HRA
SUMMER READING 2007
Order Form for the 9th Grade due April 6, 2007
Student Name
________________________________Telephone__________________
Current English Teacher/Block __________________________
Locker No. __________
Email address
__________________________________
Students entering the
ninth grade are required to read three books. All students must read
The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and two
others selected from the list below, or, the required selection, one from the list below
and one selected from a current list of bestsellers. (See the New Releases’ table at Barnes and
Noble for ideas if needed.) Check off
the books you are ordering. Please bring
your required book to the first day of class.
_____ The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon $13.00
An autistic young
man uses mathematical equations, astronomy, and the techniques of Sherlock
Holmes to solve two mysteries; one next door and one involving his own family.
_____ The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter $14.00
A memoir
of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930’s, the most sensitive and evocative
autobiographical account ever of the Cherokee way, as seen through the eyes of
a young boy in the
______ Ender’s Game Orson
Scott Card $ 6.00
The survival of the human
species depends on a military genius that can defeat the buggers: Ender Wiggin.
_____ The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer $
8.00
This futuristic book has
won several awards for its compelling story of Matt, a cloned child who escapes
slavery and returns to his home to transform society.
_____ Angus,
Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison $
8.00
The humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old
British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from
terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
_____ Monster Walter
Dean Myers $7.00
Sixteen-year-old Steve
Harmon has been charged as an adult accomplice to murder. Steve resorts to his passion for filmmaking
to put some order and to make some sense of his ordeal; his trial is presented
as a movie.
_____ The
House on
Esperenza Cordero, a girl
coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of
Total Cost $___________
Please make checks
payable to Friends of the Arts
and return to the Development Office using the
enclosed envelope by April 6th.
Questions? Call
Mary Waddill @ 599-6557 or Joni Hafley @ 884-9177.