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Incoming Grade Nine:
College Prep and College Tech/Prep Levels:
Choose One of the following books
Honors Level:
Choose Two of the following books
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
Search of the Moon King's Daughter
by Linda Holeman
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Incoming Grade Ten:
College Prep and College Tech/Prep Levels:
Choose One of the following books
Honors Level:
Choose Two of the following books
Maus I : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
Black Like Me
by John Griffin
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous
Incoming Grade Eleven:
College Prep and College Tech/Prep Levels:
Choose One of the following books
Honors Level:
Choose Two of the following books
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
Incoming Grade Twelve:
College Prep and College Tech/Prep Levels:
Choose One of the following books
Honors Level:
Choose Two of the following books
Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Middleborough High School Summer Reading Logs
The Reading Log is not required; it is optional.
As part of the summer reading assignment, you are encouraged to keep a reading log. The purpose of the reading log is twofold. First, it should help you understand the book as you read it, and second, you may use the log when you take the summer reading test in your English class. Summer reading tests ask both objective questions and essay questions.
The design of the reading log is as follows:
In a three-ring binder or notebook and in your handwriting you are to log in the date, time, and pages or chapters read at each reading session. Your log should include major elements of plot, consideration of characters including description and motivation, settings, theme, significant details and anything else you feel is noteworthy or significant including questions you may have about anything that seems confusing to you in that section of the book.
Your reading logs will be passed in to your English teacher for credit and then handed back to you on the day of the summer reading test. Reading logs that do not follow the design described above will not be accepted by the teacher.
Reminder: As you consider the books on your list you may wish to read an on-line synopis and/or recommendations of each one before you make your choice.