HNHS Required Summer Reading

Here is the required summer reading list! Check out the books at your local public library, or look for used copies at amazon. 

*English 9 & 9 Honors:  Mythology for Teens by Zachary Hamby

*English 10 & 10 Honors:  Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

*English 11 & 11 Honors:  The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni

*English 12:  The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahir.

AP reading assignments are in their textbook for the coming year, except
for How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster.

Summer Reading

Are you looking for some Summer Reading ideas? If so, check out the Alex Award winners for 2012:

http://www.teenreads.com/features/awards/alex-awards-2012.

May Books

Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is his story from prison to freedom in South Korea.

The Sometimes Daughter by Sherri Wood Emmons
Judy is raised by a flower-child mother Cassie. As Judy grows up, she and Cassie must decide how to be a part of each others' lives.

Gook People in an Evil Time by Svetlana Broz
A personal recounting of the lives of the patients of war torn Bosnia told by the granddaughter of former Yugoslav head of state in the 1990s. 

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
A young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. 

Deadly by Julie Chibbaro
In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary.

The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples
An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel to Pakistan where they must sacrifice their dreams.