North Andover High School students are required to read at least two books during the summer. Students must be prepared to provide the titles of the two books that they have read for their respective English teachers. Please select from the list according to the grade you will be entering this fall. During the second week of September, class time will be provided to write both the draft and final version of a “long composition” in response to an “open-ended” question based upon the book selected at that time by your English teacher. The final drafts will be corrected and graded by your English/Language Arts teacher, and the grades will be incorporated into your first-term English/Language Arts grade.
Students who have not read a book from the appropriate list, and are therefore unprepared to write the “long composition,” will have 5 points deducted from their first-term grade in English/Language Arts. (Students who wish to receive extra credit for reading additional books from the grade level lists should make specific arrangements in September with their respective English/Language Art Teachers.)
- NAHS 2006 Summer Reading Program Brochure PDF (print version for all grades)
Grade Nine Summer Reading List
Title |
Author |
| Tears of the Tiger | Draper |
| A Death in the Family | Agee |
| Little Women | Alcott |
| Nightjohn | Paulsen |
| The Clan of the Cave Bear | Auel |
| When the Legends Die | Borland |
| Lucy Gayheart | Cather |
| And Then There Were None | Christie |
| Tracks | Erdich |
| This Side of Paradise | Fitzgerald |
| Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl | Frank |
| Black Like Me | Griffin |
| Death Be Not Proud | Gunther |
| All Things Wise and Wonderful | Herriot |
| Cold Sassy Tree | Burns |
| The Bean Trees | Kingsolver |
| Captains Courageous | Kipling |
| The Call of the Wild | London |
| White Fang | London |
| Cape Cod | Martin |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Orwell |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Remarque |
| Icy Sparks | Rubio |
| West Side Story | Schulman |
| On The Beach | Shute |
| Joy in the Morning | Smith |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe |
| Treasure Island | Stevenson |
| Dracula | Stoker |
| Ghost Story | Straub |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Twain |
| The Runner | Voigt |
| Dandelion Wine | Bradbury |
| Oliver Twist | Dickens |
| Gulliver's Travels | Swift |
| Daughters of Eve | Duncan |
| Waiting for the Rain | Gordon |
| Summer of My German Soldier | Greene |
| Snow in August | Hamill |
| The Good Earth | Buck |
| The Stand | King |
| The Firebrand | Bradley |
| Kaffir Boy | Mathabane |
| Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery |
| The Crossing | Paulsen |
| The Light in the Forest | Richter |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Smith |
Grade Ten Summer Reading List
Title |
Author |
| Homecoming | Alvarez |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | Baldwin |
| Farenheit 451 | Bradbury |
| The Mists of Avalon | Bradley |
| Digital Fortress: A Thriller | Brown |
| The Alienist | Carr |
| Robinson Crusoe | DeFoe |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle |
| Rebecca | Du Maurier |
| Daisy Faye and the Miracle Man | Flagg |
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Craven |
| A Virtuous Woman | Gibbons |
| Lost Horizon | Hilton |
| The Dubliners | Joyce |
| Main Street | Lewis |
| Peace Breaks Out | Knowles |
| Into the Wild | Krakauer |
| The Lovely Bones | Siebold |
| The Kite Runner | Hosseini |
| Bastard Out of Californi | Allison |
| Emma | Austen |
| Snow Bound | Mazer |
| Of Human Bondage | Maugham |
| Stranger in the Kingdom | Mosher |
| A Day No Pigs Would Die | Peck |
| Wicked | Maguire |
| The Hollow Hills | Stewart |
| The Last Enchantment | Stewart |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories | Stevenson |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Verne |
| Cats Cradle | Vonnegut |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut |
| The Bell Jar | Plath |
| The Once and Future King | White |
| Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde |
| Going After Cacciato | O'Brien |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | Irving |
| The River Between Us | Peck |
| Wuthering Heights | Bronte |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Marquez |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Lahari |
Grade Eleven Summer Reading List
Title |
Author |
| 1776 | McCullough |
| In the Time of the Butterflies | Alvarez |
| The Martian Chronicles | Bradbury |
| In Cold Blood | Capote |
| The Song of the Lark | Cather |
| Invisible Man | Ellison |
| As I Lay Dying | Faulkner |
| On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon | Gibbons |
| The Hungry Ocean | Greenlaw |
| Paul Revere's Ride (non-fiction) | Fisher |
| To Be Young, Gifted, and Black | Hansberry |
| Saint Joan | Shaw |
| Catch 22 | Heller |
| As Good As Gold | Heller |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Hemingway |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Hurston |
| The Turn of the Screw | James |
| Things Fall Apart | Achebe |
| She's Come Undone | Lamb |
| The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | McCullers |
| Tortilla Curtain | Boyle |
| The Member of the Wedding | McCullers |
| Tortilla Flat | Steinbeck |
| The Bluest Eye | Morrison |
| Ahab's Wife | Naslund |
| We Were the Mulvaneys | Oates |
| Plain Truth | Picoult |
| Davita's Harp | Potok |
| Empire Falls | Russo |
| Eden Close | Shreve |
| Fortune's Rock | Shreve |
| The Last Time They Met | Shreve |
| The Weight of Water | Shreve |
| The Jungle | Sinclair |
| Cannery Row | Steinbeck |
| Montana 1948 | Watson |
| Collected Stories | Welty |
| Delta Wedding | Welty |
| The Age of Innocence | Wharton |
| The House of Mirth | Wharton |
| This Boy's Life | Wolff |
| Black Boy | Wright |
| Native Son | Wright |
| Rite of Passage | Wright |
| The Killer Angels | Wright |
| The Things They Carried | O'Brien |
| Sense and Sensibility | Austen |
| Monk's Head | Ellis |
| The Stranger | Camus |
| An American Requiem | Carroll |
| The Dante Club | Pearl |
| The World According to Garp | Irving |
| Rifles for Water | Keith |
| Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation | Roberts |
| Gods and Generals | Shaara |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck |
| East of Eden | Steinbeck |
| A Member of the Wedding | McCullers |
Grade Twelve Summer Reading List
Title |
Author |
| How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent | Alvarez |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Atwood |
| The Blind Assassin | Atwood |
| Forbidden City | Bell |
| Year of Wonders | Brooks |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Chang |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Clarke |
| Wind, Sand, and Stars | deExupery |
| The Red Tent | Diamant |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Dillard |
| Ragtime | Doctorow |
| Dreaming in Cuban | Garcia |
| Les Miserables | Hugo |
| Brave New World | Huxley |
| Annie John | Kincaid |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Kingsolver |
| Into Thin Air | Krakauer |
| I Know This Much is True | Lamb |
| Nectar in a Sieve | Markandaya |
| Atonement | McEwan |
| The Source | Michener |
| Caravans | Michener |
| Bel Canto | Patchett |
| The Chosen | Potok |
| Exodus | Uris |
| Trinity | Uris |
| Deception Point | Brown |
| The Lords of Discipline | Conroy |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Haddon |
| Life of Pi | Martel |
| Beloved | Morrison |
| Nineteen Eighty-four | Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| Demian | Hesse |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Hardy |
| Shadow of the Wind | Zafon |
| Angels and Demons | Brown |
| The Bonesetter's Daughter | Tan |
| Daughter of Fortune | Allende |
Paul Gregoire
North Andover High School English Chair
and Summer Reading Coordinator
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