and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives
while reading it."
William Styron, Christchurch School Class of 1942
Start Here for Details on the Summer Reading Program:
Here is a letter from our English Department Chair, Stephen Kasold, directions for writing your reading journal, and a sample journal entry.
For ESL Students
Beginning ESL students should read one novel and complete the ESL Webquest. Continuing ESL students should select two books from the Summer Reading list. Both groups should follow these special instructions for journal entries.
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS FOR HONORS COURSES
The Book Review
ENGLISH III HONORS students must read Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and two additional books from the following list. Of these two, one must be a title marked with a cross (+); the third text may be chosen at will.
ENGLISH IV HONORS students must read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and two additional books from the following list. Of these two, one must be a title marked with a cross (+); the third text may be chosen at will.
SUMMER READING BASICS
All regular English students must read at least two books from the following list. If you would like information about ordering books, or simply want to obtain an overview of a book to gauge your interest, you might go to www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com and search by title. Most of these titles are also available at the Christchurch School library.
ENGLISH III HONORS students must read Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and two additional books from the following list. Of these two, one must be a title marked with a cross (+); the third text may be chosen at will.
ENGLISH IV HONORS students must read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and two additional books from the following list. Of these two, one must be a title marked with a cross (+); the third text may be chosen at will.
SUMMER READING BASICS
All regular English students must read at least two books from the following list. If you would like information about ordering books, or simply want to obtain an overview of a book to gauge your interest, you might go to www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com and search by title. Most of these titles are also available at the Christchurch School library.
Summer Reading 2008 - Alphabetical
Summer Reading 2008 By Suggested Grade Level
The list is arranged by suggested grade level. Students should choose books at their grade level or above. All students in regular English may, of course, read books marked for Honors English.
Grade 8
Adams, Richard, Watership Down
Burnett, Frances H., The Secret Garden
Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game
Colfer, Eoin, Artemis Fowl
Dahl, Roald, Big Friendly Giant
Faulkner, William, The Reivers
Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf
Patterson, Katherine, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Paolini, Christopher, Eragon
Pullman, Philip, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Richter, Conrad, A Light in the Forest
Rowling, J. K., The Harry Potter Series
Sams, Ferrol, Run with the Horsemen
Stewart, Mary, The Crystal Cave
Tolkien, J.R.R., The Hobbit
Grade 9
Adams, Richard, Watership Down
Bellairs, John, The Face in the Frost
Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game
Dent, Jim, The Junction Boys
Faulkner, William, The Reivers
Forester, C.S., The Horatio Hornblower Series
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
Knowles, John, A Separate Peace
Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Also: The Space Trilogy
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf
Patterson, Katherine, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Peck, Scott, The Day No Pigs Would Die
Pullman, Philip, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Renault, Mary, The Charioteer, The Last of the Wine; The King Must Die; The Mask of Apollo
Sachar, Louis, Holes
Verne, Jules, Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wells, H.G., War of the Worlds
Grade 10
Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street
Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Dent, Jim, The Junction Boys
Forester, C.S., The Horatio Hornblower Series
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie’s World
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hilton, James, Lost Horizon
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
Knowles, John, A Separate Peace
McCullers, Carson, The Member of the Wedding
Shute, Nevil, On the Beach
Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Steinbeck, John, Tortilla Flat
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Jekyll and Hyde
Wells, H.G., The Time Machine
Grade 11
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays With Morrie
Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility
Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man
Bierce, Ambrose, The Stories of Ambrose Bierce
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code
Cheever, John, Stories of John Cheever
Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Christie, Agatha, Ten Little Indians
Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man
Frost, Robert, North of Boston
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie’s World
Grisham, John, A Painted House
Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon
Heller, Joseph, Catch-22
Heinlein, Robert, Stranger in a Strange Land
Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises
Herbert, George, Dune
Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha; Demian
James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady
Kennedy, William, Ironweed
King, Stephen, The Dark Tower Series; The Stand
LeCarre, John, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Malamud, Bernard, The Natural
McCain, John, Faith of My Fathers
Melville, Billy Budd
O’Brien, Patrick, Master and Commander; The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
O’Neill, Eugene, The Hairy Ape
Paton, Alan, Cry the Beloved Country
Puller, Lewis, Fortunate Son
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men, Travels With Charley
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club
Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Pudd’nhead Wilson
Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn, All the King’s Men
Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass
Wouk, Herman, Don’t Stop the Carnival
Wright, Richard, Native Son
Grade 12
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays With Morrie
Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility
Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code
+Christie, Agatha, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Also: Ten Little Indians
+ Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood’s End
+ Dickens, Charles, Hard Times
+Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
+Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca
Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man
+ Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
Also: A Light in August
Forster, E. M., Room with a View
+Frost, Robert, North of Boston
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie’s World
Gardner, John, Grendel
Gaines, Ernest, A Lesson Before Dying
+ Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
+ Heller, Joseph, Catch-22
Herbert, George, Dune
+ James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady
King, Stephen, The Dark Tower Series; The Stand
LeCarre, John, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
+ Maugham, Somerset, The Razor’s Edge
McCain, John, Faith of My Fathers
+Melville, Billy Budd
O’Brien, Patrick, Master and Commander; The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
+Orwell, George, 1984
+Rand, Ayn, Anthem
Also: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
+Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
+Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
+ Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath
Styron, William, Sophie’s Choice
+ Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings
+Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Also: Pudd’nhead Wilson
+Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn, All the King’s Men
Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited
+ Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Summer Reading 2008 By Suggested Grade Level
The list is arranged by suggested grade level. Students should choose books at their grade level or above. All students in regular English may, of course, read books marked for Honors English.
Grade 8
Adams, Richard, Watership Down
Burnett, Frances H., The Secret Garden
Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game
Colfer, Eoin, Artemis Fowl
Dahl, Roald, Big Friendly Giant
Faulkner, William, The Reivers
Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf
Patterson, Katherine, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Paolini, Christopher, Eragon
Pullman, Philip, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Richter, Conrad, A Light in the Forest
Rowling, J. K., The Harry Potter Series
Sams, Ferrol, Run with the Horsemen
Stewart, Mary, The Crystal Cave
Tolkien, J.R.R., The Hobbit
Grade 9
Adams, Richard, Watership Down
Bellairs, John, The Face in the Frost
Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game
Dent, Jim, The Junction Boys
Faulkner, William, The Reivers
Forester, C.S., The Horatio Hornblower Series
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
Knowles, John, A Separate Peace
Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Also: The Space Trilogy
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf
Patterson, Katherine, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Peck, Scott, The Day No Pigs Would Die
Pullman, Philip, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Renault, Mary, The Charioteer, The Last of the Wine; The King Must Die; The Mask of Apollo
Sachar, Louis, Holes
Verne, Jules, Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wells, H.G., War of the Worlds
Grade 10
Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street
Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Dent, Jim, The Junction Boys
Forester, C.S., The Horatio Hornblower Series
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie’s World
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hilton, James, Lost Horizon
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
Knowles, John, A Separate Peace
McCullers, Carson, The Member of the Wedding
Shute, Nevil, On the Beach
Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Steinbeck, John, Tortilla Flat
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Jekyll and Hyde
Wells, H.G., The Time Machine
Grade 11
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays With Morrie
Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility
Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man
Bierce, Ambrose, The Stories of Ambrose Bierce
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code
Cheever, John, Stories of John Cheever
Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Christie, Agatha, Ten Little Indians
Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man
Frost, Robert, North of Boston
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie’s World
Grisham, John, A Painted House
Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon
Heller, Joseph, Catch-22
Heinlein, Robert, Stranger in a Strange Land
Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises
Herbert, George, Dune
Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha; Demian
James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady
Kennedy, William, Ironweed
King, Stephen, The Dark Tower Series; The Stand
LeCarre, John, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Malamud, Bernard, The Natural
McCain, John, Faith of My Fathers
Melville, Billy Budd
O’Brien, Patrick, Master and Commander; The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
O’Neill, Eugene, The Hairy Ape
Paton, Alan, Cry the Beloved Country
Puller, Lewis, Fortunate Son
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men, Travels With Charley
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club
Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Pudd’nhead Wilson
Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn, All the King’s Men
Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass
Wouk, Herman, Don’t Stop the Carnival
Wright, Richard, Native Son
Grade 12
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays With Morrie
Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility
Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code
+Christie, Agatha, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Also: Ten Little Indians
+ Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood’s End
+ Dickens, Charles, Hard Times
+Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
+Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca
Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man
+ Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
Also: A Light in August
Forster, E. M., Room with a View
+Frost, Robert, North of Boston
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie’s World
Gardner, John, Grendel
Gaines, Ernest, A Lesson Before Dying
+ Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
+ Heller, Joseph, Catch-22
Herbert, George, Dune
+ James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady
King, Stephen, The Dark Tower Series; The Stand
LeCarre, John, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
+ Maugham, Somerset, The Razor’s Edge
McCain, John, Faith of My Fathers
+Melville, Billy Budd
O’Brien, Patrick, Master and Commander; The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
+Orwell, George, 1984
+Rand, Ayn, Anthem
Also: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
+Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
+Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
+ Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath
Styron, William, Sophie’s Choice
+ Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings
+Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Also: Pudd’nhead Wilson
+Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn, All the King’s Men
Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited
+ Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray
