Melrose Booklist
2010 Melrose School Summer Reading Lists
Melrose High School
2010
English Language Arts Summer Reading List
All students will be assessed on their summer reading during the first week of school in September in their English classes.
Students Entering Grade 9:
Required Reading: Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
College Preparatory Level: Choose one other title from the list below.
Honors Level: Choose two other titles from the list below.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Blue Is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Students Entering Grade 10
Required Reading: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
College Preparatory Level: Choose one other title from the list below.
Honors Level: Choose two other titles from the list below.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Tomorrow, Maybe by Brian James
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Students Entering Grade 11
Required Reading: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
College Preparatory Level: Choose one other title from the list below.
Honors Level: Choose two other titles from the list below.
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Dark Angel by David Klass
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Run by Ann Patchett
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Students Entering Grade 11 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition
(AP students are required to read all titles and complete any assignments the AP teacher requires.)
Required Reading:
Growing Up by Russell Baker
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Students Entering Grade 12
Required Reading: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
College Preparatory Level: Choose one other title from the list below.
Honors Level: Choose two other titles from the list below.
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
Students Entering Grade 12 Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition
(AP students are required to read all titles and complete any assignments the AP teacher requires.)
Required Reading: Wit by Margaret Edson
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
