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    The lsit of recommended summer reading for 9-12th grade students.  Your repective teacher will tell you if other specific reading material is required for thir course.  You are to follow JPS instructions as it relates to the summer reading requirements.

     

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High School Summer Reading List

  • High School (Grades 9-12)

    GRADE

    TITLE

    AUTHOR

    9

    Coming of Age in Mississippi

    Anne Moody

    9

    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding

    9

    My Dog Skip

    Willie Morris

    9

    The Outsiders

    S.E. Hinton

    9

    The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

    Sean Covey

    9

    Think Big

    Ben Carson

    9

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    9

    Student's Choice

    10

    Black Like Me

    John Howard Griffin

    10

    Bleachers

    John Grisham

    10

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    10

    The Green Mile

    Stephen King

    10

    The Secret Life of Bees

    Sue Monk Kidd

    10

    To Sir, With Love

    Edward Ricardo Braitwaite

    10

    Student's Choice

    11

    A Time to Kill

    John Grisham

    11

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury

    11

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    Maya Angelou

    11

    Night

    Elie Wiesel

    11

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    11

    The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    11

    The Sound and the Fury

    William Faulkner

    11

    Student's Choice

    12

    1984

    George Orwell

    12

    Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom

    Walter Dean Myers

    12

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Robert Lewis Stevenson

    12

    Runaway Jury

    John Grisham

    12

    The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

    James McBride

    12

    The Fellowship of the Ring

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    12

    Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe

    12

    Student's Choice