Collins Hill High School 2014 Summer Reading List
Students who will be enrolled at Collins Hill High School in the fall of 2014 must complete a summer
reading assignment for language arts. Please note: Students who are enrolled in a(n)…
 CP course for next year need to read ONE of the books below.
 Honors, Gifted, 10th APT, or 11th APT course for next year need to read TWO of the books below.
 AP I 11th, AP II 12th, 12th AP Lit, or 12th AP Lang course for next year will receive summer reading
lists and assignments from your current LA teacher.
Requirements:
1. Each student will finish their required reading prior to the first day of school.
2. Students will be given TWO assessments to evaluate their reading. They will be expected to show their knowledge and
understanding of their chosen book(s) with these assessments.
3. Students should read the works carefully. They are encouraged to take notes as they read to aid in comprehension and
recall of the novel’s elements.
Novels marked with an asterisk (*) may contain mature situations or language. Parents, please monitor your
child’s choices.
“The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a
pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting
them read them.”- Neil Gaiman
Our hope is that you will find a book below that you enjoy reading! Have a wonderful summer!
All Grade levels
Genre
Author
Title
Summary
Fiction
Zadoff,
Allen
Boy Nobody
Fiction
Henry, April
Girl, Stolen
Fiction
Falls, Kat
Inhuman
Fiction
Fitzpatrick,
Huntley
My Life Next Door
Fiction
Sepetys,
Ruta
*Out of the Easy
Fiction
Asher, Jay
The Future of Us
Fiction
LaBan,
Elizabeth
The Tragedy Paper
Fiction
Brown,
Jennifer
*Thousand Words
Nonfiction
Ghosts of War
Classic
Smithson,
Ryan
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Classic
Buck, Pearl
The Good Earth
Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy
government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest
mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high
school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind
victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Beyond the Titan wall lies the Feral Zone, and the only people who break
quarantine and venture there are the "fetches", who are paid exorbitant
sums to bring back items left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney
McEvoy's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring
him back.
The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy,
affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen-year-old
Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer
evening, Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything. Then in
an instant, the bottom drops out of her world and she is suddenly faced
with an impossible decision.
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is
striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith
College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
Emma gets her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM in 1996,
and when her best friend Josh visits and they log on, they discover
themselves on Facebook fifteen years in the future.
While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious
Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic
tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship
with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy.
Talked into sending a nude picture of herself to her boyfriend while she
was drunk, Ashleigh becomes the center of a sexting scandal and is now
in court-ordered community service, where she finds an unlikely ally,
Mack.
Ryan Smithson recounts the experiences he had serving his first tour of
duty as an Army engineer in Iraq when he was only nineteen.
Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a
Brooklyn, New York slum at the turn of the century.
Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous
landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares
a devotion to duty, land, and survival.