Required Reading

WYOMING AREA SUMMER READING

Revised 2010

 

SIXTH to SEVENTH GRADE

The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)

Percy Jackson and the Olympian: The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)

Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (C. S. Lewis)

Inkheart (Cornelia Funke)

 

SEVENTH to EIGHTH GRADE

The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

Peace Like a River (Leif Enger)

The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)                                                 

The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)

 

EIGHTH to NINTH GRADE

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Hiroshima (John Hersey)

The Once and Future King (T.H. White)

Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)

 

NINTH to TENTH GRADE

Behind You (Jacqueline Woodson)

Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)

Night (Elie Wiesel)                                                                                                     

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese- American Family (Yoshiko Uchida)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

 

TENTH to ELEVENTH GRADE

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  (Mark Twain)

Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)   

Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller) 

Firehouse (David Halberstam)          

 

ELEVENTH to TWELFTH GRADE

Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

The Fellowship of the Ring (J. R. R. Tolkien)

Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)

October Sky (Homer Hickam)

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Sebastian Junger)