UPPER SCHOOL SUMMER 2021 READING LIST The purpose of summer reading is to continue to build capacity and flexibility as readers and to get exposure to books that you might not pick up on your own. We know that many of you are already avid readers, and we hope that you will find books on this list that are of interest to you. We also know that some of you may be more reluctant to read on your own and we hope that you will find books on this list that you can connect with as well. The English and History departments put together these lists, which are grouped by grade level and identified by genre. We have curated this list to appeal to and reflect all sorts of readers and interests. There are books that just hit the shelves, as well as some that are tried and true. We ask that each of you select two books from the list to read over the summer. This list also contains books at a variety of reading levels. We recommend you spend a little bit of time researching their "lexile level" (the level of difficulty of the language of the text which can be found under Product Details) and pick two that seem interesting to you and that feel like the right level of challenge. When we return in September, we will use your experience reading these books over the summer as jumping off points for our work developing critical thinking and reading skills. We ask that you identify one question that you might use to prompt discussion about both books, and be ready to engage with classmates in the fall. Enjoy your summer! GRADES 9 AND 10 Spoken Melanie Weiss Apple Eric Gansworth Does My Head Look Big in This Randa Abdel-Fattah The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Short Stories) Sherman Alexie The Things They Carried (Short Stories) Tim O’Brien March: Book One (Graphic Novel) John Lewis Warriors Don't Cry (Memoir) Melba Patillo Beals The Other Wes Moore: One Name,Two Fates (Memoir) Wes Moore What Have You Lost? (Poetry) ed. Naomi Shihab Nye GRADES 11 AND 12 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Bel Canto Ann Patchett Bodega Dreams Ernesto Quinonez There There Tommy Orange The Street Ann Petry Sula Toni Morrison The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Dragon Hoops (Graphic Novel) Gene Luen Yang Into the Wild (Memoir) Jon Krakauer Bad Feminist (Essays) Roxanne Gay The Soul of the Octopus (Nonfiction) Sy Montgomery An American Sunrise (Poetry) Joy Harjo Poet Laureate.