High School Summer Reading List: Back-To-School Countdown (Day 13)

The Brandon Patch Back-To-School Countdown proceeds with this Day 13 report, offering news of interset as the first day of classes approaches.

Teachers in the Hillsborough County School District go back to school Aug. 15 to prepare for the first day of classes, Aug. 23.

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The Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative behooves kids and adults alike to "expand beyond yourself and the world you live in" through the world of books.

Offered are summer reading suggestions for children and adults.

On Day 11 of this Back-To-School Countdown report, Brandon Patch posted the HCPLC list of .

Below is the list for high school students. Visit the HCPLC website  to read book synposes.

SUGGESTED SUMMER READING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:

NINTH GRADE

• “Heat," / By Mike Lupica
• "Milweed" / By Jerry Spinelli
• “Small Steps" / By Louis Sachar
• "The Kane Chronicles: Book One: Red Pyramid" / By Rick Riordan
• "The Darlings Are Forever" / Melissa Kantor
• "The Boy Who Dared" / By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• “Beautiful Creatures" / By Kami Garcia
• "In Darkness, Death" / By Dorothy Hoobler
• "Daniel X: Alien Hunter" / By James Patterson; Author Leopoldo Gout; Illustrator, Klaus Lyngeled

TENTH GRADE

• "Rebound" / By Bob Krech
• "Fire" / By Kristin Cashore
• "Linger" / By Maggie Stiefvater
• "The Last Song" / By Nicholas Sparks
• "My Soul To Take" / By Rachel Vincent
• "Sunrise Over Fallujah" / Walter Dean Myers
• "I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced" / By Nujood Ali
• "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" / By Marjane Satrapi

ELEVENTH GRADE

• "End of Days" / By Max Turner
• "Why I Fight" / By J. Adams Oaks
• "Mockingjay" / By Suzanne Collins
• "I Am Number Four" / By Pittacus Lore
• "Letters From Rifka" / By Karen Hesse
• "Th1rteen R3asons Why" / By Jay Asher
• "The Truth of the Matter" / By Andrew Klavan
• "One Whole and Perfect Day" / By Judith Clarke

TWELFTH GRADE

• "Deadline" / By Chris Crutcher
• "Leviathan" / By Scott Westerfeld
• "Incarceron" / By Catherine Fisher
• "Pathfinder" / By Orson Scott Card
• "The Pact: A Love Story" / By Jodi Picoult
• "The Once and Future King" / By T.H. White
• "The Mysteries of Udolpho" / By Ann Ward Radcliffe
• "Kick" / By Walter Dean Myers
• "Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz" / By Eva Kor

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ABOUT THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL COUNTDOWN:

This is the 13th posting in a 41-day effort that counts down the days before the opening bell of the 2011-12 school year for the Hillsborough County School District.

Previously posted:

• Back-To-School Countdown (Day 1) — FANG Fesitval