... Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, Robert Hass. The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
Victor Hugo. Taliesin (or any from the Pendragon Cycle), Stephen R. Lawhead ...
Whitfield School 175 South Mason Road at the corner of Ladue and Mason Roads St. Louis, Missouri 63141 tel: 314.434.5141 fax: 314.434.6193 www.whitfieldschool.org
English Department Supplemental Reading Suggestions Summer 2012 While the summer is a time for travel, regeneration and recreation, it is vital that Whitfield students maintain good reading habits and take advantage of opportunities to increase fluency and vocabulary. For students who would like to read beyond the minimum requirement at each grade level, the department has selected the following titles for optional reading based on their developmental appropriateness and their correlation with the essential questions for each course. Students are encouraged to use this list as a starting point for their own summer reading selections. Grade 6 Please select books from the list of Newbery Medal Winners, which you may find at
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal. In
addition, you are welcome to read any of the books suggested for other grades. Grade 7
Wringer, Jerry Spinelli Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix The Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis Crispin: Cross of Lead, Avi The River Between Us, Richard Peck Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck Grade 8
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith City of the Beasts, Isabel Allende October Sky, Homer Hickam Parrot in the Oven, Victor Martinez Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Buried Onions, Gary Soto Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter, Adeline Yen Mah A Separate Peace, John Knowles Enders Game, Orson Scott Card The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier The Human Fly and Other Stories, T.C. Boyle No More Dead Dogs, Gordon Korman Redwall, Brian Jacques Grade 9
Beowulf (Young Adult Readers: Beowulf, edited/retold by Ian Serallier) Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle, Madeline Blais Black Ice, Lorene Cary A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, Robert Hass The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo Taliesin (or any from the Pendragon Cycle), Stephen R. Lawhead
Grade 9 (cont.)
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose Frankenstein, Mary Shelley The Song of Roland The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien Grade 10
The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison Monster Walter, Dean Myers Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury Brave New World, Aldous Huxley The Time of the Doves, Merce Rodoreda Catch-22, Joseph Heller Grade 11
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain The Awakening, Kate Chopin The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers My Antonia, Willa Cather O Pioneers!, Willa Cather Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sun also Rises, Ernest Hemingway The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin The Color Purple, Alice Walker Their Eyes are Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez Grade 12
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen Emma, Jane Austen Beloved, Toni Morrison A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte The Stranger, Albert Camus Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Too Late the Phalarope, Alan Paton Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver The House of Blue Mangoes, David Davidar The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Ferguson, Salter & Stallworthy Selected Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Story Masterpieces, Robert Penn Warren The World’s Religions, Huston Smith
