SUMMER READING 2014 Mandarin HighAll summer-reading texts need to be read by the first day of school. A test on them will constitute part of their first-quarter grade.9th Grade AICE The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (326 pgs.) AND Two Books Required The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (576 pgs.)9th Grade Honors Runner by Carl Deuker (224 pgs.) AND The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (576 pgs.) OR A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (528 pgs.) Two Books Required9th Grade Standard Runner by Carl Deuker (224 pgs.) ***************************************************** 10th Grade Standard Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (220 pgs.)10th Grade Honors The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (336 pgs.) Two Books Required Twelve Angry Men (play) by Reginald Rose (96 pgs.)AICE General Paper The Once and Future King by T.H. White (656 pgs.) ****************************************************11th Grade Standard Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead by Brian Boyle (256 pgs.)11th Grade Honors Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead by Brian Boyle (256 pgs.) Two Books Required Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (338 pgs.)AP Language The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (455 pgs.) Two Books Required Chapters 1-10 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (340 pgs.)AICE Language same as AP Language above *****************************************************12th Grade Standard The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks (320 pgs.)12th Grade Honors One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (272 pgs.)AP Literature One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (272 pgs.) Two Books Required A Streetcar Named Desire (play) by Tennessee Williams (142 pgs.) AICE Literature Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (543 pgs.)Dual Enrollment (1101, 1102, or Lit 2000) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (288 pgs.) Two Books Required Ariel: The Restored Edition (poems) by Sylvia Plath (256 pgs.)