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I often have parents of 7th and 8th graders contact me wanting to know what we read freshman year (I think with the intent of getting their child "ahead" by having them read the books over the summer). I share the information with them, but try to steer them away from dictating their child's reading list. I usually refer them to the ALA's YALSA lists http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bbya. I have added this website to my list of resources this year. Anyone else have good resources for incoming freshmen?

Lists of recommended reading for junior high and high school students.

Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Non-fic, government, mythology, religion, philosophy Includes links to lessons

An article with some focus on Purple Hibiscus author, on soph summer reading list

It wasn't until I was in my fifties that I realized how restricted my high school reading lists had been, and how little they had changed for my three children. They were enthusiastic readers, as my wife and I were. But all, or almost all, of the required books for either generation were fiction.

Another school's list of what they read in a combined American Lit/ American History class.

A list compiled by readers of The Straight Dope.