South Portland High School Summer Reading Requirements 2016

All Grade 9 students: Read one choice book from the list of suggestions.

Grade 10 students: CP: Read a biography, autobiography, or memoir from the list of suggestions (titles are in bold). Honors: Read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. Honors Assignment: Collect 10 quotes. See this link for details: http://bit.ly/22gld7R Grade 11 students: CP and Honors: Read one choice book from the list of suggestions. AP Language: Read unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Jackson and Jamieson. AP Assignment: See School Website for document titled: Summer Assignment AP Lang & Comp. Grade 12 students: CP and Honors: Read one choice book from the list of suggestions. AP Literature: Read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger AP Assignment: see Mr. Anderson to get a book and a copy of the assignment. Here are some favorites from your English teachers: Mr. Anderson: Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Ms. Barbosa: Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean Ms. Ferrante: Little Bee by Chris Cleave The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Ms. Gay: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman Cooked by Michael Pollan Mr. Hoy: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson, Jackie MacMullan Ms. Kaplan: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Mr. Ludington: Perfume by Patrick Suskind Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Ms. Siviski: On the Road by Jack Kerouac Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Mr. Snow: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

List of Suggestions

South Portland High School Summer Reading Requirements 2016

11/22/63 by Stephen King A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving A Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki About a Boy by Nick Hornby Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund American Gods by Neil Gaiman American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen Atonement by Ian McEwan Ball Four by Jim Bouton Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Beloved by Toni Morrison Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Cider House Rules by John Irving City of Glass by Paul Auster Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Darkness, Take my Hand by Dennis Lehane David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Delirium by Lauren Oliver Dirt Music by Tim Winton Dispatches by Michael Herr Divergent by Veronica Roth Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller East of Eden by John Steinbeck Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Even Cowgirls get the Blues by Tom Robbins Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

South Portland High School Summer Reading Requirements 2016 Feed by M.T. Anderson Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Into Thin Air by John Krakauer Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Laughing at my Nightmare by Shane Burcaw Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell Looking for Alaska by John Green Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Matched trilogy by Ally Condie Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Midwives by Chris Bohjalian Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Monster by Walter Dean Myers Monument 14 trilogoy by Emmy Laybourne No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Perfume by Patrick Suskind Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya Van Wagenen Possession by A.S. Byatt Positive: A Memoir by Paige Rawl Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Reality Boy by A.S. King Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura HIllenbrand Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

South Portland High School Summer Reading Requirements 2016 Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlen Sula by Toni Morrison The Beach by Alex Garland The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Green Man by Michael Bedard The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart The Other Boleyn Girl by Antonia Frasier The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguru The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John LeCarre The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick The Tommyknockers by Stephen King The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice The Warrior’s Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage by Eric Greitens The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor The World According to Garp by John Irving Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism by Temple Grandin This Star Won’t Go Out by Esther Earl Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story by Josh Sundquist Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird Wicked by Gregory Maguire Wonder by R.J. Palacio Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean