High School
Required Reading 2012-2013
9th Grade (Summer)
College Prep - 2 books
Honors - 3 books
Little Women: Louisa May Alcott
David Copperfield*: Charles Dickens
Taken at the Flood: Agatha Christie
Sea Wolf: Jack London
Sackett’s Land: Louis L’Amour
*This book equals two (2) choices.
9th (Fall & Spring)
Required Books:
Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
Animal Farm: George Orwell
Night: Elie Wiesel
The Old Man And The Sea: Ernest Hemingway
Rosa Parks: My Story Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins
10th (Summer)
College Prep - 2 books
Honors - 3 books
To Dance with the White Dog: Terry Kay
To the Far Blue Mountains: Louis L'Amour
Delta Wedding: Eudora Welty
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Yearling: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
10th (Fall & Spring)
The Pearl: John Steinbeck
Silas Marner: George Eliot
A Separate Peace: John Knowles
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury (honors only)
11th Grade (Summer)
Honors classes will read 1 nonfiction book,
1 book and a movie and
1 classic book from the honors sections for a total of
3 books.
College Prep classes will read
1 book and a movie and
1 nonfiction OR 1 classic book
from the regular section for a total of
2 books.
Nonfiction
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex and Brett Harris
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
Book and Movie (Mandatory)
All must choose from this list.
Read the book AND watch the movie.
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
(The Haunting (1999) PG13 )
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, J. H. Patterson
(The Ghost and the Darkness
(1996) R for animal violence)
True Grit, Charles Portis
(True Grit (1969) TV-14 - John Wayne) OR
(True Grit (2010) PG-13 Jeff Bridges)
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
(The Princess Bride (1987) PG)
Classics
College Prep English:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Warrior's Path, by Louis L'Amour
Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
My Antonia,by Willa Cather*
*May be checked out from Mrs. Huckaby before school is out
and returned after the test in August. It has a study guide that comes with it.
Honors English:
Adventures of Huckleberry of Finn, by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
The Warrior's Path, by Louis L'Amour
My Antonia, by Willa Cather *
11th Grade (Fall & Spring)
For the 2012-2013 school year, all juniors must secure copies
of the following required supplementary books.
MLA Handbook 7th Edition
Scarlet Letter
Glass Menagerie (The 7 scene version- black cover)
Great Gatsby
12th Grade (Summer)
College Prep - 2 books
Honors - 3 books
Wuthering Heights
Jubal Sackett
Hamlet
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Murder at the Vicarage
12th Grade (Fall & Spring – Honors Only)
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Much Ado about Nothing
AP Biology
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Students have been given specific
writing assignments for each book.
These assignments are also available on
Renweb or in the Cedar Creek office.
Advanced Honors and AP English
Reading List 2012 - 2013
Advanced Honors English - 9th and 10th
Summer Reading
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Ayn Rand, Anthem
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Collateral Reading
Emily Brontë,Wuthering Heights
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
AP English Literature and Composition - 11th and 12th
Summer Reading
Elie Wiesel, Night
Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Collateral Reading
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
In addition, each student in the Advanced Honors/Advanced Placement English classes should own a copy of the
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Seventh Edition).
Please note: For the most beneficial study of literature, please do not purchase Dover Thrift Editions of the aforementioned works. Instead, please opt for scholarly sound and still cost-effective publishers such as Norton (Norton Critical Editions), Penguin, or Oxford. Thank you!
Students have been given specific writing assignments for each book. These assignments are also available on Renweb or in the Cedar Creek office.
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