Tri-County

Grade 9

Common Title:
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar

All students select one title from the list:
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Hauggard
The Bleachers by John Grisham
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Under the Beetle’s Cellar by Mary Willis Walker
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Child Called It by David Pelzer
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Virals by Kathy Reichs

 

Grade 10
Common Title: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

All students select one title from the list:
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Nonfiction)
An Educated Death by Kate Flora
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Nonfiction)
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Grade 11
Common Title College Prep: Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Common Title Honors: Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

All students select one from the list:
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Nonfiction)
Education of a Coach by David Halberstam (Nonfiction)
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong (Nonfiction)
The Pact by Samson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt and Lisa Frazier Page (Nonfiction)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (Nonfiction)
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
The Color of Water by James McBride (Nonfiction)
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Nonfiction)

Seniors
Common Title College Prep: Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Nonfiction)

All College Prep students select one from the list:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sajie
House by Tracy Kidder (Nonfiction)
Escape from Slavery by Francis Bok (Nonfiction)
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Decision Points by George W. Bush (Nonfiction)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman (Nonfiction)

Common Titles Humanities: Read both.
King Must Die by Mary Renault
Troy by Adele Geras

Advanced Placement read both:
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster (Nonfiction)
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman