Central Bucks - 10th Grade Summer Reading

Students should select and read one book from the list for their grade and course level. Students SHOULD NOT select a book that they have already read for a school assignment.  The book should be completed before the beginning of the semester during which the student has English class.  Early in the semester, students will complete a follow-up project based on the summer reading books. This project will be graded.

ALL BOOKS ARE FOR HONORS, ACADEMIC AND BASIC CLASSES UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.

The Things They Carried (Paperback)

By Tim O'Brien
$13.46
ISBN-13: 9780618706419
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Published: Mariner Books, 10/2009
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O’Brien gives a frank portrayal of the horrors of the Vietnam War. This book is a series of fictional episodes taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam, and back home in America two decades later. *** contains strong language

Cat's Cradle (Paperback)

By Kurt Vonnegut
$13.50
ISBN-13: 9780385333481
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 9/1998
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HONORS ONLY

This entertaining novel, in pure Vonnegut style, is filled with scientists, G-men, and even ordinary folks caught up in chasing each other around in search of the world’s most important and dangerous new substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Paperback)

By Fannie Flagg
$13.50
ISBN-13: 9780449911358
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Published: Ballantine Books, 1/1997
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again...

Into the Wild (Paperback)

By Jon Krakauer
$13.46
ISBN-13: 9780385486804
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Published: Anchor, 1/1997
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Krakauer retraces the steps of a 23-year-old young man who renounces his possessions and heads into the Alaska wild where he is destroyed by nature and his own bad choices.

Durable Goods (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Berg
$13.50
ISBN-13: 9780812968149
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Published: Ballantine Books, 5/2003
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ACADEMIC & BASIC ONLY

Adolescent Katie spends the lazy days of summer waiting for life to begin; waiting for womanhood to begin; waiting to fall in love; and waiting for the beatings to stop.
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