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Brien McMahon Subject Reading List         Norwalk Middle School Reading List
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2010 Norwalk High School
 Summer Subject Reading List
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AP Psychology

Mistakes were Made but Not by Me Elliot Aronson
A Sight for Sore Eyes Ruth Rendell
The Children's Hour Lillian Hellman

Honors Biology -Print Assignment Packet
And the Waters Turned to Blood Rodney Barker
Cobra Event Richard Preston
Genome Matt Ridley
The Hot Zone Richard Preston

AP Economics
Rich Dad, Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki
Freakonomics Steven Levitt

AP Economics - Choose One Book
Free to Choose Milton & Rose Friedman
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner
Free Trade Under Fire Douglas A. Irwin
Peddling Prosperity Paul Krugman
The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life Steven E. Landsburg
A Random Walk down Wall Street Burton G. Malkiel
Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics P.J. O'Rourke
Saving Capitalism From the Capitalists Raghuram Rajan & Luigi Zingles
Applied Economics: Thinking beyond Stage One Thomas Sowell
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed & the American Boom Bob Woodward
   

AP European History
A World Lit Only by Fire William Manchester
                                                 
Cobra Event Richard Preston
Genome Matt Ridley
The Hot Zone Richard Preston

Honors English I
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer

Sophomore Honors English II
The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat
The Good Earth Pearl s. Buck
The Life of Pi Yann Martel
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd

Honors English III
On Writing Stephen King

Honors English IV
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Siddhartha Herman Hesse
Q & A Vikas Swarup

AP English
Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Siddhartha Herman Hesse
Sula Toni Morrison
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
   

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 of 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
American Colonies: The Settling of North America Alan Taylor
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


 

 

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