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Smithfield High School - Required
Book List
Grades 9 and 10
Note: Students will select a book from the following
list to fulfill the required book assignment. It has been developed to
support a variety of interests and reading levels. During the first
week of school students will be asked to write an essay demonstrating
their knowledge of the book. It is recommended that each student use
the Summer Reading Study Guide while reading this book in preparation
for this assignment. As always, parents should review each book before
allowing it to be read.
Grade 9:
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Grade 10:
As I Lay Dying by William
Faulkner
The Narrative Life of Frederick
Douglass by Frederick Douglass
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi
Picolt
Angles and Demons by Dan Brown
Don’t Eat This Book by Morgan
Spurlock
Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim
O’Brien
Juiced by Jose Canseco
The Time Traveler’s Wife by
Audrey Niffenegger
Whirligig by Paul Fleishman
Self-Selected
Book List: Choose one
List of books recommended by
your classmates.
The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist
Blindfold by Diane Hoh
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
After the First Death by Robert Cormier
Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Zieqesar
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
1st to Die James Patterson
Don’t Die My Love and, A Season for Goodbye by Lurlene
McDaniel
Net Force by Tom Clancy
OTHER TITLES TO CONSIDER
Action/Adventure
Mary Higgins Clark Assorted
Will Hobbs Assorted
Anthony Horowitz Stormbreaker, Point Blank,
Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike
Sara Nickerson How to Disappear Completely and
Never Be Found
Neal Schusterman Full Tilt
Roland Smith Zach’s Lie
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped, Treasure Island
Biography, Diaries & Journals
Forrest D. Carter The Education
of Little Tree
Anne Frank Diary of a
Young Girl
Lori Gottlieb Stick
Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Jan Greenberg Vincent Van
Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
Marilyn Nelson
Carver: A Life in Poems
Andrea Warren Surviving
Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Ryan White Ryan White:
My Own Story
Alex Haley The
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Drama
Bernard Pomerance The Elephant Man
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy series
David Almond
Kit’s Wilderness, Skellig
Piers Anthony Assorted
Hillari Bell
Songs of Power
Gary Blackwood
Year of the Hangman
Andrew Clements
Things Not Seen
Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl series
Bruce Coville
Half-Human
Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park, he Lost World
Peter Dickinson
The Ropemaker
Jean DuPrau
City of Ember
David Eddings Various
Nancy Farmer
House of the Scorpion, The Ear, the
Eye, and the Arm
Jean Ferris
Once Upon a
Marigold
Lael Littke
Haunted Sister, Lake of
Secrets
Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue, The Giver
(For a continuation of this list
please see our website:
www.smithfield-ps.org and follow
links for “Schools”, “Smithfield High School”,“Academic Departments”
to “English Department” for summer reading requirements and associated
lists)
Anne McCaffrey
Acorna series
Christopher Paolini Eragon
Rodman Philbrick
The Last Book in the
Universe
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials
trilogy
Nancy Springer
I am Mordred, I
am Morgan Le Fay
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit, The Lord of
the Rings series
Jules Verne various
Vivian Vande Velde Heir Apparent
Jacqueline Wilson
Vicky Wilson
Folklore & Mythology
Edith Hamilton Mythology
Nelson Mandela (ed) Nelson Mandela’s Favorite
African Folktales
Donna Jo Napoli
Beast; Breath; Crazy
Jack; Magic Circle; Sirena; Spinners; ‘Zel
Multicultural
Deborah Ellis
Breadwinner, Mud City, Parvana’s
Journey
Kyoko Mori
Shizuko’s Daughter
An Na
A Step from
Heaven
Beverley Naidoo
The Other Side of Truth, Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of
Conflict and Hope
Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes
series
E.L. Konigsburg
Silent to
the Bone
Historical Fiction
James Agee
A Death in the
Family
Laurie Halse Anderson Fever, 1793
James Lincoln Collier Bloody Country, My
Brother Sam is Dead, Assorted
others
Susan Cooper
King of Shadows
Craig Crist-Evans Amaryllis
Adele Geras
Troy
Patricia Reilly Giff
Nory Ryan’s Song
Jennifer Holm
Our Only May Amelia
Dean Hughes
Soldier Boys
Walter Lord
A Night to Remember
Harry Mazer
A Boy at War
Carolyn Meyer Beware, Princess Elizabeth
Assorted
others
Linda Sue Park A Single Shard
Richard Peck
Fair Weather, A Long Way from Chicago
Ann Rinaldi Assorted titles
Celia Rees
Witch Child, Pirates!
Rebecca Tingle The Edge on the Sword
Jane Yolen
Girl in a Cage
Poetry
Ralph J. Fletcher
Have You Been to the
Beach Lately?: Poems
Betsy Franco (ed.) Things I Have to Tell
You: Poems and Writings by Teenage Girls
Lori Ann Grover
Loose Threads
Jan Greenberg
Heart to Heart: New
Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century
American Art
Langston Hughes
Dream Keeper and Other
Poems
Naomi Shahib Nye 19 Varieties of Gazelle
Assorted
other collections
Sonya Sones
What My Mother
Doesn’t Know
April Halprin Wayland Girl Coming in for a
Landing
Realistic Fiction
Avi
Nothing But
the Truth: A Documentary Novel
Joan Bauer
Hope Was Here
Rules of the
Road
Squashed
Stand Tall
Margaret Bechard Hanging on to Max
Ann Brashares
Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants series
Bruce Brooks
All That Remains: 3
Stories
Dolores: 7
Stories About Her
Martha Brooks True Confessions of a Heartless
Girl
Meg Cabot
Princess Diaries series
Various others
Carolyn Coman
Many Stones
Robert Cormier
I am the Cheese; The
Chocolate War
Chris Crutcher numerous titles
Carol Deuker
Night Hoops
Sharon Flake
Money Hungry
Assorted
others
Garrett Freyman-Weyr My Heartbeat
Theresa Golding
The Secret Within
Carl Hiaasen
Hoot
S.E. Hinton
Outsiders
Tex
Sid Hite
A Hole in the
World
Valerie Hobbs
Tender
James Howe
The Misfits
Angela Johnson
First Part Last
Various
Julie Johnston
In Spite of Killer
Bees
Gordon Korman
No More Dead Dogs
Son of the Mob
Carolyn Mackler
The Earth, My Butt, and
Other Big Round Things
Ben Mikaelson
Touching Spirit Bear
Walter Dean Myers Monster
many
others
Gary Paulsen
Hatchet series
Francine Prose
After
 Pegi Deitz Shea
Tangled
Threads: A Hmong Girl’s Story
Todd Strasser
Give a Boy a Gun
Terry Trueman
Stuck in Neutral
Inside Out
Ruth White
Memories of Summer
Ellen Wittlinger
Hard Love
Razzle
What’s in a Name
Numerous others
Informational
S.
Beth Atkins
Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang
Members Tell Their Stories
David Breashears
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for
Everest and Unforgiving
Places
Brooks Brown
No Easy Answers: The
Truth Behind Death at Columbine
Joan Jacobs Brumberg The Body
Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Sara Cameron
Out of War True
Stories from the Front Lines of the Children’s
Movement
for Peace in Columbia
Laban Carrik Hill
Harlem Stomp!: A
Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Lougn Ung
First They Killed My
Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Multicultural
Deborah Ellis
Breadwinner, Mud City, Parvana’s
Journey
Kyoko Mori
Shizuko’s Daughter
An Na
A Step from
Heaven
Beverley Naidoo
The Other Side of Truth, Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of
Conflict and Hope
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