Summer Reading Lists 2008
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**Not all schools and grades are currently available, but we are adding more each day. If you can't find your high school, check the '08-'09 reading list by clicking here.

Middle Schools:

Milton M. Somers

6th grade:

Enrichment and Developmental Choices:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Green
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

7th grade:

Developmental Choices:
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Holt

Meeting the Middle Choices:
Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor
The Big Wave by Pearl Buck
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Enrichment Choices:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

8th grade:

Developmental Classes:
That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton

Meeting the Middle Classes:
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor

Enrichment Classes:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

High Schools:

La Plata High School

9th grade:

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

10th grade:

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Erich Marie Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

11th grade:

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of Butterflies
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

12th grade:

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Virgil, The Aeneid

AP Language:

Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain
William Zinsser, On Writing Well

AP Literature:

Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
William Shakespeare, Macbeth