MASCO Summer Reading List 2006

Boxford Town Library
Boxford Town Library, 10 Elm Street, Boxford, MA 01921
West Boxford Branch, 188 Washington Street, Boxford, MA 01921

MASCO Summer Reading List 2006
Copies of the following books are available on a first come, first served basis at both libraries. You may be able to place holds on other Merrimack Valley library copies of these books. Check with a librarian if you need help.
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Grade 7
Required
Edgar Allen	John Neufeld

Grade 8
Required of ALL HONOR students
The Examination	Malcolm Bosse
Honor Students can choose one other title from the College Preparatory List below:
Jackaroo	Cynthia Voight
I Am Mordred OR I am Morgan Le Fay	Nancy Springer
The Seeing Stone	Kevin Crossley-Holland

Grade 9
Required: one (1) of the following:
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt

Grade 10
Required: one (1) of the following:
Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer
It's Not About the Bike	Lance Armstrong
Having Our Say: The Delany Sister's First 100 Years	Sarah L. Delany

Grade 11
Required:
Ishmael	Daniel Quinn
Another book chosen by the student. Click here for suggestions.

Grade 12
AP: Read two (2) books from the list below AND one book from the bolded list of suggested titles (click here)
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving
Emma	Jane Austen
All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren
Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Louis De Bernieres
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
Mama Day	Gloria Naylor
Sister Carrie	Theodore Dreiser
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy

CP: Read two (2) books from the bolded list of suggested titles (click here)
CP2: Read one (1)books from the bolded list of suggested titles (click here)

Bolded List of Suggested Titles
If you liked the following novels...	read from this list...
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger	The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer	Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien	First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Life of Pi by Yann Martel	Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown	Prey by Michael Crichton
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory	The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon	The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden	Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson	Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini	King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

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