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Once again Whistlestop Bookshop supported the Carlisle Area School District's Summer Reading Program for 2011.  We will keep this page up over the year for forward-thinking families. 
We also keep the lists on hand for easy consultation, and we are able to offer guidance if needed.

CARLISLE SUMMER READING 2011

 

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

6th Grade

Bud, Not Buddy

$6.99

Christopher Paul Curtis

1999

Depression Era

 

Frindle

$5.99

Andrew Clements

1996

Humor - School

 

Holes

$6.99

Louis Sachar

1998

Friendship

 

Hoot

$6.50

Carl Hiaason

2002

Teenagers - Humor

 

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

$6.99

C.S. Lewis

1950

Allegorical Fantasy

 

 

LionBoy

$7.99

Zizou Corder

2003

Adventure - Fantasy

 

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

$7.99

Mildred D. Taylor

1976

Racism

 

Same Stuff as Stars

$6.99

Katherine Paterson

2002

Family

 

Stargirl

$6.99

Jerry Spinelli

2000

Teenagers

 

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

$6.99

Avi

1990

Historical Fiction - Pirates

 

Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963

$6.50

 

 

Christopher Paul Curtis

1995

Civil Rights Movement

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

7th Grade

A Year Down Yonder

$6.99

Richard Peck

2000

Contemporary Problems

 

Al Capone Does My Shirts

$6.99

Gennifer Choldenko

2004

Humor

 

Among the Hidden

$5.99

Margaret Peterson Haddix

1998

Fantasy

 

Babe Didrickson Zaharias

out of print

Russell Freedman

1999

Sports-Women-Biography

 

Barn

$4.99

Avi

1994

Family

 

Because of Winn-Dixie

$5.99

Kate DiCamillo

2000

Dogs

 

Eragon

$6.99

Christopher Paolini

2003

Fantasy - Dragons

 

Fever 1793

$5.99

Laurie Halse Anderson

2000

Colonial Life

 

Hatchet

$6.99

Gary Paulsen

1987

Survival

 

Homeless Bird

$5.99

Gloria Whelan

2000

India

 

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

$6.99

Kimberly Willis Holt

1999

Teenagers

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

8th Grade

Artemis Fowl

$5.99

Eoin Colfer

2001

Humor

 

Gathering Blue

$6.99

Lois Lowry

2000

Science Fiction

 

Hiroshima

$6.95

John Hersey

1960

World War II History

 

Hobbit

$7.99

J.R.R. Tolkien

1977

Fantasy

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

$6.99

Maya Angelou

1969

Autobiography

 

Into Thin Air

$14.95

Jon Krakauer

1997

Survival-Non-Fiction

 

Jacob Have I Loved

$6.99

Katherine Paterson

1980

Fiction

 

Jayhawker

out of print

Patricia Beatty

1991

Historical Fiction-Civil War

 

Loser

$5.99

Jerry Spinelli

2002

Family

 

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

$6.99

Ann Brashares

2001

Fiction

 

Travels with Charley

$9.00

John Steinbeck

1962

Travels in America

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

9th Grade

47

$7.99

Walter Mosley

2005

Slavery

 

A Door Near Here

$5.99

Heather Quarles

1998

Alcoholism

 

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

$4.95

Mark Twain

1876

Classic

 

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl

$7.99

Joyce Carol Oates

2002

Teenagers

 

The Car

$5.95

Gary Paulsen

1994

Coming of age

 

 

 

Childhood’s End

$6.99

Arthur C. Clarke

1953

Science Fiction

 

Cold Sassy Tree

$13.95

Olive Ann Burns

1984

Southern Family

 

Ironman

$6.99

Chris Crutcher

1995

Family

 

Speak

$10.00

Laurie Halse Anderson

1999

High School-(contains adult situations)

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

10th Grade

A Lesson Before Dying

$12.95

Ernest J. Gaines

1993

Death Penalty (minor adult content)

 

Bell Jar

$13.95

Sylvia Plath

1971

Mental Illness

 

Bleachers

$6.99

John Grisham

2004

Sports

 

Cat’s Cradle

$14.00

Kurt Vonnegut

1963

Science Fiction

 

Catcher in the Rye

$6.99

J. D. Salinger

1945

Coming of Age

 

Empire Falls

$14.95

Richard Russo

2001

Family

 

Frankenstein

$7.95

Mary Shelley

1818

Science Fiction

 

Life of Pi

$8.99

Yann Martel

2001

Survival

 

Lovely Bones

$7.99

Alice Sebold

2002

Murder

 

Maltese Falcon

$12.95

Dashiell Hammett

1929

Hard-boiled Crime

 

Old Man and the Sea

$12.00

Ernest Hemingway

1952

Classic - Fishing

 

On Writing: A Memoir of Craft

$7.99

Stephen King

2000

Non-fiction

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

10th Grade Option III

The Old Man and the Sea

$12.00

Ernest Hemingway

1952

Classic - Fishing

 

Raisin in the Sun

$7.00

Lorraine Hansberry

1959

Family Drama

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

11th Grade

Five People You Meet in Heaven

$12.00

Mitch Albom

2003

Life Lessons

 

 

If I Die in a Combat Zone

$13.95

Tim O’Brien

1969

Vietnam War

 

Kite Runner

$15.00

Khaled Hosseini

2003

Afghanistan(contains violence)

 

My Antonia

$6.95

Willa Cather

1954

Classic – Prairies

 

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

$1.50

Frederick Douglas

Ca. 1800s

Slave Narrative

 

Poisonwood Bible

$14.99

Barbara Kingsolver

1998

African Missionaries (adult content)

 

Prom

$8.99

Laurie Hulse Anderson

2005

Teenagers

 

This Boy’s Life

$14.95

Tobias Wolff

1952

Autobiography

 

Wedding

$7.99

Nicholas Sparks

2005

Romance

 

TITLE

PRICE

AUTHOR

YEAR

DESCRIPTION

12th Grade

Angela’s Ashes

$14.95

Frank McCourt

1996

Ireland

 

Bless Me Ultima

$6.99

Rudolpho Anaya

1972

Hispanic Southwest

 

Brave New World

$13.95

Aldous Huxley

1969

Future

 

Chosen

$7.99

Chaim Potok

1967

WWII-era New York

 

District and Circle

$13.00

Seamus Heaney

2006

Poetry

 

Fever Pitch

$14.00

Nick Hornby

1998

Sports Autobiography

 

Joy Luck Club

$14.00

Amy Tan

1989

Chinese-American

 

Love in the Time of Cholera

$14.95

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1988

South America

 

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

$6.99

Alexander McCall Smith

2002

Africa – Mystery

 

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

$5.95

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

1963

Russian Gulag

 

Secret Life of Bees

$14.00

Sue Monk Kid

2002

American South

 

 

11th Grade AP English (all required):
  1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller, $13.00 paperback
  2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, $14.00 paperback
  3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, $6.99 paperback

12th Grade AP English (both required):

  1. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, $7.95 paperback [we recommend the Modern Library edition]
  2. Beloved by Toni Morrison, $15.00 paperback

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