Summer Reading 2013
Did you know that people who read a minimum of half an hour a day will raise their reading level and improve their vocabulary? Use your summer vacation to pick up some books! Each student at BGHS is required to read the titles listed by grade level:
Happy reading!
9th Grade Regular and Honors/Gifted (choose two)
- Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher
- I am Legend by Richard Matheson
- Runaway Jury John Grisham
- The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
10th Grade Regular and 10th Grade Honors/Gifted (choose two)
- Gifted Hands by Ben Carson, M. D.
- Princess by Jean Sasson
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Keesha's House by Helen Frost
11th Grade Regular and 11th Grade Honors (choose two)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
11th Grade AP/Gifted (read all three)
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
12th Grade Regular (choose two)
- Ms. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Asylum by Patrick McGrath
- Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
12th Grade Advanced: Honors,AP or Dual Enrollment (all three)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
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