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ACADEMY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING

This summer, AITE will have a “One School, One Book” program.

All students will read:
On the Beach by Nevil Shute

J.M. WRIGHT TECH

A Celebration of Reading Summer 2007

The Summer Reading Committee has chosen to focus on reading choices as seen through the eyes of the Social Sciences. Each grade has been designated with a theme in which books are chosen to accompany that subject matter.

9th grade: Global/Cultural
10th grade: Civil Rights/Law & Justice
11th grade: United States History
12th grade: Psychology/Law

The following are fiction and non-fiction choices in each grade:

9th Grade
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

10th Grade
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

11th Grade
Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam by Bernard Edelman
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

12th Grade
Psychology students (select one of the following)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Law Students (select one of the following)
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
A Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell

STAMFORD HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING

INCOMING FRESHMEN (choose at least two selections)
*Paul Coehlo The Alchemist
Cinda Williams Chima, The Warrior Heir
*Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion
Sharon Flake Money Hungry (Jump at the Sun)
Cornelia Funke The Thief Lord
Dean Koontz Velocity
Melina Marchetta Saving Francesca
Catherine Murdock Dairy Queen
Gary Soto Baseball in April and Other Stories
*Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Todd Strasser Can’t Get There from Here
*Nancy Werlin Double Helix
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*suggested for honors

INCOMING SOPHOMORES (choose at least two selections)
*Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
*Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
Carl Deuker Night Hoops
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
Don R. Gallo First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants
John Grogan Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
Margaret Peterson Haddix Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Michelle Jaffe Bad Kitty
Jonathan Lethem Fortress of Solitude
*Yan Martel The Life of Pi
Victor Martinez The Parrot in the Oven
*J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey
Alexander McCall Smith The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency
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*suggested for honors


INCOMING JUNIORS (choose at least two selections)
James Agee A Death in the Family
H. G. Bissinger Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream
*Truman Capote In Cold Blood
Jean Ferris Bad
*F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Jack Gantos Hole in My Life
*Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Irving The Cider House Rules
Sebastian Junger A Death in Belmont
Jumpara Lahiri The Namesake
Wally Lamb Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of the York Correctional Institution
*Tim O’Brien Going After Cacciato
Jodi Picoult choose any title
*Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle
**10 articles from The New Yorker and/or The Atlantic Monthly
**E. B. White Essays of E.B. White
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*suggested for honors
** required for AP Language and Composition


INCOMING SENIORS (choose at least two selections)
Russell Banks Rule of the Bone
Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky
Dan Brown Angels and Demons
Pete Hautman Invisible
Sue Monk Kidd The Mermaid Chair
Mary Lawson Crow Lake
Chris Lynch Inexcusable
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
**Alfred, Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King
Terry Trueman Cruise Control
Robert Penn Warren All the King’s Men
Marcus Zusak The Book Thief
**15 poems by the poet of your choice
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** required for AP Literature and Composition
 

WESTHILL HIGH SCHOOL

Westhill will have a “One School, One Book” program again this year.

All students will read:
The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Supplemental Titles for Westhill High School

Grade 11 Advanced Placement
The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby

Grade 11 Honors
The Great Gatsby

Grade 12 Advanced Placement
The Handmaid’s Tale and The Turn of the Screw

Grade 12 Survey
The Handmaid’s Tale

KING & LOW-HEYWOOD THOMAS SCHOOL

ENTERING 9TH GRADE

Required: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
AND
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

In addition, select at least ONE of the following:
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Life of Pi by Ann Martel
The Color of Water by James McBride


ENTERING 10TH GRADE

Required: Fifty Great Short Stories, edited by Milton Crane (cover list of 25 titles)

In addition, select at least ONE of the following:
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Bloodline by Ernest Gaines
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger


ENTERING 11TH GRADE

Required: Read a minimum of TWO books from the following:

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut


ENTERING 12TH GRADE

Required: (English 500 – Kweskin)
Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles
AND
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(English 400 – Mortenson) The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
(English 401 – all classes) Grendel by John Gardner

TRINITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Grade 9: Choose Any Three Books Listed Below

The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Grade 10: Choose Any Three Books Listed Below

Night by Chaim Potok
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Grade 11: Choose Any Three Books Listed Below

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Grade 12: Choose Any Three Books Listed Below

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
 

CLOONAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

One Book One School:
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

Students must also read two short stories out of these four:

Albatross by Stephen Cramer
The Scarlet Ribbon: based on a Folk Tale from Australia by Emily Hoffman
The Little Rooser's Diamond Pendant: A Hungarian Folk Tale retold by Krisztina Kincses Vida
Taliesen, or the Three Magic Drops retold by Marilyn Bolchunos