Freshman Summer Reading List:
June, 2007
 

Please choose one of the books from this list as your summer reading book. When you return to school in September, your teacher will use this book as the subject for the first assignment(s) of the year. Assignments may include written and/or oral reports, projects, presentations, etc.

Since one of our goals is to encourage the habit of life-long reading, we will be assigning independent reading books to you all year long. This summer reading assignment is the first of the books you will read on your own this year.

Some of these books have been recommended by previous freshmen; others fit the general reading focus of the freshman curriculum – literature from or about Africa, South Asia, and East Asia. You can pick up a copy of your book from any of the area libraries, or if you want personal copies, purchase them from a local bookstore or a website like www.amazon.com  or www.bn.com  (Barnes & Noble).
 
Abagnale, Frank & Stan Redding Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

Albom, Mitch Tuesdays with Morrie; The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Alcott, Louisa May Little Women

Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents;
In the Time of Butterflies

Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Anonymous Go Ask Alice

Binchy, Maeve Circle of Friends

Burns, Olive Ann Cold Sassy Tree

Conroy, Pat The Great Santini; Lords of Discipline

Choi, Sook Nyul Year of the Impossible Goodbyes; Gathering of
Pearls; Echoes of the White Giraffe

Courtney, Bryce The Power of One

Crichton, Michael Congo

Dangarembga, Tsitsi Nervous Conditions

Delany, Sarah Having Our Say: The Delany Sister’s First 100 Years

Golding, William The Lord of the Flies

Grisham, John The Firm; The Client

Grossman, David Someone to Run With

Hamill, Pete Snow in August

Harr, Jonathan A Civil Action

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders

Kahn, Roger Boys of Summer

Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees

Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees

Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe Jackson

Knowles, John A Separate Peace		 Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air

Laye, Camara The Dark Child

Lee, Gus China Boy

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

L’Engle, Madeline Summer of the Great-Grandmother

Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia

Lord, Walter A Night to Remember (about the sinking of the Titanic)

McBride, James The Color of Water

McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes

Oyono, Ferdinand Houseboy

Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country

Robinson, Marilynne Housekeeping

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter, Books 1 – 7

See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Smith, Maggie A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Staples, Suzanne F. Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind

Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club; The Kitchen God’s
Wife; The Bone-Setter’s Daughter

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit

Tsukiyama, Gail The Samurai’s Garden; Women of the Silk

Uchida, Yoshiko Picture Bride

Vonnegut, Kurt Breakfast of Champions; Cat’s Cradle

Wells, Rebecca Little Altars Everywhere; The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

White, T.H. The Once and Future King

Wolfe, Tom The Right Stuff

Wolff, Tobias This Boy’s Life