SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS 2012 Monument Mountain Regional High School Students can experience a “summer slide” in their academic skills. Reading over the summer is one way to maintain those critical skills necessary for academic success. Studies show that students who participate in summer reading not only achieve higher scores on reading achievement tests, but return to school ready to learn with more enjoyment and confidence in their reading
Students perceive reading to be important. (Dominican University, 2010).
Stephen Krashen (2004), a leading linguist and language researcher, showed that one of the most overlooked methods of improving reading is by providing a supply of interesting and
Selfselection of reading materials is key to reading success. accessible books to students.
To support MMRHS students in their summer reading selections, I have put together a list of some suggestions for great reading – everything from the classics to some current YA literature. Several teachers have also made suggestions for their specific classes and will offer extra credit if you read those books. Enjoy, happy reading, and let me know if I can help you select a book. Mrs. Staunton ** Indicates a book you can get at the MMRHS library.
TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS: Several will offer extra credit
SCIENCE MS. YOUNG: Will offer extra credit with a book review for the library and a brief presentation to the class on any of these titles: o o o o o
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston ** The Double Helix by James Watson Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Barbara Maddix ** Any book by Robin Cook, Patricia Cornwell or Michael Crichton ** It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
SOCIAL STUDIES MS. OLDS: Will offer extra credit for Song of Solomon, but also recommends the following: o o o
** To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ** The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ** The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (for American Culture Studies)
MR. MACUGA: Recommends the following titles: o
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For US History: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Flint by Louis L’Amour For Global Village: Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard ** Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad For Ancient Civilizations: Mythology by Edith Hamilton
MRS. TROIANO: Will offer extra credit for Unbroken, and recommends the following titles: o o o
** Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ** Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ** Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
MR. SOULE: Will offer extra credit in any of his classes if you read the following: o o o
Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessel Music Inn by Jeremy Yudkin The Unredeemed Captive by Jeremy Demos
ENGLISH MR. MOONEY: will offer extra credit for any of these titles: o
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** Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
** The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery For Non-Fiction: ** Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand ** Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Zeitoun by Dave Eggers ** Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
MS. VAN PELT-DUS: Recommends the following for any 11th or 12th grader, especially for Non-Fiction and AP Language students: o o
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck ** Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
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A Narrative History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Required for AP English Language: In Fact: The Best of Creative Non-Fiction ed. Lee Guttkind
MATH MRS. ERICKSON: Recommends the following titles: o o o
For freshmen: Ten Miles Past Normal by Francis O’Roark Dowell For anyone: Princess Bride by William Goldman Authors: Janet Evanovich, Harlan Coben, Stephen King
MORE GREAT BOOKS TO CHOOSE FROM. SELF-SELECTION OF A BOOK THAT INTERESTS YOU IS KEY TO DEVELOPING AN INTEREST IN READING. BOOKS FOR THE COLLEGE BOUND (AS RECOMMENDED BY THE COLLEGE BOARD) American Literature Agee, James. A Death in the Family Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On the Mountain Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 Cather, Willa. My Antonia Chopin, Kate. The Awakening Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. The Ox-Bow Incident Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby Gaines, Ernest. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms Hurston, Zora N. Their Eyes Were Watching God Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street London, Jack. Call of the Wild McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick Morrison, Toni. Sula O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find Parks, Gordon. The Learning Tree Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar Poe, Edgar Allan. Great Tales and Poems Potok, Chaim. The Chosen Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five Walker, Alice. The Color Purple Welty, Eudora. Thirteen Stories Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel Wright, Richard. Native Son
World Literature Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice Balzac, Honore de. Pere Goriot Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights Camus, Albert. The Stranger Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations Dostoevski, Feodor. Crime and Punishment Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary Forster, E.M.. A Passage to India Fuentes, Carlos. The Death of Artemio Cruz Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gogol, Nikolai. The Overcoat Golding, William. Lord of the Flies Grass, Gunter. The Tin Drum Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kafka, Franz. The Trial Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice Orwell, George. Animal Farm Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels Weisel, Elie. Night Wells, H.G. The Time Machine
CURRENT POPULAR YOUNG ADULT BOOKS FICTION ** Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games Trilogy Asher, Jay. 13 Reasons Why ** Williams, Michael. Now Is The Time For Running ** Northrup, Michael. Gentlemen ** Green, John. The Fault In Our Stars ** Myers, Walter Dean. Lockdown. ** Morgenstern, Erin. The Night Circus ** Warman, Jessica. Breathless ** Anderson, M.T. Feed Bray, Libba. Beauty Queens ** Wilson, Daniel H. Robopocalypse ** Stockett, Kathryn. The Help ** Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief ** Donoghue, Emma. Room Perkins, Stephanie. Anna and the French Kiss Castle, Jennifer. The Beginning of After **Chow, Cara. Bitter Melon ** Wynne-Jones, Tim. Blink and Caution ** Oliver, Lauren. Delirium ** King. A.S. Please Ignore Vera Dietz Marcus, Kimberly. Exposed ** Cooper, Michelle. The Fitzosbornes in Exile ** Carson, Rae. The Girl of Fire and Thorns ** Perera, Anna. Guantanamo Boy ** Zarr, Sara. How To Save a Life ** Porter, Tracey. Lark ** Lu, Marie. Legend
NON-FICTION **Hauser, Brooke. New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens Junger, Sebastian. War Kristoff, Nicholas and WuDunn, Sheryl. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Wormen Worldwide ** Kuklin, Susan. No Choirboy: Murder, Violence and Teens on Death Row ** Kaufman, Michael T. 1968 ** Kamkwamba, William. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind ** Cullen, Dave. Columbine ** Aronson, Marc, ed. War Is.... ** Swanson, James L. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer ** Reef, Catherine. Jane Austen a Life Revealed ** Grennan, Connor. Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal ** Lloyd, Rachel. Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale ** Murray, Liz. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Going from Homeless to Harvard ** Cox, Lynne. Swimming to Antarctica
GRAPHIC NOVELS **Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis ** Yang, Gene. American Born Chinese ** Geary, Rick. The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti ** Brosgol, Vera. Anya’s Ghost ** Amir. Zahra’s Paradise