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Required Summer Reading List 2008

Here is this year's summer reading list. Thought questions, which are distributed by the English Department faculty prior to the end of the academic year, will help students prepare for classroom discussions during September. Thought questions are also available in the Business Office. Books are available in the Business Office located in the basement of Young House starting on May 19th. Our usual hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Books will also be available in the Admissions Office on the first floor of Young House from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Books are always priced under the publisher's list price!


Grade 6

Rawls, Wilson

Where the Red Fern Grows

$5.75

Speare, Elizabeth G.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

$5.75

Conrad, Pam

Prairie Songs

$5.75

 

 

$17.25

Grade 7
   

Monk Kidd, Sue

The Secret Life of Bees

$11.25

Peck, Robert

A Day No Pigs Would Die

$5.50

White, Ryan

The Ryan White Story

$6.75

 

 

$23.50

Grade 8
   

Naragan

Ramayana

$11.00

Buck, Pearl S.

The Good Earth

$5.75

Whelan, Gloria

Homeless Bird

$5.00

 

 

$21.75

Grade 9
   

Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart

$9.00

Kincaid, Jamaica

Annie John

$10.00

Foster, Benjamin R.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

$12.50

 

Book of Short Stories 2

$22.50

 

 

$54.00

Grade 10
   

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

$6.50

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies

$11.75

Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet on the Western Front

$5.75

Tey, Josephine

The Daughter of Time

$11.75

 

 

$35.75

Grade 11
   

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby

$11.00

Moody, Anne

Coming of Age in Mississippi

$6.00

O'Brien, Tim

The Things They Carried

$12.50

Yezierska, Anzia

The Bread Givers

$8.00

 

 

$37.50

Grade 12 World Lit. CP
   

Huntley, Paula

The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

$11.25

Tan, Amy

Joy Luck Club

$11.00

Rosenberg, Donna, (Ed.)

World Literature (A Doll's House)

$56.00

 

$78.25

Grade 12 World Lit. CP/Reading & Composition
 

Hemmingway, Ernest

The Old Man and the Sea

$10.00

Tan, Amy

Joy Luck Club

$11.00

Huntley, Paula

The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

$11.25

Milosz, Czeslaw

A Book of Luminous Things

$12.00

 

 

$44.25

Grade 12 AP
   

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Crime and Punishment

$5.75

Collins, Billy

Picnic Lightning

$11.00

O'Connor, Flannery

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

$11.00

Miller, Arthur

The Crucible

$10.00

 

 

$37.75

ESL IV
   

Na, An

A Step from Heaven

$6.75

Paulsen, Gary

Hatchet

$5.00

 

 

$11.75

All ESL Students
   

Monk Kidd, Sue

The Secret Life of Bees

$11.25

    $11.25

 

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