Summer reading list for 10th grade
June 8, 2008
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Lista de lecturas del verano para estudiantes del grado 9 (en español) |
Incoming sophomores: Choose at least 4 selections from the following categories. No more than two selections can be from any one category. Use your journal from this year (or start a new one!) to record insights, questions and connections after each session of reading. The journal will be turned in when you return in August.
Fiction:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress — Dai Sijie
The Garlic Ballads — Mo Yan
Shipwrecks — Akira Yoshimura
Shizuko’s Daughter — Kyoko Mori
American Born Chinese — Gene Luen Yang
Thousand Cranes — Yusunari Kawabata
Kitchen — Banana Yoshimoto
The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende
A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
Non-fiction:
Fast Food Nation — Eric Schlosser or
Chew on This — Eric Schlosser
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier — Ishmael Beah
Woman Warrior — Maxine Hong Kingston
Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Gang Leader for a Day — Sudhir Venkatesh
Dragon in the Land of Snows: a History of Modern Tibet — Tsering Shakya
Diary of Anne Frank
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America — Alex Kotlowitz
Alternative Media:
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Slave Narratives Audio
Swing Kids (1993)
Life is Beautiful (1997)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Episodes of the "Daily Show" (this counts as one)