What are we reading?

The PHABs chose the following books to read: The Book Thief, Daughter of the Forest, Into Thin Air, Timeline, The Da Vinci Code, The Water is Wide, Tess of the D'ubervilles, Demian, A Time to Kill, Touching Spirit Bear.

This is our summer reading list:

Grade 12 Grade 10

(justice/responsibility) (journeys/self-discovery)

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

Crisis (Robin Cook) China Men (Maxine Hong Kingston)

Kaffir Boy (Mark Mathabane) Daughter of the Forest (Juliet Marillier)

Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)

Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)

MILA 18 (Leon Uris) Magician: Apprentice (Raymond Feist)

My Sister’s Keeper (Jodi Picoult) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) Timeline (Michael Crichton)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See) The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien) The Water Is Wide (Pat Conroy)

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

One Hundred Years of Solitude(Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Demian (Hermann Hesse)

Grade 11 Grade 9

(American dream) (friendship/love)

Black Boy (Richard Wright) Eragon (Christopher Paolini)

Flags of our Fathers (James Bradley) It’s Not about the Bike (Lance Armstrong)

Friday Night Lights (H. G. Bissinger) Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)

The Last Days of Dogtown (Anita Diamant) A Separate Peace (John Knowles)

Love Medicine (Louis Erdrich) Speak (Laurie H. Anderson)

The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) Touching Spirit Bear (Ben Mikaelsen)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Curious Incident of the Dog in the

(Frederick Douglass) Night-time (Mark Haddon)

A Time to Kill (John Grisham) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Walden (Henry David Thoreau) You Don’t Know Me (David Klass)

The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

For more about our Summer Reading Program, go to: www.pelhamweb.org/phslibrary and click on Summer Reading Lists.