HOLYOKE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

2008 SUMMER READING LIST

GRADE 9

The Pearl - Steinbeck

Night - Wiesel

House on Mango Street - Cisneros

Death Be Not Proud - Gunther

HONORS: All of the above plus Jane Eyre - Bronte

GRADE 10

To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

Flowers for Algernon - Keyes

The Giver - Lowry

HONORS: All of the above plus Enemy of the People - Miller (adaptation of Ibsen’s)

GRADE 11

Our Town - Wilder

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain

Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

Gathering of Old Men - Gaines

HONORS: All of the above plus The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

GRADE 12

Becket - Anouihl

Lion in Winter - Goldman

Arms and the Man - Shaw

Playboy of the Western World - Synge

HONORS: All of the above plus Doll’s House - Ibsen