Summer Reading
- Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the ‘phony’ aspects More…of society, and the ‘phonies’ themselves. Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
- A chilling prophecy about the future. haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel and Big Brother. 1984. George Orwell
- Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
- In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. Red Badge of Courage. Steven Crane
- Lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus’s children, Scout and Jem Finch, set in the Deep South of the 1930’s. To Kill A Mocking Bird Harper Lee
- Set in the Great Depression it chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.The Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck
- The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the notion that its possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby’s youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby. F Scott Fitzgerald
- Ponyboy knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends Johnny and Two-Bit. And when it comes to the Socs—a vicious gang of rich kids who enjoy beating up on “greasers” like him and his friends—he knows that he can count on them for trouble. But one night someone takes things too far, and Ponyboy’s world is turned upside down The Outsiders. SE Hinton
- Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
- When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms 50 shades of grey EL James
TIE BREAKER: How many pages is the paperback version of Farenheit 451? 256
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