2007-03-17 09:58:14 · 8 answers · asked by spurs_hoops 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Ask your local high school teachers what they intend to work from. They'll tell you. They'll be delighted to have a student who's at the front of the learning curve. Go for it.
2007-03-17 10:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by bullwinkle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some books that I read in high school were The Odyssey, The Grapes of Wrath, The Inferno, Of Mice and Men, 1984, and others I can't remember.
2007-03-17 17:07:17 · answer #2 · answered by Casually Lame 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee)
Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
Little Women (Alcott)
Born Free (Adamson)
The Diary of Anne Frank (Frank)
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (by Evslin). or Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
The Courtship of Miles Standish (Longfellow)
The Gold Bug (Poe)
Moby Dick (maybe better for 9th grade) (Melville)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
A Separate Peace (Knowles)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Also, read up on Poe's short stories!
Then when you're in high school, you'll be reading Shakespeare, Greek works such as The Iliad, The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and other tragedies, and Aeneid.
2007-03-17 17:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by Opal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These will definitely help you. I'll try to keep it to the most basic ones... you don't need to read 30 novels before you go, trust me.
1) "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2) "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
3) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare
These are actually pretty good too. None of them are boring.
2007-03-17 21:26:51 · answer #4 · answered by Saritah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ayn rand - the fountainhead
hermann hesse - beneath the wheel
parick suskind - perfume
orson scott card - ender's game
sir arthur conan doyle - the casebook of sherlock holmes
any of those would be ok.
just try to ask people you admire about things that they've enjoyed reading and hopefully you'll like something they recommend.
i'd say to read everything you can get your hands on, but sometimes things are really boring.
keep your eyes and ears open for things you might be interested. often things just pop up.
nothing particularly will prepare you for high school.
high school is easy anyway.
2007-03-17 17:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by bad_ambassador 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bullwinkle is right, ask at the high school you're going to attend. They probably have a reading list. If not, ask at the library. Librarians often have lists of book recommendations for various age groups.
2007-03-17 17:06:46 · answer #6 · answered by Annie D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tuck Everlasting
To Kill A Mockingbird
God Don't Like Ugly
2007-03-18 12:20:11 · answer #7 · answered by CUTIE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guaranteed you will probably read:
to kill a mockingbird (10)
of mice and men (9)
flowers for algernon (10)
the crucible (12)
lord of the flies (12)
animal farm (11)
1984 (11)
life of pi
the pigman
2007-03-17 17:08:00 · answer #8 · answered by theskybelow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋