Northbrook SUGGESTED Summer Reading 2006

Freshman Academic:

Holes by Louis Sacher

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Freshman Honors/Pre AP/GT:

Night by Eli Wiesel

Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Sophomore Academic:

Recommended: We recommend that students READ! READ! READ!
In particular, we think you will enjoy:

Eragon by Chris Paolini

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Sophomore Honors/Pre AP/GT:

Required: Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

Recommended: C in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas 
(Please purchase a copy for Fall.)

Sophomore Honors/Pre AP/GT students are expected to read voraciously and widely.
Ask your librarian for lists of award winning books to include the 100 Books Everyone Must Read Before College!  (Make sure to add Harry Potter. Tolkien, Winnie the Pooh, and the Beaudelaire children to your list for fun!)

Junior Academic:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Junior Honors/AP/GT:

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Miguel Street by V. S. Naipaul

The Human Stain by Phillip Roth

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Senior Academic:

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot

Senior Honors/AP/GT:

Siddartha by Herman Hesse

The Stranger by Albert Camus

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

These books are available at bookstores or public libraries.