John Mceachern High School
SUMMER READING LIST
JOHN MCEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL
11th Grade American Literature and Composition
2011-2012
All assignments are due the first week of class.
Dear Students and Parents,
To prepare for the curriculum in American Literature, students are required to read a novel during the summer. During the first weeks of the semester, students will take a test based on the novel they chose. Local booksellers and libraries should have copies of these books.
Student Choice—Select ONE of the following:
Title / Author / DescriptionFlygirl / Sherri L. Smith / Ida Mae Jones is a Louisiana girl who longs to be a pilot when America enters World War II. She is pretty and smart, but she has two huge strikes against her. She is black AND a woman, but if she can pass as white, she can at least fly.
Shiver / Maggie Stiefvater / In all the years she has watched the wolves in the word behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Beautiful Creatures / Kami Garcia / In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
The Maze Runner / James Dashner / Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Ship Breaker / Paolo Bacigalupi / In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Split / Swati Avasthi / A teenage boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances.