Choose one; strongly encouraged to read second book for extra credit.
Grade 6
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
Grade 7
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Grade 8
Walker’s Crossing by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Blizzard’s Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Fairhaven High School
Grade 9
Honors—read both
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
College Prep
The Pact by Drs. Davis, Jenkins, Hunt
Grade 10
Honors—read both (Level 1: choose 1)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Level 2
First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Grade 11
Honors—read both (Level 1: choose 1)
1984 by George Orwell
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Level 2
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Grade 12
Honors—read both (Level 1: choose 1)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Level 2
The Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
AP English
How to Read Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Death in Venice by Mann