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JFK Middle School Summer Reading List 2011

Teen Nutmeg Book Awards 2012 Nominees
See also Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees:
http://www.nutmegaward.org/83043/index.html

Author Title
Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games
Korman, Gordon Pop
Lieb, Josh I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil...
Magoon, Kekla The Rock and the River
Trigiani, Adriana Viola in the Reel Life

Hiaasen, Carl 

Scat
Gray, Keith Ostrich Boys
Dashner, James The Maze Runner
George, Jessica Day Princess of the Midnight Ball
Bodeen, S.A. The Compound

Award Winners

Author Title
Woodson, Jacqueline Feathers
Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book
Larson, Kirby
Smith, Hope Anita
Hattie Big Sky
Keeping the Night Watch
Leavitt, Martine Kenturah and Lord Death
Law, Ingrid Savvy
Felin, M. Sidney Touching Snow

Contemporary Fiction  

Author Title
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Cricket Man
Boyce, Frank Cottrell Framed
Creech, Sharon Hate That Cat
Auch, M.J One-Handed Catch
Barkley, Brad Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
Rosenbloom, Fiona

We Are So Crashing Your Bar Mitzvah

Lin, Grace

The Year of the Dog

Historical Fiction

Author Title
Hesse, Karen Brooklyn Bridge
Weyn, Suzanne Distant Wave: A Novel of the Titanic
Sedgwick, Marcus The Foreshadowing
Salisbury, Graham House of the Red Fish
Avi Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac
Miller, Sarah Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller

Classics

Author Title
Alcott, Louisa M. Little Women
Bagnold, Enid National Velvet
Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
London, Jack White Fang and Call of the Wild
Wyss, Johann David     The Swiss Family Robinson
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Sewell, Anna Black Beauty
Adams, Richard Watership Down 
Grimm, Jacob  Grimm's Fairy Tales
Twain, Mark  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Adventure 

Author Title
Martin, Rafe Birdwing
Creech, Sharon The Castle Corona
Brewer, Heather Eighth Grade Bites: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod
Becker, Tom Darkside
Parker, Robert B. Edenville Owls
Tingle, Rebecca The Edge on the Sword
Giff, Patricia Reilly Eleven
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn Golden
Colfer, Eoin Half-Moon Investigations
Sleator, William

The Last Universe

Bloor, Edward London Calling
McCaughrean, Geraldine Peter Pan in Scarlet
Hautman, Pete Rash
Schmidt, Gary D.

Straw into Gold

Catanese, P.W. The Thief and the Beanstalk

Enfield High School Summer Reading List 2011

Entering Grade 9  

Students who are enrolled in English 9-1 (Honors English 9) MUST READ TWO BOOKS during the summer from the list below. AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE BOOKS MUST BE A "CLASSIC NOVEL" from the selections below (denoted with bold and *).  Students who are enrolled in English 9-2 and English 9-3 MUST READ ONE BOOK during the summer from the list below.

Title Author
Acceleration McNamee, Graham
All Creatures Great and Small* Herriot, James
Almost Lost Sparks, Beatrice
Animal Farm* Orwell, George
Born to Rock Korman, Gordon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime                                     Haddon, Mark
Fire-us #1: The Kindling Armstrong, Jennifer
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn
Girl, Interrupted Kaysen, Susanna
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter* McCullers, Carson
Heat     Lupica, Mike
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again* Tolkien, J.R.R.
Jane Eyre* Bronte, Charlotte
The Last of the Mohicans* Cooper, James Fenimore
Monster Myers, Walter Dean
Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie, Agatha
Wuthering Heights* Bronte, Emily
Great Expectations* Dickens, Charles
The Hunger Games Collins, Suzanne
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael

Entering Grade 10
Every student will read one of the recommended titles. 
Honors students will read a second book, not necessarily from the list.
          

Title Author
The Good Earth (Classic) Buck, Pearl S.
Angela's Ashes (Contemporary) McCourt, Frank
The Glass Castle (Nonfiction) Walls, Jeanette

Entering Grade 11
Every student will read one of the recommended titles. 
Honors students will read a second book, not necessarily from the list.

Title Author
Animal Farm (Classic) Orwell, George
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Contemporary) Hosseini, Khaled
Persepolis (Nonfiction) Satrapi, Marjane

Entering Grade 12 
Every student will read one of the recommended titles. 
Honors students will read a second book, not necessarily from the list.
 
     
   

Title Author
Invisible Man (Classic) Ellison, Ralph
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Contemporary) Irving, John
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Nonfiction) Eggers, Dave

Fermi High School Summer Reading List 2011

Entering Grade 9

Students who are enrolled in English 9-1 (Honors English 9) MUST READ TWO BOOKS during the summer from the list below. AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE BOOKS MUST BE A "CLASSIC NOVEL" from the selections below (denoted with bold and *).  Students who are enrolled in English 9-2 and English 9-3 MUST READ ONE BOOK during the summer from the list below.

Title Author
Acceleration McNamee, Graham
All Creatures Great and Small* Herriot, James
Almost Lost Sparks, Beatrice
Animal Farm* Orwell, George
Born to Rock Korman, Gordon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime                                     Haddon, Mark
Fire-us #1: The Kindling Armstrong, Jennifer
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn
Girl, Interrupted Kaysen, Susanna
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter* McCullers, Carson
Heat     Lupica, Mike
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again* Tolkien, J.R.R.
Jane Eyre* Bronte, Charlotte
The Last of the Mohicans* Cooper, James Fenimore
Monster Myers, Walter Dean
Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie, Agatha
Wuthering Heights*

Bronte, Emily

Great Expectations* Dickens, Charles
The Hunger Games Collins, Suzanne
Jurassic Park     Crichton, Michael
   

Entering Grade 10
Students who are enrolled in English 10-1 (Honors English 10), Survey of British Literature, Survey of American Literature, Survey of World Literature, Individual and Society, Critical Writing, Honors Searching and Writing, and Honors Writing and the Media:
MUST READ TWO BOOKS during the summer from the list below.  AT LEAST ONE OF THESE BOOKS MUST BE A "CLASSIC" FROM THE LIST BELOW (denoted with bold and *).

Students who are enrolled in all other English courses MUST READ ANY ONE BOOK during the summer from the list below.
   
 The Bell Jar*  Plath, Sylvia
 Nineteen Minutes  Picoult, Jodi
 Angela's Ashes  McCourt, Frank
 The Good Earth*  Buck, Pearl
 Rule of the Bone  Banks, Russell
 Deadline  Cutcher, Chris
 Dracula*  Stoker, Bram
 Peace Like a River  Enger, Leif
 The Big Sleep*  Chandler, Raymond
 Flight  Alexie, Sherman
 Into the Wild  Krakauer, Jon
 First they Killed My Father  Ung, Loung
 Memoirs of a Geisha  Golden, Arthur
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*      Verne, Jules
 Thirteen Reasons Why  Asher, Jay
 The Secret Life of Bees  Kidd, Sue Monk
   
Entering Grade 11
Students who are enrolled in English 10-1 (Honors English 10), Survey of British Literature, Survey of American Literature, Survey of World Literature, Individual and Society, Critical Writing, Honors Searching and Writing, and Honors Writing and the Media:
MUST READ TWO BOOKS during the summer from the list below.  AT LEAST ONE OF THESE BOOKS MUST BE A "CLASSIC" FROM THE LIST BELOW (denoted with bold and *).

Students who are enrolled in all other English courses MUST READ ANY ONE BOOK during the summer from the list below.
   
 The Mole People  Toth, Jennifer
 A Prayer for Owen Meany  Irving, John
 Animal Dreams  Kingsolver, Barbara
 She's Come Undone  Lamb, Wally

 The World According to Garp

 Irving, John
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*  Twain, Mark
 The Grapes of Wrath*  Steinbeck, John
 Oliver Twist*  Dickens, Charles
 Fast Food Nation  Schlosser, Eric
 The Right Stuff  Wolfe, Tom
 Into Thin Air  Krakauer, Jon
 Pride and Prejudice*  Austen, Jane
 Feed  Anderson, M.T.
 Walden*  Thoreau, Henry David
 The Physick Book of Deliverance  Howe, Katherine
 The Name of the Wind  Rothfuss, Patrick
 Water for Elephants  Gruen, Sara
   
Entering Grade 12
Students who are enrolled in English 10-1 (Honors English 10), Survey of British Literature, Survey of American Literature, Survey of World Literature, Individual and Society, Critical Writing, Honors Searching and Writing, and Honors Writing and the Media:
MUST READ TWO BOOKS during the summer from the list below.  AT LEAST ONE OF THESE BOOKS MUST BE A "CLASSIC" FROM THE LIST BELOW (denoted with bold and *).

Students who are enrolled in all other English courses MUST READ ANY ONE BOOK during the summer from the list below.
 

 

 The Awakening*  Chopin, Kate
 The Road  McCarthy, Cormac
 Cry, the Beloved Country  Paton, Alan
 A Thousand Splendid Suns  Hosseini, Khaled
 Native Son*  Wright, Richard
 Uncle Tom's Cabin*  Stowe, Harriet Beecher
 A Tale of Two Cities*  Dickens, Charles
 The Namesake  Lahiri, Jhumpa
 All Quiet on the Western Front*  Remarque, Erich Maria
 Ladies and Gentleman, The Bronx is Burning  Mahler, Johnathan
 Sophie's World  Gaarder, Jostein
 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance  Pirsig, Robert
 The Help  Stockett, Kathryn
 Forever War  Filkins, Dexter
 The Fountainhead  Rand, Ayn
 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  Skloot, Rebecca
 The Joy Luck Club  Tan, Amy
   

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