Teen Summer Reading 2012
It's that time again! Click on the links below to see the required and optional summer reading for Natick middle schools and Natick High School.
Most of the books listed are available in the library. If our copies are all checked out, you can request one from another library.
If you're looking for the Teen Summer Program, you can get there by clicking on Stretch Yourself @ Your Library.
Middle School Summer Reading, 2012
Every student entering grades five through eight is required to read four books this summer.
Three of these books may be selected from:
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Massachusetts Common Core Curriculum suggested reading lists
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Recommendations from a favorite book seller or librarian
- Recommendations from family and friends
In addition, each student is required to read his/her grade level title, listed below. Click on a title to find it in the Minuteman Library Catalog. Most of the books listed are available in the library, but if our copies are all checked out, you can request one from another library.
Entering 5th Grade
All students will read:
- Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, by Betty G. Birney
Entering 6th Grade
All students will read:
- Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
Entering 7th Grade
All students will read:
- The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine
Entering 8th Grade
All students will read:
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
For more information about middle school summer reading, see the Natick Public Schools site.
High School Summer Reading, 2012
Required Summer Reading, as posted by Natick High School. Click on a title to find it in the Minuteman Library Catalog. Most of the books listed are available in the library, but if our copies are all checked out, you can request one from another library.
Entering 9th Grade
All students will read:
- Bullyville, by Francine Prose
English 10 (honors) students will also read:
- Lay that Trumpet in our Hands, by Susan Carol McCarthy
Entering 10th Grade
All students will read:
- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
English 20 (honors) students will also read:
- Eventide, by Kent Haruf
English 21 (college preparatory) students will also read:
- Unlikely Friendships, by Jennifer S. Holland
Entering 11th Grade
All students will read:
- Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town, by Warren St. John
English 30 (honors) students will also read one of the following:
- The World in 2050, by Laurence C. Smith
- Megachange: The World in 2050
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The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, by Joel Kotkin
Entering 12th Grade
All students will read two books by the same author chosen from the Approved List of Authors below. These books will be the basis of the required Senior Literary Research Paper which will be completed first semester. Books may not be works studied as part of the existing NHS curriculum.
English 40 (honors) students will also read:
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster
Advanced Placement English 50 students will also read:
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Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
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The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster
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A packet of additional required summer work
Approved List of Authors
Natick High School Summer Reading - 12th Grade
Click on an author from one of the categories below to find books in the Minuteman Library Catalog. If the book you'd like to read is not available in Natick, you can request it from another library.
Classic
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Daniel Defoe
- Charles Dickens
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Alexandre Dumas
- George Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- Ernest Hemingway
- Victor Hugo
- James Joyce
- John Steinbeck
- Mark Twain
- Edith Wharton
- Virginia Woolf
Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Douglas Adams
- Isaac Asimov
- Ray Bradbury
- A. C. Clarke
- Michael Crichton
- Ursula LeGuin
- Christopher Paolini
- Terry Pratchett
- Philip Pullman
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- H. G. Wells
Mystery
- Angela Carter
- Agatha Christie
- Dashiell Hammett
- Patricia Highsmith
- Tony Hillerman
- P. D. James
- John le Carre
- Dennis Lehane
- Sharyn McCrumb
- Walter Mosley
- Robert Parker
- Ruth Rendell
- Josephine Tey
Contemporary
- Chinua Achebe
- Sherman Alexie
- Isabel Allende
- Maya Angelou
- Margaret Atwood
- Sebastian Barry
- Michael Chabon
- Sandra Cisneros
- Robert Cormier
- E. L. Doctorow
- Roddy Doyle
- Margaret Drabble
- Louise Erdrich
- Alice Hoffman
- Zora Neale Hurston
- John Irving
- Ha Jin
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Gregory Maguire
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Cormac McCarthy
- Carson McCullers
- Alice McDermott
- Ian McEwan
- Toni Morrison
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Tim O’Brien
- Chaim Potok
- Annie Proulx
- Arundhati Roy
- Salman Rushdie
- Amy Tan
- Anne Tyler
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Alice Walker
- Tobias Wolff
Drama
- Edward Albee
- Anton Chekhov
- Brian Friel
- John Guare
- Lillian Hellman
- Beth Henley
- Moliere
- Eugene O’Neill
- George Bernard Shaw
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Oscar Wilde
- Tennessee Williams
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson

