DWHS 9th Grade Summer Reading List
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy Tree
Carter, Jimmy. An Hour Before Daylight
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans
Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me
Hakluyt, Richard. Hakluyt’s Voyages
Haley, Alex. Roots
Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Le Guin, Ursula. The Wizard of Earthsea
Markham, Beryl. West with the Night
Maxwell, Gavin. Ring of Bright Water
Renault, Mary. Fire from Heaven, The Last of the Wine
Stewart, Mary. The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills
Stone, Irving. The Agony and the Ecstasy
Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God’s Wife
Taylor, Robert Lewis. The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer
Van Doren, Carl. The Great Rehearsal
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery
White, Theodore. The Once and Future King
Works by any of the following authors…
Willa Cather
Joseph Conrad
Stephen Crane
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Thor Heyerdahl
Rudyard Kipling
Farley Mowat
Edgar Allen Poe
Chaim Potok
Robert Louis Stevenson
Laurens van der Post
Biographies of… (An excellent choice that will be a great help in “History Through Revolutions” block!)
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Washington Irving
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Galileo Galilei
Helen Keller
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre
Books dealing with the French, American*, French and Indian or Russian Revolutions are also acceptable.
* Some selections about the American Revolution and independence…
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain
Collier, Christopher and James. My Brother Sam Is Dead, War Comes to Willy Freeman
Forman, James. The Cow Neck Rebels
Steele, William O. Tomahawks and Trouble, Trail through Danger, The Year of the Bloody Sevens, Winter Danger
Wibberley, Leonard. Peter Treegate’s War, Sea Captains from Salem, Treegate’s Raiders
Clapp, Patricia. I’m Deborah Sampson
O’Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop
Edmonds, Walter. Wilderness Clearing
Haugaard, Erik. A Boy’s Will
Pope, Elizabeth Marie. The Sherwood Ring
Beatty, John and Patricia. Who Comes to King’s Mountain?
Caudill, Rebecca. The Far-Off Land, Tree of Freedom
Dalgliesh, Alice. Adam and the Golden Cock
Hikman, Janet. The Valley of the Shadow