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Floral Park Memorial High School
English Department
Required Summer Reading List 2009-10
Students will be expected to read one required book and one book of their choice.
Students entering 11AP will be required to read the two titles listed.
Students entering 12AP will be required to read the two titles listed and
complete the required assignments.
Entering Grade |
Title |
Author |
7R
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My Brother Sam is Dead
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Collier
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7A
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The Call of the Wild
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London
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8R
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The Pigman
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Zindel
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8A
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Dicey’s Song
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Voigt
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9R
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The Messenger
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Lovry
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9A
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The Pearl
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Steinbeck
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10R
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A Separate Peace
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Knowles
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10A
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A Separate Peace
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Knowles
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11R
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Salinger
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11AP |
Nickel and Dimed
Black Boy |
Ehrenreich
Wright |
Entering Grade |
Title |
Author |
12AP
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Slaughterhouse Five
Thousand Splendid Suns
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Vonnegut
Hosseini
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12RX
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The Bluest Eye
The Kite Runner
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Morrison
Hosseini
Kesay
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Students may not read books that are part of the ELA curriculum, including books studied in elementary school and the following:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A Wrinkle in Time
So Far From the Bamboo Grove
The Diary of a Young Girl
Shakespeare’s Works
The Contender
Ender’s Game
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies
That Was Then, This is Now
The Late Great Me
To Kill a Mockingbird
Homecoming
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The Outsiders
The Secret Life of Bees
The Book Thief
The Color of Water
The Kite Runner
House of the Scorpion
Speak
Nightjohn
The Skin I’m In
Nory Ryan’s Song
Warriors Don’t Cry
The Things They Carried (excluding 11AP)
Water for Elephants (excluding 12AP) |
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