JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2010

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, academic level and academy. Students will be held responsible for all the books listed under their appropriate category. Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school year.

Gifted
9th Grade
Maus 1 and 2 by Art Spiegelman
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima / 10th Grade
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
11th Grade
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway / 12th Grade
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
International Business and Finance
9th Grade
The Firm by John Grisham
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima / 10th Grade
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
11th Grade
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway / 12th Grade
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Design and Architecture
9th Grade
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima / 10th Grade
The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
11th Grade
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway / 12th Grade
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Information Technology
9th Grade
The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima / 10th Grade
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
11th Grade
Neuromancer by William Gibson
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway / 12th Grade
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Medical Skills and Biomedical
9th Grade
Coma by Robin Cook
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima / 10th Grade
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
11th Grade
The Adromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway / 12th Grade
Experimental Heart by Jennifer L. Rohn
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Hospitality and Tourism
9th Grade
Married to the Mouse by Richard E. Foglesong
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima / 10th Grade
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
11th Grade
Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas Sparks
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway / 12th Grade
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
International Baccalaureate
9th Grade Pre IB
The City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima / AP Literature/10th Grade Pre IB
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition 3rd
Edition by George Ehrenhaft, Ed.D.
11th Grade
1984 by George Orwell
Fiela’s Child by Dalene Matthee
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster / 12th Grade
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig
Advanced Placement
AP Language and Composition
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
On Writing by Stephen King
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
AP Literature
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte