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Boston Latin School Summer Reading Lists
Class IV A   1998


You are required to read a total of five books from this list which was compiled by members of the English Department. Since you will be asked to write about these books in September, you must take notes on all five books. Use the format provided, and expect that these notes will be collected by your teacher.

A.  Fiction

Alyn, Marjory  The Sound of Anthems: A Novel of Ireland
Bellamy, Edward  Looking Backward
Choi, Sook-Nyul  Gathering of Pearls
Craven, Margaret  I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Dumas, Margaret  The Count of Monte Cristo or The Man in the Iron Mask
Ferber, Edna  So Big
Forman, James  A Fine, Soft Rain
Harris, Mark  Bang the Drum Slowly
Huxley, Aldous  Brave New World
Kerr, M.E.  Gentlehands
Lester, Julius  Othello: A Novel
McCullers, Carson  A Member of the Wedding
Myers, Walter Dean  Fallen Angels
Orwell, George  Animal Farm
Plath, Sylvia  The Bell Jar
Renault, Mary  The King Must Die
Rinaldi, Ann  Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre
Saberhagen, Fred  The First Book of Swords
Shelley, Mary  Frankenstein
Sillitoe, Alan  The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Smith, Betty  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Joy in the Morning
Spark, Muriel  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Stewart, Mary  The Crystal Cave
Temple, Frances  The Ramsay Scallop
Townsend, John Rowe  The Summer People
Tunis, John R.  His Enemy, His Friend
Verne, Jules  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Voigt, Cynthia  On Fortune's Wheel
Washington, Mary  Black-Eyed Susan

B.  Non-Fiction

Appel, Willa  Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise
Bedoukian, Kerop  Some of Us Survived
Bernard, Jacqueline  Journey Toward Freedom: Sojourner Truth
Bird, Larry  Drive
Bontemps, Arna  Free at Last: Frederick Douglass
Ching-To, Chow  Journey in Tears
Cronkite, Kathy  On the Edge of the Spotlight
David, Joy, et al.  The Black Soldier
Dolan, Edward F.  Matthew Henson: Black Explorer
Frommerr, Harvey  Rickey and Robinson: Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
Goldstone, Robert C.  Next Year in Jerusalem
Herriot, James  All Creatures Great and Small
Hovey, Tamara  A Mind of Her Own: George Sand
Huggins, Nathan  Black Odyssey
Kahn, Roger  Boys of Summer
Koehn, Ilse  Mischling Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
Landin, Margaret  Anna and the King of Siam
Laure, Jason, et al.  South Africa: Coming of Age Under Apartheid
Lofts, Norah  Anne Boleyn
Meltzer, Milton  Taking Root: Jewish Immigrants
Moody, Anne  Coming of Age in Mississippi
Nabokov, Peter  Native American Testimony
Petersen, Dwen  Across the Bridge to China
Raphael, N., et al.  Runaways
Strawberry, Darryl  Darryl
Uchida, Yoshiko  Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family
Van Devanter, Lynda  Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

C.  Drama

Chekhov, Anton  The Sea Gull
Gibson, William  The Miracle Worker
Luce, William  The Belle of Amherst
Pomerance, Bernard  The Elephant Man
Shakespeare, William  Antony and Cleopatra
Thomas, Dylan  Under Milkwood

Reviewed 5/97

NOTES ON SUMMER READING

Use this format for recording your notes on each of the five books you read this summer.

Title:

Author:

Setting:

Major Characters: 

Plot Summary (limited to three sentences):

Theme: 

Personal Reaction/Evaluation:


 


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