Sylacauga High School Summer Reading Requirements
Ninth Grade Regular English
|
Title |
Author |
| Tears of a Tiger | Sharon Draper |
Ninth Grade Advanced English
|
Title |
Author |
| Homecoming | Cynthia Voigt |
| Nothing But the Truth | Avi |
Tenth Grade Regular English: Students are required to read one of the following
books:
|
Title |
Author |
| Now Is Your Time | Walter Dean Myers |
| Playing in Traffic | Gail Giles |
| Sacred Hoops | Phil Jackson |
| War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells |
| Who Killed My Daughter | Lois Duncan |
Tenth Grade Advanced English: Students are required to read one of the following John Grisham books:
|
Title |
Author |
| The Broker | John Grisham |
| The Innocent Man | John Grisham |
Tenth Grade Advanced English Students are also required to read:
|
Title |
Author |
|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
Tenth Grade Honors English are required to read the following books:
|
Title |
Author |
| Deception Point | Dan Brown |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry | Mark Twain |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
Eleventh Grade English
|
Title |
Author |
Title |
Author |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | All The President's Men | Bernstein/Woodward |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Burns |
| The Education of Little Tree | Forrest Carter | While My Pretty One Sleeps | Mary Higgins Clark |
| The Party's Over | Caroline B. Cooney | The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier |
| Beyond the Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | We All Fall Down | Robert Cormier |
| On the Devil's Court | Carl Deuker | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Ernest Gaines | The Drowning of Stephan Jones | Bette Greene |
| Ghost Girl | Tori Hayden | Invitation to the Game | Monica Hughes |
| Night Kites | M.E. Kerr | The Contender | Robert Lipsyte |
| A Night to Remember | Walter Lord | Anything to Win | Gloria D. Miklowitz |
| Death Walk | Walt Morey | Send no Blessings | Phyllis Reynolds Nalor |
| How to Make an American Quilt | Whitney Otto | Are You in the House Alone? | Richard Peck |
| The Reluctant God | Pamela Service | The Notebook | Nicholas Sparks |
| Seventeen Against the Dealer | Cynthia Voight |
Twelfth Grade English:
|
Title |
Author |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers |
Advanced English 12 are required to read the following book and a book from the 12th Grade Reading List:
|
Title |
Author |
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt |
Twelfth Grade AP English Literature and Composition are required to
read the following two books plus a book
from the 12th Grade Reading List:
|
Title |
Author |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston's |
| Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
Twelfth Grade Reading List:
|
Title |
Author |
Title |
Author |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |  Friday Night Lights |
H.G. Bissinger |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Patriot Games | Tom Clancy |
| Loves Music, Loves to Dance | Mary Higgins Clark | Fried Green Tomatoes and the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | Dawn | Elie Wiesel |
| Looking for Alaska | John Green | The Pelican Brief | John Grisham |
| Ordinary People | Judith Guest | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| Return of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo |