JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2009
In an effort to maintain high academic standards, summer reading is a requirement at John A. Ferguson Senior High. Required books are listed below for each grade level and academic level. Students will be held responsible for the book(s) listed at their academic level. Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school year. Students who read at least one of the non-required books listed on their grade and academic level can be eligible for extra credit at their teachers’ discretion.
JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2009
Grade 9 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Grade 9 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
*The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Grade 9 Gifted (* is required)
* The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Grade 9 Pre-I.B. (all)
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
The City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Grade 10 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Grade 10 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
* Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Krik?Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
Grade 10 Gifted (* is required)
* Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
*Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
Krik?Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
A.P. Literature – Gr. 10 Pre-I.B. (all)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition 2008
Grade 11 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Dead Zone by Stephen King
Grade 11 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Grade 11 Gifted (* is required)
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Grade 11 Int. Baccalaureate (all)
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
1984 by George Orwell
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
A.P. Language & Composition - Grade 11 (* is required & choose 1)
*Love is a Mix tape: Life, and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Grade 12 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Grade 12 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Siddartha by Herman Hesse
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Grade 12 Gifted (* is required)
*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
*Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Siddartha by Herman Hesse
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Grade 12 International Baccalaureate (all)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
A.P. Literature and Composition – Grade 12
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë