Summer Reading List2013

South Atlanta Educational Complex

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Students are expected to read at least (2) books from the reading list before school begins. Students may choose one from the required list and one from the general list. Parents are encouraged to choose books that are appropriate for their family’s

reading pleasure.

Just for Fun

Historical FictionCopper Sun by Sharon DraperThe Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. AndersonCleopatra’s Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter

AdventureThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles) by Rick Riordan

HorrorSlice of Cherry by Dia ReevesAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakePeeps by Scott Westerfield

RomanceKeturah and Lord Death by Martine LeavittTwilight by Stephanie Meyer

Realistic Fiction The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister SouljahSilver Sparrow by Tayari JonesSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Graphic NovelsAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangIncognegro by Mat Johnson

BiographyAmerican Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew PollyJesus Land by Julia Scheeres

Series FictionLiving Violet (The Cambion Chronicles)by Jaime ReedCity of Bones by (The Mortal Instruments Series) by Cassandra Clare

Sci-Fi/FantasyReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae CarsonEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Marvelous Effect by Troy Cle

Non-FictionThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellThe Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes MooreWho’s Afraid of Post Blackness: What it Means to be Black Now by Toure

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Required reading

Write Your Own

Visit Figment.com and submit your own original stories or read some from other Teens

Story Time

Pick a book and read it to your younger siblings or to an elderly family member

Make it a Game

Start a Reading Challenge at home to see who can read the most books

Rising 9 th Grade- Freshmen

Farenheit 451 by Ray BradburyGuy Montag is a fireman, but instead of putting fires out, he starts them. In an America where television rules and no one asks questions information is the enemy.

If you like it, try: Uglies by Scott Westerfield

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDorian is beautiful and young and egotistical. When a friend paints his portrait and he wishes that he could stay young and charming forever, the wish comes true, but bending the laws of nature has its consequences.

If you like it, try: The Strange

everyone has their ideas about how to spend the money.

If you like it try: Fences by August Wilson

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddAfter her “stand-in mother”, a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults three of the biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three Black, bee-keeping sisters.

If you like it try: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Rising 11 th Grade- Juniors

Narrative of the Life of Frederick

Black Boy by The true account of Richard Wright’s coming of age in Mississippi. With cruelty from racists on one side and resentment from Blacks on the other he rises, strong and resilient in the Jim Crow South.

If you like it, try:Ralph Ellison

Rising Seniors- 12

Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudicestory of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife.

If you like it, try:by Emily Bronte and Dracula by Bram Stoker

Heart of DarknessThe novel is largely autobiographical, based upon Joseph Conrad’s six-month journey up the Congo River where he took command of a steamboat in 1890 after the death of its captain.

If you like it, tryby Chinua Achebe

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