High School – Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Freshmen

ENGLISH: choose one; honors students choose two

Persepolis (Volume 1) by Marjane Satrapi
Lion by Saroo Brierley
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

HISTORY FOR STUDENTS ENTERING 9TH:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
 

Sophomores

ENGLISH: choose two

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (both or either of your books may come from this series)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

HISTORY:

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai (original or young readers edition)

Juniors

ENGLISH: choose two

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Kindred by Octavia Butler
All Souls by Michael MacDonald
Here to Stay by Sara Farizam

HISTORY:

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel (read at least 8 interviews) OR

Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand

Seniors

ENGLISH - world literature: must read two

(African)The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by WilliamKamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
(Hispanic) In the Times of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
(European) Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
(European) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
(Asian) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

COMMUNICATIONS (ELECTIVE):
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell 

A.P. Classes:

WORLD HISTORY: must read
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)

LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION: must read all 3
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Educated by Tara Westover
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

LITERATURE AND COMPOSTION: must read both
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells