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Grades 9 - 12 PWCS Summer Reading Program

Colgan High School

The purpose of the PWCS Summer Reading Program is to encourage students to enjoy quality literature and to continue developing their independent reading skills. Student participation in the program is voluntary. Students who choose to participate in the program are required to complete a minimum number of two books. Students participating in the program in Grades 9 -12 will complete a list of books read. The documentation is to include the name of the author, the title of the book, publishing information, an explanation of the topic or plot of the book, and a parent or guardian statement that the student has completed the reading. Students in Grades 9 -12 who participate in Prince William County Public Library's Summer Reading Program, the Public Library documentation will apply. Students will receive an extra percentage point, added at the end of the first quarter, for each book completed, for a total of two. The summer reading documentation will be submitted by the student by the end of the first week of school. The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian may be used. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program and its documentation is also acceptable.


PWCS Ninth Grade Summer Reading Program

Suggested Reading

The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian are also acceptable. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program and its documentation is also acceptable.

Author Title Pub. Date Annotation

Brewer, Heather 9th Grade

Slays 2008

While half-vampire Vlad, his best friend Henry, and Henry's cousin Joss make their way through their freshman year at Bathory High, a hired vampire slayer seeks to destroy Vlad.

Alexander, Kwame

The Crossover

2014 Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Speak 2006 A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda’s freshman year in high school.

Booth, Coe Tyrell 2007

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father

Card, Orson Scott

Ender’s Game

2002 Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

Collins, Suzanne

Hunger Games

2009

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Condie, Allyson B.

Matched 2010

Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.


Meyers, Walter Dean

Lockdown 2010

Adam races to help a friend when a shooter opens fire at the school, but despite his efforts, his life is forever changed.

Paolini, Christopher

Eragon 2005

In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

Life as We Knew It

2008

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Quick, Matthew Boy 21 2012

Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.

Riordan, Rick Sword of Summer

2015

Magnus Chase has always been troubled. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits. One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed was dangerous, who tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god and trolls, giants and worse monsters are stirring for doomsday. To prevent Ragnarok, Magnus must search the Nine Worlds for a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years. When an attack forces him to choose between his safety and hundreds of lives, Magnus makes a fatal decision. Sometimes, the only way to start a new life is to die …


Roth, Veronica Divergent 2011

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

Ally, Carter Gallagher

Girls Series 2009

As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.

Ally, Carter Heist Society

Series 2010

Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.

Zusak, Markus The Book

Thief 2006

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Grant, Michael Gone Series 2009

In a small town on the coast California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have “The Power” and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.


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Author Title Pub. Date

Annotation

Bacigalupi, Paolo Ship Breaker 2010

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Green, John The Fault in Our

Stars 2012

Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.

Supplee, Suzanne

Artichoke’s Heart 2009

When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.


McNamee,

Graham

Bonechiller

2008

Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear in their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.

Myers, Walter Dean

Sunrise over Fallujah

2009 Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his timer there profoundly changes him.

Voorhees, Coert The Brothers

Torres 2009

Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

Flanagan, John Ranger’s Apprentice Series

2010 When fifteen-year old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.

Lu, Marie Legend (Bk. 1) 2011

Fifteen-year-old June, a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles, and fifteen-year-old Day, born into the slums, are brought together when June's brother, Metias, is murdered, and Day becomes the prime suspect. June seeks to avenge Metias' death, but he soon uncovers the truth about his country and the lengths it will go to keep its secrets.

Coelho, Paul

The Alchemist

1998

Allegorical tale of a young shepherd boy who searches across two continents for lost treasure and riches, but also finds spiritual enlightenment.

Various authors: Langan, Paul;

Schraff,

Bluford Series

2007

Set in urban America and featuring adolescent characters, this series addresses topics and themes relevant to today's teenagers.


Pelzer, Dave

A Child Called It and/or The Lost

Boy

1995

This autobiographical account charts the abuse of a young boy as his alcoholic mother first isolates him from the rest of the family; then torments him; and finally nearly kills him through starvation, poisoning, and one dramatic stabbing.

Johnson, Angela

First Part Last

2005

A 16-year-old's life goals must be reversed when he commits to raising his and his girlfriend's baby.

Dokey, Camer,

Suzanne.

Holder, Nancy

Once Upon a Time Series

2009

Fresh retellings of well known and lesser known fairytales.

Spiegelman, Art

Maus I and Maus II

1991

Told with chilling realism in a comic-book format, this is more than a tale

of surviving the Holocaust. Spiegelman relates the effects of those events

on the survivors' later years and upon the lives of the following

generations.

Patterson, James

Maximum Ride Series

2012

Bird kids, who have wings as a result of genetic experimentation, struggle

to understand their own origins and purpose.


PWCS Eleventh Grade Summer Reading Program

Suggested Reading



Taylor, Laini.

Smoke and Bones

2011

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

Myers, Walter Dean

Bad Boy: A Memoir

2001

Myers describes his life growing up in Harlem and his problematic behavior as a teen. It was not until his adult years that he became a very successful writer.

Various authors: Langan, Paul; Schraff, Anne;

Kern, Peggy, and others

Bluford Series

2007

Set in urban America and featuring adolescent characters, this series addresses topics and themes relevant to today's teenagers.

Canfield, Jack and others

Chicken Soup for

the Teenage Soul (I

and/or II)

2000

A collection of fifteen essays that offer inspirational lessons to teens about relationships, friendship, family, love, kindness, learning, success, courage, and determination.


Stiefvater, Maggie

Wolves of Mercy Falls Series

2011

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

McCormick, Patricia

Sold

2006

Told in a series of poetic vignettes, this story gives voice to Lakshmi, a thirteen-year- old girl from Nepal who is forced into prostitution in India. Lakshmi's education at the hands of Happiness House's cruel madam is brutal. Readers will admire Lakshmi's bravery and be relieved when she risks trusting the American man who promises to take her to a clean, safe place.

Cast, P.C. & Kristin Cast

The House of Night Series

2011

After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is.

Garcia, Kami

Beautiful Creatures

2009

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Hopkins, Ellen

Crank, Tricks,

Identity, & Glass

2004

Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.

Marr, Melissa

Wicked Lovely

Series

2008

Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see fairies, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle by Keenan, the terrifying but alluring Summer King, who determines that she must become his queen and save summer from perishing.

Griffin, Paul

The Orange

Houses

2009

Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.


Black, Holly

Tithe, Ironside, & Valiant

2008

Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.

Caletti, Deb

The Fortunes of

Indigo Skye

2009

Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking forward to becoming a full-time waitress after high school graduation, but her life is turned upside down by a large check given to her by a customer who appreciates that she cares enough to scold him about smoking.

Shan, Darren

Demonata Series

2008

Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.

Young, Karen Romano

Cobwebs

2004

Sixteen-year-old Nancy enjoys the colorful ethnic mix of her heritage in several different Brooklyn households, not suspecting how very strange that heritage is.

See, Lisa

Snow Flowers & The Secret Fan

2005

Friends Snow Flower and Lily find solace in their bond as they face isolation, arranged marriages, loss, and motherhood in nineteenth-century China.

Brooks, Kevin

Candy

2006

Joe, an English boy from the right side of the tracks, is poised to get everything he has ever wanted, but he risks it all when he falls for Candy, and is drawn into her seedy, dangerous world.

Zulkey, Claire

An Off Year

2009

Upon arriving at her dorm room, eighteen-year-old Cecily decides to postpone her freshman year of college and return to her Chicago home, where she spends time thinking about her options and what she really wants to do with her life.


PWCS Twelfth Grade Summer Reading Program

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Grant, Michael

Gone & Hunger

2012

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

Farmer, Nancy

House of the Scorpion

2002

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

Meyers, Stephanie

Twilight Series

2005

Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Stockett, Kathryn

The Help

2009

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.


Stolarz, Laurie Faria

Blue is

Nightmare Series

2003

Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magic will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.

Lynch, Chris Inexcusable 2007

High school senior and football player Keir analyzes how his bad boy behavior has been accepted but has led to violence and an accusation of rape on graduation night.

McEwan, Ian Atonement 2003

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

Oliver, Lauren Before I Fall 2010

After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

Griffin, Paul The Orange

Houses 2009

Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.

Walls, Jeannette The Glass

Castle 2006

This memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. They virtually ignored their four kids, except when they were giving them shoplifting lessons or stealing their money for alcohol.


Levithan, David Every Day 2012

Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand

Splendid Suns 2008

Afghan women Mariam and Laila grow close, despite their nearly twenty-year age difference and initial rivalry, as they suffer at the hands of a common enemy--their abusive, much-older husband, Rasheed.

Marr, Melissa Wicked Lovely

Series

2008 Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see fairies, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle by Keenan, the terrifying but alluring Summer King, who determines that she must become his queen and save summer from perishing.

Stork, Francisco X.

Marcelo in the Real World

2011

Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

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