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Summer Reading: 10^th grade

2009-2010

Arlington High School

Let’s get excited about reading!  We have chosen some fun, thrilling, and fascinating books for you to ENJOY this summer!

Standard: Read 2 books.

Honors: Read 3 books.

**You will be held responsible (assessed/tested) within the first week of school in August for reading these books over the summer.**

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Six unforgettable kids—with no families, no homes—are running for their lives.  Max Ride and her best friends are products of an experiment: they were engineered to fly. And that’s just the beginning of their amazing powers. 

Maximum Ride: School’s Out—Forever by James Patterson

This is the second in the Maximum Rider series.  You should not read it unless you have read The Angel Experiment first.  Enjoy!

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Melinda Sordino suffers through her freshman year at Merryweather High School in silence. Her transition from middle school to high school is complicated by a misunderstanding which sends shockwaves throughout her existence. Gradually, readers become aware that Melinda is spiraling out of control as she becomes mute and loses interest in herself, her family, and school. Abandoned by her friends, she yearns to confide.....

October Sky by Homer Hickam

It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West VA, was slowly dying.  Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space.  Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive.  Coalwood and the Hickams would never be the same.  Do not fool yourself into thinking you can just watch the movie; do yourself a favor and READ this book!

Anthem by Ayn Rand

He lived in the dark ages of the future.  In the loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice.  In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge.  But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted.  He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd.  He was a man alone.  This is a tale of a future dark age of the great “We”—a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. 

AHS 10^th Grade English

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins lives a quiet, peaceful life in his comfortable hole at Bag End. Bilbo lives in a hole because he is a hobbit—one of a race of small, plump people about half the size of humans, with furry toes and a great love of good food and drink. Bilbo is quite content at Bag End, near the bustling hobbit village of Hobbiton, but one day his comfort is shattered by the arrival of the old wizard Gandalf, who persuades Bilbo to set out on an adventure with a group of thirteen militant dwarves. The dwarves are embarking on a great quest to reclaim their treasure from the marauding dragon Smaug, and Bilbo is to act as their “burglar.” The dwarves are very skeptical about Gandalf’s choice for a burglar, and Bilbo is terrified to leave his comfortable life to seek adventure. But Gandalf assures both Bilbo and the dwarves that there is more to the little hobbit than meets the eye.

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.

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