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2023 School Summer Reading Lists: Wilmington Friends - Upper School

This guide provides links to the Delaware Library Catalog for school summer reading lists.for public, private, and charter schools.

2023

9th Grade

Required Reading:

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
ISBN: 9780345806406

Read one additional book you have not read before. Choose from the list below.

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780062073471
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
ISBN: 9780062882769
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
ISBN: 9780385509459
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9781400052189
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
ISBN: 9780679457527
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Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
ISBN: 9780385534246
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
ISBN: 9780807083697
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore; Tavis Smiley (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780385528191
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
ISBN: 9780307887443
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781608195220
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo; Erin Stein (Editor)
ISBN: 9781627792127
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei; Justin Eisinger; Steven Scott; Harmony Becker (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603094504

10th Grade

Required Reading:

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9780618706419

Read one additional book you have not read before. Choose from the list below.

The Buddha in the attic by Otsuka, Julie
ISBN: 9780307700001
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 9780385333481
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The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
ISBN: 9780822202059
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Ghost world by Clowes, Daniel
ISBN: 9781560974277
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
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How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
ISBN: 9780316492935
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
ISBN: 9780143038092
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March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603093002
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
ISBN: 9780316017923
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
ISBN: 9780679644194
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There There by Tommy Orange
ISBN: 9780525520375
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
ISBN: 9780593321201
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780385542364
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
ISBN: 9780306814525
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ENGLISH 11/12, ENGLISH 11/12 IB HL, ENGLISH 11/12 SL: Journeys

The Odyssey by Homer; Emily Wilson
ISBN: 9780393356250

ENGLISH 11/12, ENGLISH 11/12 IB HL, ENGLISH 11/12 SL: Power of Performance

A Testament of Hope by Martin Luther King; Martin Luther King
ISBN: 9780060646912

American History

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780486284996