Boston Collegiate Charter School Summer 2008 Reading Lists

• Required: The Pinballs, Betsy Byars

• Student Choice - At least one from the 5th Grade Free Choice Book List

ENTERING GRADE 6 - One required and at least one from the 6th Grade Free Choice Book List
(2 books total)

• Required: Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli

• Student Choice - At least one from the 6th Grade Free Choice Book List

ENTERING GRADE 7 - One required and at least one from the 7th Grade Free Choice Book List
(2 books plus writing requirement)

• Required: Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton

• Student Choice - At least one from the 7th Grade Free Choice Book List

• Writing Requirement

ENTERING GRADE 8 - One required and at least one from the 8th Grade Free Choice Book List
(2 books plus writing requirement)

• Required: Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

• Student Choice - At least one from the 8th Grade Free Choice Book List

• Writing Requirement

ENTERING GRADE 9
(CP - 2 books total / Hon - 3 books total)

• Required College Preparatory and Honors English – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
• Required Honors English – Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
• English 9 Student Choice – please read at least one book from the High School Summer Reading Choice Book List

ENTERING GRADE 10
(CP - 2 books total / Hon - 3 books total)

• Required College Preparatory and Honors English – A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
• Required Honors English – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
• English 10 Student Choice – please read at least one book from the High School Summer Reading Choice Book List

ENTERING GRADE 11
(2 books total)

• Required Reading (all rising Juniors)– The American Dream, Jim Cullen
  You must read AT LEAST the Introduction of this book.  It will be used throughout the year in American History and referenced in American Literature, so the more familiar you are with it, the more prepared you will be for the year.
  
• Required American Literature - Please read one of the following books:
  • The Color of Water, James McBride
  • Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution, Jeff Shaara
  • In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
    
• Required AP Language and Composition - Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter
  **Please see Mr. Underhill for the writing assignments that are due for this reading over the course of the summer.

ENTERING GRADE 12
(2 books total)

• Required Reading (all rising Seniors)– All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  
• Required World Literature - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  
• Required AP Language and Composition - Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter
  **Please see Mr. Underhill for the writing assignments that are due for this reading over the course of the summer.