Junipero Serra High School Summer Reading List 2012

Freshman

Freshman Non-Honors: Read the following:

• Deathwatch Deathwatch by Robb White

Freshman Non-Honors: Read one of the following of your choosing:

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hopeby William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
• City of Thieves by David Benioff
• Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
• Eagle Blueby Michael D'Orso
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• The Magiciansby Lev Grossman
• Shadow Diversby Robert Kurson

Freshmen Honors: Read Both:

• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sophomores

English 3-4:

• Select two books you have not previously read from the list provided

Honors 3-4: Student Choice - based on given list.

• Select two books you have not previously read from the list provided

Junior

English:

• Select two books you have not previously read from the list provided

AP Language and Composition: Select one additional book from the list provided:

• Vintage Baldwin by James Baldwin
• No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
• Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• Where I Was From by Joan Didion
• Essays of E.B. White by E.B. White
• For The Time Being by Annie Dillard
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• The Founding Fish by John McPhee
• The First Salute by Barbara Tuckman
• Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara Tuckman
• The First Salute by N. Scott Momaday
• The Names: a Memoir by N. Scott Momaday
• Tigers and Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life by Edward Hoagland
• Compass Points: How I Lived by Edward Hoagland
• Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
• Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano
• Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
• A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester

Senior

Literature:

• Select two books you have not previously read from the list provided

AP Literature and Composition: Read:

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens

AP Literature and Composition: Also read one of the following of your choosing:

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut s
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• Life of Pi by Y. Martel
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak