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Chariho High School - Entering Ninth Grade Summer Reading List 2011

 

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(Titles on the list with a grey background are honors books)

 

The Summer Reading Program at Chariho High School is required for all high school students, grades 9 thru 12. Summer reading keeps students active as readers, while broadening their horizons. 
The CHS summer reading program requirements for students entering grade 9 are as follows: 
  • read one book from the summer reading list 
  • students who are not HONORS students can choose any book on the entire list
  • English HONORS students are required to read one book from the list. The book must be from the following titles: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Reservation Blues, Three Threads Woven,  The Color of Water, The Secret Life of Bees, or Picture Bride
 

Summer Reading List Entering Grade 9

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

Fade to Black by Alex Flinn   An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath.

Here There be Dragons by James Owen Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King, whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.

Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs   Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico. 

Run Baby Run by Nicky CruzThe story of the conversion of Nicky Cruz, a vicious street gang president, to a Christian.

A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
Exiled from the land of Xanth, twenty-five-year-old Bink must prove to his people that he holds magical powers.

Honors Books 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Poet Maya Angelou chronicles her childhood in 1930s rural Arkansas which was filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy and finally hard won independence. 

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in 1931, and was murdered seven years later. He reappears in 1992 on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.

The Secret Life of Bees  by S. Kidd Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August. 

Three Threads Woven by Lucinda Stein Wenona Black Elk is woven from three threads-Dakota Sioux, Navajo, and white. Her father trades his soul to keep the secret that he has created a child with a white woman. After asking his parents to raise Wenona, Joseph Black Elk is determined to never have anything to do with the baby again.
 
The Color of Water by James McBride   An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to admit her true identity. 

 
Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchido   Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917 to marry Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper. Together they build a business and home, raise a daughter, and find tragedy when sent to a detention camp during World War II.

 

 

 

 

 

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