Sequoia High School Summer Reading List 2009

English I - Read one of the following:

• 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

• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
• Secrets in the Shadows by Anne Schraff

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
• Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin

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

• Hoops: a novel by Walter Dean Myers
• Deathwatch by Robb White
• 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 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

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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

• East Side Dreams by Art Rodriguez
• Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• A Summer Life by Gary Soto
• Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

• 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
• Daughter of Fortune: a novel by Isabel Allende
• Someone to Love Me by Anne Schraff

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:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Afterlife by Gary Soto
• Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
• We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success by Sampson Davis

• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• Living Up the Street by Gary Soto
• Lost and Found by Anne Schraff
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

IB Year 2 - Read the following:

• Martin Luther King, Jr. packet From IB Teacher