<p>4/3/18 English 10 CP College Prep Reading List</p><p>Achebe, Chinua 0 English/15 Library Things Fall Apart Lexile 890</p><p>Follow the story of Okonkwo, the son of a lazy but amiable man and the father of several children of his own. Overcoming the obstacles set before him in childhood, he becomes a prosperous farmer and winning wrestler and gains the respect of his peers. This novel chronicles the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his return. </p><p>Allende, Isabel 0 English/17 Library Daughter of Fortune Lexile 1250</p><p>A sweeping portrait of an unconventional woman carving her own destiny in an era defined by violence, passion, and adventure. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Some mature content.</p><p>Bronte, Charlotte 9 English/ 45 Library Jane Eyre Lexile 890</p><p>In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.</p><p>Buck, Pearl S. 0 English/43 Library The Good Earth Lexile 1530</p><p>This is the epic story of the rise from poverty of peasant Wang Lung and his family in pre-revolutionary China. Their vigor, fortitude, persistence and enduring love of the soil are emphasized as they weather famine, drought, and revolution.</p><p>Courtenay, Bryce 0 English/10 Library The Power of One Lexile 850</p><p>A weak and friendless boy growing up in South Africa during WWII, Peekay turns to two older men, one black and one white, to show him how to find the courage to dream, to succeed, to triumph over a world when all seems lost, and to inspire him to summon up the most irresistible force of all: the Power of One.</p><p>Greenberg, Joanne 0 English/7 Library I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Lexile 960</p><p>Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy. 4/3/18</p><p>Haddon, Mark 10 English/18 Library The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Lexile 1180</p><p>Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically- gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.</p><p>Haley, Alex 0 English/5 Library Roots Lexile1330</p><p>This novel begins with a birth in 1750 in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author.</p><p>Heinlein, Robert 14 English/15 Library Stranger in a Strange Land Lexile 940</p><p>Valentine Michael Smith, born and raised on Mars, arrives on Earth stunning Western culture with his superhuman abilities. Mature content.</p><p>Hugo, Victor 0 Englihs/18 Library Les Miserables Lexile 990</p><p>The story of Jean Valjean, jailed for 19 years for stealing bread and pursued by the police agent, Javert. He risks his life to take care of a motherless young girl during the first half of the 19th century French Revolution.</p><p>Kesey, Ken 0 English/22 Library One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Lexile 1110</p><p>This is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine.</p><p>Martel, Yann 10 English/ 14 Library Life of Pi Lexile 830</p><p>Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.</p><p>McCarthy, Cormac 10 English/21 library The Road Lexile 1530 4/3/18 Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes. A haunting novel of survival set in a post apocalyptic civilization full of violence and hopelessness. </p><p>McCullers, Carson 0 English/34 Library The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Lexile 760</p><p>A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences and yearnings of four people in a small southern town, among them a quiet, sensitive girl who searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.</p><p>O’Brien, Tim 0 English/21 Library The Things They Carried Lexile 880</p><p>An unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic study of men at war that brilliantly – and painfully – illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul. Mature content.</p><p>Potok, Chaim 0 English/15 Library Davita’s Harp Lexile 850</p><p>For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and ‘40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression takes a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned. </p><p>Potok, Chaim 0 English/6 Library My Name is Asher Lev</p><p>The making of a great contemporary painter from the first stirrings of a commanding talent to the triumphant exhibition that wins recognition for his art and marks his final, heartrending estrangement from the world in which he was born.</p><p>Seton, Anya 0 English/5 Library Katherine</p><p>This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history, that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets- Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II, who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, 4/3/18 John of Gaunt, the king’s son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption.</p><p>Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 13 English/19 Library Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Lexile 1170</p><p>Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and has created a monster being by using this terrible power. The classic novel about a scientific experiment to create a man-made human.</p><p>Smith, Betty 65 English/5 Library A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Lexile 810</p><p>Primarily the story of Francie, this is a true story of childhood and family relationships. The Nolans lived in the slums of Brooklyn for seventeen years and the story reveals the sufferings of the city’s poor.</p><p>Walker, Alice 0 English/10 Library The Color Purple Lexile 670</p><p>Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters – one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South – who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Mature Content.</p><p>Wilde, Oscar 0 English/20 Library The Picture of Dorian Gray Lexile 920</p><p>A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted by his influence into a life of decadence and corruption.</p>