Hillsdale High School Summer Reading List 2012

Visit the Hillsdale High School website for complete lists and instructions, or use the list below for links into our catalog.

Freshman

It is suggested you read two titles from the list below:

• Troy by Adele Geras
• Percy Jackson (any or all book[s] in the series) by Rick Riordan
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Freedom Writers’ Diary by Erin Gruwell
• Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. S. Lewis
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (Highly recommended for AS students.)

Sophomores

CP read one title from the list below. AS you must read one of the titles with an asterisk (*) plus a second title from the list below

• *Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Estrella’s Quinceanera by Malin Alegria
• Bait by Alex Sanchez
• *Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
• *The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Wave by Todd Strasser
• *A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Pact: three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt

Juniors

Honors read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and one book from the list below.

• Torilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini

CP read one book. Select from the list below or choose your own title with teacher approval.

• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Omnivore’s Dilemma (Young Readers Edition) by Michael Pollan
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Macho by Victor Villasenor
• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

Seniors

Advanced Placement must read

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

and ONE other from the list below (for a total of 3 books):

College Prep may choose any ONE from below:

• Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Fall River Dreams by Bill Reynolds