REQUIRED
English 1 and 2
Summer Reading
2014
When a school bus accident
leaves sixteen-year-old
Jessica an amputee, she
returns to school with a
prosthetic limb and her
track team finds a
wonderful way to help
rekindle her dream of
running again. (Sports
Fiction)
Summer Reading
Assignment
English I College Prep and Honors and
English 2 College Prep students will
select one book to read from the
choices listed in this
brochure and prepare for a
written assessment during the
first week of class.
English 2 Honors summer
assignments are on the
back of this brochure
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van
Draanen
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought
Different
by Karen Blumenthal
Steve Jobs' story has be-
come legend: a college
dropout who started a wildly
successful tech company in
his parents' garage. Here is
the story of the complex
man behind the myth.
(Biography)
Swagger by Carl Deuker
A sports novel about a high
school senior point guard.
Jonas Dolan is on the fast
track to college with a bas-
ketball scholarship until an
unthinkable choice puts his
future on the line. (Sports
Fiction)
Please note the following:
Parents may want to assist their child in
choosing a book suitable for him or her. For
more information, please review the
statement about
Characteristics of
Young Adult Literature
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Some books may deal with issues of violence and/or
references of a sexual nature.
Students select one of titles on
the list below.
Students will prepare for a written
assessment on their chosen novel
the first week of class.
Honors students are also encouraged
to choose other titles from the list on
this brochure to read.
Choices for
English 2 Honors
The Count of Monte Cristo -
Alexandre Dumas
ISBN 0-486-45643-9 Abridged
(Please read this specific edition)
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
1000 Splendid Suns - Khaled
Hosseini
Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala
Markandaya
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
After an injury ends former
star pitcher Peter Friedman's
athletic dreams, he moves on
to photography, which leads
him to a girlfriend, and new
fame as a high school sports
photographer. (Sports Fiction)
Malala describes her fight for
education for girls under Tali-
ban Rule, and how the Taliban
tried to retaliate by shooting
her. (Biography)
The summer after his
absentee father is killed, Paul
volunteers at a Harlem soup
kitchen where he listens to
lessons about "the social
contract" from an elderly
African American man, and
mentors a 17-year-old unwed
mother. (Realistic Fiction)
All the Right Stuff by
Walter Dean Myers
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
by Jordan Sonnenblick
During one school year in
1986, two star-crossed mis-
fits are smart enough to
know that first love almost
never lasts, but brave and
desperate enough to try.
(Romance)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
From war-torn Sudan to
Egypt ,and finally to Port-
land, Maine, Viola remains
hampered by memories of
the horrors of Sudan. A
lyrical and poignant story
told in verse. (Realistic
Fiction)
The Good Braider by Terry Farish
I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai and
Christina Lamb
I Cant Keep my Own Secrets: Six
Word Memoirs by teens famous and
obscure
Hundreds of teen authors,
from age 1319 contrib-
uted to this thought pro-
voking anthology of auto-
biographical stories told in
six words. (Poetry/memoir)
Hayley Kincaid and her
father, a veteran with
PTSD, move back to their
hometown to try to live a
"normal" life, but the hor-
rors he saw in the war
threaten to destroy them
both. (Realistic Fiction)
Last shot: City Streets and Basketball
Dreams by Darcy Frey
The story of dreams and cyni-
cism, the often naive hopes of
youth played out against the
realities of SATs, the NCAA,
and the brutal world of col-
lege athletic sports recruit-
ment. (Non-fiction)
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies
and Survivors Captured the Worlds Most
Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
After WWII, Adolf Eichmann
walked into the mountains of
Germany and vanished. Sixteen
years later, an elite team of
spies captured him at a bus stop
in Argentina and smuggled him
to Israel, resulting in one of the
century's most important war
crime trials. (Non-fiction)
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by
Richard Paul Evans
14 year-old Michael discovers he
has special electrical powers. Af-
ter Michael's mother is kid-
napped, he will need to rely on
his powers and his friends to res-
cue his mom, protect himself,
and save the others. (Science
Fiction /Thriller)
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by
Sonia Manzano
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem,
and fourteen-year-old Evelyn
Serrano is trying hard to
break free from her conser-
vative Puerto Rican surround-
ings, but when her activist
grandmother comes to stay
and the neighborhood pro-
tests start, things get a lot
more complicated--and dan-
gerous. (Historical Fiction/
Pura Belpre Honor Book)
The Impossible Knife of Memory by
Laurie Halse Anderson
