Grade 9 On-Level
The Book Thief
The Martian Chronicles
Call of the Wild
Cat’s Cradle
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Secret Garden
Call it Courage
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Shift
November Blues
The Last Exit to Normal
Yellow Flag
Wicked Lovely
All We Know of Heaven
Streams of Babel
Markus Zusak
Ray Bradbury
Jack London
Kurt Vonegut
Betty Smith
Frances Burnett Hodgson
Armstrong Sperry
Adeline Yen Mah
Abel Fattah
Jennifer Bradbury
Sharon Draper
Michael Harmon
Robert Lipsyte
Melissa Marr
Jacuelyn Mitchard
Margaret Plum-Ucci
… Or any other book posted onto the following MCPS website designed to help parents and
students make appropriate reading selections for summer reading:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/readinglists/
Grade s 9 Honors
Br ave N ew World
The Pic ture of D oria n Gray
The Hit c hhik er’ s Guide to the Gala xy
The Martia n Chronic les
The J oy Lu c k Club
Life of Pi
The O nc e and Future King
Big Fis h
The Curiou s Inc ident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The J ungle
Les Mis era bles
Great Expec tations
The Pic ture Bride
Cry, the Beloved Country
Aldous Huxley
Os c ar Wilde
Douglas Adams
Ray Bradbury
Amy Tan
Yann Martel
T. H. White
Daniel Wallac e
Mark Haddon
Upton Sinc lair
Vic tor Hugo
Charles Dic k ens
Yos hiko Uc hida
Alan Paton
… Or any other grade appropriate book pos ted onto the follow ing MCPS w ebsite des igned to
help parents and s tudents make appropriate reading s elec tions for s u mmer reading:
http://w w w . montgomer yschoo ls m d.org/curr ic u lum/read in g lis ts /