Everyone At Richmond Reads! All English teachers at the Richmond School ask their students to read a minimum of two books over the summer and read continuously throughout the year. This site contains the reading lists sent out to students coming into grades six through twelve.
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SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT None of these lists is meant to be exclusive or definitive: they are simply an expression of Richmond's deep commitment to pleasure reading. Many of the authors on our list have written a number of excellent books: only one or two are listed here in the interest of space. PG NOTE: Some of the books on this list contain teenage or adult issues and situations. Please respect your family's wishes about appropriate books as you would about film choices and internet sites. We try to develop lists with all our readers in mind, as does the American Library Association. |
| Please save the following to be read and discussed as class books during the year: | |||
Lee. To Kill A Mockingbird |
Shakespeare. Romeo
and Juliet |
Steinbeck. Of Mice
and Men |
Wiesel. Night
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2010-2011 EIGHTH GRADE RECOMMENDATIONS
| 2009
ALA TOP BOOKS |
FANTASY * SCIENCE FICTION * HORROR
| Addams. Watership
Down |
Gaiman. Anansi Boys /
Stardust |
Pratchett. Nation
('09 ALA & Printz Honor) |
| EARLY
HISTORY |
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| Anderson. The Astonishing Life of Octavian
Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Anderson. Octavian Nothing Volume II ('09 Printz Honor & Alex) Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead Achebe. Things Fall Apart Blackwood. Shakespeare Stealer Bradley. The Mists of Avalon Brooks. Year of Wonders |
Crichton. Timeline Collier. My Brother Sam Is Dead Cross. Pope Joan Follett. Pillars of the Earth Gregory. The Other Boleyn Girl Iggulden. Genghis: Birth of an Empire Levitin. The Cure Meyers. Mary Bloody Mary Morressy. The Juggler |
Napoli. Breath |
| 19TH
CENTURY |
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| Alcott. Little Women Austen. Pride and Prejudice Avi. The Barn Brontë, C. Jane Eyre Brontë, E. Wuthering Heights Chevalier. Girl With a Pearl Earring Crane. The Red Badge of Courage Dumas. Three Musketeers Crichton. The Great Train Robbery Dickens. Oliver Twist Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles du Maurier. Rebecca Farmer. A Girl Named Disaster Frazier. Cold Mountain |
Gratz. Samurai Shortstop
Haley. Roots Hesse. Stowaway Lester. Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue Meyer. Bloody Jack Jones. Mister Pip Lockhart. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks ('09 Printz Honor) Lutz. The Spellman Files Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables Napoli. Bound (China) Napoli. Alligator Bayou ('10 ALA) |
Park. A Single Shard
(Korea) Pearsall. Crooked River Rawlings. The Yearling Rothfuss.The Name of the Wind Sayers. Gaudy Night Shaara. The Killer Angels Stevenson. Treasure Island Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin Tan.The Arrival Twain. Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry Finn Walker. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith ('10 Printz Honor) Wharton. Ethan Frome |
| 20TH
CENTURY LIFE & CONFLICT
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| Adichie. Purple Hibiscus Alvarez. In the Time of the Butterflies Benioff. City of Thieves ('09 Alex) Cheech. Walk Two Moons Crowe. Mississippi Trial, 1955 Duncan, D. The Brothers K Gaines. A Lesson Before Dying Gibbons. Ellen Foster Gorman. The Stumptown Kid Hamill. Snow in August Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea Hosseini. The Kite Runner |
Jordan. Mudbound ('09
Alex) |
Picoult. A Second Glance Potok. The Chosen Salinger. Catcher in the Rye Smith. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Steinbeck. Grapes of Wrath / Red Pony Taylor. The Land Thornton. Our Town Watkins. Far from the Bamboo Grove Whelan. Listening for Lions Wright. Native Son |
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WORLD
WAR II |
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| Boyne. The Boy in Striped
Pajamas Bruchac. Code Talker Chambers. Postcards from No Man's Land Courtney. The Power of One Elliott. Under the War Torn Sky Hegi. Stones from the River Heller. Catch-22 Helperin. Soldier of the Great War Knowles. A Separate Peace |
Magorian. Goodnight,
Mr. Tom Mazer, H.. The Last Mission Mazer, N.. Good Night, Maman Mishima. The Sound of Waves Napoli. Stones in the Water Park. When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea |
Nelson. And One For All Nolan. If I Should Die Before I Wake Spinelli. Milkweed Spiegelman. Maus I / Maus II Pullman. The Ruby and the Smoke Yolen. The Devil's Arithmetic Zusak. The Book Thief |
| Alexie. The
Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Alvarez. Before We Were Free Anderson. Wintergirls Asher. 13 Reasons Why Blackwell. Noughts and Crosses Braff. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green Brashares. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Barnes. Tales of the Madman Underground ('10 Printz Honor) Bray. Going Bovine ('10 Printz Winner) Brooks, K. Lucas: A Story of Love and Hate Brown. Angels & Demons / Da Vinci Code Buckhanon. Upstate Chbosky. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Choldenko. Al Capone Does My Shirts Christie. And Then There Were None Cisneros. House on Mango Street Clancy. Patriot Games Clarke. One Whole and Perfect Day Clements. Things Not Seen Collins. Hunger Games ('09 ALA) Connor. Waiting for Normal ('09 ALA) Cook. Outbreak Cooney. Driver's Ed Cormier. The Rag and Bone Shop Crutcher. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Currie. Everything Matters! ('10 Alex) Curtis. Bucking the Sarge Cussler. Park Watch de la Peña. Mexican White Boy ('09 ALA) Dessen. Lock and Key Doig The Whistling Season Dowd. Bog Child ('09 ALA) Draper. Forged By Fire Deenham. Before I Die Duncan, D. The Brothers K Duncan, L. Stranger With My Face Ferraris. Finding Nouf ('09 Alex) Flake. Beggin' for Change Fleischman. Breakout Flinn. Breathing Under Water Frost. Keesha's House Giles. Shattering Glass Going. Fat Kid Rules the World Golding. Lord of the Flies Green. Looking for Alaska / Paper Towns Green & Levithan.. Will Grayson / Will Grayson ('10 Goodling/Horan Award) Greene. The Drowning of Stephan Jones Griffin. The Orange Houses ('10 ALA) Grisham. Street Lawyer / The Client Gruen. Water for Elephants |
Haddix.
Among the Hidden |
Murdock. Dairy Queen Nolan. If I Should Die Before I
Wake |
YALSA
EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION ~ New 2010 Award
| HISTORY
AND SOCIAL STRUGGLES |
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Atkin. Voices
from the Streets |
Mathabane. Kaffir Boy Malcolm X. Autobiography of Malcolm X McCourt. Angela's Ashes McPherson. Fields of Fury: The American Civil War Mellon. Bullwhip Days: Slave Narratives Moody. Coming of Age in Mississippi Murphy. American Plague: Yellow Fever Epidemic Opdyke. In My Hands: Memories Satrapi. Persepolis Walker. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland ('10 ALA & YALSA Non-Fiction) Williams. Eyes on the Prize Yancy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins Leap of Faith ('10 Printz Honor & YALSA Non-Fiction) |
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NATURE,
SURVIVAL & SPORTS |
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| Armstrong. It's Not About the
Bike Bissinger. Friday Night Lights Blais. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle Colton. Counting Coup Bookreev. The Climb Bryson. A Walk in the Woods Carson. Silent Spring Hoose. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird |
Junger. The Perfect Storm |
UNIQUE
PEOPLE & CULTURES |
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Akbar & Burton, Susan.
Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's
Story |
Guevara. The Motorcycle Diaries |