Summer Reading List
Faith Christian School
2008 – 2009
Note: All high school students must read the assigned book for their grade. Honors students must read the assigned book and one additional book from their grade list.
All high school students will take a test over the assigned book within a day or two of returning to school. All honors students will also have a test over the additional reading within a week of returning to school.
2nd Grade - George the Drummer Boy - Nathaniel Benchley
3rd Grade - Sarah Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
4th Grade - Little House In the Big Woods - Laura Ingles Wilder
5th Grade - Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
6th Grade - The Prince and the Pauper- Mark Twain (Puffin Classics 0 -140-36749-7)
7th Grade - Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
8th Grade - Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
9th Grade - The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Additional book list for 9th Grade Honors:
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Perelandra – C.S. Lewis
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
10th Grade – Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Additional book list for 10th Grade Honors:
All Things Bright and Beautiful – James Herriot
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
1984 – George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
11th Grade – The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Additional book list for 11th Grade Honors:
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
This Present Darkness – Frank Peretti
White Fang – Jack London
12th Grade – The Thread That Runs So True – Jesse Stuart
Additional book list for 12th Grade Honors
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Through Gates of Splendor – Elisabeth Elliot