Mills High School Summer Reading List 2008

Freshman

• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Guts by Gary Paulsen
• Love, Football and Other Contact Sports by Alden Carter
• Under The Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Bound by Jo Napoli
• This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
• Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
• Feed by M.T. Anderson

English AS:

• Read Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4 of Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Sophomore

• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Sister of my Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez

• Fade by Robert Cormier
• Letters from the Inside by John Marsden
• Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
• The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

English AS - Read both of the following:

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Junior

• Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
• If I die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Love Honor Duty by Gus Lee
• Woman Warrior by Maxine Kingston
• What is the What by Dave Eggers

English 5H - Read the following:

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Senior

• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Donald Duk by Frank Chin
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
• Oranges are not the only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert

English AP - Please read these in the following order:

• 1) How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• 2) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  Penguin edition preferred, some are here
• 3) Othello by William Shakespeare
• 4) On Writing by Steven King