Hull High School Summer Reading
Get your summer reading at Buttonwood! Hull High schoolers can find their assignments here.
9th grade students are required to read THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls. 9th grade honors students must also read an additional book from a list of three choices (list below).
10th grade students are required to read CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon. 10th grade honors students must also read an additional book from a list of five choices (list below).
11th grade students are required to read ORPHAN TRAIN by Christina Baker Kline. 11th grade honors students must read an additional book from from a list of four choices (list below).
12th grade students are required to read SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson. 12th grade honors students must also read an additional book from a list of four choices (list below).
** Please note that if the book is not listed below, it likely Buttonwood is unable to get it (mostly likely that it is an older book and is out of print).
This is the required book for 9th grade.
In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.
This is an option for the second required book for 9th grade honors.
You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
This is an option for the second required book for 9th grade honors.
The bestselling author of "The Black Angel" offers a creative coming-of-age story about one boys journey into adulthood, combining dramatic themes with edge-of-your-seat suspense and a fantastical imagination.
This is the required book for 10th grade.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.
This is an option for the second required book for 10th grade honors.
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. This story will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world
This is an option for the second required book for 10th grade honors.
It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life that is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world—and may well die trying.
This is an option for the second required book for 10th grade honors.
Krakauer ("Into the Wild") chronicles the riveting, tragic story of former NFL player Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004, highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death.
This is an option for the second required book for 10th grade honors.
Young, black, 16-year-old Steve Harmon, an amateur filmmaker, is on trial for the murder of a Harlem drugstore owner. Steve copes by writing a movie script based on his trial. But despite his efforts, reality is blurred until he can no longer tell who he is or what the truth is
This is an option for the second required book for 10th grade honors.
Alexie's National Book Award winner chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. Includes poignant drawings that reflect the character's art.
This is the required book for 11th grade.
The author of "Bird in Hand" and "The Way Life Should Be" delivers a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers.
This is an option for the second required book for 11th grade honors.
Acclaimed author Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.
This is an option for the second required book for 11th grade honors.
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. After the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared.
This is an option for the second required book for 11th grade honors.
Kingsolver's national bestseller paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos. Examine how the tragedy of the Price family mirrors the political unrest in the Congo, how the novel views religion and marriage, and how Kingsolver reconciles the demands of art with her belief that writing should support a political cause.
This is an option for the second required book for 11th grade honors.
Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
This is the required book for 12th grade.
This edition of Anderson's groundbreaking classic includes a new Introduction by acclaimed writer and cultural commentator Ford, an Afterword by Reynolds, the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "All American Boys, " an updated Q&A, resource list, and an essay and poem from Anderson.
This is an option for the second required book for 12th grade honors.
A fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice makes a dazzling fiction debut ("Marie Claire") with this novel--a national bestseller--about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two cultures.
This is an option for the second required book for 12th grade honors.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
This is an option for the second required book for 12th grade honors.
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different and far more satisfying than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.