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Language Arts/English Overview
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.
Accelerated Reader - Instruction
High School Summer Reading List
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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