Honors Sophomore English II Summer Reading

Books should be read by the first day of school

Choose one of the following novels:

The Catcher in The Rye - J.D. Salinger

An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.

        (c) Follett

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find asafe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
     (c) Follett
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
An account of the voyage undertaken by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the Endurance in 1914-15, telling how the men survived after their ship became locked inside an island of ice and drifted for ten months before being crushed.
(c) Follett
 
Three Cups of Tea- Greg Mortenson;
Three cups of tea : one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations--one school at a time



    
 (c) Follett  
The experiences of Wade Whitehouse, a part-time policeman, are related by his brother, who tells of Wade's investigation of a hunting death that could be a murder, his custody suit against his former wife, and his discovery of a real estate scam that costs him his job.  








Revised: March 17, 2008