SUMMER READING for English 9 Honors
SUMMER READING for English 9 Honors Welcome to English 9 Honors! In order to prepare for the beginning of school in the fall, you will need to read two books over the summer: A Separate Peace by John Knowles and Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple. On the first day of school in August, you should be ready to write about and to discuss the required reading. Please make certain that you read carefully, take notes, underline passages, and review the book before the first day of school to refresh your memory of the reading. A Separate Peace by John Knowles Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces. Which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her mother. Please also enjoy any of the titles below for leisure reading this summer: Author
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Author
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Author
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Asimov Berger Boulle
Fantastic Voyage Little Big Man The Bridge Over The River Kwai Red Sky at Morning Jane Eyre Terrible Swift Sword The Ox-Bow Incident Childhood’s End Ironman Having Our Say Oliver Twist The Count of Monte Cristo Anne of the Thousand Days Mythology A Raisin in the Sun
Hawthorne
House of the Seven Gables I Will Fear No Evil Stranger in a Strange Land A Bell for Adano Hiroshima High Wind in Jamaica The Hunchback of Notre Dame Deare Captains Courageous The Sea Wolf The Natural Gone With the Wind Zel The Learning Tree Tales of Horror
Portis Pullman
True Grit The Golden Compass The Only Alien on the Planet A Bridge Too Far The Little Prince Franny and Zooey On the Beach A Tree Grows in Brookyln Dracula If You could See What I Hear The Hobbit Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Wrestling Sturbridge Beetle and Me
Bradford Bronte Catton Clark Clarke Crutcher Delany Dickens Dumas Fenton Hamilton Hansberry
Heinlein Heinlein Hersey Hersey Hughes Hugo Innes Kipling London Malamud Mitchell Napoli Parks Poe
Randle Ryan Saint-Exupery Salinger Shute Smith Stoker Sullivan Tolkien Verne
Wallace Young
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces. Which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her mother. Please also enjoy any of the titles below for leisure reading this summer: Author
Title
Author
Title
Author
Title
Asimov Berger Boulle
Fantastic Voyage Little Big Man The Bridge Over The River Kwai Red Sky at Morning Jane Eyre Terrible Swift Sword The Ox-Bow Incident Childhood’s End Ironman Having Our Say Oliver Twist The Count of Monte Cristo Anne of the Thousand Days Mythology A Raisin in the Sun
Hawthorne
House of the Seven Gables I Will Fear No Evil Stranger in a Strange Land A Bell for Adano Hiroshima High Wind in Jamaica The Hunchback of Notre Dame Deare Captains Courageous The Sea Wolf The Natural Gone With the Wind Zel The Learning Tree Tales of Horror
Portis Pullman
True Grit The Golden Compass The Only Alien on the Planet A Bridge Too Far The Little Prince Franny and Zooey On the Beach A Tree Grows in Brookyln Dracula If You could See What I Hear The Hobbit Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Wrestling Sturbridge Beetle and Me
Bradford Bronte Catton Clark Clarke Crutcher Delany Dickens Dumas Fenton Hamilton Hansberry
Heinlein Heinlein Hersey Hersey Hughes Hugo Innes Kipling London Malamud Mitchell Napoli Parks Poe
Randle Ryan Saint-Exupery Salinger Shute Smith Stoker Sullivan Tolkien Verne
Wallace Young
