View the interactive Summer Reading List at http://www.shelfari.com/o1514294182/shelf Original Artwork Entitled “Happiness” Created by East Lyme High School Summer Reading 2010 Reading Summer High School East Lyme Kristina Georgian Class of 2010 East Lyme High School Summer Reading 2010 The summer reading list provides students with the opportunity to expand their horizons by reading books which they might not otherwise encounter in school. Parents should monitor book selections. Books appearing on the list have been selected based upon suitability, quality, variety, faculty and student recommendations, and the fact that they are not required reading titles for a course. Be sure to select both book titles from the list! Students are required to read (or listen) to two books from the 2010 Summer Reading List to fulfill the summer reading requirement. Substitutions or other book titles by the same author will not be accepted nor will book titles reported from previous years. Most of the books can be found in a separate collection at East Lyme Public Library. Staff at East Lyme Public Library and Salem Library will help students obtain copies. Local and online bookstores are also sources for obtaining books as well as other local libraries. All books chosen for this assignment must be from the 2010 Summer Reading list. Substitutions or other books by the author are not acceptable. Assessment: In September there will be two Mentor/Mentee meetings devoted to a school- wide focus on reading discussions. Students will meet in small groups with their faculty mentor to discuss their readings and respond to questions. A card with cue words may be used as a prompt if needed during the book discussion. Grading standards are: P: Student aptly summarizes and interprets book (see Advanced and Basic on the rubric). F: Student has not read two books from the 2010 Summer Reading List or cannot explain either one of the two books so that anyone else can understand the content or did not appear at the group discussion session (see Does Not Meet Standard on rubric). These grades will appear as a separate line on permanent records and transcripts. Requirements for new students registering during the summer: Students new to the school that register prior to August 1 will be required to read two books. Students who register between August 1 and August 15 will be required to read one book. Summer Reading Rubric Academic Expectation: Students and graduates of East Lyme High School will read actively and critically for a variety of purposes. Advanced Basic Does not meet standard (Failing) (Passing) (Passing) Comprehension Student Student Student is not able demonstrates an demonstrates a to interpret meaning interpretation of literal interpretation of the content or deeper meaning of of the content or subject matter. the content or subject matter. subject matter. Summary Student aptly Student Student is not able summarizes book demonstrates an to summarize the by identifying main incomplete grasp of book. events, main the main events, characters, and main characters and setting. setting. Requirement Student has read Student has read Student has read two books from the two books from the one book or no list. list. books from the list. All books chosen for this assignment must This results in be from the 2010 failing summer Summer Reading reading. list. Substitutions or other books by the author are not acceptable. East Lyme High School Summer Reading 2010 List Fiction Nonfiction GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg A PEARL IN THE STORM by Tori McClure. Larsson. Henrik Vanger is determined to know The story of how one woman found her the truth about what he believes was his niece’s heart rowing alone in a wooden boat she murder. built across the Atlantic Ocean. EAST LYME PUBLIC LIBRARY SUMMER BOOK DISCUSSION 2010 ONE BOOK, ONE REGION SELECTION FOR SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT Available at LION SARAH’S KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay. Paris, July GANG LEADER FOR A DAY: A ROGUE 1942: Sarah is arrested with her family by the SOLIOLOGIST TAKES TO THE STREETS by French police in the Vel d'Hiv' roundup, but not Sudhir Venkatesh. A graduate student before she locks her younger brother in a spends the next decade documenting life cupboard thinking that she will be back within a of the gangs in the Chicago projects. few hours. EAST LYME PUBLIC LIBRARY SUMMER EAST LYME PUBLIC LIBRARY SUMMER BOOK BOOK DISCUSSION DISCUSSION Available at LION THE ASK AND THE ANSWER by Patrick Ness. THE EIGHT: A SEASON IN THE TRADITION Todd and Viola become separated as the new OF HARVARD CREW by Susan Saint Sing. regime takes power where residents can hear A look at the 2008 Harvard crew team and each other's thoughts. the university’s history of accomplished rowers. LEVIATHAN by Scott Westerfeld. In an alternate ALIVE IN THE KILLING FIELDS: SURVIVING 1914 Europe, Alek learns to fly genetically- THE KHMER ROUGE GENOCIDE by Nawuth engineered beasts. Keat and Martha Kendall. A horror story about war and a love story about family. YEAR OF THE FLOOD: A NOVEL by Margaret CLARA’S WAR: ONE GIRL’S STORY ABOUT Atwood. Gene-spliced life forms are proliferating SURVIVAL by Clara Kramer. Clara’s diary as Adam One and his band make their way of twenty terrifying months in hiding from through a strange new world. the Nazis. ENDER IN EXILE by Orson Scott Card. At the UP CLOSE, BABE RUTH: A 20TH CENTURY close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin--called LIFE by Wilborn Hampton. The life of a Ender--is told that he can no longer live on Earth. man with gargantuan appetites, a fiery temper, and a generous heart. THE TOMORROW CODE by Brian Falkner. Two WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT? : A teenagers receive a desperate SOS from their PERSONAL HISTORY by Danzy Senna. future selves and set to stop an impending Danzy Senna’s mother was blue-blood ecological disaster that could mean the end of Bostonian while her father was a black humanity. man, son of a struggling single mother. THE ROAR by Emma Clayton. In an GHOSTS OF WAR: MY TOUR OF DUTY by overpopulated world Mika refuses to believe that Ryan Smithson. A harrowing memoir of an his twin sister was killed and continues to search Army soldier’s deployment in Iraq. for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so. THE CASE OF THE MISING SERVANT: FROM THE HOWEVER TALL THE MOUNTAIN: A FILES OF VISH PURI, INDIA’S “MOST PRIVATE DREAM, EIGHT GIRLS, AND A JOURNEY INVESTIGATOR” by Tarquin Hall. Puri cuts a HOME by Awista Ayub. Born in Kabul but swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, raised in Connecticut, soccer is a way for and murderers in search of the girl, Mary. Awista to learn about her heritage as she learns about herself. SWORN TO SILENCE by Linda Castillo. A series of WHEN BROKEN GLASS FLOATS: GROWING brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming UP UNDER THE KHMER ROUGE: A community of Painters Mill where Amish and MEMOIR by Chanrithy Him. Chanrithy English residents lived side by side for two vividly recounts her trek through the hell centuries. of the “killing fields.” SOUL MURDER by Andrew Nugent. When the TWITCH AND SHOUT: A TOURETTER’S housemaster of a boys’ boarding school is found TALE by Lowell Handler. An acclaimed with his throat slit, the Irish Police struggle to photojournalist, Handler often saw himself uncover any probable motive for the brutal as a social outcast whose bizarre behavior killing. was misdiagnosed. IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM by Stefanie THE MUSIC ROOM: A MEMOIR by Namita Pintoff. Detective Simon Ziele is a haunted man Devidayal. At age 10 Namita learns who must search for a killer while on the run classical singing, but can she sacrifice from his own demons. herself completely to the discipline like her teacher? THE ODDS by Kathleen George. The homicide THE SCALPEL AND THE SOUL: world is upside down as Nick, a former con and ENCOUNTERS WITH SURGERY, THE under pressure, proves that he is basically a good SUPERNATURAL, AND THE HEALING person. POWER OF HOPE by Allan J. Hamilton. A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon reveals his experiences in the operating room with apparitions, exorcism, and after-death survival. COLD SKIN by Steven Herrick. In a rural SHOOTING STARS by LeBron James. A Australian coal mining town Eddie makes a thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to startling discovery when he investigates the transform young lives, including James’s murder of a local high school girl. own. DARE TO DIE: A DEATH ON DEMAND MYSTERY THE FINEST HOURS: THE TRUE STORY OF by Carolyn Hart. Max and Annie find themselves THE U.S. COAST GUARD’S MOST DARING at the mercy of an unknown assailant who they SEA RESCUE by Michael Tougias. The suspect is one of their friends. gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the men huddled in two oil tankers split in two by the most brutal nor’easter in years. ANGEL’S FLIGHT by Alice Duncan. Mercy STROKES OF GENIUS: FEDERER, NADAL, manages to find herself in deep waters in her AND THE GREATEST MATCH EVER PLAYED latest adventure. by L. Jon Wertheim. Two compelling athletes meet on the Wimbledon’s Centre Court in the men’s final for a seminal event in tennis. FINDING NOUF by Zoe Ferraris. Zoe’s electrifying SHOOTING FOR TIGER: HOW GOLF’S debut offers a window into Saudi Arabia closed OBSESSED NEW GENERATION IS society. TRANSFORMING A COUNTRY CLUB SPORT by William Echikson. An inside look at the world of competitive youth golf.