SUMMER READING LIST - TARA HIGH SCHOOL

3 are required from Ninth Grade List for Honors English I (9^th grade.)
3 are required from Tenth Grade List for Honors English II.             
2 plus Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde are required for 11^th grade English III Honors
English III AP students should read Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hide and additional 3 books from list.
Honors English IV (12^th grade) must read 4 from list, including the two starred ones.
AP English IV (12^th grade) must read 4 from list, including the two starred ones.
10^th, 11^th, & 12^th graders can read any book in your reading range on the Tara Accelerated Reader List.

NINTH GRADE

Alcott, Louisa May        Little Women
Card, Orson Scott        Ender’s Game
Bradbury, Ray              Fahrenheit 451
Cooney, Caroline          Driver’s Ed
Draper, Sharon           Romiette & Julio
Gaines, Ernest          A Lesson Before Dying
Hobbs, Will              Far North
Myers, Walter D.      Monster
Paulsen, Gary          Brian’s Winter
Sparks, Nicholas      The Notebook
Steinbeck, John      Of Mice and Men
Tolkien, J.R.R.      The Hobbit
Woodson, Jacqueline   Hush

TENTH GRADE

Avi                             Nothing But the Truth
Barron, T. A.                The Lost Years of Merlin
Brashares, Ann             Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Bradbury, Ray              Dandelion Wine
Brooks, Terry               First King of Shannara
Card, Orson Scott        Ender’s Game
Green, Bette               Summer of My German Soldier
Nimmo, Beth & Darrell Scott               Rachel’s Tears
McKissack, Patricia        Sojourner Truth
Pullman, Phillip                   The Golden Compass
Voigt, Cynthia                      Solitary Blue

ELEVENTH GRADE

Brashares, Ann           Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Brokaw, Tom               The Greatest Generation
Clark, Mary H.              Where are the Children #
Gibson, Althea              Always Wanted to Be Somebody #
Hansberry, Lorraine        A Raisin in the Sun
Kennedy, John F.       Profiles in Courage
McCullers, Carson        The Heart is a Lonely Hunter #
Miller, Arthur              The Crucible
Rinaldi, Ann              Hang a Thousand Ribbons
Steinbeck, John        Travels With Charlie
Tyler, Anne              Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant #
Warren, Robert Penn  All the King's Men
Wharton, Edith            The House of Mirth #

ELEVENTH GRADE HONORS

Hyde, Catherine Ryan Pay It Forward (mandatory)
William Faulkner     As I Lay Dying
Charles Frazier     Cold Mountain
J.D. Salinger        The Catcher in the Rye
August Wilson      Fences
Anne Tyler          Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Earnest Gaines     A Lesson Before Dying
Sue Monk Kidd      The Secret Life of Bees
Sandra Cisneros    The House on Mango Street
Nathan Aaseng     Navajo Code Talkers
John Grisham       Bleachers

11^th GRADE ADVANCED PLACEMENT (READ 4)

Hyde, Catherine Ryan Pay It Forward (mandatory)
Camus, Albert     The Stranger
Voltire               Candide
Twain, Mark       Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ralph Ellison       Invisible Man
Wharton, Edith   The House of Mirth
Williams, Tennessee   A Streetcar Named Desire

TWELFTH GRADE

Brooks, Kevin      Lucas A Story of Love & Hate
Christie, Agatha    At Bertram’s Hotel
Defoe, Daniel       Robinson Crusoe
Gardner, John     Grendel
Huxley, Aldous    Brave New World
Hyde, Catherine Ryan  Pay It Forward*
McCourt, Frank     Angela’s Ashes
Paton, Alan          Cry, the Beloved Country
Pellegrin, Charles   Ghosts of the Titanic
Pullman, Phillip      Lyra’s Oxford
Shakespeare, W.   Othello*
Tademy, Lalita     Cane River
Westall, Robert   Blitzcat

TWELFTH GRADE ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH (MUST READ 4)

Anouilh, Jean     Becket or The Honor of God
Green, Graham    The Power and the Glory
Hurston, Zora N.   Their Eyes Were Watching God*
Hyde, Catherine Ryan    Pay It Forward*
Shakespeare, W.       Othello
Smith, Bob              Hamlet’s Dresser: A Memoir
Steinbeck, John      Grapes of Wrath
Swift, Jonathan      Gulliver’s Travels
Wiesel, Elie        Night