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.
$22.49
ISBN-13: 9780671042837
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Published: Washington Square Press, 2/2000
When she is five, Lili, the narrator, watches her mother throw herself off the balcony of their lavish home on The Avenue of Faith, only to miraculously grow wings and fly “into the star-studded night of Iran.” Lili will not see her mother, known as Roxanna the Angel, for 13 years, but she will be haunted by a desire to understand why she left and to bring about her safe return. The novel is a strong example of “magical realism.”
$14.40
ISBN-13: 9781594483851
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 11/2008
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
$13.49
ISBN-13: 9780060838720
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Published: Harper Perennial, 8/2005
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country’s vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman, Mr. Hosakawa of Japan. Roxanne Coss, opera’s most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests. It is a perfect evening until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. What begins as a panicked life-threatening scenario, slowly evolves into something quite different as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion... and cannot be stopped.
$6.26
ISBN-13: 9780451528230
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Signet Classics, 1/2002
HONORS ONLY
In the 1920s, young Rakmani leaves her family to marry a tenant farmer and lead a quiet life with her husband in rural India. As years pass, despite poverty, monsoons, and drought, Rukmani and her husband persevere. As British industrialization brings cultural conflict, Markandaya illustrates the clash of old ways versus new ways.
$12.56
ISBN-13: 9780375702709
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Published: Vintage, 9/1997
ACADEMIC & BASIC ONLY In a small Cajun community in Louisiana in the 1940s, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for a murder he did not commit. When Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother begs the lawyer for one last favor - to teach her grandson to die like a man.
