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Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Incoming Freshmen
Must read: Heroes, Gods, and Monsters - Evelin
Select two of the following:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
Snow in August - Hamill
The Crystal Cave - Stewart
A Night to Remember - Lord
Shoeless Joe - Kinsella
The Light in the Forest - Richter
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
Soldier's Heart - Paulsen
Murder on the Orient Express - Christie
(Or any novel by Agatha Christie)
Use the book report form or a facsimile of it to report on your
three books.
Bring these signed reports with you on the first day of classes.
They will be collected by your ESP teacher.
The Newman School
Summer Reading List
2002
Select three books from the following lists which are appropriate
to your September grade level.
When you finish each book, fill out the book report form, and you
and a parent sign the form
verifying that the book was read. AP and Honors students should
note special requirements.
Incoming Sophomores:
Must read:
Kim - Kipling The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
India in the late 19th century The Deerslayer - Cooper
Bang the Drum Slowly - Harris
A baseball novel
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Novel of the French Revolution
German Boy - Samuel
True Tale of a 10 year old at the end of World War II
Rebecca - DuMaurier
Suspenseful novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
Girl growing up in poverty in the 1900's
The Wizard of Earthsea - Leguin
First of a series about a fantasy land's adventures
The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan - Armstrong
Irish girl confronts the Civil War
Honors American Literature:
Must read:
The Scarlet
Letter - Hawthorne
The Deerslayer - Cooper
Plus two of the book from the Junior class list
AP United States
History
Must read:
A Pocket History
of the United States - Nevins
Chapters 1 - 3
Be prepared for testing on this assignment!
AP Literature
and Writing
Must
read:
The Plague
- Camus
King Lear - Shakespeare
Select two others
from these:
Education of Henry Adams - Adams
Persuasion - Austen
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
Joseph Andrews - Fielding
Light in August - Faulkner
Incoming Juniors:
Almost a Woman - Santiago
An Immigrant girl's struggle to adapt
The Last Hurrah - O'Connor
Fictional account of an Irish mayor
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Autobiography of a southern slave
Abe - Slotkin
Fictional tale of Abraham Lincoln's youth
Flags of our Fathers - Bradley
True account of those who fought in Iwo Jima
The Shining - Stephen King
A winter of terror in an isolated hotel
Life on the Mississippi - Twain
Great American writer's youth
The Blessing Way - Hillerman
A thriller set in Navajo culture
Wait Till Next Year - Goodwin
True story of a young Brooklyn girl's love of baseball
Incoming Seniors:
A Passage to India - Forster
Culture clashes in colonial India
The Plague - Camus
An epidemic in Algeria
Quiet American - Greene
Set in the time of American involvement in Vietnam
Spies - Frayn
An older man returns to the scene of his childhood
Different Seasons - King
Four novellas
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Chevalier
Story behind a Vermeer painting
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Satire about the fate of the planet
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig
Bike journey of father and son
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