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Academy Summer Reading Lists
Grade
9 (Class IV A) 2003
WHAT
MANNER OF MAN by Lerone Bennett
THE FANTASTIC FRESHMAN by Bill Brittain
BUMBLEBEE FLIES AWAY by Robert Cormier
SECRET, SILENT SCREAMS by Jean Lowry Nixon
EAGLE OF THE NINTH by Rosemary Sutcliff
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula LeGuin
THE CONTENDER by Robert Lipsyte
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY by Arthur C. Clarke
SQUASHED by Joan Gaver
LETTERS OF A SLAVE GIRL, THE STORY OF HARRIET JACOBS by Mary
L. Lyons
THE SNOWMAN by R.L. Stine
Z FOR ZACHARIAH by Robert O'Brien
LEROY AND THE OLD MAN by W.E. Butterworth
HANNAH IN BETWEEN by Colby Rodowsky
JESSE by Gary Soto
DAKOTA DREAMS by James Bennett
WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN by Esmeralda Santiago
FALLEN ANGELS by Walter Dean Myers
IRON AND SILK by Mark Salzman
ORFE by Cynthia Voigt
RITE OF PASSAGE by Richard Wright
CHINA BOY by Gus Lee
WAY PAST COOL by Jess Mowry
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON by Mark Twain
FAMOUS ALL OVER TOWN by Danny Santiago
THE GOOD EARTH by Pearl Buck
CAST TWO SHADOWS by Ann Rinaldi
I HAD A HAMMER By Hank Aaron
ANNIE JOHN by Jamaica Kincaid
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE by Jim Haskins
ICE by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson
ROMEO AND JULIET - TOGETHER (AND ALIVE) AT LAST by Avi
DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL by Anne Frank
ME ME ME ME ME: NOT A NOVEL by M.E. Kerr
IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE by Han Nolan
DRIVING FORCE by Dick Francis
SPLIT IMAGE by Michael French
BEFORE ADAM by Jack London
THE SIGN OF THE FOUR by Arthur Conan Doyle
SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson
TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG by Connie Willis
THE AGUERO SISTERS by Rita Williams-Garcia
SOLDIER'S HEART by Gary Paulsen
IRON MAN by Chris Crutcher
DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU by Lois Duncan
Please bring your parental signature form
with you on the first day of school. Have a great summer full
of books and adventure.