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Arlington High School Summer Reading List

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Grade 9 English

Honors: Required Reading (choice either)
Of Nightingales That Weep by Katherine Paterson
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Regents and Honors: Selected Reading List
2001, a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Big Field by Mike Lupica
Far From Home by Wendell and Villegas
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman
The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts


Grade 9 Global I Honors (choose 2)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane

 


 

Grade 10 English

Honors: Required Reading
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Regents and Honors: Selected Reading List
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Brave by Robert Lipsyte
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
Marcelo in the Real World by Francesco Stork
Mars by Ben Bova
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

Grade 10 Global II Honors

The File: a personal history by Timothy Garton Ash


Grade 10 AP World History

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

 


 

Grade 11 English

Advanced Placement: Required Reading
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Regents and Advanced Placement: Selected Reading List
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
West with the Night by Beryl Markham

 


 

Grade 12 English

Advanced Placement: Required Reading
Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone or Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles

Regents and Advanced Placement: Selected Reading List
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Terrorist by John Updike