Summer Reading

Required reading for the entire school is:

Summer Reading 2009, Download pdf

Required reading for the entire school is:

Cracking the Cases: the Science of Solving Crimes
By: Dr. Henry Lee
ISBN: 9781591027478

*The school required reading will be provided to all students.

English Required Reading

English Required Reading
All students entering English I must read:

A Separate Peace, John Knowles
ISBN: 978-0743253970

All students entering English I must read at least two (2) of the following:
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
ISBN: 978-0553131000

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 978-0452287075

The Alchemist, Paolo Coehlo
ISBN: 978-0061122415

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 978-0141310886

Lord of the Flies, William Golding
ISBN: 978-0140283331

All students entering English II or English II H must read:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
ISBN: 978-0345361790

All students entering English II or English II H must read at least two (2) of the following:

Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
ISBN: 978-0060741877

Gifted, Nikita Lalwani
ISBN: 978-0812977943

Purple Hibiscus, Chimimanda Adichie
ISBN: 978-1400076949

The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
ISBN: 978-1841953922

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 978-1594480003

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
ISBN: 978-0143038092

The Great Santini, Pat Conroy
ISBN: 978-0553381559

All students entering English III must read :
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
ISBN: 978-0767902892

All students entering English III H must read:

Native Son, Richard Wright
ISBN: 978-0060837563

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
ISBN: 978-0767902892

All students entering English III must also read at least two (2) of the following; all students entering English III H must also read at least one (1) of the following:

Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
ISBN: 978-0671695880

Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
ISBN: 978-0140238280

Red Sky at Morning, Richard Bradford
ISBN: 978-0060931902

Kindred, Octavia Butler
ISBN: 978-0807083697

Tracks, Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 978-0060972455

Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson
ISBN: 978-0151001002

The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 978-0618485222

My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
ISBN: 978-1400031047

All students entering English IV must read:
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 978-0060786502

All students entering English IV must read at least two (2) of the following:

The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
ISBN: 978-0345410054

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
ISBN: 978-0679781585

Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
ISBN: 978-0441790340

I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
ISBN: 978-0061097645

Run, Ann Patchett
ISBN: 978-0061340642

Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
ISBN: 978-0679736370

The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
ISBN: 978-0618658961

The Secret History, Donna Tartt
ISBN: 978-1400031702

The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
ISBN: 978-0312427566

Advanced Placement English
must read the following three texts:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
ISBN: 978-0684833392

The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
ISBN: 978-0374504847

An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
ISBN: 978-1595406446

*Note: The text recommended here is Ibsen’s Four Major Plays, Volume II, in which An Enemy of the People is contained.

History Required Reading

World History I:
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, D.T. Niane
ISBN: 978-1405849425
Longman African Writers, 2006

World History II:
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne 1405-1433, Oxford University Press 1997
ISBN: 0195112075

US History:
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
ISBN: 0345348109

AP Required Reading

AP United States History:
Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indian, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, William Cronon
ISBN-10: 0809016346

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
ISBN: 0451527526

AP European History:
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
ISBN: 0553212788

AP American Government:
Democracy for Beginners, Robert Cavalier
ISBN: 978-1934389362 Steerforth Press 2009

AP Biology:
The Double Helix, James Watson
ISBN: 780743216302

Semester Elective Required Reading

Science of Infectious Disease:
The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
ISBN: 9730385495226

Astronomy:
The Pluto Files:The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet, Neil deGrasse
ISBN: 978-0393065206

Storms Forecasting and More:
Isaac’s Storm, Erik Larson
ISBN: 0375708278

Trauma and the Literature of Survival:
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
ISBN: 978-0767902892