The document provides a list of book titles and brief summaries for various grade levels to use for summer reading. For ninth grade, it suggests the book "Ingrid Levin Hill, Teen Detective" which follows a teenage girl who tries to solve mysteries. For tenth grade, it recommends "Between Shades of Gray" which is set in Soviet-occupied Lithuania and follows a teenage girl sent to a Siberian work camp. For eleventh grade, it lists the book "The Hunger Games" and encourages readers to "grab up a weapon" and join the rebellion in this dystopian world.

1. Summer Reading
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2. Ninth Grade Titles
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3. Sort of like of Harriet the Spy
meets Sherlock Holmes…
The story line is fast-paced
and loaded with action and
plenty of twists as Ingrid tries
to solve the case out of fear of
lock up. The support cast
either enhances her sleuthing,
her personality, or her
hometown. Though her older
much bigger brother got away
with sibling violence sending
the wrong message to the
youthful audience, readers of
all ages will appreciate Ingrid
Levin Hill, teen detective.
Harriet Klausner (Amazon)

4. (The 2nd Book of the Hunger Games)
When I read the Hunger
Games, I read it straight
through the night, til
5AM. Couldn't stop
reading… and the sequel
is even better!
Katniss is the face of the
rebellion because of her
act of defiance in the first
book. As rebellion grows,
the President sets up his
revenge…
This book sucks you into
this amazing and
disturbing dystopian
world. It makes you want
to grab up a weapon and

5. POP as a title contains a double
meaning -- one, it is the nickname of
Charlie Popovich, an ex-NFL star
suffering from Alzheimer's, and two, it
is the sound you get when you slam
your helmet into someone in football.
It comes as no surprise, but "Pop"
likes to pop people, and our
protagonist, Marcus Jordan, finds out
the hard way when he meets the 50-
something Charlie at the public park
one day while tossing around a
football. The unlikely meeting leads to
regular practice between the old-timer
and the youngster, who is new to
town and anxious to try out for the
undefeated high school team.
Amazon ~ Ken C (MA)

6. “It begins with a free
and joyful act—but from
then on, Michael finds it
impossible even to
remember what it felt
like to be free and
joyful. When he fires
his new rifle into the air
on his seventeenth
birthday, he never
imagines that the bullet
will end up killing
someone… And Michael
keeps desperately silent
while he watches his
world crumble.”
(Book Jacket)

7. In this sequel to the beloved
Rules of the Road, Jenna
Boller is dripping with
newfound maturity after her
life-altering summer on the
road. She has a job she loves
at Gladstone Shoes, a best
friend who makes her laugh,
and a dysfunctional family
she's learning how to handle.
Jenna feels ready for
anything--until Tanner Cobb,
a guy with a past, a police
record, and dangerously good
looks, walks into her life.
(Barnes and Noble, 2008)

8. Harvest a 10th grade
title!
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9. "A harrowing page-turner." - Publishers
Weekly
The Vilkas family is rounded up in the middle
of the night by the NKVD, the precursor to
the KGB and labeled thieves and prostitutes
and put on trains bound for Siberia.
As "criminals" they are forced to work on a
community farm in the northern regions of
Russia or sent to the northern most part of
Siberia. Lina grows from a 16 year old with
hopes of attending art school, to farming
beets for 3 ounces of bread a day. On the
train she meets Andrius and his mother, and
initially Lina dislikes him, but eventually their
love develops under the worst possible
circumstances. - Amazon ~ Book Sake
The victims of Stalin's oppression were
treated as criminals even after their release
and were forced to never speak of the
torture they endured.
- Amazon ~ Debbie’s World of
Books

10. "In this moving story of hardship and
triumph, a woman must live a double
life as a scholar and a sweatshop
worker after she emigrates from Hong
Kong to America with her mother."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"At age 5, Kwok moved with her family
from Hong Kong to a New York City
slum. . . . She has spun some of her
experiences into this involving debut. . .
Kwok drops you right inside Kimberly's
head, adding Chinese idioms to crisp
dialogue. And the book's lesson-that
every choice comes at the expense of
something else - hits home in any
language."
-People

11. Alfred Kropp is an overweight,
underachieving teen whose main
goals in life consist of getting his
learner's permit and dating Amy
Pouchard. Things take a very
unexpected turn, however, when
his uncle talks him into
participating in the get-rich-quick
scheme of stealing a valuable
sword (which just happens to be
Excalibur). Before Alfred knows it,
he has vowed to protect the
powerful sword from the
motorcycle-riding, sword-wielding
Agents of Darkness.
(From Kirkus, Sept 15, 2005)

12. Robin "Birdy" Perry, a new army
recruit from Harlem, isn't quite
sure why he joined the army,
but he's sure where he's
headed: Iraq.
Birdy and the others in the
Civilian Affairs Battalion are
supposed to help secure and
stabilize the country and
successfully interact with the
Iraqi people. Officially, the
code name for their maneuvers
is Operation Iraqi Freedom. But
the young men and women in the
CA unit have a simpler name for
it: WAR.

13. In 1942, ten-year-old
Sarah is taken with her
parents by the French
police as they go door to
door arresting Jews.
Desperate to protect her
younger brother, Sarah
locks him in a bedroom
cupboard—their secret
hiding place—and
promises to come back for
him as soon as they are
released.
Sixty years later Sarah’s
story intertwines with that
of Julia Jarmond, an
American journalist who
stumbles onto a trail of
secrets that link her to

14. 11th grade titles!
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15. D.J.'s family members don't talk
much, especially about the fact
that 15-year-old D.J. does all the
heavy work on their Wisconsin
dairy farm since her father broke
his hip and her two older brothers
left for college. Nor do they talk
about why D.J.’s mom… is so busy
…she's never home. And …her
brothers haven't called home for
more than six months.
When D. J. decides to try out for
the Red Bend football team, even
though she's been secretly training
(and falling for) Brian Nelson, the
cute quarterback from Hawley, Red
Bend's rival, she becomes the talk
of the town. Suddenly, her family
has quite a bit to say.
(Booklist. April, 2006)
A Humorous Romance

16. Seven-year-old Calli Clark hasn't
spoken a word in the three years
since a particularly nasty run-in
with her violent, wife-beating
father, Griff. During a bender,
Griff suddenly decides to haul his
mute daughter into the nearby
forest, where they get lost. At the
same time, Calli's best friend Petra
goes missing.
The Clark and Gregory families
are now tied by the question of
what happened to their children,
and the answer is trapped in the
silence of unspoken family
secrets.
(Publishers Weekly June 22, 2009) )

17. NASA makes an astounding
discovery: there is a meteor
embedded deep within the
arctic ice. And it isn't just any
meteor. Inside are fossils of
giant insects, proof of
extraterrestrial life.
The question arises: Is the
meteor real or a fake?
Intelligence agent Rachel
Sexton and oceanographer
Michael Tolland are searching
out the truth. They quickly
become targets of a mysterious
death squad controlled by
someone or something that
doesn't want the public to hear
the meteor may be a fraud…
(From Publisher’s Weekly,
2001)

18. Louie Banks has the world by
the tail. It's his last year in
high school; he has wheels, a
starting spot on the football
team, good friends, and the girl
of everyone's dreams. If he can
stay away from Boomer Cowans
long enough to graduate, he's
got it made.
But the world suddenly turns
and snatches Louie by the tail,
and it just won't let go. His
visions of sportsmanship and
fair play go up in smoke by the
second game of the season; his
expectations of life are
shattered by spring. This is a
story about honor and
principles, in which Louie
learns about love, death,
sportsmanship, and integrity
as well as football.

19. The Glass Castle is a
detached, direct, and
unflinching memoir of
Jeannette Walls's rags-to-
riches life. She recalls
her life growing up in a
dysfunctional family
with an alcoholic father
and distant mother and
describes how she and her
siblings had to fend for
themselves until they
finally found the
resources and will to
leave home.

20. L ight up the night with a 12th grade title
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21. Star cross-country
runner Ben Wolf
learns during a
physical that he has
developed a rare,
aggressive, fatal
blood disease.
Rather than seek
treatment, he swears
his doctor to secrecy,
hides the truth of his
health from his
family, friends and
coach, and decides to
go after the things
he's always wanted
but never pursued.

22. “…a dog who speaks, the
thrill of competitive racing, a
heart-tugging storyline, and--
best of all--the fact that it is a
meditation on humility and
hope in the face of despair.”
(Wally Lamb)
“This has everything: love,
tragedy, redemption, danger,
and--most especially--the
canine narrator Enzo. This old
soul of a dog has much to
teach us about being human.”
(Sara

23. A small sign on a fence, brings 17-year-
old Nit Spindle to Hennie's door: Prayers
For Sale. Nit is new to town and
suffering her own heartache after losing
her baby at birth on the journey to
C olorado from Kentucky.
Nit asks Hennie to pray for her baby.
Hennie takes to Nit and decides the girl
needs her help to settle into the
community and survive as a mountain
woman, the wife of a dredge gold miner.
A love for quilting and storytelling brings
them together.
Amazon ~ Sherri Caldwell (Atlanta, GA)

24. 1962 in Jackson Mississippi,
black maids raised white
children and ran households.
Paid poorly, they often had
to use separate toilets from
the family, and watched the
children they cared for
embrace bigotry.
Miss Skeeter, a naïve, young
white woman, is an aspiring
writer. She conducts a
series of interviews with
local black maids. Their risk
is great, possibly deadly;
still, Aibileen and Minny
agree to participate. Tension
pervades the novel as events
are told by these three

25. Instead of opting for the
college life, Ryan Smithson
joined the Army Reserve
when he was seventeen.
Two years later, he was
deployed to Iraq as an Army
engineer.
In this extraordinary and
harrowing memoir, readers
march along one GI’s tour of
duty. It will change the way
you feel about what it
means to be an American.