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Ninth graders entering Somers High School and Kennedy Catholic have these summer assignments.
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
9R – Students must read Animal Farm (Orwell)
and also read one of the following:
Captain’s Courageous (Kipling)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
Downriver (Hobbs)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café (Flagg)
My Sister’s Keeper (Picoult)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Edwards)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (Alexie)
Ender’s Game (Card)
9H
Students must read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith) and Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
Tenth Graders at Somers High School are reading:
10R
Students must read one book from each of the following pairs:
Feed (Anderson), or Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
and
The Sledding Hill (Crutcher), or The Giver (Lowry)
10H
Students must read Jane Eyre (Bronte)
and also read one of the following:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou)
In Cold Blood (Capote)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
White Oleander (Fitch)
At Kennedy Catholic:
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Farwell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki
The Overcoat” (a short story by Nikolai Gogol)
Available in PDF format online at: www.horrormasters.com/Text/a0857.pdf
Our Town (by Thornton Wilder)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A Separate Peace (by John Knowles)
Next week we will see what the 11th and 12th graders are reading.
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