Princeton High School

Summer Reading List for Rising Grade 9 Students- June, 2006

Please choose one of the books from this list of eight to read during the summer. During the first week of school this assignment will be part of an in-class project, including a timed writing, that will extend the students'understanding of the reading and prepare them to study The Odyssey (Fagles translation).

Author	Title
Aeschylus	Agamemnon
Euripedes	The Trojan Women Orestes
Fleischman	Dateline: Troy
Graves	The Siege and Fall of Troy
Homer	The Iliad
Shakespeare	Troilus and Cressida
Sophocles	Electra

Additional reading suggestions for the summer:

Author	Title
Angelou	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Asimov	Various works
Burns	Cold Sassy Tree
Bradbury	The Illustrated Man The Martian Chronicles
Cisneros	Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Clark	Childhood's End
DeFoe	Robinson Crusoe
Dickens	Great Expectations
Dillard	An American Childhood
Franklin	Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Gaines	A Gathering of Old Men
Gunther	Death Be Not Proud
Haley	Autobiography of Malcolm X
Hoffman	Turtle Moon
Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird
Keyes	Flowers for Algernon
Kincaid	Annie John
Knowles	A Separate Peace
Malamud	The Natural
Morrison	The Bluest Eye
Poe	Short Stories
Rodriguez	Hunger of Memory
Scott	Ivanhoe
Smith	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Stevenson	Treasure Island Kidnapped
Stone	The Agony and the Ecstasy
Tan	The Joy Luck Club A Thousand Secret Senses
Twain	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Wolfe	This Boy's Life

The list of recommended books for summer reading includes works by authors whom you should have read by the time you finish high school. It also includes themes that you will encounter during your freshman year at the high school . This list is derived from a number of sources including the National Council of Teachers of English.

This list is a work in progress. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.