Cleveland Heights High School
2009 Summer Reading Assignments

Students Enrolled in English 2 –
Tenth Grade (2009-2010 School Year)

English 2 and Read 180 – Books and Publications

Books
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Simply click on the title you are interested in.

 

Titles

Authors

 

1.

The Audacity of Hope

Obama, Barack

N

2.

Audrey, Wait!

Benway, Robin

F

3.

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl

Oates, Joyce Carol

F

4.

Chains

Anderson, Laurie

F

5.

The Color of Water

McBride, James

N

6.

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Caletti, Deb

F

7.

The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

Gruwell, Erin

N

8.

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and a Dream

Bissinger, H.G.

N

9.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Susking, Ron

N

10.

The Hot Zone

Preston, Richard

 

11.

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book

Hentoff, Nat

F

12.

Five People You Meet in Heaven

Albom, Mitch

F

13.

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Chevalier, Tracy

F

14.

The Golden Compass

Pullman, Philip

F

15.

The Good Earth

Buck, Pearl

F

16.

Guardian

Lester, Julius

F

17.

The Host

Meyer, Stephenie

F

18.

If You Come Softly

Woodson, Jacqueline

F

19.

Jellicoe Road

Marchetta, Melina

F

20.

Jubilee

Walker, Margaret

F

21.

The Last Lecture

Pausch, Randy and Jeffrey Zaslow

N

22.

Letters to a Young Brother

Harper, Hill

N

23.

Letters to a Young Sister

Harper, Hill

N

24.

Makes Me Wanna Holler

McCall, Nathan

N

25.

Lord of the Flies

Golding, William

F

26.

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence and Teenagers on Death Row

Kuklin, Susan

N

27.

Paper Towns

Green, John

F

28.

Parable of the Sower

Butler, Octavia

F

29.

Quiet Strength

Dungy, Tony

N

30.

The Secret Life of Bees

Kidd, Sue Monk

F

31.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Covey, Sean

N

32.

Shift

Bradbury, Jennifer

F

33.

Speak

Anderson, Laurie

F

34.

Standing Tall

Stringer, Vivian

N

35.

Sunrise Over Fallujah

Myers, Walter Dean

F

36.

Survival in Auschwitz

Levi, Primo

N

37.

Tangerine

Bloor, Edward

F

38.

Teens Can Make It Happen

Graham, Stedman

N

39.

Ten Cents a Dance

Fletcher, Christine

F

40.

Tender Morsels

Lanagan, Margo

 

41.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Smith, Betty

F

42.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Albom, Mitch

N

43.

Uncommon

Dungy, Tony

N

44.

Waiting for Normal

Conner, Leslie

F

45.

War Is . . . Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk about War

Aronson, Marc and Campbell, Patty

N

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Publications

£     AutoWeek
www.autoweek.com

£  National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com

£      SLAM
www.slamonline.com

£     Cleveland Magazine
www.clevelandmagazine.com

£   New York Times (Sunday editions)
www.nytimes.com

£  Smithsonian
www.smithsonianmag.com/

£     Ebony
www.ebony.com/

£  New Yorker
www.newyorker.com

£  Sports Illustrated
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/   

£     Entertainment Weekly
www.ew.com/

£  Newsweek
www.newsweek.com

£     Time
www.time.com

£     ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/index  

£  Oprah
http://omagazine.info  

£     U.S.A. Today
www.usatoday.com

£     Esquire
www.esquire.com

£     Prevention
www.prevention.com

£  Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com  

£  Essence
www.essence.com

£  Reader’ s Digest
www.rd.com/

£     Vanity Fair
www.vanityfair.com