Mercy High School Summer Reading List 2009

English I - Read the following:

• Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

English I Honors - Read the following:

• Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Beals
• Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

English II - Read the following:

• Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

• When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

English II Honors - Read the following:

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

• Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida

English III & English III Honors - Read the following:

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

AP English III - Read the following:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller

English IV - Read the following:

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak ; with Judy A. Bernstein

English IV Honors - Read the following:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

English IV Honors - Also Read One of the following:

• Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

• The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz

AP English IV - Read the following:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

AP English IV - Also Read Two of the following:

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Great Expectations Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Fences by August Wilson
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra