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Dr. Freddie H. Gilyard
Principal
3012 Sunset Boulevard
Savannah, GA 31404
(912) 303-6400




Summer Reading Book List 2009-2010

9th Grade Summer Reading

Abelove, Joan Go and Come Back

Album, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Anderson, Laurie Speak

Carson, Ben Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street

Coelho, Paul The Alchemist

Covey, Sean **Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

DuMaurier, Daphne *Rebecca

Dickens, Charles *Oliver Twist

Gaines, Ernest A Gathering of Old Men

Gilbreth, Frank Cheaper by the Dozen

Herroit, James All Creatures Great and Small

Morrison, Toni *Sula

Myers, Walter Dean Monster

O’Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah

Santiago, Esmerelda When I Was Puerto Rican

Shaara, Jeff Gods and Generals

Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 

*Denotes a book for advanced readers.

**Book is required summer reading at that grade level.

10th Grade Summer Reading

Adam, Richard *Watership Down

Allende, Isabel The House of the Spirits

Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima

Bradbury, Ray Martian Chronicles

Gibbons, Kaye Ellen Foster

Haddock, Mark The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time

Hansberry, Lorraine To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

Hersey, James Hiroshima

Mowat, Farley Never Cry Wolf

McBride, James The Color of Water

Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks

Rand, Ayn *Anthem

Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night

Sophocles *Oedipus Rex

Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club

Truss, Lynne Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Approach

to Punctuation

White, T.H. The Once and Future King

Winthrop, Elizabeth December

 

*Denotes a book for advanced readers.

**Book is required summer reading at that grade level.

11th Grade Summer Reading

Bragg, Rick All Over But the Shoutin’

Cather, Willa O Pioneers

Conroy, Pat My Losing Season

Dorris, Michael Crown of Columbus

Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

Faulkner, William Light in August

Frazier, Charles *Cold Mountain

Heller, Joseph *Catch 22

Jacobs, Harriet Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Johnson, James W. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Malamud, Bernard The Natural

Melville, Herman Moby Dick

McCullars, Carson The Member of the Wedding: The Play

Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon

O’Connor, Flannery Wise Blood

Sams, Ferrol Run with the Horseman

Steinbeck, John Cannery Row

Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse 5

Welty, Eudora One Writer’s Beginnings

Wharton, Edith *The House of Mirth

 

*Denotes a book for advanced readers.

**Book is required summer reading at that grade level.

12th Grade Summer Reading

Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility

Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring

Foster, Thomas C. **How to Read a Novel Like a Professor

Garcia Marquez,Gabriel *One Hundred Years of Solitude

Hardy, Thomas Return of the Native

Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner

Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

Joyce, James *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kafka, Franz *Metamorphosis

Martel, Yann The Life of Pi

Morrison, Toni Beloved

Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran

Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front

Shakespeare, William The Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare, William King Lear

Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony

Stevenson, Robert L. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram *Dracula

Zusak, Markus The Book Thief

 

*Denotes a book for advanced readers.

**Book is required summer reading at that grade level.