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UCHS Summer Reading 2017 UCHS English teachers encourage students to read during the summer, whether it is a well-known classic or a young adult novel.
9th Grade Recommended • Crossover (Kwame Alexander) • Everything, Everything (Nicola Yoon) • Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher) • Wintergirls (Laurie Halse Anderson) • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky) • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs) • A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie (Antwone Fisher) • Finding Fish (Antwone Fisher)
10th Grade Honors Recommended Reads • Life is So Good (George Dawson) • The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)
Did You Know?
Recommended • I’ll Give You the Sun (Jandy Nelson) • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers) • The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier) • If I Stay (Gayle Forman) • The Help (Kathryn Stockett) • The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
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Students who read widely and frequently are higher achievers than students who read rarely and narrowly. (Scholastic: Classroom Libraries Work!)
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Research has found a relation between the amount of time that children read for fun on their own and reading achievement. (Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts)
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Children learn an average of 4,000 to 12,000 new words each year as a result of book reading. (Scholastic: Classroom Libraries Work!)
Parent Note
Check the University City Public Library and local book stores - Subterranean Books in the Loop and Barnes & Noble in Ladue - for the recommended books below: These reading lists offer a variety of options to students to encourage summer reading. Parents are encouraged to read book summaries available at the University City Public Library or online (subbooks. com, BN.com, etc.) to become familiar with the topics or themes in books their child may select.
11th Grade & AP Language AP Language Recommended Reads • The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander) • Freakonomics (Levitt & Dubner) Recommended • If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin) • Rule of the Bone (Russell Banks) • Breath, Eyes, Memory (Edwidge Danticat) • Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
12th Grade & AP Literature AP Literature Recommended Reads • The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) • A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini) • My Name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok) Recommended • Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) • The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery) • The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafron) • Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese) • Kaffir Boy (Mark Mathabane)
This summer reading list is also available at www.uchs.ucityschools.org.