MHS Summer Reading  - 2008

Class of 2012

Author Title

Lexile
Beals, Melba Pattillo Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High 1000
Crutcher, Chris The Crazy Horse Electric Game 870
Osa, Nancy Cuba 15 750
Spiegelman, Art Maus I (graphic novel)  
Spinelli, Jerry Star Girl 590
**Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon 910

**Additional Text for Honors English 1

Class of 2011

Author Title Lexile
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 1180
Mah, Adeline Yen Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter 960
Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve 900
Marx, Jeffery Season of Life: A Football Star, A Boy, A Journey to Manhood 1090
See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 980
**Hamilton, Masha The Camel Bookmobile

**Additional Text for Honors English 2

Class of 2010

Author
Title
Lexile
Alexie, Sherman
 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
760
Bissinger, H.G
1260
O’Brien, Tim
1100
Roberts, Cokie
1230
Walls, Jeannette
1010
*Steinbeck, John
1680
**Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby 1070

*Additional Text for Honors English 3
**Additional Text for AP English Language

Class of 2009

Author Title Lexile
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Nickel and Dimed
1340
Frankl, Viktor
1300
Guterson, David
1080
Larson, Erik
1170
*Fitzgerald, F. Scott
1070

*Additional Text for AP English Language



** AP Literature Summer Reading
Choose two pieces - one from each of the two columns below. Make sure your reading includes one novel from each list.

A
B
Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy 
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austin
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Hard Times
Charles Dickens 
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert 
Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O’Neil
Henry V 
William Shakespeare 		The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje