Text Box:  Non-Honors Reading List  GRADE 9 Whirligig—Paul Fleischman             Monster—Walter Dean Meyers  GRADE 10                Ironman—Chris Crutcher         Elsewhere—Gabrielle Zevin GRADE 11 Secret Life of Bees—Sue Monk Kidd A Painted House—John Grisham  GRADE 12       Angels and Demons—Dan Brown  The Great Train Robbery—Michael Crichton Text Box: Students who are scheduled to take English as a Second Language should read the following books:                                                                                         GRADE 9 The Outsiders –Susan Eloise Hinton GRADES 10, 11, 12  Fever –Laurie Halse Anderson Text Box: Honors Reading List GRADE 9 The Book of Mordred—Vivian Vande Velde Rocket Boys (October Sky)—Homer Hickam  GRADE 10 The Life of Pi—Yann Martel A Gathering of Old Men—Ernest J. Gaines  GRADE 11 Cat’s Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut Ethan Frome –Edith Wharton  GRADE 12                 Lords of Discipline—Pat Conroy The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini  

NORTH OLMSTED HIGH SCHOOL

REQUIRED SUMMER READING

2007

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Book Summaries

     Students enrolled in English classes at North Olmsted High School are required to read novels during the summer.  Students registered for an honors level class will read the two novels from the right-hand column.  Students not registered for an honors level class may read any one of the novels listed for their grade level, but the novels from the left-hand column are recommended. One week after school begins, the students will be tested on their reading of the novels.  It is imperative that the students read the novels, particularly because their first grades in the classes will be based on the Summer Reading Test and the novels will be used and referred to throughout the year.