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Summer English Reading Lists (click below or download PDF)

• Secondary I

Little Women	Louisa May Alcott
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town	Kimberly Willis Holt
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery
Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer
Breadwinner	Deborah Ellis
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton
Beneath the Crown: The Last Duchess	Sharon Stewart
The Two Princesses of Bamarre	Gail Carson Levine
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup	Ron Koertge
Under the Watsons’ Porch	Susan Shreve
Flush	Carl Hiaasen
The City of Ember	Jeanne Dupra
Milkweed	Jerry Spinelli
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies	Mick Cochrane
Silent to the Bone	E. L. Konigburg
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins

• Secondary II

Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson
Forbidden City	William Bell
The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd
Acorn People	Ron Jones
White Fang	Jack London
Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
King of Shadows	Susan Cooper
Kira-Kira	Cynthia Kadohata
The Losers’ Club	John Lekich
Down the Rabbit Hole	Peter Abrahams
Snitch	Allison van Diepen
Throwaway Daughter	Ting-xing Ye
Things Change	Patrick Jones
Perfect Chemistry	Simone Elkeles
The Uglies	Scott Westerfeld

• Secondary III

The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
A Great and Terrible Beauty	Libba Bray
Black and Blue	Anna Quindlin
The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan
Night	Elie Wiesel
A Lesson before Dying	Ernest J. Gaines
My Sister’s Keeper	Jodi Picoult
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Joanne Greenberg
The Last Exit to Normal	Michael Harmon
Dreamrider	Barry Jonsberg

• Secondary IV

Catch Me If You Can	Frank W. Abagnale
Alias Grace	Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
Deception Point	Dan Brown
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Agatha Christie
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed	Patricia Cornwell
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
The Cellist of Sarajevo	Steven Galloway
A Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night Time	Mark Haddon
Catch-22	Joseph Heller
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson
Bones to Ashes	Kathy Reichs
The Reader	Bernhard Schlink
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Color Purple	Alice Walker
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde

• Secondary V

The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
The Bonesetter’s Daughter	Amy Tan
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison
Glass Castle: A Memoir	Jeannette Walls
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini
A Complicated Kindness	Miriam Toews
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter	Kim Edwards
The Year of the Flood	Margaret Atwood
The Pact	Jodie Picoult
Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See
Thirteenth Tale	Dianne Setterfield

Students are to read a minimum of two English books over the summer. Have a safe and relaxing summer and enjoy your reading!

Français Lectures d'été (click below or download PDF)

• Secondaire I
Langue d’enseignement (langue maternelle):
• Une histoire à faire japper (Yves Beauchemin – éd. Québec Amérique jeunesse)
Langue seconde de base:
• Marie Quatdoigts (Roger Des Roches, éd. Québec Amérique Jeunesse)
• Brad, le génie de la potiche (Johanne Mercier et Christian Daigle, éd. Fou Lire)
• Secondaire II
Langue d’enseignement (langue maternelle):
• Amos Daragon – Porteur de masques #01 (Bryan Perro, éd. Des Intouchables)
Langue seconde de base:
• Les vélos n'ont pas d'états d'âme (Michèle Marineau, éd. Québec Amérique Jeunesse)
• Secondaire III
Langue d’enseignement (langue maternelle):
• Sémiramis, la conquérante (Magsa Tadros, éd. Hurtubise)
Langue enrichie:
• Cassiopée ou l'été polonais (Michèle Marineau, Collection QA Compact, Québec Amérique)
Langue seconde de base:
• Tout commença par la mort d'un chat (Claire Daignault, éd. Pierre Tisseyre)
• Secondaire IV
Langue d’enseignement (langue maternelle), Langue enrichie et Langue seconde de base:
• Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza (Valérie Zenatti, éd. Ecole des loisirs)
• Secondaire V
Langue d’enseignement (langue maternelle) et Langue enrichie:
• Le message (Andrée Chedid, Flammarion)
Langue seconde de base:
• Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, éd. Albin Michel)

Supply Lists

• French Supply List - Download PDF
• English Supply List (Sec. I) - Download PDF
• English Supply List (Sec. II) - Download PDF
• English Supply List (Sec. III) - Download PDF

 

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