Lookout Valley High-Middle School

LOOKOUT VALLEY HIGH-MIDDLE SCHOOL

350 LOOKOUT HIGH STREET

CHATTANOOGA, TN 37419

RICK RUSHWORTH RONDA LYONS

2017 - 2018 SCHOOL YEAR

All students attending Lookout Valley High School during the 2017-2018 school year are required to read at least one novel during the summer. Please note that if your student receives a letter within the first month of the summer concerning enrollment in the Honors English courses, then he or she needs to follow the directions specified below.

Summer reading novels will be evaluated during the first two weeks of school (both a scantron and a written assessment). Students who are new will be allowed to read a selection during the first two weeks of school.

NOTE—Lookout Valley High School’s summer reading list is different from Hamilton County’s. Please make

sure that the title chosen is on the appropriate list. In addition, all students enrolled in English Honors

courses are required to read more than one novel – see each grade level list for further details.

*Students enrolled in English I (ninth grade) choose one of the following:

*Students enrolled in English I (ninth grade) Honors choose one fiction and one nonfiction novel:

FICTIONNONFICTION

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (Lubar – 560) True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall(Salzman –840)

That Was Then, This Is Now(Hinton – 780) The Last Lecture (Pausch – N / A)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne – 1080) Hidden Girl: The True Story of A Modern-Day Child Slave (Hall – 970)

The Call of the Wild (London – 1120) Death be not Proud (Gunther – 1060)

*Students enrolled in English II (tenth grade) choose one of the following:

*Students enrolled in English II (tenth grade) Honors choose one of the following plusFahrenheit 451 by Ray

Bradbury.

FICTIONNONFICTION

Thirteen Reasons Why (Asher – 550)Tuesdays with Morrie (Albom – 830)

The Book Thief (Zusak – 730) Farewell to Manzanar (Houston – 1040)

The Maze Runner (Dashner – 770) Into the Wild (Krakauer – 1270)

Landry Park (Hagen – N / A) In the Garden of Beasts (Larson – N / A)

*Students enrolled in English III (eleventh grade) choose one of the following:

FICTIONNONFICTION

The Help (Stockett – 730) Hole in my Life (Gantos – 840)

The Things They Carried (O’Brien – 880) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass – 1080)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain – 990) All Over But the Shoutin’ (Bragg – 1160)

The Bell Jar (Plath – 1140) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America(Ehrenreich – 1340)

*Students enrolled in English IV (twelfth grade) choose one of the following:

FICTIONNONFICTION

The Catcher in the Rye(Salinger – 790) The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir (Rodriguez – 970)

The Beginning of Everything (Yoon - 930) The Glass Castle(Walls - 1010)

Dracula(Stoker – 990) In Cold Blood (Capote – 1040)

1984(Orwell – 1090) The Devil in the White City (Larson – 1170)

Senior Additions:

Where Things Come Back – John Corley Whaley

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller