Spring Branch ISD
2009
SUMMER READING LISTS
High School
(please scroll below this list for indivdual campus lists if they exist)
Gr. 9 Good Reads Gr. 9 Challenging Reads
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Eclipse Stephenie Meyer
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Isaac’s Storm Erik Larson
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A Northern Light Jennifer Donnelly
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Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
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Skellig David Almond
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The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
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Staying Fat for Sarah Burns Chris Crutcher
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Zorro Isabel Allende
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Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko
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Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
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Silent to the Bone E.L. Konigsburg
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The Alchemist: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Michael Scott
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Chinese Cinderella Yen Mah
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Inexcusable Chris Lynch
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Go Ask Alice Anonymous
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Specials Scott Westerfield
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Grade 10 Good Reads Grade 10 Challenging Reads
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Ironman Chris Crutcher
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Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy
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My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
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The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley
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The Color of Water McBride
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Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver
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Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
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Founding Mothers Cokie Roberts
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Julia Alvarez
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Peace Like a River Leif Enger
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Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
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In Cold Blood Truman Capote
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Sphere Michael Crichton
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The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
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American Born Chinese (graphic) Gene Yang
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The Book Thief Markus Zusak
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The Body of Christopher Creed Carol Plum-Ucci
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How I Live Now Meg Rosoff
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Grade 11* Good Reads Grade 11* Challenging Reads
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Shadow Divers Robert Kurson
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The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
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Devil in the White City Erik Larson
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Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
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Whale Talk Chris Crutcher
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Emma’s War Deborah Scroggins
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Bag of Bones Stephen King
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1776 David McCullough
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Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
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Bel Canto Ann Patchett
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Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
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The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw
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In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
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Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
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Hole in My Life Jack Gantos
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The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
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Dispatches from the Edge Anderson Cooper
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Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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Blessings Anna Quindlen
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Grade 12* Good Reads Grade 12* Challenging Reads
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Dune Frank Herbert
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Caramelo Sandra Cisneros
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Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris
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The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman
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Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer
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The Innocent Man John Grisham
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
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A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy O’Toole
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Eaters of the Dead Michael Crichton
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The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer
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The Firm John Grisham
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Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
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The Poet Michael Connelly
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Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
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Persepolis (I) Marjane Satrapi
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19 Minutes Jodi Picoult
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*AP teachers at grades 11 and 12 require students to read 2 books from the appropriate grade level list.
Stratford High School 2009 Summer Reading List - click on the links on the right side of the page.
SHS World History AP summer reading assignment
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