summer reading lists:

Ensign Intermediate School:

• 7th grade:
  • The Magician's Nephew, by C. S. Lewis
• 8th grade:
  • Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen

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Newport Harbor High School:

• 9th grade English:
  • Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons
  • Anthem, by Ayn Rand
  • Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
  • Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
  • Old School, by Tobias Wolff
• 9th grade Honors English:
  • Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
  • Plus two of the following:
  • Old School, by Tobias Wolff
  • Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
  • Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons
  • Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
• 10th grade English:
  • 1984, by George Orwell
  • Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
  • Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
  • Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier
• 10th grade Honors English (required):
  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
• 11th grade English:
  • Tortilla Curtain, by T. C. Boyle
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John Le Carre
  • Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger
  • The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
  • Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
• 11th grade AP Language (required):
  • Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
  • Grendel, by John Gardner
  • One other title from 11th grade list (excluding 'Hitchhiker's')
• 12th grade English:
  • Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
  • A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
  • The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
  • Into Thin Air, by John Krakauer
• 12th grade AP Literature (required):
  • Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Oedipus Rex, (Also listed as Oedipus the King), by Sophocles
  • Plus one of the following:
  • A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
  • The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
  • Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Corona Del Mar Middle School/High School:

• 7th grade:
  • Choose one:
    • The Other Side of Dark, by Joan Lowery Nixon
    • Steal Away, by Jennifer Armstrong (this book is out of print - limited copies available)
    • Stand Tall, by Joan Bauer
    • Caught, by Willo Davis Roberts (this book is out of print - limited copies available)
    • One Fat Summer, by Robert Lipsyte
    • Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive) at Last, by Avi
• 8th grade:
  • Choose one:
    • True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
    • The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox
    • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
    • Parrot in the Oven, by Victor Martinez
    • Homecoming, by Cynthia Voigt
• 9th grade:
  • Required:
    • Animal Farm, by George Orwell (required for all 9th graders)
  • Choose one:
    • Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
    • Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie
    • Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
    • Izzy, Willy-Nilly, by Cynthia Voigt
    • Peace Like A River, by Leif Enger
    • My Antonia, by Willa Cather
    • Night, by Elie Wiesel
    • On a Pale Horse, by Piers Anthony
    • The Third Eye, by Lois Duncan
    • Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
    • The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
    • Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
    • An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
    • Cherokee Trail, by Louis L'Amour
• 10th grade:
  • Required:
    • Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (required for all 10th graders)
    • 1984, by George Orwell (required for honors)
  • Choose one:
    • Ironman, by Chris Crutcher
    • Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
    • The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
    • A Child Called 'It', by Dave Pelzer
    • Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
    • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
    • Deep Six, by Clive Cussler
    • All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
    • The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
    • The Cowboy and His Elephant, by Malcolm MacPherson
    • The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
    • Stitch in Time, by Anne Rinaldi
• 11th grade:
  • Required:
    • The Crucible, by Arthur Miller (required for all 11th graders)
  • Choose one:
    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
    • Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger
    • Black Boy, by Richard Wright
    • The Kitchen God's Wife, by Amy Tan
    • The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
    • The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
    • This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton
    • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
    • Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
    • Dune, by Frank Herbert
    • Pet Sematary, by Stephen King
    • Beloved, by Toni Morrison
    • Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
    • Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley
  11th grade - AP Language & Comp:
  • Required:
    • Everything's an Argument, by Andrea Lunsford
    • Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
    • The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
  • Choose one:
    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
    • Beloved, by Toni Morrison
    • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
    • Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
    • Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
    • Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley
• 12th grade:
  • Required:
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
  • Choose one:
    • The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
    • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
    • The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz
    • How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn
    • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
    • Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
    • Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
    • Saint Maybe, by Anne Tyler
    • The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay
  12th grade - AP Language & Comp:
  • Required:
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
    • Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles
    • Western Wind: an Introduction to Poetry, by Nims and Mason
  • Choose one (if you'd like to take an optional EB test):
    • As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
    • Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
    • Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill
    • Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
    • Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
    • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
    • This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
    • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
    • The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
    • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
    • A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

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