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Summer Reading List for Students of Villa Duchesne

Summer Reading for Students of Villa Duchesne
Required by the English Department
2006-2007

This list is to be considered required reading in preparation for discussion in context, tests, and essays at the discretion of the assigning teacher.

Seventh grade:
Mass, Wendy - A Mango-shaped Space
Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Eighth grade:
Gies, Miep - Anne Frank Remembered
Griffin, John. Black Like Me
View two films: Jane Eyre and A Raisin in the Sun

Ninth grade:
Burke, Jan - Dear Irene (Pocket Books ISBN: 0 7434 4449 3)
Cabot, Meg. All American Girl (paperback or hard cover)
Maier, Paul L. - The Flames of Rome (Kregel ISBN: 0 8254 3297 9)

Honors Nine:
Burke, Jan - Dear Irene (Pocket Books ISBN: 0 7434 4449 3)
Elster, Charles Harrington and Joseph Elliot - Tooth and Nail (Harcourt ISBN: 0-15-601382-7)
Maier, Paul L. - The Flames of Rome (Kregel ISBN: 0 8254 3297 9)
Stone, Irving - The Greek Treasure (Used books are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble)
Questions will be available from Ms. Billhymer's web page after July 1.

Tenth grade:
Seierstad, Asne. The Bookseller of Kabul (Back Bay/Little, Brown ISBN: 0-316-5941-7)
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club (Random House ISBN: 0-8041-0630-4)

Honors Ten:
Marantz, Robert. The Ring of McAllister (Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0-7432-6577-7)
Seierstad, Asne. The Bookseller of Kabul (Back Bay/Little, Brown ISBN: 0-316-5941-7)
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club (Random House ISBN: 0-8041-0630-4)

Eleventh grade:
Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion (Dover ISBN: 0 486 28 2228)
Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin ISBN: 0 140 188800)
White, T.H. The Once and future King (Ace ISBN: 0441627404)

Honors English 11:
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (Penguin ISBN: 0-14-043426-7)
Orwell, George - 1984 (Signet ISBN: 0451524934)
Shakespeare,William - Hamlet (New Folger's Library ISBN: 0-671-72262-X)

English 12:
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men

AP American Literature:
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath

 

 

 
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