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 Appalachian Mountains.

 

______            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 Mango Street                       Sandra Cisneros                               $11.00

Esperenza Cordero, a girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment.

 

 

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.