Summer Reading List-2010

ALL students at Catholic High School are required to participate in the Summer Reading Program. Reading should be completed by the first day of school. During the first five weeks of the school year, a test or a written assignment will be given on each of the books. Teachers will not necessarily follow the order listed on this paper.

The English Department will contact local bookstores to stock extra copies of these books. Used books may also be available from students.

Selected books from the summer reading list are available in free audio book format that can be downloaded for use on a home computer, laptop, or iPod.  Click on the linked titles below to access the audio book content.

Grade 9                       

• Night (Wiesel)
• The Call of the Wild (London)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith)—Honors Only

Grade 10                         

• Dawn (Wiesel)
• Ethan Frome (Wharton)
  
• Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) —Honors Only

Grade 11

• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
• A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)
• One Writer's Beginning (Welty) –Honors Only
  

Grade 12                   

• Frankenstein (Shelley) –ACP/CP Only
• Animal Farm (Orwell)
• Once and Future King (White) –Honors Only
• Utopia* (Thomas More)–Honors Only

* Two editions of Utopia are acceptable:  either the Dover Edition (ISBN 0-486-29583-4) or the Yale University Press Edition (ISBN 0-300-08429-3)

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