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Joliet Central High School's Summer Reading List - 2008


Incoming Freshmen:
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
This Side of Paradise by Stephen Layne
Buried Onions by Gary Soto
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles
Silas Marner by George Eliot


Sophomore - Senions:
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Color of Water by James McBride
The Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
Cruise Control by Terry Trueman
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Book Thief by Markus Zusack
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
by Lensey Namioka
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Friday Night Lights: A Town and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
Rebecca by Daphne deMaurier
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Funny Little Monkey by Andrew Auseon
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Educating Esme by Raji Codell
Thief of Souls by Neal Shusterman
House of the Scorpian by Nancy Farmer
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Jude by Kate Morgenroth
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton


Joliet West High School - Summer Reading - 2008
Freshmen:
About Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Sophomores:
Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton by Walter Payton with Don Yaeger
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Juniors:
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian

Seniors:
Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain, Adam Shapiro
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston



Joliet Catholic Academy - Summer Reading 2008-2009

English IA: If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
English IU: Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
English IC: Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton

English IIH: Bleachers by John Grisham
Rececca by Daphne de Maurier
English IIU: Bleachers by John Grisham
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper

English IIC: Bleachers by John Grisham
Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza

AP English IV : Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Grendel by John Gardner
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

English IV H: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
English IV U: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
English IV C: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom