BUFFALO GROVE HIGH SCHOOL'S 2008 SUMMER READING LIST
Look through all of the books offered this year and then follow the link at the bottom of the page to select the book you will read. If you click on the title, author, or image of the book, you will be taken to the book's page on Amazon.com.
(There is no suggestion or requirement to buy from Amazon.com. We link there for browsing convenience only. Please feel free to shop for the best prices available on your book, or check your local libraries to see if they have a copy you can check out.)
Genre
Book Image
Title and Author
All Incoming Freshmen
Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez
Default (People who make no selection or new students)
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Literary-Futuristic
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Politics
Faith of My Fathers by John McCain (with Mark Salter)
Politics
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Senator Barack Obama
Politics
Living History by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Classic
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Science
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
Sports
The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One League by Jim Collins
Fun
Marley and Me: Live and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
Romance
I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
Literary-Contemporary
FLIGHT by Sherman Alexie
History/Fiction
Gone For Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
by Jeff Shaara
Current Events
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Mystery/Suspense
Tom Clancy's EndWar by David Michaels
Physical Fitness/Phys Ed
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratay
Young Adult Historical Fiction - Holocaust
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Young Adult Suspense
Zach's Lie by Roland Smith
Young Adult Romance
That Summer by Sarah Dessen
Current ELL 1 moving to ELL 2 in the Fall
Drive-By by Lynne Ewing
Current ELL 2 moving to ELL 3 in the Fall
Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez