-224 p., 248.83 GEO) ble with the local police. (347 p., F JON) Summer Reading Challenge Summer Reading Survey

This summer, read any 10 books from the FBS Library’s Top 20 recommendations for 12th grade (listed inside) to earn a trip to Which book was your favorite? Sky High in the fall. You may also choose to substitute up to 3 books with anything of your choice that is of a similar level, so long as they are new to you and not required for school (summer or coming year). What did you like about it? All logs must be submitted by the end of Back to School Night to qualify for Sky High.

As you finish each book, record the title, author, and date If you had the opportunity to be in a movie version of one of the finished on one of the lines below. (Only 1 book per series or author counts for the challenge.) When all 10 lines are complete, books, which book would you choose, and which character would turn it in to the school library or office. Complete the survey on CHALLENGE the back for an extra treat. SUMMERSUMMER you play? All single titles and a selection of each series listed may be borrowed from the school library. Some titles are also available digitally, as marked inside. Summer library hours will be posted READINGREADING at the school office.

Reading Log How many of the books have you read before?

Student Name Grade in Fall How did you choose which books to read? Parent Signature - indicates student has read all 10 books listed

1. Did you read any other books this summer?

If so, about how many? 2. FAITH BAPTIST SUMMER 2017 Optional: On a separate sheet of paper, draw a picture of a READING CHALLENGE 3. scene from any of the books. Which book did you draw a scene Grade 12 from? 4.

7. LAUNCHLAUNCH OUTOUT 8. ON A 9. GALACTIC EXPLORATION

10. After Hello Courageous FBS Library’s Top Twenty Lisa Magnum Randy Alcorn

When Sara and Sam cross paths, they find A group of police officers decide to renew Recommendations for Summer Reading themselves teaming up to accomplish an im- their commitment to godly parenting after possible task during Sara’s single day in New tragedy strikes. (392 p., F ALC) Going into Grade 12 York City. (272 p., F MAG)  Marked titles are available digitally through MackinVia.com

Both of Me Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 And Then There Were None Johnathan Friesen Richard Paul Evans Agatha Christie

Written after the author met someone with A boy with electrical powers stands up for 10 people invited to an exclusive and secluded split personality disorder, this book is a psy- what he knows is right when pressured to use island try to figure out which of their fellow chological adventure into a world where his powers for evil. (336 p., F EVA s.Mic v.01) guests is a killer before they are all dead. reality collides with imagination. (320 p., F CHR) (256 p., F FRI)

White Chocolate Moments, The Eye of Minds Unlocked

Bamboo and Lace, James Dashner Karen Kingsbury

Pretense, or any other book by In a world where virtual reality goes so far that A popular cheerleader finds an autistic boy Lori Wick it actually seems real, one gamer is sent to mesmerized by music only to discover he was uncover the VertNet’s darkest secret. her early childhood playmate. Frustrated at Bestselling Christian fiction from an (336 p., F DAS s.Mor v.01) incredible variety of settings and time how others treat him, she decided to take a periods. (300-710 p., F WIC) stand. (336 p., F KIN)

Pride and Popularity The Count of Monte Cristo The Last Thing I Remember Jenni James Alexander Dumas Andrew Klavan

A modern, first-person retelling of Jane When an innocent prisoner finds both a way A teen who went to sleep at home finds him- Austen’s Price and Prejudice in a high school to escape and a massive fortune, he under- self running for his life with no clue what has setting, this is the first in a collection of takes a task of personal revenge. happened over the past year. similar rewrites. (240 p., F JAM s.Jan v.01) (674 p., C DUM Cou) (352 p., F KLA s.Hom v.01)   Nightmare Academy,  or The Oath, E=mc2: a Biography of the World’s The Princess Spy Most Famous Equation Melanie Dickerson or This Present Darkness David Bodanis A girl with romantic dreams that her suitor Frank Peretti may be her true love is shocked by an injured These thrillers make you consider Written in an oversimplified manner, this book man’s claim that said suitor is a murderer. life, truth, and eternity in a whole explores Einstein’s theory of relativity and its (304 p., F DIC) new way. (320-564 p., F PER) impact on science, including facets of its origin. (337 p., 530.11 BOD

Last of the Breed Matched The Hobbit Louis L’Amour Ally Condie JRR Tolkein

A Native American air force pilot makes a In a society where every detail of life is Bilbo Baggins lives a typical, quiet Hobbit life daring escape before traveling across Siberia on analyzed and planned out for every person, until he finds himself thrust into an adventure foot as the enemy follows, tracking. a girl discovers that perfection is lacking. beyond his imagination. (300 p., F TOL) (367 p., F LAM) (384 p., F CON s.Mat v.01)

Total Money Makeover She Said Yes: the Unlikely Frankenstein Dave Ramsey Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall Mary Shelley

Start thinking more about money management Misty Bernall Victor Frankenstein longs to discover the

with Dave Ramsey’s straight-forward, common Cassie was 17 years old when she was mur- secret of life, but is horrified by the resulting -sense approach to personal finance. dered in the Columbine school shooting. This monster. (166 p., C SHE Fra) (272 p., PTR 332 RAM) is her story, told by her mother. (192 p., 373.1 BER) 