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2008 Summer Reading Lists
Brien McMahon Subject Lists
Center for Global Studies - AP Biology  - AP English - Honors English III - Sophomore English - Social Studies
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Center for Global Studies - World Literature - Freshman    (Required)

Chinese Cinderella     Adeline Yen Mah

Center for Global Studies - World Literature - Freshman    (Choose One)

Maus I: My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman
Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began Art Spiegelman
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
The Odyssey Homer

Center for Global Studies - Social Studies - Freshman & Those New to the CGS

Chinese Red Scarf Girl Ji-li Jiang
Japanese Hiroshima John Hersey
Middle East Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye

Center for Global Studies - World Literature - Sophomore -     

The Alchemist    (Required for All) Paulo Coelho
Honors Students The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
Non- Honors

(Choose One)

The Natural Bernard Malamud
Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
Monkeys Susan Minot

Center for Global Studies - Junior    

Kite Runner   (Required for All)       Khaled Hosseini
Honors Students The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Non-Honors

(Choose One)

The Color of Water James McBride
White Teeth Zadie Smith
Son of the Revolution Liang Heng
Thura's Diary Thura Al-Windavi

Center for Global Studies - Seniors     (Required)

Siddhartha   (Required for All) Herman Hesse
Honors Students Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
Non-Honors

(Choose One)

This Boy's Life Tobias Wolfe
Blink Malcolm Gladwell
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson
Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder

Center for Global Studies - Recommended

She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
White Teeth Zadie Smith
Fingersmith Sarah Waters
Dust Tracks on a Road Zora Neale Hursston
Iron and Silk Mark Salzman
Shogun James Clavell
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan
Red Azalea Anchee Min
Rocket Boys Home Hickam
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Once and Future King T. H. White
Martha Quest Doris Lessing
Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng

 

 

AP English (Mr. Hofheimer)

2,548 Best  Things Anybody Ever Said Robert Byrne, editor
Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (the 1931 movie)  
Frankenstein (the 1994 movie)  
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mythology  
Don't Know Much About Mythology  
Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch
Mythology Edith Hamilton

Great Movies? (1942 -1954)

Casablanca  
Rear Window  
Singin' in the Rain  
   

Honors English III (Mrs. Liotta)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Required) Mark Twain
The Secret Life of Bees                     (Required) Sue Monk Kidd
Read one of the following current titles
The Color of Water James McBride
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
Read one of the following classic titles
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The  Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Letters from the Earth Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Walden & Civil Disobedience Henri David Thoreau
 

Sophomore Honors English (LaValle)

Where Have all the Leaders Gone Lee Iacocca
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
 

Social Studies

Incoming Grade 9

Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage A. Lansing
Hiroshima Heresy
Mary, Bloody Mary Carolyn Meyer
Maus: A Survivor's Tale II Spiegelman
Sharpe's Rifles Bernard Cornwell

Incoming Grade 10 (Level 5)

Up From Slavery B. T. Washington
Yellow Journalism Daniel Cohen

Incoming Grade 10 (Level 8)

The Jungle Sinclair
Up From Slavery B. T. Washington
Turning the Tide: How One Game Changed the South Don Yeager
Honors U.S. History
Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)

AP U.S. History

The Island at the Center of the World Russell Shorto
Incoming Grades 11 & 12

Civics ( Level  5)

Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy
Honors Civics
Gideon's Trumpet Anthony Lewis
The World is Flat Thomas Friedman

Honors Economics

Freakonomics Steven Levitt
AP Comparative Politics
Red China Blue Jan Wong
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil John Ghazvinian
 

Honors Biology

And the Waters Turned to Blood Rodney Barker
Genome Matt Ridley
The Hot Zone Richard Preston
 

                    
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