CHS General Reading List Suggestions
For Incoming Freshman:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Fences by August Wilson
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Child Called “It” by David Pelzer
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
