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Taconic High School Summer Reading List
Summer 2012

Ninth Grade | Tenth Grade | Eleventh Grade | Seniors |

• Ninth Grade
  
  The Car by Gary Paulson
  13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
  Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
  Mercy by Jodi Picoult
  Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
  Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M Draper
  Eragon by Christopher Paolin
  Shooter Walter Dean Myers
  Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
  
  HONORS:
  Okay for Now by Gary D Schmidt + one from above
  
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• Tenth Grade
  
  Lucky by Alice Sebold
  The Great and Only Barnum by Candace Fleming
  On Hitler’s Mountain by Irmgard Hunt
  The Guiness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record by Steven Church
  First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
  The Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
  Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
  Go Ask Ogre by Jolene Siana
  Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez
  Stitches by David Small [a graphic novel]
  Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
  
  
  HONORS:
  (choose one of the following)
  Flesh and Blood so cheap: the Triangle fire and its legacy by Albert Marrin
  OR
  Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls + one from above (for a total of two)
  
  
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• Juniors
  
  
  Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
  Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  Basketball Junkie by Chris Herren
  The Natural by Bernard Malamud
  River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
  Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner and Harvey Pekar [a graphic novel]
  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
  Blankets by Craig Thompson [a graphic novel]
  The Future of Us by Jay Asher
  Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong
  Nickel and Dimed: On not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  
  AP English Language has a separate assignment
  
  
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• Seniors
  
  The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  LIfe of Pi by Yann Martel
  Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
  Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman [a graphic novel]
  The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
  Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware [a graphic novel]
  
  
  AP English Literature has a separate assignment
  

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