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SUMMER READING 2008
A summer reading program benefits the student in experiencing words and ideas; in building vocabulary, reading speed, and comprehension for the coming year's work and for college entrance examinations; and in broadening and deepening his reading before college.
During the summer, each MUS student reads three books designated for his grade. At the start of the school year, the student takes a 16-question multiple-choice test on each summer reading book. Questions focus on plot, characters, and other specific, objective information. The student should avoid summaries or film versions as substitutes for reading the books themselves. He will also be expected to be familiar with these books during the academic year.
For each test failed, the student loses three points from his first-quarter English average. For each test passed, he gains one point and he may drop one test grade. Thus, the student may lose up to six points or gain as many as three.
Successful completion of the Reading Enrichment class offered at MUS Summer School will satisfy the Summer Reading requirement for rising seventh and eighth graders at MUS. For more information about the Reading Enrichment class, please look at the course description.
Copies of the books on the summer reading list may be found at area bookstores.
ANY COMPLETE EDITION IS SATISFACTORY.
Rising Grade 7:
(required)
Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles
(choose 2)
David Almond. Skellig
William Armstrong. Sounder
Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Christopher Paul Curtis. The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Robert Newton Peck. A Day No Pigs Would Die
Rising Grade 8:
Herriot, J. All Creatures Great and Small
Stevenson, R.L. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Twain, M. (Samuel Clemens). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Rising Grade 9:
Bradbury, R. Fahrenheit 451
Orwell, G. Animal Farm
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Rising Grade 10:
(choose 3)
Kaye Gibbons. Ellen Foster
Dashiell Hammett. The Thin Man
John Irving. A Prayer for Owen Meany
Barbara Kingsolver. The Poisonwood Bible
Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman
John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughter-house Five
August Wilson. Fences
Richard Wright. Black Boy (Note: Read Part I only, "Southern Nights")
Rising Grade 11:
Chaucer, G. The Canterbury Tales (portions: see below). Penguin Classics.
Orwell, G. 1984
White, T.H. The Once and Future King (Parts 3 and 4 only)
Rising Grade 12:
Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights
Dickens, C. Hard Times
Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory
RISING JUNIORS ONLY: Read the following in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Trans. Nevill Coghill. (Penguin Classics or a suitable, unabridged, modern-English edition):
"General Prologue"
"Miller's Tale"
"Prioress's Prologue and Tale"
"Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"
"Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale"
"Friar's Prologue and Tale"
"Summoner's Prologue and Tale"
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Book Report Lists
English
7 | English 8
Students are required four
times a year to select a title from this list and prepare a book
report summarizing plot, analyzing character and theme, and
judging the overall quality by analyzing the quality of several
major components of a book.
English 7
| Adams |
Watership
Down |
| Asimov |
Fantastic
Voyage
Foundation Trilogy (one of the three) |
| Baldwin |
If
Beale Street Could Talk |
| Ballantyne |
The
Coral Island |
| Beach |
Run
Silent, Run Deep |
| Bird |
Nick
of the Woods |
| Boulle |
The
Bridge Over the River Kwai |
| Bradbury |
Dandelion
Wine
Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Brickhill |
The
Great Escape |
| Burroughs |
Tarzan
of the Apes |
| Capote |
The
Grass Harp |
| Cervantes |
Don
Quixote (abr. Starkie) |
| Chandler |
The
Big Sleep |
| Cheever |
The
Wapshot Chronicle Top Of List |
| Chesterton |
The
Man Who Was Thursday |
| Christie |
Murder
on the Orient Express |
| Clark |
The
Ox-Bow Incident |
| Clavell |
Shogun |
| Collins |
The
Moonstone |
| Conroy |
The
Water Is Wide |
| Cooper |
The
Last of the Mohicans |
| Cormier |
The
Chocolate War |
| Craven |
I
Heard the Owl Call My Name |
| Crichton |
The
Andromeda Strain |
| Cronin |
The
Citadel |
| Defoe |
Robinson
Crusoe |
| Dickens |
A
Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist |
| Doyle |
Valley
of Fear |
| Dumas |
The
Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Edgerton |
Walking
Across Egypt |
| Edmonds |
Drums
Along the Mohawk Top Of List |
| Ellison |
Invisible
Man |
| Faulkner |
The
Reivers
The Unvanquished |
| Fitzgerald |
This
Side of Paradise |
| Forester |
Captain
Horatio Hornblower |
| Greene |
This
Gun for Hire
Ministry of Fear |
| Guest |
Ordinary
People |
| Hailey |
Airport |
| Hammett |
The
Thin Man |
| Heller |
Catch-22 |
| Hemingway |
For
Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Hersey |
The
Child Buyer
Hiroshima |
| Higgins |
The
Eagle Has Landed |
| Hilton |
Goodbye,
Mr. Chips |
| Homer |
The
Iliad |
| Hope |
The
Prisoner of Zenda |
| Hughes,
R. |
High
Wind in Jamaica |
| Hughes,
T. |
Tom
Brown's Schooldays |
| Hugo |
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame Top Of List |
| Hunt |
Across
Five Aprils |
| Huxley |
Brave
New World |
| Kantor |
Andersonville |
| King |
The
Shining |
| Kipling |
Captains
Courageous |
| Krumgold |
Onion
John |
| Lessing |
The
Fifth Child |
| Lewis |
Out
of the Silent Planet |
| London |
Sea
Wolf
The Call of the Wild |
| Lord |
A
Night to Remember |
| McCullers |
The
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
A Member of the Wedding |
| Melville |
Billy
Budd
Foretopman |
| Michener |
Hawaii |
| Mitchell |
Gone
With the Wind |
| Mordhoff
and Hall |
Mutiny
on the Bounty |
| O'Hara |
My
Friend Flicka |
| Orczy |
The
Scarlet Pimpernel Top Of List |
| Portis |
True
Grit |
| Potok |
The
Chosen |
| Rawlings |
The
Yearling |
| Remarque |
All
Quiet on the Western Front |
| Renault |
The
King Must Die |
| Richter |
The
Light in the Forest |
| Rostand |
Cyrano
de Bergerac |
| Rowling |
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| Ruark |
The
Old Man and the Boy |
| Sabatini |
The
Sea Hawk |
| Schaefer |
Shane |
| Scott |
Ivanhoe |
| Shellabarger |
Captain
from Castille |
| Shelley |
Frankenstein |
| Shute |
On
the Beach |
| Sinclair |
The
Jungle |
| Solzhenitsyn |
One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Steinbeck |
Of
Mice and Men |
| Stevenson |
Kidnapped
Treasure Island Top Of List |
| Stewart |
The
Crystal Cave |
| Stoker |
Dracula |
| Taylor,
M. |
The
Road to Memphis
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Taylor,
T. |
The
Cay |
| Tolkien |
The
Hobbit |
| Twain |
Tom
Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| Verne |
Twenty-Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea
Mysterious Island |
| Virgil |
The
Aeneid |
| Waugh |
The
Loved One |
| Wells |
The
Invisible Man
The Time Machine |
| Westheimer |
Von
Ryan's Express |
| Wharton |
Ethan
Frome |
| White |
The
Once and Future King (parts 1 and 2 only) |
| Wister |
The
Virginian |
| Wodehouse |
Jeeves
in the Morning |
| Wright |
Native
Son |
| Zindel |
The
Pigman Top Of List |
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English
8
Students are required
four times a year to select a title from this list and prepare a
book report summarizing plot, analyzing character and theme, and
judging the overall quality by analyzing the quality of several
major components of a book.
| Adams |
Watership
Down
Shardik |
| Aeschylus |
Oresteia |
| Armstrong |
Ponce
de Leon |
| Asimov |
Fantastic
Voyage |
| Beach |
Run
Silent, Run Deep |
| Boulle |
The
Bridge Over the River Kwai |
| Bradbury |
Dandelion
Wine |
| Bryan |
P.S.
Wilkinson |
| Burdick |
Fail-Safe |
| Burns |
Cold
Sassy Tree |
| Chandler |
The
Big Sleep
Farewell, My Lovely
The High Window |
| Christie |
The
Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
| Collins |
The
Moonstone |
| Crichton |
The
Andromeda Strain |
| Defoe |
Robinson
Crusoe |
| Deuker |
Heart
of a Champion |
| Dickens |
Oliver
Twist
A Tale of Two
Cities Top Of List |
| Doyle |
A
Study in Scarlet |
| Dumas |
The
Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Edmonds |
Drums
Along the Mohawk |
| Fast |
April
Morning
Spartacus |
| Faulkner |
The
Reivers
The Unvanquished |
| Forester |
Captain
Horatio Hornblower
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck |
| Gibbons |
Ellen
Foster |
| Graves |
I,
Claudius
Claudius the God Top Of List |
| Greene |
This
Gun for Hire
Ministry of Fear
The Quiet American |
| Haggard |
King
Solomon's Mines |
| Hammett |
The
Thin Man
The Maltese Falcon |
| Hemingway |
For
Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Hersey |
A
Bell for Adano
The Wall
The Child Buyer |
| Heyerdahl |
Kon-Tiki
Aku-Aku |
| Hilton |
Lost
Horizon |
| Homer |
The
Iliad |
| Hope |
The
Prisoner of Zenda |
| Hyman |
No
Time for Sergeants |
| Jackson |
The
Haunting of Hill House |
| Keyes |
Flowers
for Algernon |
| Kipling |
Captains
Courageous |
| Lagerkvist |
Barabbas |
| Le
Carre |
The
Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| Lewis |
Arrowsmith |
| London |
Sea
Wolf |
| Ludwig |
Napoleon Top Of List |
| McPhee |
A
Sense of Where You Are
The Headmaster
Levels of the Game
Pieces of the Frame |
| Melville |
Billy
Budd |
| Miller |
A
Canticle for Leibowitz |
| Mitchell |
Gone
With the Wind |
| Nordhoff |
Men
Against the Sea
Mutiny on the Bounty
Pitcairn's Island |
| O?Hara |
Green
Grass of Wyoming
My Friend Flicka
Thunderhead |
| Orczy |
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Orwell |
Burmese
Days |
| Portis |
True
Grit |
| Rawlings |
The
Yearling |
| Renault |
Bull
from the Sea |
| Sabatini |
The
Sea Hawk |
| Saint-Exupery |
Wind,
Sand, and Stars |
| Saroyan |
The
Human Comedy |
| Shakespeare |
The
Comedy of Errors
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Shute |
On
the Beach
Round the Bend
Trustee from the Toolroom Top Of List |
| Smith |
A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Solzhenitsyn |
One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Stevenson |
Black
Arrow
Kidnapped
Treasure Island |
| Stewart |
The
Crystal Cave
The Hollow Hills |
| Stoker |
Dracula |
| Taylor |
The
Cay |
| Tolkien |
The
Hobbit |
| Twain |
The
Prince and the Pauper
Tom Sawyer |
| Tey |
Brat
Farrar |
| Updike |
Pigeon
Feathers |
| Virgil |
Aeneid |
| Verne |
Twenty
Thousand Leagues under the Sea |
| Washington |
Up
from Slavery |
| Wells |
The
Invisible Man
The Time Machine |
| West |
The
Friendly Persuasion |
| Wiesel |
Night |
| Wister |
The
Virginian |
| Woodward |
The
Strange Career of Jim Crow |
| Wouk |
The
Caine Mutiny Top Of List |
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Reading for Fun
Databases
What Do I Read Next? Thomson Gale. Includes over 122,300 recommended titles, more than 66,700 plot summaries, and awards information. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more.
NoveList EBSCOhost's fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.
Digital Book Index Free index to online public domain e-texts.
General Reference Databases Journal articles, encyclopedias, biographies, and other general sources provide a wealth of information on authors, fiction, nonfiction, genres, and book reviews.
7th Grade Book Report Book Wiki & Lloyd's Library Forum These two online forums allow our students to post brief comments on books they've read for fun or for a book report.
Library Blog Good book recommendations, student reviews, and library events are all on this blog.
Internet Sites
Flamingnet Book Review Your source for reviews and recommendations on past, present, and future preteen, teen, and young adult books.
TeenReads.com Includes authors, reviews, search, and a newsletter geared towards young adult books.
Teen Ink Book reviews written by teenagers.
TeenLit Book Reviews Book reviews written by teenagers. Also allows you to become a book reviewer yourself.
Guys Read Jon Scieszka offers selections for reading, recommendations from other guys, and a search feature based on your favorite book.
The Reading Corner An alphabetical listing of recommended reads for young adults. Includes short summary and fiction and non-fiction sections. Also contains a list of good movies based on books or graphic novels.
International Reading Association This links you to the Young Adult Choices Booklist which you can download and check out. These are new books selected by readers.
Reading Rants The out of the ordinary booklist written to and for teenagers. Updated every two months. Not all of the titles can be found in the Young Adult section of a bookstore. Boy Meets Book also highlights the best books for young adult boys, a lot of which the library will purchase and display in the new arrivals section.
Booklist Online The Booklist Magazine's online blog of book reviews and book suggestions. Also use the 'Books for Youth' tab for more age specific reviews.
Book Lust This website is a spinoff on Nancy Pearl's two bestselling books. It's a community for book lovers that tells you what books to read if you liked one novel in particular. Even the Google ads on the side give you great links for more book ideas.
Inkyhands The Online Malaysian Literary Magazine. Has full text stories written by teenagers and young adults (14-24 year-olds) from Malaysia.
Bookninja Canadian literary site contains everything book-related: reviews, discussions, newslog, and the Litterati comics. Somewhat technical, but enjoyable to browse.
Recommended Reading ALA Site for Teen boys.
Book Reporter Includes author interviews.
Book Club Guides Includes top requested books for the month, plus short summaries of books to read.
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