St. Joseph High School

Reading Lists 2008-2009

The Plumb Memorial Library and Huntington Branch Library have many of the titles on the St. Joseph High School  lists.  Visiting the links below will bring you to the Bibliomation online catalog, where you can check the availability of books at the Plumb and Huntington libraries, plus over 45 others.  To have a book sent from another library for pickup at Plumb or Huntington, click on Request Item, and follow the instructions.

Freshman Summer Reading List

• Summer of 98 by Mike Lupica

• The Game and the Glory by Michelle Akers and Gregg A. Lewis

• In These Girls Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais

• Travel Team by Mike Lupica

• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back To Life by Lance Armstrong

• Learn to Read Music by Howard Shanet

• Geeks by Jon Katz

• A Girl's Life Online by Katherine Tarbox

Sophomore Summer Reading List

• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle for French Students (see Mrs. Marcucci)

• On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herman Loomis for French Students

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudofo Anaya for Spanish Students

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho for Spanish Students

• Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino for Italian Students (see Mrs. Voll for details)

• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for Spanish Students

• A Case of Abraham Lincoln by Julie Fenster and Douglas Brink

• The Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. Starkey

• Wait Til Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands

• American Sphinx by James Ellis

• Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

• We are our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Robersts

• Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley

• Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball by Bob Costas (2001 edition)

Junior Summer Reading List

• Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

• Life and Death of the Salt Marsh by John Teale

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carsen

• The Double Helix by James Watson

• Ever Since Darwin by S.J. Gould

• Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey

• Camouflage and Mimicry by D. Owen

• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

• The Lost World by Michael Crichton

• Flatland: A Romance of many Dimensions by Edwin S. Abbott

Senior Summer Reading List

• This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolf

• The Color of Water by James McBride

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

• Crime and Punishment by T. Dostoevsky

• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

• Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Ann Rice

• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis