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School
of the
Holy Child
2011 Upper School
Academic Summer Reading List
This list includes both required and recommended reading
Index
English Department (Required) ………………………………………………….
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History Department (Required and Recommended)…………………………………
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Language Department (Recommended)……………………………………………
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Science Department (Recommended) …………………………………..………….
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Religious Studies Department (Recommended) …………………………………….
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Additional Reading List (Recommended readings about Africa)……………..…………
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English Department
Required Summer Reading 2011
English 9
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
English 10
Chaim Potok
My Name is Asher Lev
English 11
Tony Morrison
Song of Solomon
AP English Language and Composition (Grade 11)
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Tony Morrison
Song of Solomon
English 12
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
AP English Literature and Composition (Grade 12)
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray`
History Department
Required and Recommended Reading
World History I
No required reading
World History II
William Zinsser
On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition) (Required)
Read parts I and II (chapters 1 – 10)
AP World History
Chapters 1-7, The Earth & Its Peoples & corresponding workbook chapters (Required)
William Zinsser
On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition) (Required)
Read parts I and II (chapters 1 – 10)
David Landes
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Recommended)
N.B. The AP Review Text, Cracking the World History AP (Princeton Review) is a required text. It is
recommended that students pick up a copy over the summer (used is fine) and begin reading it.
AP United States History
Howard Zinn
Sarah Vowell
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present*
(Chapters 1 – 6)* (Required)
*Already a required text for the course.
The Wordy Shipmates (Required)
N.B. The AP Review Text, AP US History, (REA) is a required text. It is recommended that students pick
up a copy over the summer (used is fine) and begin reading it.
US History
Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates (Required)
Economics
Robert Heilbroner
C. Wheelan and B. Malkiel
The Worldly Philosophers (Required)
Naked Economics (Required)
J. Delong & Stephen Cohen
The End of Influence (Recommended)
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Language Department
Recommended Reading
Spanish
David Curland
Francisco Jiménez
La Catrina-El Ultimo Secreto****
La Mariposa
****This is the more difficult book of the two
French
Christine Pally, Eric Gasté
Paolo Coelho
Le génie du grenier
L’Alchimiste (edition livre de poche)
Latin
William Fitzgerald
Catullan Provocations
Mandarin
Wu Ch'eng-en
Monkey: A China Folktale
Science Department
Recommended Reading
Isaac Asimov
Asimov on Chemistry
David Attenborough
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
Gerald Durrell
The Amateur Naturalist
Martin Gardner
The Ambidextrous Universe/Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus
Stephen Jay Gould
The Panda’s Thumb/Bully for Brontosaurus
Steven Hawking
A Brief History of Time
Bernard Jaffe
Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry
Alan Lightman
Einstein’s Dreams
Kenneth Miller
Finding Darwins’ God
Raymond M. Smullyan
The Lady or the Tiger and Other Logic Puzzles
Dava Sobel
Longitude
Dava Sobel
Galileo’s Daughter
Lewis Thomas
The Fragile Species/The Lives of a Cell
Alvin Toffler
The Third Wave
Jearl Walker
The Flying Circus of Physics
James D. Watson
The Double Helix: a Personal Account of the discovery of DNA
Steven Weinberg
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
Victor F. Weisskopf
Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World
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Religious Studies Department
Recommended Reading
Suzanne Clores
Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider
Eknath Easwaran
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam
Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Khaled Hosseini
Thousand Splendid Suns
Aldous Huxley
A Brave New World
C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces
James Martin
My Life with the Saints
Geraldine McCaughrean
Not the End of the World
Gita Mehta
The River Sutra
Han Nolan
When We Were Saints
Patricia Curtis Pfitsch
The Deeper Song
Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper
Chaim Potok
The Chosen
Mirjam Pressler
Shylock’s Daughter
Marilyn Singer
I Believe in Water
Manil Suri
The Death of Vishnu
Todd Temple
The eXperiment
Marlee Pinsker and Francois Thisdale In the Days of Sand and Stars
Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker
Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkin’s Case Against
God
Adeline Yenmah
Chinese Cinderella
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Mary Gordon
Final Payments
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from
Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain
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Additional Reading List
Each year the Religious Studies Department selects a relevant theme for an additional suggested reading
list. This year, with consideration of our school’s Auction theme, the interdisciplinary service-learning
project on Rwanda, and Global Program’s upcoming trip to Ghana, we wanted to further support
education about Africa, and the following titles center on that topic.
Wessel Ebersohn
The October Killings
Ben Okri
The Famished Road
Alexandra Fuller
Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
Dave Eggers
What is the What
J.M. Coetzee
Life and Times of Michael K
Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, V. 1
Barbara Kingslover
The Poisonwood Bible
V.S. Naipaul
A Bend in the River
Breyten Breytenbach
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Alexander McCall Smith
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Bryce Courtenay
Power of One
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Paul Bowles
Sheltering Sky
Uwem Akpan
Say You’re One of Them
Alan Paton
Cry the Beloved Country
Chris Cleave
Little Bee
Rosamond Halsey Carr and Ann Howard Halsey
Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Nadine Gordimer
The Pickup
J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace
Lawrence Hill
Someone Knows My Name
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun
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