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.