Austin High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Select from the AHS 9th grade Summer Reading List found at http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/
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Required: Select one book from the AHS 9th grade Summer Reading List found at http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/
Read the Selected Short Stories – To access the stories and assignments, go to http://austinapenglish.weebly.com
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English II
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Required:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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One book from the 10th grade Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) novel found at http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/. This website also has information and assignments.
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English III
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Required:
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein
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Locate six editorials/commentaries/essays from reputable newspapers or magazines on topics of interest to you.
See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for summer reading assignments and information.
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English IV
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Required: Choose one of the following:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Firm by John Grisham
See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for summer reading assignments and information.
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Bush High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required: Choose one book from the list below:
Fiction:
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Maze Runner (any in the series) by James Dasher
Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica Roth
Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
The Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Tomboy by Liz Prince
Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Non-fiction:
The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell
Getting Away with Murder by Christopher Crowe
The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs
Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
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Required: Choose one fiction and one nonfiction from the list below.
Fiction:
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Maze Runner (any in the series) by James Dasher
Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica Roth
Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
The Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Tomboy by Liz Prince
Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Non-fiction:
The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell
Getting Away with Murder by Christopher Crowe
The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs
Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
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English II
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Required: Students will choose ONE of the following novel sets to read. Each student must read the Anchor text and choose ONE of the nonfiction selections from that set for a total of two (2) novels for all students. On level and Pre-AP students have the same novel options.
Novel Set 1:
Anchor Text (Required for set 1):
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines*
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore *
Novel Set 2:
Anchor Text (Required for set 2):
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan *
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Enrique’s Journey (The Young Adult Adaptation): The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago
Novel Set 3:
Anchor Text (Required for set 3):
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd *
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals *
Novel Set 4:
Anchor Text (Required for set 4):
Tuesday’s with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lessons by Mitch Albom *
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
When Breath Becomes Air by Deckle Edge
*denotes a book on the district’s approved novel list
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English III
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Required:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Required:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne AND
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Hope, and Death in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
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English IV
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Required:
The Metamporphosis by Franz Kafka
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Required:
Grendel by John Green
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Clements High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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No Required Reading
Please refer to the general district summer school information for book suggestions.
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Required: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for information on assignments.
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English II
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Required: 1984 by George Orwell
AND choose one of the following:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (translated and abridged by Lowell Bair)
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers
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English III
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Required: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
AND one of the following non-fiction texts:
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn
See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for information on assignments.
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English IV
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Required: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Peavear and Larissa Volokhonsky
AND one of the following (not previously read):
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
OR select a title from the list of former Question 3 prompts on the College Board website:
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-english-literature-and-composition/exam-practice
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Scroll down to the “Free-Response Prompts” (2001-2016).
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Click on “Free-Response Questions.”
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Scroll down to “Question 3” with a list of titles for the year you clicked.
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For more titles, click on another year, and repeat steps 1-3.
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Dulles High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required: Choose one of the following:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) by Rick Riordan
Stiff-The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Warm Bodies-A Novel by Issac Marion.
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Required:
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
AND choose one of the following:
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
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English II
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Required: Choose one of the following:
Scorpions by Walter Dean Meyers
Gone (the series) by Michael Grant
The Goats by Brock Cole
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfield
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
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Required:
1984 by George Orwell
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
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English III
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Required: Choose one of the following:
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebeccas Skloot
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
The Girls in the Garden by Kamila Nair
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Required: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
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Choose one of the following:
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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English IV
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Required: Choose one of the following:
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Blood Meridian by
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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Required: How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
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Choose one of the following:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Elkins High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required: Choose ONE title from the current or past Texas Library Association Lone Star Award Lists. You can see the lists at
http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star
or
http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star-past
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Required: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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English II
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Required: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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English III
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Required: Beloved by Toni Morrison AND Pilgrim on Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
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English IV
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Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Foster
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choose one of the following:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Hightower High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required:
The Color of Water by James McBride
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Required: Buried Onions by Gary Soto
AND choose one of the following:
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lam
The Color of Water by James McBride
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English II
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Required:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
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Required:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
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English III
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Required:
All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy
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Required:
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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English IV
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Required:
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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Required:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
College Now
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Kempner High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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No Required Reading
Please refer to the general district summer school information for book suggestions.
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Choose one title from the Texas Library Association’s Lone Star Reading List 2017. Find the list at http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star
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English II
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Choose one title from the top ten books on the Texas Library Association’s TAYSHAS List 2017:
The Reader by Traci Chee
Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Burn Baby Burn by Med Medina
Replica by Lauren Oliver
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Salt to the Seai by Ruta Sepetys
The Emperor of AnyPlace by Tim Wynne-jones
The Serpent King by Jeff Sentner
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English III
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Required: Dune by Frank Herbert
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English IV
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Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster AND Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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AP Art History
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Required:
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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Marshall High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required:
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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Required:
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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English II
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Required:
Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Required:
Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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English III
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Required: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Night by Elie Weisel
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Required: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Night by Elie Weisel
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English IV
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Required:
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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Required:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Ridge Point High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required: Choose ONE of the following:
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
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Required:
Buried Onions by Gary Soto OR Hiroshima by John Hersey,
AND
I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education…by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb OR The Color of Water by James McBride
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English II
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Required: The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Required: 1984 by George Orwell,
AND
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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English III
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Required: Choose ONE of the following:
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Firm by John Grisham
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Required: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell,
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China Boy by Gus Lee, OR Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
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English IV
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Required: Choose ONE of the following titles:
Ulysses by James Joyce
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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Required: The Stranger by Albert Camus
AND Choose one of the following:
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
College Now
Required: The Stranger by Albert Camus AND
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell,
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Travis High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required: Choose ONE from the following list:
A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
I Am Malala by Malala Youszafi
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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Required:
The Color of Water by James McBride
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Choose ONE from the following list:
Mexican White Boy by Matt de la Pena
A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
GSA
Choose ONE book from the following list:
A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
The Color of Water by James McBride
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
I Am Malala by Malala Youszafi
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
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English II
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Required: Choose ONE book from the following:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
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Required:
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Choose ONE book from the following:
Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
All the Light One Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Something Wicked this Way Come by Ray Bradbury
GSA
Required:
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
AND
Choose ONE book from the following:
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri
In the Time of Butterflies by Julie Alvarez
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the last Tsar by Robert Zimmerman
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
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English III
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Required: Choose ONE of the following:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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Required:
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
AND choose ONE of the following:
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
GSA
Required:
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
AND choose ONE of the following:
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
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English IV
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Required:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Required:
Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick AND
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Willowridge High School
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On Level
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PreAP/AP
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English I
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Required: Choose one of the following:
Animal Farm by George Orwell
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
AND
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
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English II
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Required:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
AND
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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English III
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Required: Choose one of the following:
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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Frekonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dauber
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer OR Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
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English IV
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Required: Choose one of the following:
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Required:
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster
AND choose One of the following:
Song of the Shank by Jeffrey Renard Allen
The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner
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