Sequoia High School Summer Reading List 2008

English I - Read one of the following:

• Estrella's Quinceanera by Malin Alegria
• The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
• Betsey Brown: a novel by Ntozake Shange
• True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
• A Child called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by David J. Pelzer
• The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Where the Heart Is: a novel by Billie Letts
• Don't You Dare Read this, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
• Secrets in the Shadows by Anne Schraff

English I & English I ICAP - Choose one of the following:

• The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Bean Trees: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver

• Haroun and the Sea Stories by Rushdie Salman

English II - All Sophmores - Choose one of the Following:

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Red Sky at Morning: a novel by Richard Bradford
• Hoops: a novel by Walter Dean Myers
• Deathwatch by Robb White
• Forbidden City: a novel by William Bell
• Juice by Eric Walters

• Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
• Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
• The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien (or a choice from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.)
• The Republic of East L.A.: stories by Luis J. Rodriguez
• First Crossing by Donald Gallo

English II ICAP - Choose two of the following:

• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

• The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

English III - All Juniors - Choose one of the following:

• East Side Dreams by Art Rodriguez
• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian History of the American West by Dee Alexander Brown
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• A Summer Life by Gary Soto
• Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
• Someone to Love Me by Anne Schraff

• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• Farewell to Manzanar: a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Roots by Alex Haley
• Daughter of Fortune: a novel by Isabel Allende

IB Year 1 / AP Literature - Read both of the following:

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

English IV : All Seniors - Choose one of the following:

• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
• Memoirs of a Giesha: a novel by Arthur Golden
• She's Come Undone: a novel by Wally Lamb
• The Eight: a novel by Katherine Neville
• When I was a Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
• Lost and Found by Anne Schraff
• We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis

• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Living up the Street: Narrative Recollections by Gary Soto
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Sometimes a Great Notion: a novel by Ken Kesey
• Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and
  Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

IB Year 2 / AP Language - Read both of the following:

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston