Cathedral High School Summer Reading

Required reading 2010

The school-wide summer reading required book is Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy

Honors English 1:

I Am the Cheese By Robert Cormier

Three Cups of Tea by Gred Mortensen and Oliver Relin

Honors English 2:

Three Cups of Tea by Gred Mortensen and Oliver Relin

Honors English 3:

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams

AP English 3:

The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams

The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck

Honors English 4:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll

AP English 4:

The Crucible By Arthur Miller

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

The purpose of the summer reading program is to encourage students to explore the world of literature by reading books of their own choosing for their personal enjoyment and enrichment. The following list includes titles that are accessible, challenging, and more challenging for adolescents on a variety of reading levels. The members of the English Department strongly encourage students to develop the habit of reading by selecting books on this list, other books by the same author, or any others of interest, and reading them this summer. We also encourage students to read magazines and newspapers regularly.

The benefits of reading are many, and we know parents will support our program. Undoubtedly, you will have opportunities over the summer to encourage your child to read. A visit together to a bookstore or library can be enjoyable, and it may afford you the opportunity to suggest a title that you have enjoyed. We also invite students to take advantage of live theater productions in the area.

A few of these books contain language that may be objectionable to some parents. We believe that the context of the works minimizes any potentially negative effect of these elements, but parents should use their own discretion in supervising their children's choices.

ACCESSIBLE

Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur The Hound of the Baskervilles

Cormier, Robert Bumblebee Flies Anyway / The Chocolate War

Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None

Crichton, Michael The Andromeda Strain

Frank, Anne Diary of a Young Girl

Frank, Pat Alas, Babylon

Greene, Bette Summer of My German Soldier

Haley, Alex Roots

Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders / Tex

Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils

Kassam, Lou Listen for Rachel

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

Lipsyte, Robert The Contender

MacLachlain, Patricia Sarah Plain and Tall

Malamud, Bernard The Natural

Monk Kidd, Susan The Secret Life of Bees

Neufield, John Lisa Bright and Dark

Oates, Joyce Carol Freaky Green Eyes

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter series

Scoppettone, Sandra The Late Great Me

Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Steinbeck, John The Red Pony

Thurber, James My Life and Hard Times / The Thurber Carnival

Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings trilogy

Voigt, Cynthia Homecoming

Zindel, Paul To Take a Dare

CHALLENGING

Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Ashe, Arthur Days of Grace

Borland, Hal When the Legends Die

Bradley, Marion Zimmer The Mists of Avalon

Brown, Dee Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee

Cisneros, Sandra My Wicked, Wicked Ways / Woman Hollering Creek

Clark, Arthur C. Childhood's End

Dinesen, Isak Out of Africa

Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca

Flagg, Fannie Fried Green Tomatoes

Gaines, Ernest The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Greenberg, Joanne I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Griffin, John Howard Black Like Me

Guest, Judith Ordinary People

Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea

Hillenbrand, Laura Seabiscuit

Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon

Kinsella W.P. Shoeless Joe

London, Jack Call of the Wild

Okada, John No-No Boy

Orwell, George 1984 / Animal Farm

Santiago, Esmerelda When I Was Puerto Rican

Shaara, Michael Killer Angels

Shute, Nevil On the Beach

Sillitoe, Alan Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Sinclair, Upton The Jungle

Sparks, Nicholas A Walk to Remember

Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men

Sterne, Emma The Story of the Amistad (The Slave Ship)

Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Vonnegut, Kurt Cat's Cradle

Walker, Alice The Color Purple

White, T. H. The Once and Future King

Wright, Richard Black Boy

MORE CHALLENGING

Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid's Tale

Austen, Jane Emma

Dorris, Michael Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meany

Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees

Lawrence and Lee Inherit the Wind

O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

Poe, Edgar Allan Complete Tales and Poems

Siebold, Alice Lovely Bones

Stoker, Bram Dracula

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