Grade Ten Reading List

2009/2010

 

 

Students should choose a minimum of six contemporary or classic novels for their independent reading for the year from this list. Others works are your personal choice. You must keep a daily Reading Log. In grade ten you should be reading 30 minutes daily including weekends. Keep a glossary of all new words from your readings. You will submit three Book Reviews during the year, one for each term.

 

Novels

 

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Boyne

 

Someday this pain will be useful to you

Peter Cameron

 

Code Orange

Caroline Cooney

 

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

 

Stardust

Neil Gaiman

Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely  but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved.

 

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

 

the curious incident of the dog in the night-time 

 Mark Haddon

This is Ms Linda’s “pick”

 

The First Part last

Angela Johnson

 

Nation

Terry Pritchett

After a devastating tsunami destroys lath they have ever known, Mau. An island boy and Daphne, and aristocratic girl, together with a small band of refuges, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

 

 

Drums, girls and dangerous Pie

Jordan Sonnenblick

 

The Chrysalids

John Wyndham

 

Briar Rose

Jane Yolen

Suspense, Mysteries and Thrillers

 

The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

Jeffrey Deaver

 

This is a forensic mystery about the ultimate identity theft.  It is a great choice to read alongside George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

 

The Venetian Betrayal

Steve Berry

This is a historical mystery dealing with the finding of the long lost tomb of Alexander the Great

 

Interred with Their Bones

Jennifer Lee Carrell

If you love Shakespeare, you will be intrigued by this suspense thriller and literary fiction. It has captivating details about Shakespeare and his plays and an original theory as to who exactly wrote them.

 

The First Stone

Judith Kelman

This is a novel os domestic suspense.

 

Rules of Deception

Christopher Reich

This is an espionage thriller set in Switzerland

 

In Cold Pursuit

Sarah Andrews

Set in Antarctica, this is an “amateur sleuth” novel.

 

Death Walked in: A death on Demand Mystery

Carolyn Hart

This is an example of a classic mystery and whodunit plot.

 

 

Deep Storm

Lincoln Child

A chilling suspense dealing with a mysterious illness on an oil-drilling rig. The main character uncovers a military scheme to excavate Atlantis in order to retrieve the strange, powerful objects found within.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

James Rollins

Watch the movie and read the book.  World War II is over and the Cold War has begun, Nazis have been superseded by Russians, and everyone’s looking for an artefact that will give the finder extraordinary powers…

 

Classics

 

Great Expectations

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

 

Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Under Western Eyes

Joseph Conrad

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

 

White Fang

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

 

Who Has Seen the Wind?

W.O. Mitchell

 

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

 

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

 

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

 

Robinson Crusoe

Kidnapped

Treasure Island

Around the World in 80 days

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

 

Around the World in 80 Days

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne

 

1984

George Orwell

 

Brave New World