HELLO NOVANIANS!
Summer is here, and so is your Summer Reading List! Please select your titles from this list and complete the books prior to the return to school in the fall.
Incoming Freshmen: Please Select any TWO titles from Category A, B, or C.
Incoming Sophomores: Please Select any ONE title from Category A, and ONE title from Category B or C.
Incoming Juniors: Please Select ONE title from category B or C, and one title from category C
Incoming Seniors: Please Select any TWO titles from category C.
There will be a written evaluation on your summer reading during the first week of school in your English class. Please come prepared on the first day of classes.
Summer Reading List
Category A
Anderson, Laurie Halse: Speak c1999 emotional problems, fiction
Melinda begins high school as a social outcast after a traumatic experience in the summer.
Covey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens c1998 nonfiction
Hints and strategies for success in life, communicated through engaging stories, cartoons and quotations.
Halberstam: Firehouse c2002 nonfiction, biography
Out of all the men who responded to the terrorists' attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, from the Engine 40 Ladder 35 firehouse, only one man survived.
Anderson: Feed c2002 science fiction, war
People in this futuristic society constantly receive information and commercials from computers implanted in their brains at birth. The story criticizes our consumer-driven society.
Bissinger: Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream c2000 nonfiction, sports
The story of a high school football team in Texas and their struggle to win the championship in 1988.
Grogan: Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog c2005 nonfiction, humor
Grogan recounts his misadventures with Marley, a clumsy, mischievous, mentally unstable 97 lb. yellow lab.
Volponi: Black and White c2005 interracial friendship, fiction
Two friends experience the justice system differently after committing a crime and getting caught.
Huston: Their eyes were watching God, c. 1937 segregation, fiction
The struggles and triumphs of an African-American woman in the rural south of the 1920's and 1930's.
Category B
Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo c1846 historical fiction, classic
This classic adventure novel involves a daring prison escape, a risky search for buried treasure and a quest for revenge.
Brooks: True Confessions of a Heartless Girl c2003 realistic fiction
A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women and a lonely man come together to form a community in a small Manitoba town.
Callahan: The Cheating Culture c2004 nonfiction, social issues
Callahan reports on cheating in sports, education and business, exposing how people will do anything (legal or illegal) to get ahead.
Gladwell: Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference c2000 nonfiction, social issues
Gladwell notes how small changes in human behavior can start a fad or change the world.
Hopkins: Crank c2004 realistic fiction
After Kristina Snow meets a boy, she becomes a very different person.
Matheson: I am Legend c1954 science fiction
Robert Neville appears to be the only survival of the human race after a disease has either killed everyone or has changed them into "vampires." How to overcome the loneliness and reverse what has happened, is Robert’s goal.
Schlosser: Fast Food Nation c2005 nonfiction
An alarming look into the origins and effects of the American fast-food industry.
Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings c1969 nonfiction autobiography.
Category C
Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything c2004 nonfiction, humor
The science textbook that you always wished you had. It provides an intriguing whirlwind tour of the major branches of science, but without too much technical language.
Plath: The Bell Jar c1963 psychological fiction
Esther Greenwood, a talented and beautiful young woman, undergoes a mental breakdown.
Hilton: Lost Horizon c1936 historical fiction, adventure
A plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, leaves the passengers stranded until they are rescued by a group of people living in Shangri-La where growing old is slow and life is "perfect."
Hosseini: Kite Runner c2003 coming of age fiction
A story of mystery, friendship, betrayal and redemption set in pre-war Afghanistan.
Picoult: Nineteen Minutes c2007 psychological fiction
How does someone who was known to be so sensitive grow up to shoot 29 people in a high school? This is that high school’s story.
X, Malcolm: The Autobiography of Malcolm X c1965 nonfiction, biography
Story of Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, firebrand and anti-integrationist.
Xiaolong: Death of a Red Heroine c2000 detective fiction
Follow Inspector Chen as he tries to solve the murder of a worker in the communist party. As the case unfolds, so do the difficulties of being a good detective versus the desires of the party.
Shelly: Frankenstein c. 1818. science fiction/horror
A scientist attempts to bring the dead back to life.
- Summer Reading List 2010.pdf (15 KB)
