students entering Gr 9-12 are required to read or listen to a novel during the summer and will begin the school year with an assignment based their reading.

These choices span a variety of reading levels and include graphic novels. Please bring the book, audio or downloaded version of the novel to the first day of classes.**

students entering gr 9-10:

• The Falls - Eric Walters
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
• Angus, Thong and Full Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
• City of Bones - Cassandra Claire
• The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson
• As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth - Lynnne Rae Perkins
• Variant - Robinson Wells
• Persepolis: the Story of Childhood - Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)
• Gym Candy - Carl Deuker
• Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet - Erin Dionne
• Beastly - Alex Finn
• Gone - Michael Grant
• The Big Time: A Football Genius Novel - Tim Green
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group - Catherine Jinks
• The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel - Gareth Hinds (graphic novel)
• In the Small - Michael Hague (graphic novel)
• Running the Bases - Paul Kropp
• Retribution Falls - Chris Wooding
• Delirium - Lauren Oliver

students entering gr 11-12

• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Enter Three Witches - Caroline B. Cooney
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• 1984- George Orwell
• No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
• The Thin Red Line - James Jones
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
• Dante's Divine Comedy - Seymour Chwast (graphic novel)
• The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
• The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel - Jonathan Safran Foer
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aaron Ralston
• Maus 1: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

**If you would like to read a book not listed here, please contact Jo Ann Whitham.