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Coming of Age

Fiction Books
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Legend by Marie Lu
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Autobiography of My Dead Brother by
Walter Dean Myers
The Alison Rules by Catherine Clark
Beige by Cecil Castellucci
Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
Tyrell by Coe Booth
Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
The Truth About Forever by Sarah
Dessen
Jude by Kate Morgenroth
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

Freshman Summer Reading

South Oldham High School
Nonfiction Books
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing
Up in the Holocaust by L. Bitton
Jackson
Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos
Maus by Art Spiegleman
Once Upon A Quinceaera:
Coming of Age in the USA by Julia
Alvarez
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
Assuming Names (Criminal Mischief #1)
by Tanya Thompson
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for
Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai
The Year We Disappeared: A Father Daughter Memoir by Cylin Busby, John
Busby

Part 2: (Optional) Complete no more than

3 assignments for extra credit (10 points a
piece). Give to teacher first day of school.

Draw a map showing the

Make an illustrated
Divide a piece of poster board into 3
location(s) and the
timeline showing
equal sections. Illustrate three scenes
historical significance of
events in the text you
from the text using two or more of the
the locations where the
selected.
following media: paint, crayons,
selected text takes place.
chalk, paper, ink, real materials.
Write a diary that one of the characters might
Participate in the Oldham
have kept before, during, or after the book's
County Public Library's
events. Remember that the character's
Summer Reading Program
thoughts and feelings are very important in a
diary.
Write a different ending for the text. This ending
Write a literary essay that
discusses the themes of the should be true to the way events and characters in
the text are developed, but also creative.
book.