Grade 9 Summer Reading List 2012 (1)

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Boston Latin School Summer ReadingRequired of Students Entering Class IV

2012

Please read any two of the following books:

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey

1984, George Orwell

The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

In addition, please read three titles from the list below. It will be helpful to keep inmind that the theme for this course is Overcoming Obstacles. You may wish tothink about how your books have helped you understand this notion. Enjoy yourreading!

Special note for 9B students:Please look through the list of books directly below, which BLS students read

in grades 7 and 8. If you see some titles you have not read, we encourage you to

select among these for your summer reading.Les Miserables (abridged edition) Victor HugoThe Sea-Wolf Jack London

Julius Caesar William ShakespeareFarenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollHouse on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros

April Morning Howard FastThe Diary of a Young Girl Anne FrankThe Friends Rosa GuyThe Old Man and the Sea Ernest HemingwayGoodbye, Mr. Chips James Hinton

Annie John Jamaica Kincaid

Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence and Robert LeeThe Contender Robert LipsyteThe Call of the Wild Jack LondonThe Giver Lois LowryThe Learning Tree Gordon ParksThe Yearling Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsFriedrich Hans Peter RichterThe Pearl John SteinbeckTreasure Island Robert Louis StevensonKidnapped Robert Louis StevensonThe Hobbit J.R.R. TolkienThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King

Arthurs Court Mark TwainFarewell to Manzanar Jean Wakatsuki HoustonNight Elie WieselDragonwings Laurence YepThe Chocolate War Robert Cormier

For all students entering grade 9:

A. Non-FictionAppel, Willa Cults in America:Programmed for Paradise An analysis of how cults


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succeed in American society today.Bedoukian, Kerop Some of Us Survived The story of the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923, told from the perspective of a nine-year-old child.Bernard, Jacqueline Journey Toward Freedom: Sojourner Truth Biography of theformer slave and her campaign for abolition and womens rights.Bird, Larry Drive Autobiography of former Celtics great whose work ethic helped him

achieve his dreams.Bontemps, Arna Free at Last: Frederick Douglass Biography of the famous African-American leaderChing-to, Chow Journey in Tears Memoir of a girlhood in ChinaCronkite, Kathy On the Edge of the Spotlight Narratives of the lives of celebritieschildren, chronicling their successes and strugglesDavid, Joy et al. The Black Soldier Stories of African-American soldiers from theRevolutionary War to VietnamDolan, Edward F. Matthew Henson: Black Exporer Autobiography of a man whoconquered the top of the world with Admiral Robert E. PearyFrommer, Harvey Rickey and Robinson: Men Who Broke Baseballs Color BarrierBiographies of some of the first African-Americans in professional baseballGoldstone, Robert Next Year in Jerusalem A short history of the establishment ofIsraelHerriott, James All Creatures Great and Small Memoirs of a Yorkshire County,England country veterinarian with a genuine love of life and a storytellers giftHovey, Tamara A Mind of Her Own: Geroge Sand Biography of the great Frenchwriter who used a mans name in order to get her work publishedHuggins, Nathan Black Odyssey A provocative account of the enslavement ofAfricans and their experiences as slaves in AmericaKahn, Roger Boys of SummerThe story of the old Brooklyn DodgersKoehn, Ilse Mischling Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany A childsnarration of the insanity and horror of Germany under HitlerLandin, Margaret Anna and the King of Siam The story of an Englishwomansummoned to Siam to tutor the children of its kingLaure, Jason et al. South Africa A coming-of-age novel under the shadow ofapartheidLofts, Norah Anne Boleyn A biography of the life of Henry VIIIs ill-fated second wifeMeltzer, Milton Taking Root: Jewish Immigrants A history of Jews in the United StatesMoody, Anne Coming of Age in Mississippi The authors unforgettable personalstoryNabokov, Peter Native American Testomony A chronicle of relations between NativeAmericans and European settlers from 1492 to 1992Strawberry, Darryl Darryl The autobiography of the legendary and controversialbaseball playerUchida, Yoshiko Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family Anautobiographical account of the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942Van Devanter, Lynda Home Before Morning The coming of age of an army nurse inVietnam

B. Fiction

Bellamy, Edward Looking Backward A young Boston gentleman is mysteriouslytransported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuryChoi, Sook Nyul Gathering of Pearls Sookan, a Korean girl, comes to college in theU.S. and struggles to adjust to American cultureCraven, Margaret I Heard the Owl. Call my Name The culture of a remote PacificNorthwest village is replaced by modern housing and alcoholismFerber, Edna So Big A gamblers daughter marries a farmer, and after his death


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turns his debt-ridden farm into a success; another capable woman succeeds.Harris, Mark Bang the Drum Slowly This funny and evocative story captures morethan the strong baseball atmosphere of the 1950s.Kern, M.E. Gentlehands Through the efforts of an insightful old man, love is sparkedbetween two people on the opposite ends of the spectrumMcCullers, Carson Member of the Wedding Twelve year-old Frankie Adams longs

both for escape and belonging when her older brother marries.Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels Richard Perry, struggling with a lack ofopportunity in Harlem and uncertainty about his future, enlists in the army.Orwell, George Animal Farm In this satire of Communist Russia under Stalinsdictatorship, farm animals tire of working for humans and take over the farm.Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman, experiences anemotional breakdown during a summer internship at a magazine in New York CityRenault, Mary The King Must Die Theseus rules the Bull Jumpers of CreteRinaldi, Anne The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre A nursemaid whoworks for John Adams questions whether she is a British subject or a new American.Saberhagen, Fred The First Book of Swords In this fantasy the gods influence thehuman world through a game played with twelve magical swordsShelley, Mary Frankenstein The story of the doctors revolting creation teacheslessons about life that will be of interest to those studying humanities.Sillitoe, Alan The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner An English juveniledelinquent struggles against social disadvantages in a 1940s reform school.Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Francie Nolan lives with her family andfriends in a poor section of Brooklyn in the early years of the twentieth century

Joy in the Morning A young woman from Brooklyn and her law studenthusband experience difficulty in their first year of marriage.Stewart, Mary The Crystal Cave In his youth, the legendary Merlin gains his arcaneknowledge of magical powers.

Temple, Frances The Ramsay Scallop Young Elenor journeys to Santiago deCampostela with her husband in 1299, experiencing both spiritual and personalsatisfaction.

Townsend, I.R. The Summer People With World War II about to begin, two childhoodfriends from England spend their days at the beach with someone less suitable.Voigt, Cynthia On Fortunes Wheel Fourteen year-old Birl follows Orion on aperiolous journey to a sinister place where warriors rule and captives become slaves.Washington, Mary Helen Black-eyed Susan This critically acclaimed short story

collection features the work of todays most celebrated African American womenwriters.

C. Drama

Chekhov, Anton The Seagull A Russian play concerning love, death, and lifesmeaningGibson, William The Miracle Worker The story of Helen Keller and her teacher,Annie SullivanLuce, William The Belle of Amherst A dramatization of the life of poet Emily

DickinsonPomerance, Bernard The Elephant Man Based on the life of Robert Merrick, whosuffered from a terrible physical deformityShakespeare, William Antony and Cleopatra The romance between the Romanleader and the Egyptian queen

Thomas, Dylan Under Milkwood A charming play about ordinary people in a Welshtown

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