9th+Grade+Summer+Reading

A riveting, nonfiction account of a 12-year-old child soldier, hopped up on drugs and wielding an AK-47, who gets swept up in the horrors of civil war in his African homeland.
 * 9CP and Honors students (Class of 2017) should ask themselves, “Who am I?” Students must read one of the following: **
 * //A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier// by Ishmael Beah**

The 1942 tale of young Sarah, taken with her parents by the French police as they arrested Jewish families in the middle of the night, intertwines with an American journalist investigating the roundup sixty years later.
 * //Sarah’s Key// by Tatiana de Rosnay-Lexile**

//The Rock and the River// by Kekla Magoon (not recommended for 9 honors)
 * In 1968 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Sam faces the struggle between his father’s peaceful civil rights activism and his brother’s involvement in the Black Panthers.**

//19 Minutes// by Jodi Picoult
 * Seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton wakes up one day, loads his backpack with four guns, walks into the school cafeteria, and kills nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. Why?**


 * The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien**
 * //In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. //**

//The Book Thief// by Markus Zusak** Living in Nazi Germany, young Liesel and her family choose to lie and steal to protect a Jewish refugee hiding in their basement. Narrated by Death!

Divergent by Veronica Roth In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives.