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All incoming students for the 2007-2008 school year are required to read designated novels or plays during the summer months. The first major grade of the school year will be based on these readings.

Please consult individual teachers’ Web pages for information concerning your specific summer reading.
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ADVANCE PLACEMENT
MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS (Grade 12)

MACBETH (Shakespeare)
THINGS FALL APART (Achebe)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Bronte)
YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN (Wolfe)
FRANKENSTEIN (Shelley)

MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS
HONORS (Grade 12)

YEAR OF WONDERS (G. Brooks)
FRANKENSTEIN (Shelley)
PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Oscar Wilde)
THE KITE RUNNER (K. Hosseini)
THINGS FALL APART (Achebe)

MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS
COLLEGE PREP. (Grade 12)

THE HOT ZONE ( Richard Preston)
THE KITE RUNNER (K. Hosseini)
FRANKENSTEIN (Shelley)

MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS (Grade 12)
AQUINAS

TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE (Avi)
LORD OF THE FLIES (Golding)

ADVANCE PLACEMENT
AMERICAN LITERATURE (Grade 11)

NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS (Douglass)
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL( Jacobs)
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Williams)
THE AWAKENING (Chopin)
THE GREAT GATSBY (Fitzgerald)
ETHAN FROME (Wharton)

AMERICAN LITERATURE HONORS
(Grade 11)

INTO THIN AIR (Jon Krakauer)
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL (Jacobs)
TWELFTH NIGHT (Shakespeare)
THE CRUCIBLE (Miller)
AMERICAN LITERATURE
COLLEGE PREP.(Grade 11)

BLEACHERS (J. Grisham)
A PATCHWORK PLANET (Tyler)
INHERIT THE WIND - The Play
(Lawrence & Lee)

AMERICAN LITERATURE (Grade 11)
AQUINAS

INHERIT THE WIND – The Play -(Lawrence & Lee)
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (Hemingway)


SOPHOMORE
HONORS (Grade 10)

CATCHER IN THE RYE (Salinger)
FAHRENHEIT 451 (Bradbury)
THE JOY LUCK CLUB (Tan)


SOPHOMORE / COLLEGE
PREP. (Grade 10)

NIGHT (Wiesel)
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (Vonnegut)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE
NIGHT TIME ( M. Haddon)


SOPHOMORE

AQUINAS (Grade 10)
THE PIGMAN (Zindel)
NIGHT (Wiesel)


FRESHMAN HONORS (Grade 9)

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Erich Remarque)
THE COLOR OF WATER (McBride)
IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES (J.Alvarez)


FRESHMAN COLLEGE PREP. (Grade 9)

THE ALCHEMIST (Coelho)
MAUS Voume I (Spiegeleman)


FRESHMAN AQUINAS (Grade 9)

HEROES (Cormier)
STRAVAGANZA – CITY OF MASKS (M. Hoffman)




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