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

Suggested Authors:

T. A. Barron
Joan Bauer
Meg Cabot
Orson Scott Card
Caroline B. Cooney
Robert Cormier
Sharon Creech
Michael Crichton
Chris Crutcher
Christopher Paul Curtis
Karen Cushman
Lois Duncan
Paula Fox
S. E. Hinton
Will Hobbs
Anthony Horowitz
Eva Ibbotson
Gordan Korman
Madeleine L'Engle
Lois Lowry
Mike Lupica
Wendy Mass
Norma Fox Mazer

Lurlene McDaniel
Walter Dean Myers
Garth Nix
Joan Lowery Nixon
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
Tamora Pierce
Philip Pullman
Ann Rinaldi
Rick Riordan
J. K. Rowling
William Sleator
Jordan Sonnenblick
Jerry Spinelli
Todd Strasser
Mildred D. Taylor
J. R. R. Tolkien
Vivian Vande Velde
Cynthia Voigt
Jacqueline Woodson
Jane Yolen
Paul Zindel

Suggested Titles:

The Hunger Games (Collins)
Percy Jackson (Riordan)
Eragon (Paolini)
So B. It (Weeks)
Divergent (Roth)
The Crossroads (Grabenstein)

Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Swanson)
Savvy (Law)
Waiting for Normal (Connor)
Gone (Grant)
Shadow Children: Among the Hidden (Haddix)

Grades 9-12

Required District Reading:

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhadler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny (Schroff)

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Academy 9 (Summer)

The Joy Luck Club (Tan)

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AVID 9H / Academy 9 / English 9H

The Alchemist (Coelho)

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Academy 10/English 10H

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

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English 11H

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)

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English 12H

The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Walls)

AP Lang. & Comp.

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

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AP Lit. & Comp.

Beloved (Morrison)
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)

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IB English 1 (Grade 11)

Brave New World (Huxley)
1984 (Orwell)

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IB English 2 (Grade 12)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou)