JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2008
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.
JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2008
Grade 9 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks editor
Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper
Grade 9 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Freedom Writers by Freedom Writers & Zlata Filipovic
Grade 9 Gifted (* is required)
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Freedom Writers by Freedom Writers & Zlata Filipovic
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Grade 9 Pre-I.B. (all)
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Grade 10 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*Animal Farm by George Orwell
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Grade 10 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
*Animal Farm by George Orwell
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Grade 10 Gifted (* is required)
*Animal Farm by George Orwell
*Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Prey by Michael Crichton
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
A.P. Literature – Gr. 10 Pre-I.B. (all)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition 2008
Grade 11 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Marley and Me by John Grogan
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd
Grade 11 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Grade 11 Gifted (* is required)
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding
*Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Vivien by Alexander Walker
Grade 11 Int. Baccalaureate (all)
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
A.P. Language & Composition - Grade 11 (* is required)
*Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
*Stiff by Mary Roach
The 9-11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson
Grade 12 Regular (* is required & choose 1)
*Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Grade 12 Honors (* is required & choose 1)
*Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Grade 12 Gifted (* is required)
*Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
*Once and Future King by T.H. White
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Grade 12 International Baccalaureate (all)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
A.P. Literature and Composition – Grade 12 (all)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe