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JFK Middle School Summer Reading List 2010

Nutmeg Book Awards 2011 Nominees

Author Title
Pearsall, Shelley All of the Above
Fletcher, Susan Alphabet of Dreams
Anderson, Laurie Halse Chains
Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Applegate, Katherine Home of the Brave

de Mari, Silvana

The Last Dragon
Dowd, Siobhan The London Eye Mystery
Shusterman, Neal Unwind
Connors, Leslie Waiting for Normal
Schmidt, Gary The Wednesday Wars

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

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 2010

Entering Grade 9  

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
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
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

Entering Grade 10          

Title Author
American Born Chinese Yang, Bene Luen
Biloxi Blues Simon, Neil
Cry, The Beloved Country Paton, Alan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Haddon, Mark
Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Albom, Mitch
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream Bissinger, H.G.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Doug
The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life Armstrong, Lance, with Sally Jenkins
No Second Chance Coben, Harlan
A Northern Light Donnelly, Jennifer
Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Makepeace

Entering Grade 11

Title Author
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl Oates, Joyce Carol
Blackout Nance, Jim
Catch-22 Heller, Joseph
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dune Herbert, Frank
The English Patient Ondaatje, Michael
Fences Wilson, August
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Beah, Ishmael
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Satrapi, Marjane
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Adams, Doug
She's Come Undone Lamb, Wally

Entering Grade 12         

Title Author
Charm School DeMille, Nelson
Emma Austen, Jane
Fast Food Nation Schlosser, Eric
The Historian Kostova, Elizabeth
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale Speigelman, Art
Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris, Dave
Once a Hero Moon, Elizabeth
The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
The Rescue Sparks, Nicholas
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
VALIS Dick, Philip K.

Fermi High School Summer Reading List 2010

Entering Grade 9

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
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
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

   
Entering Grade 10  
   
 The Bell Jar  Plath, Sylvia
 The Long Walk  Rawicz, Slavomir
 Nineteen Minutes  Picoult, Jodi
 Angela's Ashes  McCourt, Frank
 The Good Earth  Buck, Pearl
 Rule of the Bone  Banks, Russell
 Deadline  Cutcher, Chris
 Hole in My Life  Gantos, Jack
 Dracula  Stoker, Bram
 Peace Like a River  Enger, Leif
 The Big Sleep  Chandler, Raymond
 Flight  Alexie, Sherman
 Water for Elephants  Gruen, Sara
 First they Killed My Father  Ung, Loung
 Memoirs of a Geisha  Golden, Arthur
   
Entering Grade 11  
   
 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 Huckleberry Finn  Twain, Mark
 The Grapes of Wrath  Steinbeck, John
 Their Eyes Were Watching God  Hurston, Zora Neale
 Fast Food Nation  Schlosser, Eric
 The Right Stuff  Wolfe, Tom
 Into Thin Air  Krakauer, Jon
 Amusing Ourselves To Death  Postman, Neil
 Inside Rupert's Brain  LaMonica, Paul
 Walden  Thoreau, Henry David
 Radio Golf  Wilson, August
   
Entering Grade 12  
 

 

 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
 Heart of Darkness  Conrad, Joseph
 The Help  Stockett, Kathryn
 Forever War  Filkins, Dexter
   

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