Summer Reading 2014
This summer, Quabbin Regional High School is changing what
we are doing for summer reading. Attached, you
will find a list of “high interest” books we would like for you to choose from
for this summer. In some cases, your English teachers will be giving you
writing assignments at the start of the year to assess your writing skills.
These books would be perfect for writing about. In other cases, specific
programs expect that you will read books from this list and be assessed on
those works. Those programs will communicate these expectations directly to
those students. Please make sure you do so. And, there will likely be
discussions in your other classes and advisories related to summer reading.
For all of you, the best way to ensure that you maintain
your skills and your analytic abilities is to read. If you read, you will stay
sharper. You will broaden your perspectives. You will be a more interesting
person. You will also be better prepared for reading in all your classes next
year.
If Quabbin reads, Quabbin succeeds.
Suggested Book
List
This
is a partial list of all the books
available to you. You can choose any of these or any other books by any of these
authors. For a quick review of these each book go to: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pleasure-reading
Cut and paste the name of the book onto the search bar. .If you do not like any
of these choices, feel free also to use most books on the goodreads site. Underlined books are non-fiction.
Ender’s Game by Card History
Decoded by Meltzer The
Help by Stockett
Water for Elephants by Gruen The Book Thief by Zusak
The Notebook by Sparks The
Alchemist by Coelho
Harry Potter (any in Series) by Rowling
Life
of Pi by Martel
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
Chbosky Divergent by Roth
The DaVinci Code by Brown The
Time Traveler’s Wife by Niffenegger
The Fault in Our Stars by Green A
Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by
Brashares
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams Gone Girl by Flynn
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by
Foer The Orphan Train by Kline
Twelve years a Slave by Northup The
Giver by Lowry
The Five
People You Meet in Heaven
by Albom Atlas Shrugged by Rand
Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder by
Hawk
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
by Freedman Angela’s Ashes by
McCourt
And Still I Rise by Angelou
Into
Thin Air by Krakauer Dune by Herbert
The Perfect Storm by Junger Siddhartha
by Hesse
Unsolved Mysteries of History by
Aaron Tiger Woods by Durbin
A March to Madness by
Feinstein A Civil Action by Harr
The Joy Luck Club by Tan The
Hobbit by Tolkein Shine by Myracle
Every Day by Leviathan Unwind
by Shusterman Remember Me? by Kinsella
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of
the Universe by Saenz
Eragon by Paolini Farenheit
451 by Bradbury Daughter of Fortune by Allende
The Shining by King The
Seven Habits of Effective Teens by Covey
The Glass Menagerie by Williams The
Silver Linings Playbook by Quick
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell The
Percy Jackson Series (any) by Riordan
The Big Thirst by Fishman Night Circus by
Morgenstern Circle of Friends by
Binchy
Long Way Round by McGregor and
Boorman The Silence of the Lambs by Harris
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of
Human Societies by Diamond
The Devil Wears Prada by Weisberger Outliers:
the Story of Success by Gladwell
A Whole New Mind by Pink The Art of Racing in the Rain by Stein
A Short History of Nearly Everything by
Bryson The World is Flat by
Friedman
Lone
Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of
SEAL Team 10 by Luttrell
I Am Malala:
The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by
Malala Yousafzai The Republic by Plato
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