SUMMER SOLUTION - Catholic Online's summer reading list for kids!

6/11/2012

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The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

9th grade

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Oliver Twist - Dickens
The Pearl - Steinbeck
Flowers for Algernon - Keyes
Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
The Monkey's Paw - Jacobs
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
The Little Prince - St. Exupery
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Good Earth - Buck
West Side Story - Shulman
Cheaper by the Dozen - Gilbrath/Carey
The Odyssey - Homer
Bullfinch's - Mythology
Great Expectations - Dickens

10th grade

Hiroshima - Hersey
Black Like Me - Griffin
Fiddler on the Roof - Stein
Antigone - Sophocles
Shoeless Joe - Kinselle
Deliverance - Dickey
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Animal Farm - Orwell
Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
1984 - Orwell
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Brave New World - Huxley
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Alive - Read
Death Be Not Proud - Gunther
Silas Marner - Eliott
Separate Peace - Knowles
Les Miserables - Hugo
Connecticut Yankee in Les Miserables King Arthur's Court - Twain
Summer of '49 - Halberstam

11th grade

Red Badge of Courage - Crane
An American Tragedy - Dreiser
The Crucible - Miller
Our Town - Wilder
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Winesburg, Ohio - Anderson
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Ethan Frome - Wharton
Death of a Salesman - Miller
The Awakening - Cather
Raisin in the Sun - Hamsberry
Moby Dick - Melville
Walden/Civil Disobedience - Thoreau
Billy Budd - Melville

12th grade

Oedipus Rex, Antigone - Sophocles
Gulliver's Travels - Swift
A Man for All Seasons - Bolt
Pygmalion - Shaw
Murder in the Cathedral - Eliot
Women of Troy - Euripides
Becket - Anouilh
The Plague - Camus
Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear - Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Beowulf - NA
Sons and Lovers - Lawrence
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Glass Menagerie - William
Dubliners - Joyce
Portrait of an Artist - Joyce
Waiting for Godot - Beckett

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Melissa
1 year ago
As a homeschooling mother of four with a particular interest in children's literature, I think there are some inappropriate titles listed. With an abundance of quality children's literature available, I fail to see the need to include anything written by Judy Blume. I am not familiar with all of the titles named certainly, but I am disgusted to see the inclusion The Hunger Games and Sons and Lovers. That these books have been deemed by Catholic Online to be appropriate for school children of any age is astonishing to me.

Regarding the Hunger Games, please consider this http://www.mercatornet.com/bookreviews/view/10493

I recommend the following bookshops. Have a look at their titles to see what your children should be reading:

Bethlehem Books http://www.bethlehembooks.com/,
Adoremus Books http://www.adoremusbooks.com/,
St George Books http://www.stgeorgebooks.com/,
Ignatius Press http://www.ignatius.com/Products/CategoryCenter/213/TeensChildren.aspx, Emmanuel Books http://www.emmanuelbooks.com/display_results.cfm/category/722/Literature/,
Sophia Institute Press http://www.sophiainstitute.com/.
Seton Educational Media http://www.setonbooks.com/browse.php

Appropriate Children's Literature lists can be found here: http://www.love2learn.net/literature/litindx.htm

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