You are required to read one (1) novel from this list.

• Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
• Tending to Grace, by Kimberly Newton Fusco
• Life in the Fat Lane, by Cherie Bennett
• Double Helix, by Nancy Werlin
• Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen
• Tangerine, by Edward Bloor
• Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima, by James Bradley
• Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
• Born Confused, by Tanuja Desai Hidier
• The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, by Joshua Braff
• Prom, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
• Godless, by Pete Hautman
• Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper
• The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
• Prep: A Novel, by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Two Little Girls in Blue, by Mary Higgins Clark
• Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
• Perfect, by Natasha Friend
• The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
• Can’t Get There from Here, by Todd Strasser
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
• So B. It: A Novel, by Sarah Weeks
• Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card

HONORS STUDENTS

You are required to read two (2) novels.  One novel has been chosen for you.  The other will be your choice from the general reading list at top.

Required Titles  

9th Grade
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros or I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier  

10th Grade
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns or Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines  

11th Grade
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther or Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene  

12th Grade
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley