Summer Reading Lists
Spring Woods High School
2012 Summer Reading Requirement
Grade 9
Good Reads Challenging Good Reads
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Any title by Stephenie Meyer
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Isaac’s Storm Erik Larson
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A Northern Light Jennifer Donnelly
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Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
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Skellig David Almond
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The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
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Zorro IsabelAllende
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Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko
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Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
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Silent to the Bone E.L. Konigsburg
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
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Chinese Cinderella Yen Mah
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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
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Inexcusable ChrisLynch
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Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
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Go Ask Alice Anonymous
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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Any title in the Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield
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Any title by Nicholas Sparks
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13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graham-Smith
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Any of the titles in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flammel series by Michael Scott
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9th Grade Academic
Read one book from the Good Reads list.
9th Grade Pre-AP
Read one book from the Good Reads list AND one book from the Challenging Good Reads list.
Grade 10
Good Reads Challenging Good Reads
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My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
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Founding Mothers Cokie Roberts
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Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
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Peace Like a River Leif Enger
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Any title by Carol Plum-Ucci
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The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
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Ironman or Deadline Chris Crutcher
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Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
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American Born Chinese (graphic) Gene Yang
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10th Grade Academic
Read one book from either the Good Reads list OR the Challenging Good Reads list.
10TH Grade Pre-AP
Read Lord of the Flies by William Golding AND read one book from the Challenging Good Reads list.
Grade 11
Good Reads Challenging Good Reads
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Shadow Divers Robert Kurson
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Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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Devil in the White City Erik Larson
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Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
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Whale Talk Chris Crutcher
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Emma’s War Deborah Scroggins
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Any title by Stephen King
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1776 DavidMcCullough
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Kitchen Confidential AnthonyBourdain
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Bel Canto Ann Patchett
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Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
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The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw
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In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
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Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
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Hole in My Life Jack Gantos
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Any title by Sebastian Junger
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Dispatches from the Edge Anderson Cooper
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The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
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Blessings AnnaQuindlen
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Any title by Mary Higgins Clark
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11th Grade Academic
Read one book from either the Good Reads list OR the Challenging Good Reads list.
11th Grade AP
Read A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley AND read one of the following:
Freakonomics Levitt and Dubner
Emma’s War Scroggins
Dispatches from the Edge Cooper
1776 McCullough
Devil in the White City Larson
Grade 12
Good Reads Challenging Good Reads
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris
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Caramelo Sandra Cisneros
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
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Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
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Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
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Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
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19 Minutes Jodi Picoult
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A Painted House John Grisham
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Bleachers John Grisham
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12th Grade Academic
Read one book from the Good Reads list OR the Challenging Good Reads list.
12th Grade AP
Read The Quiet American by Graham Greene AND read one of the following: Enemies: A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, or Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami