Your English teacher will give you an assignment on your required grade-level reading once you return to school.
9th Grade: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
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10th Grade: 1984 by George Orwell
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11th Grade: Student's Choice
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12th Grade:
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SUGGESTED BOOK LIST FOR RISING SENIORS:
Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Simone Biles’ Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
James Clear’s Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me
Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Bob Dylan’s Chronicles Volume 1
Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success
Jane Goodall’s The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
John Greene’s The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Dave Grohl’s The Storyteller
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Mira Jacob’s Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indiginous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights
Admiral McRaven’s Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost
Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind
Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite With His Mother
Michelle Obama’s Becoming
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Mariano Rivera’s The Closer: My Story
Todd Rose’s The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Marjane Sartrapi’s The Complete Persepolis
Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sonia Sotomayer’s My Beloved World
Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
William W. Warner’s Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay
E. B. White’s One Man’s Meat
Malcolm X (with Alex Haley), The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart