Chicopee High School
Required Reading: Grade 9: All students select and read two books. Grades 10-12: Honors students will read at least three (3). College Preparatory students will read at least (2). Advanced Placement students will read at least four (4).
Grade 9
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shabanu: Daughters of the Wind by Suzanne Staples
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Grade 10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Twisted by Laurie Anderson
Grade 11
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Advanced Placement English 11:
Un-Spun by Jackson & Jackson
50 Essays by Samuel Cohen
A Reading Packet (Collection of Essays, excepts and Speeches): Not available at the library
Grade 12
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
Wintergirls by Laurie Anderson
Advanced Placement English 12:
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Chicopee Comprehensive High School
English 9
All study guides will be available on line through the Chicopee Comprehensive High School library web site.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
English 10
All study guides will be available on line through the Chicopee Comprehensive High School library web site.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Night by Elie Wiesel
English 11
All study guides will be available on line through the Chicopee Comprehensive High School library web site.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Advanced Placement I
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls AND
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman OR
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
English 12
All study guides will be available on line through the Chicopee Comprehensive High School library web site.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
The Color of Water by James McBride
Advanced Placement II
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Holyoke Catholic High School, Chicopee
Grade 9
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Night by Elie Wiesel
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
HONORS: All of the above plus Jane Eyre by Bronte
Grade 10
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Alas Babylon by David Frank
HONORS: All of the above plus An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (adaption by Arthur Miller)
Grade 11
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
HONORS: All of the above plus The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grade 12
Becket by Jean Anouihl
Lion in Winter by Goldman
Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw
Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
HONORS: all of the above plus A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen