JOHN A - Miami-Dade County Public Schools
JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2012
In an effort to maintain high academic standards, summer reading is a requirement at John A. Ferguson Senior High. Required books are listed below for each grade level, academic level and academy. Students will be held responsible for all the books listed under their appropriate category. (Gifted and/or AP students are not additionally required to read the books listed under their academies). Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school year.
|Gifted |
|9th Grade |10th Grade |
|City of Beasts by Isabel Allende |Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel |
|The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell |Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
|In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
|International Business and Finance |
|9th Grade |10th Grade |
|The Firm by John Grisham |Freakonomics by Steven Levitt |
|The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser |The Jungle by Upton Sinclair |
|In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
|Design and Architecture |
|9th Grade |10th Grade |
|Speak by Laurie Anderson |The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield |All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein |
|In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
|Information Technology |
|9th Grade |10th Grade |
|The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick |Digital Fortress by Dan Brown |
|The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|Neuromancer by William Gibson |Prey by Michael Crichton |
|In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
|Medical Skills and Biomedical |
|9th Grade |10th Grade |
|Coma by Robin Cook |The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins |
|The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|The Adromeda Strain by Michael Crichton |Experimental Heart by Jennifer L. Rohn |
|In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
|Hospitality and Tourism |
|9th Grade |10th Grade |
|Married to the Mouse by Richard E. Foglesong |Julie and Julia by Julie Powell |
|The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas Sparks |Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert |
|In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
|International Baccalaureate |
|9th Grade Pre IB |AP Literature/10th Grade Pre IB |
|The City of Beasts by Isabel Allende |In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
|The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|Fiela’s Child by Dalene Matthee |The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood |
|How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster | |
|Advanced Placement |
|AP Language and Composition |
|Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield |
|On Writing by Stephen King |
|In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
|AP Literature |
|Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
|Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
|Intensive Reading Plus |
|9th Grade |10th Grade |
|The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney |Street Pharm by Allison Van Diepen |
|11th Grade |12th Grade |
|The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks |Crank by Ellen Hopkins |
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