Union School – Summer Reading List 2013
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Choose two of the following books below that correspond with your lexile level.
You will be held accountable for this reading in the first week of school. It is your
responsibility to be done reading by that point and extensions will not be granted.
Going into 7th Grade – Summer Reading List
Compound – Bodeen, S.A.
Lexile: 680
Nation – Terry Pratchett
Lexile: 770
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lexile: 710
Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson
Lexile: 580
Where the Red Fern Grows -Wilson Rawls
Lexile: 700
Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’ Engle
Lexile: 740
Waiting for Normal - Leslie Connor
Lexile: 570
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
Lexile: 940
The Trial: a Novel by Jen Bryant
Lexile: NP
Tangerine – Edward Bloor
Lexile: 680
A Family Apart – Joan Lowery Nixon
Lexile: 820
Holes – Louis Sachar
Lexile: 660
Artemis Fowl – (Artemis Fowl, #1) – Eoin Colfer
Lexile: 600
Keeper – Mal Peet
Lexile: 780
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Lexile: 840
Going into 8th Grade – Summer Reading List
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Lexile: 790
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Matched – Ally Condie
A Long Walk to Water – Linda Sue Park
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Ophelia – Lisa Klein
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Anne Frank: The Biography – Melissa Muller
That Was Then, This is Now – S.E. Hinton
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
– Sherman Alexie
Lexile: 890
Lexile: 670
Lexile: 680
Lexile: 720
Lexile: 1070
Lexile: 890
Lexile: 900
Lexile: 1110
Lexile: 680
Lexile: 870
Lexile: 780
Lexile: 730
Lexile: 830
Grade 9 Summer Reading List
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Night – Elie Wiesel
1984 – George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Ann of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
Antigone – Sophocles
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Lexile: 1100
Lexile: 590
Lexile: 1090
Lexile: 1030
Lexile: 990
Lexile: 1090
Lexile: 940
Lexile: 880
Lexile: 840
Lexile: 1420
Lexile: 770
Lexile: 1300
Lexile: 1010
Lexile: 1100
Lexile: 890
Grade 10 Summer Reading List
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Lexile: 1030
Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
Lexile: 780
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to
Change Themselves and the World Around Them – Erin Gruwell
Lexile: 1090
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Lexile: 1080
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
Lexile: NP
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Lexile: 1410
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Lexile: 1130
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Lexile: N/A
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
Lexile: N/A
Farwell to Manzanar – James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Lexile: 1040
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem – Rosalyn Schanzer
Lexile: 1190
A Child Called It – David Pelzer
Lexile: 980
Invisible Man – Ralph Elison
Lexile: 980
Grade 11 Summer Reading List
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Lexile: 1140
Bright Lights, Big City – James McInerney
Lexile: 1160
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee – Bee Drown
Lexile: 1080
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Lexile: 1140
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
Lexile: 1240
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Lexile: 1110
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Lexile: 850
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Lexile: 960
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
Lexile: 970
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Lexile: 1100
Grade 12 Summer Reading List:
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Lexile: 1100
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
Lexile: 1550
The Autobiography of Malcom X – Alex Haley and Malcom X
Lexile: N/A
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Lexile: 870
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Lexile: 1170
Ethan Frome – Wharton
Lexile: 1030
Nineteen Minutes – Picoult
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Hole – Hawking
The Innocent Man – John Grisham
Lexile: 1170
A Painted House – John Grisham
Lexile: 1180
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
Lexile: N/A
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Lexile: 1030