Wednesday, June 29, 2011

2011 EWG Junior/Senior High Summer Reading

Junior High
Grade 7
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

Grade 8
The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman
Chains: Seeds of America by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Truth about Truman School by Dori Hillestad Butler
Heat by Mike Lupica
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Senior High
Grade 9
REQUIRED READING FOR STUDENTS IN HONORS LEVEL CLASSES: Watership Down(to be read by December) Assessment given by instructor

Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Radiance Descending by Paula Fox

Grade 10

REQUIRED READING FOR STUDENTS IN HONORS LEVEL CLASSES: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Doug Adams
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Jake Reinvented by Gordon Korman

Grade 11
REQUIRED READING FOR STUDENTS IN HONORS LEVEL CLASSES: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Mayflower by Nathan Philbrick
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Grade 12
REQUIRED READING FOR STUDENTS IN HONORS LEVEL CLASSES: How to read literature like a professor by Thomas C. Foster

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde


for more information and instruction, please reference the binders at the Louttit Library