Austin High School : Summer Reading 2009

Honors Freshman English
(Read both of the following titles)
The ChosenChaim Potok
The Uglies—Scott Westerfeld

 Freshman English
(Select one of the following titles)
Gentlehands—M.E. Kerr
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—Mark Twain
The Uglies—Scott Westerfeld

 Freshman ESL
(Select one book from the Freshman English list OR one of the following titles)
The Friends -  Rosa Guy
The Summer of the Swans—Betsy Byars

 Honors Sophomore English
(Select two of the following titles)
All Over But the Shoutin’—Rick Bragg
Cold Sassy Tree—Olive Ann Burns
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston

 Sophomore English
(Select one of the following titles)
All Over But the Shoutin’—Rick Bragg
Cold Sassy Tree—Olive Ann Burns
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston  

Sophomore ESL
(Select one book from the Sophomore English list OR the following title)
Scorpions—Walter Dean Myers
Nectar in a Sieve- Kamala Markandaya


 Honors Junior English
(Select two of the following titles)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier—Ishmael Beah
Ethan Frome—Edith Wharton
In Cold Blood—Truman Capote

 Junior English
(Select one of the following titles)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier—Ishmael Beah
Ethan Frome—Edith Wharton
In Cold Blood—Truman Capote

 Junior ESL
(Select one book from the Junior English list OR one of the following titles)
Tonight on the Titianic - Mary Pope Osborne
Tears of a Tiger—Sharon Draper

AP and IB Juniors
(Read both of the following titles)
The Good Earth— Pearl S. Buck
The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Honors Senior English
(Read both of the following titles)
1984—George Orwell
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

 Senior English
(Select one of the following titles)
A Gathering of Old Men—Ernest Gaines
Fallen Angels—Walter Dean Myers
Lost Horizon—James Hilton
Rebecca—Daphne du Maurier

 Senior ESL
(Select one book from the Senior English list OR one of the following titles)
Fallen Angels—Walter Dean Myers
Barrio Boy - Ernest Galarza