Summer Reading Lists

Are you going to be at Waupaca High School next year? Here are your required summer reading lists. You only need to read one of the books on the list--but take good notes, because you'll be tested on that book when you get back to school next fall!

9th Grade:

The Tear Collector by Patrick Jones
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Son of the Mob by Gordan Korman
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Peak by Roland Smith
Box Out by John Coy
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Graceling by Kristin Cashore



10th Grade:

Paper Towns by John Green
Chasing Tail Lights by Patrick Jones
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson



11th Grade:

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Nailed by Patrick Jones
Deception Point by Dan Brown
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz



12th Grade English (not CAPP):

Looking for Alaska by John Green
Lottery by Patricia Wood
Silver Compass by Holly Kennedy
Midnight Twins by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Christmas Stones and The Story Chair by Justin Isherwood
Wart Son of Toad by Alden Carter
Black Cross by Greg Iles
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch



12th Grade CAPP:

If you are taking a CAPP course you have to read two books:

All CAPP students will read one of the following classic American novels:

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Native Son by Richard Wright
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

All CAPP students will also choose one of the following contemporary novels:

The Help by Kathyrn Stockett
The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Beach Music by Pat Conroy



Students taking Communications 111 and or Theatre Appreciation need to read:

The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

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