The books listed in this flyer are available in your local neighborhood library so that they will be available to you and your child all summer long.

I count on your efforts to communicate the higher standards called for in our state and city.  Your example, encouragement, and support of your child's reading will go a long way toward helping us meet the student learning goals that we all share.

Summer gives you more time to help your child develop a love for books and reading. The staff of the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Public Library are ready and willing to assist you in planning a summer reading program for your child.

Happy Reading!

Sincerely,

DR. THOMAS PAYZANT
Superintendent
Boston Public Schools

9-12 SUMMER READING LIST:

CONTEMPORARY FICTION:

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Brashares
All That Remains Brooks
Ender's Game Card
Frenchtown Summer Cormier
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Crutcher
Troy Geras
The Grave Heneghan
Boston Jane: An Adventure Holm
Damage Jenkins
Breaking Through Jimenez
Heart in Atlantis King
You Don't Know Me Klass
Finding My Voice Lee
Saying Goodbye Lee
Freewill Lynch
Tomorrow, When the War Began Marsden
Spindle's End McKinley
145th Street Stories Myers
A Step From Heaven Na
The Other Side of Truth Naidoo
Born Blue Nolan
Freak the Mighty Philbrick
Holes Sachar
Caucasia Senna
Lord of the Rings Tolkien
Every Time a Rainbow Dies Williams-Garcia
Fighting Ruben Wolfe Zusak

ROMANCE FICTION:

The Rose and the Beast Block
Someone Like You Dessen, J.
The Image Game Johnston
Goose Chase Kindle
Love Story, Take Three Miklowitz
In Your Dreams Neenan
The Beetle and Me: A Love Story Young
True Believer Wolff
David and Della Zindel
Early Sorrow: Ten Stories Of Youth Zolotow

MYSTERY:

Smuggler's Moon Alexander
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories Christie
Remember Me Clark
Rag and the Bone Shop Cormier
The Hound Of The Baskervilles Doyle
The Twisted Widow Duncan
Time and Again Finney
"A" is for Alibi Grafton
The Blessing Way Hillerman
The Green Mile King
Blood and Chocolate Klause
Zazoo Mosher
Murder at Bertram's Bower Peale
A Morbid Taste for Bones Peters
The Body of Christopher Creed Plum-Ucci
Black Mirror Werlin

BIOGRAPHY:

Shipwrecked at the Bottom of the World Armstrong
China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution Chen
Latino Visions: Contemporary Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American Artists Cockcroft
Who Killed My Daughter? Duncan
Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves Fradlin
Barrio Boy Galarza
Vincent Van Gogh Greenberg
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Hamilton
Louisa May Johnston
Into a New Country Ketchum
Bruce Lee Lee
No Pretty Pictures Lobel
George Washington and the Founding of a Nation Marrin
Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat Meltzer
Bad Boy: A Memoir Myers
The Greates: Muhammad Ali Myers
Rosa Parks: My Story Parks
The Beet Field Memories Paulsen
Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust Rochman, ed.
Knots in My Yo-Yo Spinelli

POETRY:

I Am The Darker Brother Adoff, ed.
Voices: Poetry and Art From Around the World Brenner, ed.
The Voice That Is Great Within Us: Carruth, ed.
I Too Sing America: African American Poetry Clinton
Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate Giovanni
Heart to Heart Greenberg, ed.
The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America Hongo, ed.
A Night Without Armor Jewel
Earth, Air, Fire & Water McCullough, ed.
Carver: A Life in Poem Nelson
What Have You Lost? Nye, ed.
Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets Okutoro, ed.
War and the Pity of War Philip
Light-Gathering Poems: Poems of Hope and Healing Rosenberg, ed.
Roots and Flowers: Poets and Poems on Family Rosenberg, ed.
Truth and Lies Vechionne, ed.

ANTHOLOGIES:

Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories Augenbraum, ed.
Places That I Never Meant to Be Blume
33 Things Every Girl Should Know Bolden, ed.
Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth Cart, ed.
Tomorrowland: Ten Stories About the Future Cart, M., ed.
Where Angels Glide At Dawn: New Stories From Latin America Conway, ed.
You Hear Me? Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys Franco, ed.
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writings for Teenage Girls Franco, ed.
On the Fringe Gallo, ed.
The Color of Absence: 12 Stories about Loss and Hope Howe, ed.
Who Do You Think You Are? Rochman & McCampbell, eds.
Help Wanted: Short Stories Silvey, ed.
Pieces Of The Heart: New Chicano Stories Soto, ed.

SELECTED CORE LITERATURE:

GRADE 9:

Miracle Worker  Gibson
Raisin in the Sun  Hansbury
Annie John  Kincaid
Animal Farm  Orwell
Late Great Me  Scoopertone
Romeo and Juliet  Shakespeare
Twelfth Night  Shakespeare
Jesse  Soto

GRADE 10:

Good Earth  Buck
Farewell to Manzanar  W. Houston
Flowers for Algeron  Keyes
Midsummer's Night Dream  Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew  Shakespeare
Antigone  Sophocles
Night  Weisel
Black Boy  Wright

GRADE 11:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  Angelou
Great Gastby  Fitzgerald
Death of a Salesman  Miller
In Nueva York  Mohr
An Island Like You  Ortiz-Cofer
Macbeth  Shakespeare
Othello  Shakespeare
Jungle  Sinclair
Joy Luck Club  Tan

GRADE 12:

House of Spirits  Allenade
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents  Alvarez
Canterbury Tales  Chaucer
A Doll's House  Ibsen
Metamorphosis  Kafka
Color of Water  McBride
Coming of Age in Mississippi  Moody
Grass Dancer  Power
Hamlet  Shakespeare
Frankenstein  Shelley
Ceremony  Silko
Oedipus  Sophocles

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
SUMMER READING PROGRAM, 2002

Star Spangled Summer

The Boston Public Library's Summer Reading program invites all readers to focus on the magical world of books. Special programs and activities are planned to encourage families to get involved in reading together.

For more information, call the nearest branch library.

Adams Street 617-436-6900
Allston 617-787-6313
Brighton 617-782-6032
Charlestown 617-242-1248
Codman Square 617-436-8214
Connolly 617-522-1960
Dudley 617-442-6186
East Boston 617-569-0271
Egleston Square 617-445-4340
Faneuil 617-782-6705
Fields Corner 617-436-2155
Grove Hall 617-427-3337
Hyde Park 617-361-2524
Jamaica Plain 617-524-2053
Lower Mills 617-298-7841
Mattapan 617-298-9218
North End 617-227-8135
Orient Heights 617-567-2516
Parker Hill 617-427-3820
Roslindale 617-323-2343
South Boston 617-268-0180
South End 617-536-8241
Uphams Corner 617-265-0139
Washington Village 617-269-7239
West End 617-523-3957
West Roxbury 617-325-3147

Central Library 617-536-5400
Children's Room ext. 2328
Copley Square