Required reading for the entire school is:
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Required reading for the entire school is:
First They Killed My Father
By: Loung Ung
ISBN: 9780060856267
*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 one (1) of the following:
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 978-0452268067
The Alchemist, Paolo Coehlo
ISBN: 978-0061122415
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN: 978-0375702709
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 978-0142407325
The Long Walk, Stephen King
ISBN: 978-0451196712
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 978-0061765223
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
ISBN: 978-1400031047
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
ISBN: 978-0375842207
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
ISBN: 978-0142000670
All students entering English II must read:
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
ISBN: 978-0345361790
All students entering English IIH must read:
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way, Bill Bryson
ISBN: 978-0380715435
All students entering English II and English IIH must also read at least one (1) 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 and English II H must read:
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
ISBN: 978-0767902892
All students entering English III and 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
Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson
ISBN: 978-0679764021
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 978-0618485222
The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
ISBN: 978-0312427566
All students entering English IV must read:
Ordinary People, Judith Guest
ISBN: 978-0140065176
All students entering English IV must also read at least one (1) 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
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 978-0385333849
All students entering Advanced Placement English must read the following three texts:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
ISBN: 978-0684833392
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
ISBN: 978-0374504847
Enemy of the People *, Henrik Ibsen
ISBN: 978-0451528032
*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:
A Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, Geraldine Brooks
ISBN: 978-0142001431
Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN-10: 0142001430
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
Bantam Classics
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
Modern Japanese Literature:
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, Bruce Feiler
ISBN: 978-0060577209