FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading 2017
The purpose of summer reading in FBISD is to engage students in an
enjoyable reading experience that maintains and fosters literacy.
Austin High School
On Level
English
I
Select from the AHS 9th grade Summer Reading
List found at
http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/
English
II
English
III
English
IV
Bush High School
On Level
Required: Choose one book from the list below:
Fiction:
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Maze Runner (any in the series) by James
Dasher
English
Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica Roth
I
Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
The Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
PreAP/AP
Required: Select one book from the AHS 9th grade
Summer Reading List found at
http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/
Read the Selected Short Stories – To access the
stories and assignments, go to
http://austinapenglish.weebly.com
Required:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
AND
One book from the 10th grade Young Adult Library
Services Association (YALSA) novel found at
http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/. This website
also has information and assignments.
Required:
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff and Kathy
Birkenstein
AND
Locate six editorials/commentaries/essays from
reputable newspapers or magazines on topics of
interest to you.
See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for
summer reading assignments and information.
Required: Choose one of the following:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Firm by John Grisham
See http://austinapenglish.weebly.com/ for
summer reading assignments and information.
PreAP/AP
Required: Choose one fiction and one nonfiction
from the list below.
Fiction:
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Maze Runner (any in the series) by James Dasher
Divergent (any in the series) by Veronica Roth
Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
The Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse
Anderson
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Tomboy by Liz Prince
Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by
Ransom Riggs
Non-fiction:
The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell
Getting Away with Murder by Christopher
Crowe
The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs
Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as
told to Alex Haley
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse
Anderson
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Tomboy by Liz Prince
Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by
Ransom Riggs
Non-fiction:
The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell
Getting Away with Murder by Christopher Crowe
The Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Steve Jobs by Steve Jobs
Letters to Young Brother by Hill Harper
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told
to Alex Haley
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by
Erik Larson
Required: Students will choose ONE of the following novel sets to read. Each student must read the
Anchor text and choose ONE of the nonfiction selections from that set for a total of two (2) novels
for all students. On level and Pre-AP students have the same novel options.
Novel Set 1:
Anchor Text (Required for set 1):
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines*
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore *
English
II
Novel Set 2:
Anchor Text (Required for set 2):
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan *
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Enrique’s Journey (The Young Adult Adaptation): The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with
His Mother by Sonia Nazario
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago
Novel Set 3:
Anchor Text (Required for set 3):
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd *
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz
Murray
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba
Pattillo Beals *
Novel Set 4:
Anchor Text (Required for set 4):
Tuesday’s with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lessons by Mitch Albom *
Nonfiction Paired Readings (choose at least ONE):
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
by Brene Brown
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi
*denotes a book on the district’s approved novel list
Required:
Required:
English The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne AND
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Hope, and
III
Death in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
English Required:
Required:
IV
The Metamporphosis by Franz Kafka
Grendel by John Green
Clements High School
On Level
PreAP/AP
Required: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
English
See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for
I
information on assignments.
Required: 1984 by George Orwell
AND choose one of the following:
English
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
II
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
(translated and abridged by Lowell Bair)
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers
Required: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
AND one of the following non-fiction texts:
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.
Dubner
No Required Reading
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
English Please refer to the general district summer
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t
school information for book suggestions.
III
Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating
Opportunity by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu
Dunn
See http://www.fortbendisd.com/chs for
information on assignments.
Required: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Peavear and
Larissa Volokhonsky
English
AND one of the following (not previously read):
IV
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
Dulles High School
On Level
Required: Choose one of the following:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson and the
Olympians) by Rick Riordan
English
Stiff-The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by
I
Mary Roach
Warm Bodies-A Novel by Issac Marion.
English
II
English
III
English
IV
Required: Choose one of the following:
Scorpions by Walter Dean Meyers
Gone (the series) by Michael Grant
The Goats by Brock Cole
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfield
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
OR select a title from the list of former Question 3
prompts on the College Board website:
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/apenglish-literature-and-composition/exam-practice
• Scroll down to the “Free-Response Prompts”
(2001-2016).
• Click on “Free-Response Questions.”
• Scroll down to “Question 3” with a list of titles
for the year you clicked.
• For more titles, click on another year, and repeat
steps 1-3.
PreAP/AP
Required:
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
AND choose one of the following:
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria
Remarque
The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time by
Mark Haddon
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Required:
1984 by George Orwell
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Required: Choose one of the following:
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebeccas
Skloot
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
The Girls in the Garden by Kamila Nair
Required: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World
that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
AND
Choose one of the following:
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Required: Choose one of the following:
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Blood Meridian by
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Required: How To Read Literature Like a Professor
by Thomas Foster
AND
Choose one of the following:
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Underground Railroad by Colson
Whitehead
Elkins High School
On Level
English
I
English
II
English
III
Required: Choose ONE title from the current or
past Texas Library Association Lone Star Award
Lists. You can see the lists at
http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star
or
http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star-past
English
IV
Hightower High School
On Level
Required:
The Color of Water by James McBride
English
I
English
II
Required:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
PreAP/AP
Required: The House on Mango Street by Sandra
Cisneros
Required: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Required: Beloved by Toni Morrison AND Pilgrim on
Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor
by Foster
AND
choose one of the following:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James
Joyce
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal
Hurston
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
PreAP/AP
Required: Buried Onions by Gary Soto
AND choose one of the following:
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education
and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala
Yousafzai and Christina Lam
The Color of Water by James McBride
Required:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the
Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by
Melba Pattillo Beals
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
English
III
Required:
All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy
Required:
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
English
IV
Kempner High School
On Level
English
I
English
II
No Required Reading
Please refer to the general district summer
school information for book suggestions.
English
III
English
IV
AP Art
History
Marshall High School
On Level
Required:
English
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
I
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Required:
Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the
English
Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
II
by Melba Pattillo Beals
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Required: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
English
Maya Angelou
III
Night by Elie Weisel
Required:
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Required:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
College Now
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
PreAP/AP
Choose one title from the Texas Library
Association’s Lone Star Reading List 2017. Find the
list at http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star
Choose one title from the top ten books on the
Texas Library Association’s TAYSHAS List 2017:
The Reader by Traci Chee
Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue
Hitchcock
Burn Baby Burn by Med Medina
Replica by Lauren Oliver
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Salt to the Seai by Ruta Sepetys
The Emperor of AnyPlace by Tim Wynne-jones
The Serpent King by Jeff Sentner
Required: Dune by Frank Herbert
Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor
by Thomas C. Foster AND Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Required:
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art
History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol
Strickland and John Boswell
PreAP/AP
Required:
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Required:
Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the
Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by
Melba Pattillo Beals
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Required: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
Maya Angelou
Night by Elie Weisel
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
Required:
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Ridge Point High School
On Level
Required: Choose ONE of the following:
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
English
I
English
IV
English
II
English
III
English
IV
Required: The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Required: Choose ONE of the following:
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Firm by John Grisham
Required: Choose ONE of the following titles:
Ulysses by James Joyce
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Travis High School
On Level
Required: Choose ONE from the following list:
A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
I Am Malala by Malala Youszafi
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
English
I
Required:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
PreAP/AP
Required:
Buried Onions by Gary Soto OR Hiroshima by John
Hersey,
AND
I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for
Education…by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
OR The Color of Water by James McBride
Required: 1984 by George Orwell,
AND
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Required: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell,
AND
China Boy by Gus Lee, OR Woman Warrior by
Maxine Hong Kingston
Required: The Stranger by Albert Camus
AND Choose one of the following:
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
College Now
Required: The Stranger by Albert Camus AND
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell,
PreAP/AP
Required:
The Color of Water by James McBride
AND
Choose ONE from the following list:
Mexican White Boy by Matt de la Pena
A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
GSA
Required:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
AND
Choose ONE book from the following list:
A Northern Light by Jenna Donnelly
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
The Color of Water by James McBride
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
I Am Malala by Malala Youszafi
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Required: Choose ONE book from the following:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and
David Levithan
Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-time by
Mark Haddon
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray
Bradbury
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
English
II
GSA
Required:
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
AND
Choose ONE book from the following:
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri
In the Time of Butterflies by Julie Alvarez
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the last Tsar by Robert
Zimmerman
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Required: Choose ONE of the following:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
English
III
English
IV
Required:
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
AND
Choose ONE book from the following:
Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-Time by Mark
Haddon
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
All the Light One Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Something Wicked this Way Come by Ray Bradbury
Required:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Required:
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
AND choose ONE of the following:
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
by Edwidge Danticat
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t
Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our
Brains by Nicholas Carr
GSA
Required:
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
AND choose ONE of the following:
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
by Edwidge Danticat
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t
Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our
Brains by Nicholas Carr
Required:
Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick AND
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
FBISD High School ELA Summer Reading
Willowridge High School
On Level
Required: Choose one of the following:
English
Animal Farm by George Orwell
I
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Required:
English
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
II
English
III
English
IV
Required: Choose one of the following:
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Required: Choose one of the following:
The Underground Railroad by Colson
Whitehead
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
PreAP/AP
Animal Farm by George Orwell
AND
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
AND
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Frekonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dauber
AND
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer OR Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Required:
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas
Foster
AND choose One of the following:
Song of the Shank by Jeffrey Renard Allen
The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner