Titles:
ALA's Best Books for Young Adults
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
2010
Calhoun 12th Grade Summer Reading List:
*AP -required for AP students at Calhoun
English 4 AP Summer Reading Assignment (.pdf)
The Bellmore-Merrick Public Libraries have copies of all of these books, & all of the books are available in paperback editions
New York State English Language Arts Literature Suggestions (.pdf file)
Adams,
Lorraine. Harbor. c. 2004Fiction
Mystery, Suspense
Aziz Arkoun arrives in America cold, broke, scared, and hoping for a new start, but he soon finds himself drawn into a world of violence and terrorism as he is taken in by a group of Arab Muslims.
Reviews from Amazon.com
Albom,
Mitch. For One More Day. c. 2006.Fiction
After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets and guides him in making his life better.
Reviews from Amazon.com
Grisham,
John. Playing for Pizza. c.2007Fiction
After losing an important game for his team, NFL backup quarterback Rick Dockery is fired, but his agent finds him an opportunity to play for the Panthers of Parma, and even though he has never been to Europe, he moves to Italy hoping for a second chance.
Reviews from Amazon.com
Picoult,
Jodi. Nineteen Minutes. c. 2007Fiction
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. This book is about the people of that town,forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant.
Reviews from Amazon.com
Sebold,
Alice. Lucky. c. 1999.Autobiography
The author tells the story of her violent rape at the age of eighteen, her accidental sighting of her attacker six months later, the resulting trial and conviction of the man, and the trauma she suffered for years afterwards.
*Outstanding Books for the College Bound - 2004
Reviews from Amazon.com
Walls,
Jeannette. The Glass Castle. c. 2005.Autobiography
The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother, and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
Reviews from Amazon.com
*Writing assignment required as well.
*Achebe,
Chinua. Things Fall Apart. First published: 1959
Fiction
Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal
life and shows how the coming the white man led to the breaking up of
the old ways.
Reviews
from Amazon.com
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