Book 'Em - Ferguson Library High School Reading List
Crime and Mystery
Classics Old and New
Sports
Teens Like You?   
Many Cultures - Many Places      
Historical Fiction     
Fantasy - Horror - Science Fiction

Related Information:
Pre-K – Grade 8 Summer Reading List 2007
Stamford High Schools 2007 Summer Reading Lists

Crime and Mystery

Desert Crossing by Elise Broach
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown  
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld

Classics Old and New

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Forever by Judy Blume
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini    
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Sports

It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeline Blais
Ironman by Chris Crutcher                                    
Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a Basketball Team by Michael D'Orson
Hoop Dreams by Ben Joravsky
Raider's Night by Robert Lipsyte
Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Peria 
I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson

Teens Like You?

Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
Tyrell by Coe Booth
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachael Cohn
Breathing Underwater by Alexandra Flinn
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr 
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Donorboy by Brendan Halpin
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicouIt
Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas

Many Cultures - Many Places

Born Confused by Tanuja Desai-Hidier 
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban by "Latifa"
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Sold by Patricia McCormick  
The Darkest Child by Dolores Phillips 
Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
Buried Onions by Gary Soto  
Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan

Historical Fiction

Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers  
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Troy by Adele Geras   
The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hearn 
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
Witch Child by Celia Rees
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Fantasy - Horror - Science Fiction

Feed by M. T. Anderson 
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman     
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Twilight and New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin 
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin