Hillsdale High School Summer Reading List 2013

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Freshman

It is suggested you read two titles from the list below:

• Troy by Adele Geras
• Percy Jackson (any or all book[s] in the series) by Rick Riordan
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Freedom Writers’ Diary by Erin Gruwell
• Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (Highly recommended for AS students.)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Macho by Victor Villasenor
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Sophomores

CP read one title from the list below. AS: read TWO titles from the list below. It is highly recommended that one of your two books be one of the ones marked by an asterisk.

• *Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• *Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
• *The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Wave by Todd Strasser
• *A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• * A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• * The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• * The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
• * Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Divergent (Book 1 of the Divergent Trilogy) by Veronica Roth
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
• Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
• Martyrs’ Crossing by Amy Wilentz

Juniors

Honors read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

CP read The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Seniors

Advanced Placement must How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster and ONE other from the list below (for a total of 2 books)

College Prep may choose any ONE from below:

• Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Fall River Dreams by Bill Reynolds
• Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• Your Food is Fooling You: How Your Brain is Hijacked by Sugar, Fat and Salt by David Kessler