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Chicopee High School
Note: Required Reading: Honors students will read at least three (3). College Preparatory students will read at least (2). Advanced Placement students will read at least four (4).
Grade 9
Bleachers by John Grisham
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
A Difficult Boy by M.P. Barker
Grade 10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon, Mark
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Grade 11
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Grade 12
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Advanced Placement English 11:
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The following are not available at Western Massachusetts libraries:
Un-Spun by Jackson and Jamison
50 Essays by Cohen
Advanced Placement English 12:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Chicopee Comprehensive High School
English 9
Students entering grade 9 are required to read one work of fiction and one work of nonfiction from the lists below. All study guides will be available on line through the Chicopee Comprehensive High School library web site. Brief summaries of each work will also appear on the library web site.
Fiction: Pick 1
Of Mice and Men by John John Steinbeck
Staying Fat for Sara Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Nonfiction: Pick 1
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurke
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
English 10
Night by Elie Wiesel AND The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon OR Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern.
English 11
Friday Night Lights by Bissinger OR Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich OR The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls AND Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison OR The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
English 12
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien AND The Color of Water by James McBride OR Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.
Advanced Placement I
Read two of the following: Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, The Glass Castle, OR Nickel and Dimed.
Advanced Placement II
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe AND The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien AND Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. (Note: Students receive Achebe's and O'Brien's works from the teacher; they may purchase The Kite Runner, if they wish, or get it from the public library.)
Holyoke Catholic High School, Granby
Grade 9
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Night by Elie Wiesel
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
HONORS: All of the above plus Jane Eyre by Bronte
Grade 10
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Giver by Lois Lowry
HONORS: All of the above plus Arthur Miller's Adaptation of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Grade 11
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
HONORS: All of the above plus Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Grade 12
Becket by Jean Anouihl
Lion in Winter by Goldman
Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw
Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
HONORS: all of the above plus A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
St. Mary's High School, Westfield
The summer reading is to be completed prior to the first day of school. English students are to read all 3 books; honors students are to read all 4 books. Students should keep track of and take notes on what they have read. (For instance, each time you read write a summary in you journal using specific character names and details.) This journal will help the students remember and discuss the material they read over the summer. It will also prepare them for any possible assignments on the summer reading material. Students will be held accountable for what they read over the summer.
Freshman
1. Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Books One and Two) by Art SpiegelmanAdditional Honors Book:Book One: My Father Bleeds History
Book Two: And Here My Troubles Began2. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzheitsyn
Sophomores
Additional Honors Book:1 .Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
4. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Juniors
Additional Honors Book:1. Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
2. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Seniors
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Additional Honors Book:1. Book 2: The Queen of Air and Darkness
2. Book 3: The Ill-Made Knight
3. Book 4: Candle in the Wind
4: Book 1: The Sword and the Stone