Additional Voluntary Suggested Reading for

Humanities Website

(These books cannot be substituted for the required summer reading selection.)

                                

  Entering 9th GRADE STUDENTS

       

TRADITIONAL / CLASSIC

 

The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway

Bless the Beasts and the Children – Swarthout

Summer of My German Soldier – Greene

Oliver Twist – Dickens

Martian Chronicles – Bradbury

And Then There Were None – Christie

 

CONTEMPORARY / HIGH INTEREST

 

Eyes of the Dragon – King

Childhood’s End – Clarke

Watership Down – Adams

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston

The House on Mango Street – Cisneros

Incredible Journey – Burnford

The Man Without a Face – Holland

Gentlehands – Kerr

Homecoming – Voigt

The Terminal Man – Crichton