PELHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

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participate fully as active citizens, and become socially responsible community members.

Pelham High School

2007-2008 Summer Reading Program

All students in required English classes at Pelham High School must complete summer reading.  Students read books that have related themes and literary conventions.  Their independent summer reading allows for critical thinking, encourages creative written expression, and promotes life-long reading skills.  Students appreciate reading as they read at their own pace.  They have an opportunity to give personal responses to their summer reading in discussions and assessments during the first week of their English classes.

 Students must select books from the grade-appropriate PHS summer reading list:

• AP students read at least 3 books from the grade-appropriate list.
• Honors students read at least 2 books from the grade-appropriate list.
• L-1 students read at least 2 books from the grade-appropriate list.
• L-2 students read at least 1 book from the grade-appropriate list.

Students must keep a journal recording notes and quotations (pages) from their reading

to use in a writing assessment during the first week of class.

Grade 12                                                                     Grade 10

(justice/responsibility)                                                (journeys/self-discovery)      

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)                              The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)                     

Crisis (Robin Cook)                                                     China Men (Maxine Hong Kingston)   

Kaffir Boy (Mark Mathabane)                                     Daughter of the Forest (Juliet Marillier)

Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)                                    The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)

Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)                         Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)

MILA 18 (Leon Uris)                                                   Magician:  Apprentice (Raymond Feist)

My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)                                Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)                     Timeline (Michael Crichton)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)             The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)                   The Water Is Wide (Pat Conroy)

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)                                   Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

One Hundred Years of Solitude                                   Demian (Hermann Hesse)

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Grade 11                                                                  Grade 9

(American dream)                                                   (friendship/love)

Black Boy (Richard Wright)                                       Eragon (Christopher Paolini)

Flags of our Fathers (James Bradley)                     It's Not about the Bike (Lance Armstrong)

Friday Night Lights (H. G. Bissinger)                     Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)                          Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)

The Last Days of Dogtown (Anita Diamant)             A Separate Peace (John Knowles)

Love Medicine (Louis Erdrich)                                Speak (Laurie H. Anderson)

The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)                                Touching Spirit Bear (Ben Mikaelsen)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass          The Curious Incident of the Dog in the

   (Frederick Douglass)                                            Night-time (Mark Haddon)

A Time to Kill (John Grisham)                               Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Walden (Henry David Thoreau)                               You Don't Know Me (David Klass)

The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)                    Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)                  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Elizabeth Strauss, Media Generalist
Pelham High School Library Media Center
bstrauss@pelhamsd.org