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The following list of novels, poems, and works of non-fiction aligns with themes and subjects which you will study in The Language of Literature, the literature series adopted in Vancouver. Reading one or more selections during the summer will provide enjoyable time with a good book and preparation for the coming school year. Consider reading one of the following if you are entering... 9th Grade
Education of Little Tre by Carter The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemmingway West with the Night by Beryl Markham The American West by Dee Brown A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sarah Benitez Native American Traditions by Arthur Versluis Mexico: A History by Robert Ryal Miller 10th Grade The Chosen by Chaim Potok The Friends by Rosa Guy Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head Hiroshima by John Hersey An American Childhood by Annie Dillard The Iliad by Homer 11th Grade Death be not Proud by John Gunther Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Middle Passage by Charles Johnson A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne White Mule by William Carlos Williams Pierre by Herman Melville 12th Grade The Mists of Avalon by Marion Z. Bradley The Dark Ages by Isaac Asimov Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift India by Stanley Wolpert Dubliners by James Joyce |