Summer Reading List 2011   |   IB Summer Reading List

• Avasthi, Swati. Split. New York, Knopf, 2010.

• Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker. New York: Little, Brown, 2010.

• Carter, Ally. Heist Society. New York: Disney/Hyperion, 2010.

• Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares. New York: Random House, 2010.

• Dashner, James. Maze Runner. New York: Delacorte Press, 2009.

• Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron. New York: Dial Books, 2010.

• Gill, David Macinnis. Soul Enchilada. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2009.

• Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses. New York: Dial Books, 2009.

• Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation. New York: Riverhead Books, 2010.

• Omolulu, C.J. Dirty Little Secrets. New York: Walker & Co., 2010.

• Pearson, Mary. The Miles Between. New York, Henry Holt, 2009.

• Shusterman, Neal. Bruiser.  New York: HarperCollins, 2010.

• Small, David. Stitches. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. (mature reader)

• Stratton, Allan. Borderline. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.

• White, Kiersten. Paranormalcy. New York: HarperTeen, 2010.

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9th:
 Great Expectations
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mythology
Shakespeare Alive
Romeo and Juliet 
Odyssey
(we only had students read a small portion of these in class)

10th:
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Macbeth
The Crucible
Lord of the Flies 
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

11th
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston;
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

12th
Great Gatsby,
Streetcar Named Desire,
Death of a Salesman

Two additional book choices are designed to help students better understand literature and are worth reading:

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Bauer

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