All Rising 9th-12th graders will choose one book from the following lists. Find the class you will be in next year and follow the link in red for the book page count and the corresponding assignment. 

 

If you are a virtual student, please email your completed assignment to my School Email address: leigh.boulineau@acs-k12.org by August 13th, 2019. 

 

 

You may be able to check the book out of your local library or download a free version online. If not, each book title below has a link to Amazon, where you can buy the book online. 

True Grit by Charles Portis

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

Night by Elie Weisel

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines

Walden by Henry Thoreau

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

1984 by George Orwell

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens