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NORTH BRUNSWICK HIGH SCHOOL |
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Austen, Jane. Emma. A novel about a self-assured young lady whose capricious behavior is dictated by romantic fancy.
Brooks, Martha. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl. A confused 17-year-old girl and a single mother with her young son, each with individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.
Christie, Agatha. And Then There Were None. Ten strangers meet on an island where the guests are stalked by a killer.
Christie, Agatha. The Body in the Library. Miss Marple solves the case of a young girl strangled because she accidentally heard too much.
Cole, Brock. Celine. A 16-year-old artist supports a friend whose parents are divorcing and who wishes to travel to Europe.
Connolly, John. The Book of Lost Things. A dark and triumphantly creative novel dealing with the end of innocence.
Cook, Robin. Mutation. On the forefront of surrogate parenting and genetic research, a brilliant doctor seeks to create the son of his dreams.
Cook, Robin. Seizure. To help save himself from a debilitating disease, Senator Butler undergoes a controversial stem-cell operation to which he is politically opposed.
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and other stories. A collection of stories that depicts the variety of life on the Mexico-United States border as portrayed through the wisdom and vibrant dreams of exceptional women.
Crutcher, Chris. Crazy Horse Electric Game. A baseball hero, who is brain-damaged in an accident, runs away from home when he is shunned by family and friends.
Cussler, Clive. Dragon. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers.
D’Orso, Michael. Eagle blue: a Team, a Tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska. Set in Alaska, eight miles above the Arctic Circle, this is the true story of a basketball team that reminded its town that dreams can come true.
Heinlein, Robert. Stranger in a Strange Land. A boy raised on Mars must adjust to life on Earth.
Hilton, James. Lost Horizon. When a plane lands under mysterious circumstances, four people find themselves in a hidden valley in Tibet where people do not age.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Jonah’s Gourd Vine. An African-American male struggles with his identity within his family, his community, and his nation.
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. The story of Kimball O’Hara, a young British boy growing up in India.
King, Laurie R. The Moor. Sherlock Holmes is invited by his old friend to look into an unexplained death on the moor.
King, Stephen. The Long Walk. On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as “The Long Walk,” a deadly contest of endurance and determination.
Koertge, Ron. Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. A baseball star gets sick and is unable to play. Through a writing journal, he explores baseball dreams, high school relationships, and his relationship with his father.
Lodge, David. Out of the Shelter. While Timothy Young’s adolescence occurs in the constricted world of post-war Britain, his older sister Kathy escapes that world to work for the United States Army in Germany.
Parker, Robert B. Chance. A private investigator whose passion for justice repeatedly plunges him into a sea of trouble.
Parks, Gordon. The Learning Tree. A man finds himself the sole witness to a murder in a small Kansas town.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. A story of a black and a white South African clinging to hope in the face of family and social crisis.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe. A romance about a disinherited king and a fair lady in 12th century England.
Setterfield, Diane. The Thirteenth Tale. Vida Winter, a great English novelist, asks a young woman, Margaret Lea, to write her definitive biography. Winter’s life is very different from what has been written on her dust jackets.
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach. The aftermath of a nuclear war following the lives of those who survived.
Stevenson, R.L. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other tales of terror. A kind and well-respected doctor turns himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. A horror story set in 19th century Europe, which recounts the exploits of the vampire.
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men. A political boss becomes powerful in his state and then abuses his position.
Willis, Connie. The Doomsday Book. A time-traveling female history student is trapped in the Middle Ages, dangerously close to the Black Plague.
Required reading for Honors English III: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. The horror story of the creation of a monster and the curse of destruction and death as a result. This book is part of the CP English III and English III curricula and will not fulfill the summer reading requirement for CP English III or English III.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray and other writings. A story of a hero’s outward innocence that conceals corruption.
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