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FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading 2017

The purpose of summer reading in FBISD is to engage students in an enjoyable reading experience that maintains and fosters literacy.

Austin High School

On Level PreAP/AP

English

I

Select from the AHS 9th grade Summer

Reading List found at

http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/

Required: Select one book from the AHS 9th grade

Summer Reading List found at

http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ Read the Selected Short Stories - To access the stories and assignments, go to http://austinapenglish.weebly.com

English

II

Required:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

AND

One book from the 10th grade Young Adult Library

Services Association (YALSA) novel found at

http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/. This website also has information and assignments.

English

III

Required:

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein AND

Locate six editorials/commentaries/essays from reputable newspapers or magazines on topics of interest

to you.

See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for summer

reading assignments and information.

English

IV

Required: Choose one of the following:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Firm by John Grisham

See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for summer

reading assignments and information.

Bush High School

On Level PreAP/AP

English

I

Required: Choose one book from the list

below:

Fiction:

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen

Chbosky

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Maze Runner (any in the series) by James

Dasher

Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica

Roth

Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Twisted

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

The Uglies by Scott Westerfield

Required: Choose one fiction and one nonfiction from the list below.

Fiction:

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Maze Runner (any in the series) by James Dasher

Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica Roth

Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

The Uglies by Scott Westerfield

Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse

Anderson

FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading

Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie

Halse Anderson

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Tomboy by Liz Prince

Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King

Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar

Children by Ransom Riggs

Non-fiction:

The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon

The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell

Getting Away with Murder by Christopher

Crowe

The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs

Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

as told to Alex Haley

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the

Lusitania by Erik Larson

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Tomboy by Liz Prince

Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King

Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Non-fiction:

The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon

The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell

Getting Away with Murder by Christopher Crowe

The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs

Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to

Alex Haley

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik

Larson

English

II

English

III

Required:

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Required:

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne AND

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Hope, and Death in a

Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

English

IV

Required:

The Metamporphosis by Franz Kafka

Required:

Grendel by John Green

Clements High School

On Level PreAP/AP

English

I

No Required Reading

Please refer to the general district

summer school information for book suggestions.

Required: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for information on assignments.

English

II

Required: 1984 by George Orwell

AND choose one of the following:

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

(translated and abridged by Lowell Bair)

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers

English

III

Required: The Crucible by Arthur Miller

AND one of the following non-fiction texts:

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

Yuiet͗ The Power of Introǀerts in a World that Can't Stop

Talking by Susan Cain

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating

Opportunity by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for information on assignments.

English

IV Required: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Peavear and Larissa

Volokhonsky

AND one of the following (not previously read):

One Flew Oǀer the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia

Marquez

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

OR select a title from the list of former Question 3 prompts on the College Board website: Scroll down to the ͞Free-Response Prompts" (2001-

2016).

Click on ͞Free-Response Yuestions."

Scroll down to ͞Yuestion 3" with a list of titles for the year you clicked. For more titles, click on another year, and repeat steps 1-3.

Dulles High School

On Level PreAP/AP

English

I

Required: Choose one of the following:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson and

the Olympians) by Rick Riordan

Stiff-The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach

Warm Bodies-A Novel by Issac Marion.

Required:

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

AND choose one of the following:

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time by Mark

Haddon

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

English

II

Required: Choose one of the following:

Scorpions by Walter Dean Meyers

Gone (the series) by Michael Grant

The Goats by Brock Cole

So Yesterday by Scott Westerfield

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-

time by Mark Haddon

Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

Required:

1984 by George Orwell

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

English

III

Required: Choose one of the following:

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by

Rebeccas Skloot

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in

Heaven by Sherman Alexie

Required: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that

Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

AND

Choose one of the following:

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading

No Country for Old Men by Cormac

McCarthy

True Grit by Charles Portis

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled

Hosseini

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

The Girls in the Garden by Kamila Nair

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

English

IV

Required: Choose one of the following:

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Blood Meridian by

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galadžy

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Underground Railroad by Colson

Whitehead

Required: How To Read Literature Like a Professor by

Thomas Foster

AND

Choose one of the following:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Elkins High School

On Level PreAP/AP

English

I

Required: Choose ONE title from the

current or past Texas Library Association

Lone Star Award Lists. You can see the lists

at http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star or http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star- past

Required: The House on Mango Street by Sandra

Cisneros

English

II

Required: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

English

III

Required: Beloved by Toni Morrison AND Pilgrim on

Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

English

IV Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by

Foster

AND choose one of the following: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia

Marquez

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Hightower High School

On Level PreAP/AP

English

I

Required:

The Color of Water by James McBride

Required: Buried Onions by Gary Soto

AND choose one of the following:

FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and

Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and

Christina Lam

The Color of Water by James McBride

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