Mrs. Merli’s, Miss Preslock's, and Ms. Reifler’s

 2009 Summer Reading List

Grades 9-12

SUMMER READING REQUIREMENT! All students are required to make two book selections for summer reading. Students have the option of selecting a book from the Learning Support list, found below, and/or selections could be made from the generated lists targeted for designated grade levels for General Education Language Arts classes. Lists for General Education teacher's lists could be found on their individual teacher web sites. Students will be tested on these books in September and grades earned will be reflected in the average of marking period one.  Book titles are available at the Riverside Jr.-Sr. High School Library during the summer. Summer hours are from 10am to 1pm on the following dates: June 25th; July 3rd and 10th; August 6th, 13th, and 20th.  Dates are subject to change so check Ms. Voytko's website: http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/MVoytko or call 562-2121, Ext. 134 to check for changes.

Cobra Strike

Notes: High school football player Ray Linden, on course to earn a college scholarship, puts his future in peril when he learns his small coal-mining town is in danger from a toxic threat.

Hitmen Triumph

Notes: Left winger Nolan Andrews has to make some difficult decisions that will affect him and his brother for the rest of their lives.

Maverick Mania

Notes: The disappearance of his soccer team's leading scorer during the championship finals leads sixteen-year-old Matt to investigate and entangles him in a possible kidnapping.

Scarlet Thunder

Notes: Seventeen-year-old Trent is helping his uncle film a television documentary about Scarlet Thunder, a stock car racing team, when he begins to suspect that someone is sabotaging the shoot.

Titan Clash

Notes: Popular high school basketball star Jack Spencer's life takes a downhill turn when his mother is severely injured in a suspicious car accident, and his father is arrested for fraud.

Thunderbowl

Notes: Sixteen-year-old Jeremy, caught up in the excitement of playing guitar for the hot band Thunderbowl, begins to lose control of the rest of his life.

Battle of the Bands

Notes: Jay, Kelvin, and Cia are The Lunar Ticks, a dedicated band, convinced they are on their way to the top.

No Problem

Notes: Curt, a teen blessed with friends, a summer job, and a promising future in baseball, puts everything at risk when he begins experimenting with drugs.

Kicked Out

Notes: Sixteen-year-old Dime has difficulty adjusting to her parents' rules.

I.D.

Notes: Chris finds a wallet on the street and wants to return it to the owner; but when he realizes that the owner looks a lot like him, he is tempted to assume the person's identity in order to break away from the problems he faces at home.

Exit Point

Notes: Sixteen-year-old Logan is dead, but he realizes he still has unfinished business.

Pain & Wastings

Notes: Fifteen-year-old Ethan faces the truth about his mother's murder.

Snitch

Notes: After his best friend snitches on him, Josh must learn to control his anger.

Grind

Notes: Philip, obsessed with skateboarding, finds himself pushed to perform more and more dangerous stunts when he begins taping himself and posting the movies on a Website to make money.

Juice

Notes: When Coach Reeves retired, he was replaced by Coach Barnes, whose own determination to obtain a college post rested on his ability to create a division one high school team; however, to do this involved the illegal distribution of steroids to the team.

Overdrive

Notes: When Jake is involved in a street-racing accident, he struggles to do the right thing.

Hit Squad

Notes: "Good, evil"--Cover. Students in an upscale high school decide to take on the bullies and take back their school, with decidedly mixed consequences.

Home Invasion

Notes: While a home invader terrorizes the city, Josh finds himself sneaking into other people's houses.

No More Pranks

Notes: Pete has to pull the most important prank of his life to bring about justice.

Stuffed

Notes: Ian, inspired by a documentary on fast food, starts an online boycott of Frankie's fast food restaurants that multiplies to the extent that it attracts the attention of the company's lawyers and eventually forces the chain to add healthy choices to its menu.

Flower Power

Notes: Callie Powers tries to cope with a bunch of reporters and television cameras, her grandmother, and her mother who has climbed a tree in protest to keep her neighbor from cutting it down.

Scum

Notes: While still grieving over the death of her brother, who was killed during a robbery, Megan learns some startling facts about Danny's life; and when the police seem unmotivated to solve the crime, Megan searches for answers.

Truth

Notes: When a prominent local adult is killed at a teen house party, the whole school seems to know who is to blame, but no one will go to the police.