Mr. Reid’s Summer Reading List

 

Incoming VPA 9th 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 12th 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