Stoneham Middle School - 2011
Grade 6 - Choose 2
A Girl Named Disaster - Nancy Farmer
Music of Dolphins - Karen Hesse
Gregor the Overlander - Suzanne Collins
When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
The River - Gary Paulsen (sequel to Hatchet)

Grade 7 - Choose 2
Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen
Fever 1793 - Laurie Anderson
Al Capone Does my Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
Something Upstairs - Avi
Travel Team - Mike Lupica
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech

Grade 8 - Choose 2
Tangerine - Ed Bloor
Life as We Knew It - Susan Pfeffer
Rules of Survival - Nancy Werlin
Mango-Shaped Space - Wendy Mass

Stoneham High School - 2011
Grade 9
Honors (Read all 3)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 
Sold by Patricia McCormack
Tuesdays with Morrie - by Mitch Albom

Intensive (Read 2)
Speak by Laurie Anderson
Tuesdays with Morrie - by Mitch Albom
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Comprehensive & Trasitional (Read 1) 
Speak by Laurie Anderson
Tuesdays with Morrie - by Mitch Albom
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Grade 10
Honors: Read all 3
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
Warriors Don't Cry - Beals
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Intensive: Read both
Warriors Don't Cry - Beals
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Comprehensive: Choose 1 book
Warriors Don't Cry - Beals
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Transitional
Sea of Monsters - Riordan

Grade 11
Honors:
Required - The Crucible - Miller
Required - Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
And Either:  A Walk in the Woods by Bryson OR Into the Wild by Krakauer

Intensive: Read Crucible and one from list
A Walk in the Woods - Bryson
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
Into the Wild by Krakauer

Comprehensive & Transitional
Into the Wild - Krakauer

Grade 12
AP:
Required - How to Read Literature like a Professor - Foster
Choose 2
Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Passage to India - Forster
Madame Bovary - Flaubert

Intensive- Choose 2
The Kite Runner - Hosseini
The Last Lecture - Pausch
Three Cups of Tea - Mortenson
Wide Saragasso Sea - Rhys

Comprehensive - Choose 1
The Kite Runner - Hosseini
The Last Lecture - Pausch
Three Cups of Tea - Mortenson
Wide Sargasso Sea - Rhys

Environmental Science -

History -
Melrose Middle School - 2011

Entering Grade 6

*Iqbal, by Francesco D’Adamo - required of all

How Angel Peterson Got His Name, by Gary Paulsen

A Corner of the Universe, by Ann M. Martin

The Road to Paris, by Nikki Grimes

On My Honor, by Marion Dane Bauer

Flipped, by Wendelin VanDraanen

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, by Walter Dean Myers

The Great and Only Barnum, by Candace Fleming

 

Entering Grade 7

*Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick - required of all

Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen

The Skin I’m In, by Sharon Flake

Cracker! the best dog in Vietnam, by Cynthia Kadohata

Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings

Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, by Ying Chang Compestine

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

 

Entering Grade 8

Freak, by Marcella Pixley

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick

The Schwa Was Here, by Neal Shusterman

Peak, by Roland Smith

Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel

A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park

Warriors Don’t Cry (abridged), by Melba Beals

The Pact, by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt

Shipwrecked: the true adventures of a Japanese Boy, by Rhoda Blumberg

Melrose High School - 2011
Freshmen: Required all levels: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Additionally, Honors read both; CP choose one:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Sophomores: Required all levels: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Additionally, Honors read both; CP choose one:
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

Juniors: Required all levels: The Color of Water by James McBride
Additionally, Honors read both; CP choose one:
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Kindred by Octavia Butler

Grade 11 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition
AP students are required to read all titles and complete any assignments the AP teacher requires.
Growing Up by Russell Baker
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Seniors: Required all levels: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
All Souls by Michael MacDonald
Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Grade 12 Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition
AP students are required to read all titles and complete any assignments the AP teacher requires.
Wit by Margaret Edson
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien

North Reading Middle School - 2011
Grade 6 - Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Grade 7 - Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Grade 8 - Choose One (1)
        Monster by Walter Dean Myers
        Behind You by J. Woodson
        How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
        Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

North Reading High School - 2011 (Each Grade Chooses 2)

Grade 9:

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Soldier X by Don Wulffson

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

Grade 10:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy

 

Grade 11:

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin

Grade 12:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terri Pratchett

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Students taking the AP English Literature course will be assigned Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster in addition to their two summer reading books. They will be responsible for assessments on all four books.

Students taking the AP English Language course will be assigned Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell and Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss in addition to their two summer reading books and ongoing summer work. 

Students participating in Academic Decathlon have the opportunity to read the assigned Academic Decathlon book, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, in place of one of their summer reading works. Any student who chooses to do this will be assessed on two books, the Academic Decathlon book plus one chosen from the list.

 

 Woburn High School - 2011
Honors read 2 books, all other levels choose 1 book

Grade 9: 
Wait Till Next Year - Goodwin
Notes from the Midnight Driver - Sonnenblick
Edith's Story - Velmans
How I Live Now - Rosoff
Joy School - Berg
Monster - Myers
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Alexie
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime -Haddon

Grade 10:
Ender's Game - Card
Perks of Being a Wallflower - Chbosky
Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
The Pact - Picoult
Fallen Angels - Myers

Grade 11:
Glass Castle - Walls
Black and Blue - Quindlen
Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini
A Day no Pigs Would Die - Peck (EC only)
Loving Frank - Horan
Me Talk Pretty One Day - Sedaris
A Walk in the Woods - Bryson

Women in Literature 11 Honors:
Black and Blue - Quindlen
Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini

Grade 12:
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Kesey
Color of Water - McBride
Sweeping up Glass - Wall
Catalyst - Anderson
All Souls - McDonald
Saint Maybe - Tyler

Sports in Literature 12 Honors:
Summer of '49 - Halberstam
and The Professional - Heinz

AP 12: read all
Tuesdays With Morrie - Albom
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury

English for Life 12: choose 1
Catalyst - Anderson
Twisted - Anderson

Heroine's Journey 12: My Name is Mary Sutter - Oliveira