Wayne Valley Summer Reading List
2008
Students will be required to read two books over the summer. Students in Grade 9 will read Troy and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. All other students are to be sure that their books are chosen from the appropriate grade level. Students in Grades 10 - 12 will select one book for English class and one book from any of the other disciplines. Students are encouraged to read more than the two required books before returning to school in September.
English - Select one from your grade level. Grade 9 must read the two books from this list.
| Grade 9 | Troy | Adele Geras |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens | Sean Covey | |
| Grade 9 Honors | Growing Up | Russell Baker |
| Cyrano deBergerac | Edmond Rostand | |
| Grade 10 | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
| The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |
| Grade 10 Honors | Shane | Jack Schafer |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Grade 11 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| The Razor's Edge | Somerset Maugham | |
| Grade 11 Honors | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Turn of the Screw | Henry James | |
| Grade 12 | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson |
| The Plague | Albert Camus | |
| Grade 12 AP Literature | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
Select one from ONE of the following disciplines.
| Grade 9 | Double Helix | James Watson |
| Grade 10 | Acceptable Risk | Robin Cook |
| Grade 11/12 | Vector | Robin Cook |
| The Physics of Superheroes | James Kakalios |
Fine and Performing Arts/Physical Education
| Grades 9-12 | It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life | Lance Armstrong |
| The Winner Within | Pat Riley | |
| The Moon and Sixpence | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| A Season on the Mat: Dan Gable and the Pursuit of Perfection | Nolan Zavoral | |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan |
| Grades 9-12 | An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of One | Paul J. Nahiv |
| The Average American | Kevin O'Keefe | |
| The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure | H. Magnus and E. Berger | |
| Prime Obsession: Bernard Reimann and the Greatest Unsolved Problems in Mathematics | John Derbyshire |
| Grades 9-12 | A Small Place | Jamaica Kincaid |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Harriet Jacobs | |
| The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories | Stephen Crane | |
| Civil War Stories | Ambrose Bierce | |
| Manhunt | James Swanson | |
| Triangle | Katherine Weber | |
| A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | I. Beah | |
| Ordinary Men | Christopher Browning | |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | |
| Blind Quest | Burt Tucker |
Applied Technologies/Business Education and Consumer Science and Technology Education
| Grades 9-12 | Leadership | Rudolph Giuliani and Ken Kurson |
| Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel | Jean Kilbourne |
| Grades 9-12 | Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser |
| The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel | Lauren Weisberger |
| Grades 9-12 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Evolution of Useful Things: How Every Day Artifacts - From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers Came To Be As They Are | Henry Petroski |
Last Updated: 6/08