Sequoia High School Summer Reading List 2012

Visit the Sequoia High School website for complete lists and instructions, or use the list below for links into our catalog.

Note: Students entering English I ICAP and English II ICAP must read two books, one of which must be starred (*). You may read two starred books if you choose. Students entering English IBY1 and IBY2 must read the starred book and consult Sequoia’s website for additional assignments.

Freshmen

9th Grade: English I - Read one of the following:

• Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
• 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 Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Secrets in the Shadows by Anne Schraff
• True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
• The Bean Trees: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (*)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (*)
• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco B. Stork (*)
• No Laughter Here by Rita Williams-Garcia by Rita Williams-Garcia (*)

Sophmores

10th Grade English II - All Sophmores - Choose one of the Following:

• Hoops: a novel by Walter Dean Myers
• Deathwatch by Robb White
• Juice by Eric Walters
• Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
• The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin
• Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
• Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
• Sea Monsters by Rick Riordan
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (*)
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (*)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (*)

Juniors

11th Grade English III - All Juniors - Choose one of the following:

• East Side Dreams by Art Rodriguez
• Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• 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
• Lost and Found by Anne Schraff
• A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (*)

Seniors

12th Grade English IV : All Seniors - Choose one of the following:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success by Sampson Davis
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• Lost and Found by Anne Schraff
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Someone to Love Me by Anne Schraff
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

12th Grade IB Year 2 - Read the following:

• Zaat by SZonallah Ibrahim
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

12th Grade II SDAIE - Read the following:

• The Afterlife by Gary Soto