Don’t Forget Your Summer Reading!!

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Mandarin High Summer Reading Requirements 2022-23

Digital Copies or Ordering Details: https://mrsreed.org/mhs-summer-reading-list-2022-2023/

Every summer, ALL Mandarin High students are required to obtain and read certain books, the titles of which are determined by the particular English class they are taking in the fall. Depending on the class, they have one or two texts that need to be conscientiously completed by the first day of school. English teachers will be administering tests that first week to ascertain just how well the book or books were read.

9th Grade

Standard Long Way Down (Jason Reynolds) or Ghost Boy (Jewell Parker Rhodes)

Honors What to Say Next (Julie Buxbaum)

For your second required book, select either The Poet X (Elizabeth Acevedo) or Long Way Down (Jason Reynolds)

Pre-AICE The Count of Monte Cristo, Abridged Edition* (Alexandre Dumas)

*Make sure you get the abridged version (Bantam Classics edition) that’s translated by Lowell Bair.

10th Grade

Standard Select one of the books below, Honors will select one from this list AND the Required Reading below:

The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

Copper Sun (Sharon Draper)

In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez)

Honors Required book: In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez)

AICE General Paper Read BOTH

Before We Were Yours (Lisa Wingate) AND Educated: A Memoir (Tara Westover)

11th Grade

Standard AND Honors Select one book at your reading level (https://hub.lexile.com/find-a-book/search ) that is autobiographical, biographical, inspirational, or self-help. Below are some enjoyable suggestions from our English teachers. If you have a book other than these you’d like to select, simply run it by the English Department Chairman, Mr. Price (prices2@duvalschools.org), for approval. Project details HERE: https://mrsreed.org/e3h-english-3-honors/ap-college-planning-timeline/

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (Sean Covey) Becoming (Michelle Obama)
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives (Dashka Slater) With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to Korn (Brian Welch) The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Hurley and Basketball’s Most Improbable Dynasty (Adrian Wojnarowski)
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir (John McCain and Mark Salter) Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country (Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy) Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Michaela DePrince)
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) The Way I Heard It (Mike Rowe)
Who Moved My Cheese? (Spencer Johnson) Blue is the New White (Josh Zolin) I Am Malala (Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb)

AICE Language AND AP Language

The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)

12th Grade

Honors AND Standard AND College Prep

The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

AICE Literature AND AP Literature

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

Dual Enrollment

Eng 1102: Select ONE Novel from the Following List of options:

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