H. Frank Carey High School

Instructions: Students will be expected to read one required book and one book of their choice

(suggestions can be found following required reading lists) and complete the independent

reading assignment (also below).

Students Entering 7R:

Homecoming by Cynthia Voight

Students Entering 7A:

Homecoming by Cynthia Voight

Students Entering 8R:

That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton

Students Entering 8A:

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Students Entering 9R:

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Students Entering 9A:

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Students Entering 10R:

Fahrenheit 45 by Ray Bradbury

Students Entering 10A:

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Students Entering 11R:

Secret Life of Bees by Susan Monk Kidd

Students Entering 11AP:

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Students Entering 12R:

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Students Entering 12AP:

Teacher's Discretion

Suggested Titles for Junior High Students

Around the World in 80 Days

Bud not Buddy

Car Trouble

The Cases that Haunt Us

City of Ember

Corner of the Universe

Dollhouse Murders

Eldest

Eragon

Gathering Blue

Harry Potter

Hatchet

Holes

House of Tailors

Inkheart

Inkspell

Last Shot

Library Card

Little Women

The Lost Boy

Maximum Ride

The Million Dollar Shot

A Murder for Her Majesty

Nancy Drew Mystery

Number the Stars

Race for the Sky

Series of Unfortunate Events

Star Girl

Stranger with My Face

The Supernaturalist

The Swiss Family Robinson

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Treasure Island

Vanishing Act

The Uglies Trilogy (only one of them)

The Watsons go to Birmingham

The Wave

The Westing Game

The Witches

Suggested Titles for SENIOR HIGH Students

All Around the Town

America

Angels and Demons

Annie's Baby

Anthem

Are Men Necessary?

Artemis Fowl

Black Hawk Down

Blood and Chocolate

The Bluest Eye

The Body of Christopher

Creed

The Boy Who Saved

Baseball

Bright Lights Big City

Candide

Children of the Mind

Confessions of an Ugly

Stepsister

Cross

The Da Vinci Code

Daddy's Little Girl

Daughters of the Moon

Deception

Define Normal

The Devil Wears Prada

Diary Lullaby

Don't Die My Love

Doors of the Moon and Suns

of the Dark

Eldest

Emma and Me

Enough About Me

Eragon

Everything is Illuminated

Extremely Loud and

Incredibly Close

The Fabric of the Universe

Fast Food Nation

Fight Book

The Five People You Meet

in Heaven

Flags of our Fathers

The Fountainhead

Freakonomics

George's Passion

Girl Interrupted

Go Ask Alice

Green Angel

Harry Potter

The Hobbit

I'm Not Who You Think I Am

Infinite Jest

Just Listen

Leadership Secrets of Attila

the Hun

Letters from Rifka

Life Expectancy

The Life of Pi

Lily's Crossing

London Bridges

The Lovely Bones

Loves Music, Loves to

Dance

Madam Bovary

The Memory Keeper's

Daughter

Middlesex

A Million Little Pieces

My Sister's Keeper

The Namesake

New Moon

No Second Chance

The Notebook

On The Road

Only if You Could See Me

Now

The Origin of Time

The Other Boleyn Girl

Over the Wall

The Pact

Painting the Black

Pandora's Box

Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Prince

The Princess Bride

The Princess Diaries

Prozac Nation

Rainbow Six

The Real Panda

The Red Tent

Running with Scissors

The Scarlet Letter

The Secret

Sherlock Holmes Series

Sophie's Choice

Story of a Girl

The Tender Bar

The Thirteenth Tale

The Time Machine

They Cage the Animals at

Night

Tuesdays with Morrie

Twilight

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

War and Peace

Wicked

Independent Reading Assignment

Students will read a book of their choice and complete ONE of the following creative projects.

The length of the written assignments should be between one and two pages.

Junior High Students (Grades 7 & 8)

Choose an astrological sign for each of the main characters and explain why the character

fits the sign’s criteria.

Create an original book cover.

Choose a scene in the book and create a two-minute soundtrack for the scene.

Design and draw costumes for the main characters.

Write a letter to one of the characters about an incident in the book.

Create a comic book of one of the events in the novel.

Write a poem that expresses the novel’s theme.

Senior High Students (Grades 9-12)

Retell part of the story from the point of view of another character.

Create a board game that reflects the plot of the novel.

Compose a two minute soundtrack that expresses the theme of the novel.

Write an alternative ending for the book.

Write a news story on an important event in the novel.

Create a comic book of the novel.

Create a power-point presentation of the novel.

Write diary entries for the main characters during crucial points in the story.