Peninsula Library System - Summer Reading

Carlmont High School - Summer Reading List 2009

Use the list below for links into our catalog.

Freshman
English I & English I SDAIE
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey *Required
and choose one of the following:
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons China Boy by Gus Lee Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Hobbitt, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien Buried Onions by Gary Soto Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Deng and Ajak

AS English I - Read both of the following:
The Chosen by Chaim Potok	House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros


Sophomore
English II - Read one of the following:
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Circuit by Francisco Jimenez Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Republic of East LA by Luis Rodriguez	Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Death Watch by Robb White Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston

AS English II - Read both of the following:
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney	Grendel by John Gardner


Junior
English III - Read one of the following:
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende On the Road by Jack Kerouac	Killer Angels by Michael Shaara East Side Dreams by Art Rodriguez Go Tell it on the Mountain byJames Baldwin Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

AP Language & Composition - Read the following:
One Hundred Great Essays edited by Robert Diyanni

AS English III (Honors) - Required Reading:
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Conner Native Son by Richard Wright	Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson


Senior
English IV: SDAIE, Contemporary Literature, Shakespeare, Mythology. Choose One of the following or one from AP English Literature & Composition.
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin	Cider House Rules by John Irving Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey

AP English Literature & Composition - Read the following:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf	Daisy Miller by Henry James

Creative Writing IV - Required Reading
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Wild mind; living the writer's life by Natalie Goldberg

Carlmont High School - Summer Reading List 2009

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior