Outside Reading Spring 2008
Grade 9
Go Ask Alice
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Rules of the Road, Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer
Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
Durable Goods, Joy School by Elizabeth Berg
24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You,
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
Cat Among the Pigeons, And then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
The Truth About Forever, Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles
Princess Bride by William Goldman
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Falconer's Knot by Mary Hoffman
Confessions of a Not It Girl by Melissa Kantor
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Snow by Tracy Lynn
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
A Step from Heaven by An Na
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
Undine by Penni Russon
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Geography of Girlhood by Kirstin Smith
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Jinx by Margaret Wild
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Grade 10
Five People We Meet in Heaven, For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Peaches, The Secret of Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks
The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool by Cecil Castelluci
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Dead on Town Line by Leslie Connor
Blue Girl by Charles De Lint
That Summer, Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
An Egg on Three Sticks by Jackie Fischer
Stray by Stacey Goldblatt
Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katharines by John Green
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson
Aftershocks by William Lavender
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
Stealing Henry by Carolyn MacCullough
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Chronicles of Fairie by O.R. Melling
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Wait for Me by An Na
Bad Tickets by Kathleen O'Dell
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Klepto by Jenny Pollack
King Dork by Frank Portman
Planet Janet by Dyan Sheldon
Will by Grace Tiffany
Blue Highway by Diane Tullson
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
Grade 11
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
In the Footsteps of Eve by Lee R. Berger
The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise T. Brown
Altering Eden by Deborah Cadbury
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet
First Class by Sharon Hanley Disher
Augusta Gone by Martha Tod Dudman
Nickel and Dimed by Barbar Ehrenreich
Girlbomb by Janice Erlbaum
The Freedom Writer's Diary by Freedom Writer's
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
See Jane Hit by James Garbarino
Blink, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Ten Trusts by Jane Goodall
Without a Net by Michelle Kennedy
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
High Tide in Tucson, Small Wonders by Barbara Kingsolver
Hard Lesson by Michael Leahy
The Disappearing Girl by Lisa Machoian
Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli
The Color of Water by James McBride
Hijas Americanas by Rosie Molinary
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
Religious Literacy by Stephen R. Prothero
Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot by Richard M. Restak
Rumspringa by Tom Shachtman
The Boy Genious and the Mogul by Daniel Stashoer
Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig
Game of Kings by Michael Weinreb
We Are All the Same by Jim Wooten
Smashed by Koren Zalickas
Grade 12
An Assembly Such as This, Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
A Long Stay in a Distant Land by Chieh Chieng
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Evidence Against Her by Robb Forman Dew
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Middlesesx by Jeffrey Eugenides
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Austenland by Shannon Hale
The Family Fortune by Laurie Horowitz
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The God of All Animals by Aryn Kyle
My Latest Grievance, Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Evening by Susan Minot
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Granville Sisters, The Granville Legacy by Mary Una Parker
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Like the Red Panda by Andrea Siegel
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein
The Little Women by Katharine Weber
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
