Summer Reading List
Books are available at:
Barnes and Noble, Schaumburg
Your local public library
SHS library - bring your I.D.
Non-fiction
It’s Not About the Bike Armstrong, Lance Cycling
Into Thin Air Krakauer, Jon Mountaineering
Hole in My Life Gantos, Jack Ex-convicts
The Greatest: Mohammed Ali Myers, Walter Dean Boxing
Another River, Another Town Irwin, John World War II
Fiction
Family Life
Before We Were Free Alvarez, Julia
Caramelo Cisneros, Sandra
Disobedience Hamilton, Jane
Plainsong Haruf, Kent
Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
Pigs in Heaven Kingsolver, Barbara
Harris & Me Paulsen, Gary
Jesse Soto, Gary
Kitchen God’s Wife Tan, Amy
Breathing Lessons Tyler, Anne
Fantasy
Artemis Fowl Colfer, Eoin
Stravaganza Hoffman, Mary
Daughter of the Forest Marillier, Juliet
Golden Compass Pullman, Philip
Amulet of Samarkand Stroud, Jonathan
Historical Fiction
Girl with a Pearl Earring Chevalier, Tracy
The Things They Carried O’Brien, Tim
When the Emperor Was Divine Otsuka, Julie
River Between Us Peck, Richard
Mystery/Survival
Beekeeper’s Apprentice King, Laurie
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon King, Stephen
Science Fiction
Ender’s Game Card, Orson Scott
Tomorrowland Cart, Michael, editor
Prey Crichton, Michael
Teen Life
Being with Henry Brooks, Martha
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Brooks, Martha
Perks of Being a Wallflower Chbosky, Stephen
Whale Talk Crutcher, Chris
Bronx Masquerade Grimes, Nikki
Son of the Mob Korman, Gordon
Parrot in the Oven Martinez, Victor
Slam Myers, Walter Dean