Capuchino High School Summer Reading List 2008

• The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
• Once Upon a Quinceanera-Coming of Age in the U.S. by Julia Alvarez
• Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
• Estrella's quinceañera by Malin Alegria Estrella
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

• Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
• I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant
• The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing : traitor to a nation, Volume 1 : The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

• Troy by Adele Geras
• A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines

• Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
• As Simple as Snow by Gregory Galloway
• Big Fat Manifesto by Susan R. Vaught

• Ironman by Chris Crutcher
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Novel Without a Name by Duong Thy Huong

• Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

English 5-6 CP - Choose two books:

• Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
• Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• A Place to Stand by Santiago Baca

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez
• Blind Side by Michael Lewis
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

• American Childhood by Annie Dillard
• Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

• Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

• Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
• Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• What is the What by Dave Eggers

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• Crossing Over by Ruben Martinez
• Savages by Joe Kane

• A Concise History of South Africa by Robert Ross
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• What is the What by Dave Eggers