Wharton Public Schools' Approved Summer Reading for 2014

Names in bold are authors in the Wharton Public Library's collection. Clicking on the name will take you to the library catalog.

Grades 6-8

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Grades 9-12

Required District Reading (Choose One):

Night (Wiesel)
All But My Life (Klein)
Maus I (Spiegelman)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne)
The Journal of Helene Berr (Berr)
Between Shades of Gray (Sepetys)

Academy English 1 (Summer)

The Joy Luck Club (Tan)

AVID 9H / Academy 9 / English 9H

To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)

Academy 10/English 10H

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

English 11H

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)

AP Lang. & Comp.

1984 (Orwell)
The Things They Carried (O'Brien)

AP Lit. & Comp.

Beloved (Morrison)
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz)

IB English HL/I

Brave New World (Huxley)
1984 (Orwell)

IB English HL/II

1984 (Orwell)