Mr. Reid’s Summer Reading List

Incoming VPA 9^th grade English

Read one of the following. An essay will be required at the first of school to demonstrate understanding of the work. This will have the same weight as a standard exam.

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

All Quiet On the Western Front by Eric Remarque

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Incoming VPA 12^th English

You must read one of the following selections. An in-class essay will be required at the beginning of the school year.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Odyssey by Homer