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Spring Woods High
School 2007 Summer Reading
9th Grade
On-level—Read one book from the 9th grade Good Reads
list or Challenging Good Reads list.
Pre-AP—Read one book from the 9th grade Good Reads list and
one from the Challenging Good Reads list.
Good Reads for 9thGrade
Twilight
Meyer
Bella
has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with
her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful
teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know,
and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. The Spring Woods High School
library can’t keep this book on the shelves—it’s so good! There’s a sequel,
too, and the third book comes out this summer, so don’t get left behind!
A
Northern Light
Donnelly
It's
1906 and 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is at a crossroads in her life. She's escaped
the overwhelming responsibilities of helping to run her father's broken down
farm in exchange for a paid summer job as a serving girl at a fancy hotel in the
Adirondacks. She's saving as much of her salary as she can, but she's having
trouble deciding how she's going to use the money at the end of the summer—is
her greater responsibility to herself, or to her family? As Mattie gets caught
up in the story of another young woman’s mysterious death in a boating accident,
her writing illuminates what life was like in the early 1900’s.
Skellig Almond
Michael
and his family have just moved to a new home, which proves more dramatic than
any of them had imagined. The house is a true fixer-upper, and Michael's new
baby sister, born prematurely, is seriously ill. While his parents are consumed
with worry about the baby, Michael is left alone with his own fears. But when he
explores the house's crumbling garage, he discovers a frail creature with
wings. As Michael learns more about the man-owl-angel in his garage, he learns
about the magic in his own life and the power of freedom.
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Crutcher
Sarah
Byrnes makes certain everyone calls her by her full to her face so that they
can’t snicker behind her back—her face and hands are covered with disfiguring
burns, and she, of all people, doesn’t miss the irony in her name. Eric
Calhoune, the fat kid, has been her friend forever since they’re both outcasts
among the normal kids. When Eric slims down after joining the swim team, he
struggles to balance his new self with his friendship with Sarah, but will he
risk everything to save her?
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Choldenko
12-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family move to Alcatraz Island in 1935, where
his father gets a job in the prison which housed such noted criminals as Al
Capone and Machine Gun Kelly. Moose's older sister, Natalie, is severely
autistic and his mother has been obsessed with getting her "cured." She has been
sent to a variety of schools and bizarre hospitals, none of which have helped,
and their last hope is getting her into a school in San Francisco. Moose is
given almost complete responsibility for his sister. Meanwhile, Moose is coping
with his new school, living in an isolated and strange place, and the warden's
daughter, Piper, who always has a new money-making scheme. Juggling Natalie's
daily moods, school work, yearning for Piper, and worry over his folks, Moose
tries to please everyone, which never works for anyone.
Silent to the Bone
Konigsburg
What
happened on Wednesday, November 25, 2:43 P.M., Eastern Standard Time, to cause
Branwell Zamborska to become mute? All anyone knows is that he called 911
because his baby sister, Nikki, had stopped breathing, and when he was unable to
speak to the operator, Vivian, the English au pair, came on the line to say that
Branwell had dropped the baby and shaken her. His best friend, Connor, begins
visiting him at the juvenile behavioral center, where he has been sent while
Nikki remains in a coma at the hospital. Working out a code they both can use,
Connor begins the long process of trying to communicate with his friend to find
out what really happened. With the help of his own half-sister and some canny
detective work, Connor uncovers a complex, multilayered tale of human desires,
adolescent confusion, and a touch of menace.
Chinese Cinderella
Yen Mah
Blamed
for the loss of her mother, who died shortly after giving birth to her, Mah is
an outcast in her own family. When her father remarries and moves the family to
Shanghai to evade the Japanese during WWII, Mah and her siblings are relegated
to second-class status by their stepmother. They are given attic rooms in their
big Shanghai home, they have nothing to wear but school uniforms, and they
subsist on a bare-bones diet while their stepmother's children dine sumptuously.
Mah finds escape from this emotionally barren landscape at school, but the
academic awards she wins only enrage her jealous siblings and stepmother. There
is a happy ending to this Cinderella story, which is the true story of the
author’s own life.
Challenging Good Reads for 9th Grade
Ender’s Game
Card
Intense
is the word for Ender's Game. Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost
destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the
world government has taken to finding military geniuses as children-- and then
training them in the arts of war... The early training, not surprisingly, takes
the form of 'games'... Tiny Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all
the games... He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he
smart enough to save the planet without destroying himself before he even turns
ten?
Isaac’s Storm
Larson
On
September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal
surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind
destroyed thousands of buildings. By the time the water and winds subsided,
entire streets had disappeared and as many as 10,000 were dead--making this the
worst natural disaster in America's history. In Isaac's Storm,
Erik Larson
blends science and history to tell the story of Galveston, its people, and the
hurricane that devastated them. Drawing on hundreds of personal reminiscences of
the storm, Larson follows individuals through the fateful day and the storm's
aftermath.
The Joy Luck Club
Tan
Four
mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds
depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent
immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and
talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy
Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their
spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or
to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and
history continue.
The Glass Castle
Walls
The
author opens her memoir by describing looking out the window of her taxi,
wondering if she's "overdressed for the evening" and spotting her mother on the
sidewalk, "rooting through a Dumpster." Walls's parents were a matched pair of
eccentrics, and raising four children didn't conventionalize either of them. The
Walls children learned to support themselves, eating out of trashcans at school
or painting their skin so the holes in their pants didn't show. One by one, each
child escaped to New York City. Still, it wasn't long before their parents
appeared on their doorsteps. "Why not?" Mom said. "Being homeless is an
adventure.
10th Grade
On-level—Read one book from either the 10th grade Good
Reads list or from the 10th grade Challenging
Good Reads list.
Pre-AP—Read one book from the 10th grade Good Reads list
and one from the 10th grade Challenging Good Reads
list.
Good Reads for 10th Grade
Ironman Crutcher
Beauregard Brewster, a would-be Ironman triathlete, chronicles
the events that ensue after he insults an oppressive teacher and is forced to
take an anger-management class with other troubled students. In training his
body to be powerful enough to endure a race that pushes competitors through a
two and a half mile swim, a 112-mile bike race, and a 26-mile run, Beau learns
to control and develop his emotional strength as well.
My Sister’s Keeper Picoult
Anna was born to be a donor—her parents conceived her to be a
perfect match for her cancer-ridden older sister. Since birth, the 13-year-old
has donated platelets, blood, her umbilical cord, and bone marrow as part of her
family's struggle to lengthen Kate's life. Anna is now being considered as a
kidney donor in a last-ditch attempt to save her 16-year-old sister. As this
compelling story opens, Anna has hired a lawyer to represent her in a medical
emancipation suit, fighting her own family for the right to have control over
her own body and perhaps allow her sister to die.
The Color of Water
McBride
This book tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the
two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born a
Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New
York City, leaving her family and faith behind in Virginia. Jordan met and
married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. While this is
Ruth’s story, it is also the story of her children and how their strong mother
helped them to create their own identities.
Speak Anderson
Since the beginning of the school year, high school freshman
Melinda has found that it's been getting harder and harder for her to speak out
loud. What could have caused Melinda to suddenly fall mute? Could it be due to
the fact that no one at school is speaking to her because she called the cops
and got everyone busted at the seniors' big end-of-summer party? Or maybe it's
because her parents' only form of communication is Post-It notes written on
their way out the door to their nine-to-whenever jobs. While Melinda is bothered
by these things, deep down she knows the real reason why she's been struck mute.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Alvarez
Fifteen stories about Yolanda, Carla, Sofia, and Candi, four
sisters who fled their home in the Dominican Republic when they were young,
begin with their separate adult lives as Americans. How they got where they are
is the real story—from their joyful childhood on the island, though political
turmoil, tragedy, and isolation—to find who they are as a family.
Challenging Good Reads for 10th Grade
The Kite Runner Hosseini
The Kite Runner
follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul,
and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively
stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend
idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful
warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship
forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever
predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted
by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the
sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn
native land after it comes under Taliban rule.
Autobiography of a Face Grealy
At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially
terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed,
she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir,
Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without
sentimentality and with considerable wit. Though her experience is unique, Lucy
shares one need we all have: to feel that more than anything else we want to be
loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.
The Mists of Avalon Bradley
Even readers who don't normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love
this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne.
Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling
of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and
promote their respective worldviews.
Animal Dreams
Kingsolver
Codi Noline returns to the sleepy mining town of Grace, Arizona,
to care for her father, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. It is a bad
time for her: disappointed in her personal life, she has closed down her
emotions in defense against a heart that cares too easily. "I had quietly begun
to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed,"
she muses. In Grace, she finds friends, allies, and a love that endures.
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Roberts
We may know their names—Martha Washington, Abigail Adams—but we
don’t know much else about the wives, sisters, and mothers of the men who
founded our nation. While their men were away serving as soldiers, statesmen,
or ambassadors, the women's lives were fraught with difficulty and danger. They
managed property, and raised their children and often those of deceased
relatives, while trying to make their own contributions to the cause of liberty.
They acted as spies, coordinated boycotts, and raised funds for the army.
Through it all, they corresponded with their husbands, friends, and even
like-minded women in England, and now we have the chance to know them in their
own words.
Peace Like a River Enger
In the winter of Rube Lands’ 11th year, two schoolyard bullies
break into the Lands' house, and Rube's big brother Davy guns them down with a
Winchester. Shortly after his arrest, Davy breaks out of jail and goes on the
lam. Swede is Rube's younger sister, a precocious writer who crafts rhymed epics
of romantic Western outlawry. Shortly after Davy's escape, Rube, Swede, and
their father, a widowed school custodian, hit the road too, swerving this way
and that across Minnesota and North Dakota, determined to find their lost outlaw
Davy. In the end it's not Rube who haunts the reader's imagination, it's his
father, torn between love for his outlaw son and the duty to do the right,
honest thing.
11th Grade
On-level—Read one book from either the 11th grade Good Reads
list or from the 11th grade Challenging Good Reads list.
ONE REQUIRED FOR SUMMER READING
Shadow Divers
Kurson
In
1991, divers John Chatterton and Rich Kohler came across the buried remains of a
German submarine just off the coast of New Jersey. Unable to identify the ship
and mystified as to its origins, the two men became obsessed with learning where
the U-boat came from and what brought it to the bottom of the sea.
Whale Talk
Crutcher
T. J. Jones is black,
Japanese, and white; his given name is The Tao (honest!), and he's the son of a
woman who abandoned him when she got heavily into crack and crank. As a child he
was full of rage, but now as a senior in high school he's pretty much overcome
all that. Injustice, however, still fills him with fury. So when big-deal
football star Mike Barbour bullies brain-damaged Chris Coughlin for wearing his
dead brother's letter jacket, T.J. hatches a scheme for revenge.
Bag of Bones
King
The
hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while
investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret
herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in
Dark Score Lake. As in King's
previous book,
Wizard and Glass,
the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right
out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Kitchen Confidential
Bourdain
Most
diners believe that their wonderful food, was created by a cooking artist of the
highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more
brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential,
that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out
moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak
thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and
incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase.
Five People You Meet in
Heaven Alborn
Mitch
Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories,
all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at
Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie,
unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical
business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final
moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment
and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to
Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over
candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom
follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five
pivotal figures from his life.
Hole in My Life
Gantos
"I find myself moving like a knife, carving my way around people, cutting myself
out of their picture and leaving nothing of myself behind but a hole." A gaping
hole of misery is what popular young adult author Jack Gantos remembers when he
thinks back to 1972, "the bleakest year of my life." Just 20 years old, Gantos
was in a medium security prison for his participation in a get-rich-quick drug
scam.
The Lovely Bones
Sebold
When we
first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this
strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a
fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the
weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth continuing without
her-her school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family
holding out hope that she'll be found, her killer trying to cover his tracks. As
months pass without leads, Susie sees her parents' marriage being contorted by
loss, her sister hardening herself in an effort to stay strong, and her little
brother trying to grasp the meaning of the word gone.
11th Grade AP
1. Read one book from the following choices: The Devil
in the White City, Emma’s War, 1776, The Greatest Generation
2. Read one book from the AP Outside Reading List. Choose
from the 11th grade selections with the exclusions
of The Adventures of Huck Finn, As I Lay Dying, Catch 22, The Catcher in the
Rye, A Farewell To Arms, The Great Gatsby, Scarlet Letter, Slaughterhouse-Five,
and The Sun Also Rises
The Devil in the White City
Larson
Larson
tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for
the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a
charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he
was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to
construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts
to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully
related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill
Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr.
Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time
of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair
Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used
the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining
the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating
chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and
horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's
skillful writing.
Emma’s War
Scroggins
In 1991,
in the middle of a refugee crisis in southern Sudan, a twenty-seven-year-old
British aid worker named Emma McCune scandalized the relief community by
marrying a local guerrilla leader; the author describes Emma's brief career as a
"First Lady-in-Waiting" as "the kind of surreal sideshow that often accompanies
disasters." Formerly a champion of children's rights, Emma couldn't stop her
husband from holding hundreds of adolescent boys in a squalid camp. Although she
embraced the hardships of African life (bouts of malaria, water teeming with
bilharzia), she was well-fed by local standards, eating fish that her husband's
soldiers had stolen from a weaker, starving tribe. Meanwhile, Emma's
fellow-expatriates grew less enchanted with her the more "African" she
became—sick and constantly in need. Scroggins, a veteran reporter on Sudan, uses
Emma's story to examine the failure of Western idealism in Africa. Emma turned
out to be an incidental character: she died in 1993, in a traffic accident in
Nairobi; the fighting continues.
1776
McCullough
Esteemed
historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of
1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new
scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution.
It was a turbulent and confusing time. As British and American politicians
struggled to reach a compromise, events on the ground escalated until war was
inevitable. McCullough writes vividly about the dismal conditions that troops on
both sides had to endure, including an unusually harsh winter, and the role that
luck and the whims of the weather played in helping the colonial forces hold off
the world's greatest army. He also effectively explores the importance of
motivation and troop morale--a tie was as good as a win to the Americans, while
anything short of overwhelming victory was disheartening to the British, who
expected a swift end to the war.
The Greatest Generation
Brokaw
Veteran
reporter and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went to France to make a
documentary marking the 40th anniversary of D-day in 1984. Although he was
thoroughly briefed on the historical background of the invasion, he was totally
unprepared for how it would affect him emotionally. Flooded with childhood
memories of World War II, Brokaw began asking veterans at the ceremony to
revisit their past and talk about what happened, triggering a chain reaction of
war-torn confessions and Brokaw's compulsion to capture their experiences in
what he terms "the permanence a book would represent." After almost 15 years and
hundreds of letters and interviews, Brokaw wrote The Greatest Generation,
a representative cross-section of the stories he came across. However, this
collection is more than a mere chronicle of a tumultuous time, it's history made
personal by a cast of everyday people transformed by extraordinary
circumstances: the first women to break the homemaker mold, minorities suffering
countless indignities to boldly fight for their country, infantrymen who went on
to become some of the most distinguished leaders in the world, small-town kids
who became corporate magnates.
ONE REQUIRED FOR SUMMER READING
Various works appearing on the AP Exam open-ended
question list since 1976
The Age of Innocence—Wharton
Alias Grace—Atwood
All the King’s Men—Warren
All the Pretty Horses—McCarthy
Another Country—Baldwin
The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man—Johnson
Beloved—Morrison
Billy Budd—Melville
Black Boy--Wright
Bleak House—Dickens
Bless Me, Ultima—Anaya
The Bluest Eye—Morrison
The Bonesetter’s Daughter----Tan
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof—Williams
Cat’s Eye—Atwood
The Centaur—Updike
Ceremony—Silko
The Color Purple—Walker
Crime and Punishment—Dostoevsky
Cry, the Beloved Country—Paton
Dreaming in Cuban—Garcia
Fifth Business—Davies
For Whom the Bell Tolls—Hemingway
A Gathering of Old Men—Gaines
Going After Cacciato—O’Brien
The Grapes of Wrath—Steinbeck
House Made of Dawn—Momaday
In the Lake of the Woods—O’Brien
The Jungle—Upton Sinclair
Lord Jim—Conrad
Madame Bovary—Flaubert
The Member of the Wedding—McCullers
Moby Dick—Melville
Monkey Bridge—Cao
My Antonia—Cather
Native Son—Wright
Obasan—Kogawa
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Garcia-Marquez
Out of Africa----Denison
Passage to India—Forster
The Power and the Glory—Greene
Ragtime—Doctorow
The Remains of the Day—Ishiguro
A Room With a View—Forster
The Shipping News—Proulx
Snow Falling on Cedars—Guterson
A Streetcar Named Desire—Williams
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Hurston
Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Stowe
Wide Sargasso Sea—Rhys
The Woman Warrior—Kingston
12th Grade
On-level—Read one book from the following choices: Caramelo or
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Caramelo
Cisneros
Caramelo,
Sandra Cisneros's first novel since her celebrated
The House on Mango Street, weaves a large yet intricate pattern, much
like the decorative fringe on a rebozo, the traditional Mexican shawl. Through
the eyes of young Celaya, or Lala, the Reyes family saga twists and turns over
three generations of truths, half-truths, and outright lies. And, like Celaya's
grandmother's prized caramelo (striped) rebozo, so is "the universe a
cloth, and all humanity interwoven.... Pull one string and the whole thing comes
undone." The Reyes clan, from Awful Grandmother Soledad and her favorite son
Inocencio to
Celaya,
follow their destinies from Mexico City
to the U.S. armed forces, jobs upholstering furniture, and to Chicago and San
Antonio.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Haddon
Mark
Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of
Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically
gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can
barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is
told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his
elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's
poodle, Wellington,
impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in
his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher
resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just
who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his
school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily
illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
12th Grade AP
Read one book from the following choices: Caramelo
or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Read one book from the AP Outside Reading List. Choose
from the 12th grade selections with the exclusions
of Hamlet, Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and
Prejudice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
ONE REQUIRED FOR SUMMER READING
Caramelo Cisneros
Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros's first novel since her celebrated The House on Mango
Street, weaves a large yet intricate pattern, much like the decorative fringe on
a rebozo, the traditional Mexican shawl. Through the eyes of young Celaya, or
Lala, the Reyes family saga twists and turns over three generations of truths,
half-truths, and outright lies. And, like Celaya's grandmother's prized caramelo
(striped) rebozo, so is "the universe a cloth, and all humanity interwoven....
Pull one string and the whole thing comes undone." The Reyes clan, from Awful
Grandmother Soledad and her favorite son Inocencio to Celaya, follow their
destinies from Mexico City to the U.S. armed forces, jobs upholstering
furniture, and to Chicago and San Antonio.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Haddon
Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of
Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically
gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can
barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is
told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his
elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's
poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him
cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night
in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and
neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by
Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his
investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given
its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
ONE REQUIRED FOR SUMMER READING
Various works appearing on the AP Exam open-ended question list since 1976
Absalom, Absalom—Faulkner (1976, 2000)
Adam Bede---- Eliot, G. (2006)
The Age of Innocence—Wharton (1997, 2002, 2003B, 2005)
Agnes of God—Pielmeier (2000)
Alias Grace—Atwood (2000, 2004)
All My Sons—Miller (1985, 1990)
All the King’s Men—Warren (2000, 2002, 2004)
All the Pretty Horses—McCarthy (1996)
The American----(2005)
An American Tragedy—Dreiser (1982, 1995, 2003)
Anna Karenina—Tolstoy (1980, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006)
Another Country—Baldwin (1995)
Anthony and Cleopatra—Shakespeare (1980, 1991)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz—Richler (1994)
As You Like It----Shakespeare (2005, 2006, 2006B)
The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man—Johnson (2002, 2005)
Beloved—Morrison (1990, 1999, 2001, 2002B, 2003, 2005B)
A Bend in the River—Naipaul (2003B)
Benito Cereno—Melville (1989)
Billy Budd—Melville (1979, 1981, 182, 1983, 1985, 1999, 2002, 2005)
Black Boy----Wright, (2006)
The Birthday Party—Pinter (1989, 1997)
Bleak House—Dickens (2000)
The Bluest Eye—Morrison (1995)2006,
The Bonesetter’s Daughter----Tan ( 2006)
Brighton Rock—Greene (1979)
The Brothers Karamazov—Dostoevsky (1990)
Candida—Shaw (1980)
Candide—Voltaire (1980, 1985, 1987, 1991, 2004, 2006B)
The Caretaker—Pinter (1985)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof—Williams (2000, 2002B)
Cat’s Eye—Atwood (1994)
The Centaur—Updike (1981)
Ceremony—Silko (1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003B, 2005B, 2006)
The Cherry Orchard—Chekhov (1977)
The Color Purple—Walker (1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005))
Coming Through Slaughter—Ondaatje (2001)
Crime and Punishment—Dostoevsky (1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2002B, 2003, 2004, 2005B)
The Crisis—duBois? (1976)
Cry, the Beloved Country—Paton (1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1996)
David Copperfield—Dickens (1978, 1983 2006)
The Dead—Joyce (1997)
Death of a Salesman—Miller (1986, 1988, 1994, 2002B, 2003, 2004, 2005)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich—Tolstoy (1986)
Delta Wedding—Welty (1997)
Desire Under the Elms—O’Neill (1979, 1981)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant—Tyler (1997)
The Divine Comedy----Dante (2006B)
The Diviners—Laurence (1995)
The Dollmaker—Arnow (1981, 1991)
A Doll’s House—Ibsen (1983, 1987, 1988, 1995, 2002B, 2005)
Don Quixote—Cervantes (1992, 2001, 2004, 2006)
Dr. Faustus—Marlowe (1979, 1986, 1999, 2004)
Dreaming in Cuban—Garcia (2003B)
Dutchman—Knaak (2003B, 2006B)
Emma—Austen (1996)
An Enemy of the People—Ibsen (1976, 1980, 1987, 1999, 2001)
Equus—Shaffer (1992, 1999, 2000, 2001)
The Fall—Camus (1979, 1981)
The Father—Strindberg (2001)
Fathers and Sons—Turgenev (1990)
Faust—Goethe (2002, 2003)
Fences—Wilson (2002, 2003, 2005B)
Fifth Business—Davies (2000)
A Fine Balance—Mistry (2003B)
For Whom the Bell Tolls—Hemingway (2003, 2006)
A Gathering of Old Men—Gaines (2000)
A Gesture Life—Lee (2004, 2005)
Ghosts—Ibsen (2000, 2002B, 2004)
The Glass Menagerie—Williams (1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002)
Going After Cacciato—O’Brien (2001, 2006B)
The Good Soldier—Ford (2000)
Go Tell It on the Mountain—Baldwin (1988, 1990 2005)
The Grapes of Wrath—Steinbeck (1981, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2003B, 2006)
Great Expectations—Dickens (1979, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000,
2001, 2002, 2002B, 2003B, 2004, 2005B)
Gulliver’s Travels—Swift (1987, 1989, 2001, 2004, 2006B)
Hairy Ape—O’Neill (1989)
The Handmaid’s Tale—Atwood (1992, 2003B)
Hard Times—Dickens (1987, 1990)
Heart of Darkness—Conrad (1976, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2002B,
2003B, 2004, 2006B)
Hedda Gabler—Ibsen (1979, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005B)
Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2—Shakespeare (1980, 1990)
Henry V—Shakespeare (2002)
The Homecoming—Pinter (1978, 1990)
House Made of Dawn—Momaday (1995, 2006)
The House of the Seven Gables—Hawthorne (1989)
In the Lake of the Woods—O’Brien (2000)
J. B.—MacLeish (1981, 1994)
Jasmine—Mukherjee (1999)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone—Wilson (2000, 2004)
Joseph Andrews—Fielding (1991)
Jude the Obscure—Hardy (1976, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995)
The Jungle—Upton Sinclair (1987)
King Lear—Shakespeare (1977, 1978, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006)
Light in August—Faulkner (1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1995, 1999, 2002B, 2003,
2006B)
The Little Foxes—Hellman (1985, 1990)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night—O’Neill (1990, 2003)
Lord Jim—Conrad (1977, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2000, 2003)
Love Medicine—Erdrich (1995)
The Loved One—Waugh (1989)
Madame Bovary—Flaubert (1980, 1985, 2005, 2006)
Main Street—Lewis (1987)
Major Barbara—Shaw (1979, 1996, 2004)
Man and Superman—Shaw (1981)
Mansfield Park—Austen (1991, 2003B, 2006)
Master Harold ... and the Boys—Fugard (2003B)
Mayor of Casterbridge—Hardy (1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2002B)
The Member of the Wedding—McCullers (1997)
The Merchant of Venice—Shakespeare (1985, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2003B)
Middlemarch—Eliot (2004, 2005)
Middle Passage---- (2006B)
The Mill on the Floss—Eliot (1990, 1992)
Miss Lonelyhearts—West (1989)
Moby Dick—Melville (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005B, 2006B,)
Moll Flanders—Defoe (1976, 1977, 1986, 1987, 1995)
Monkey Bridge—Cao (2000, 2003B)
Mother Courage and Her Children—Brecht (1985, 1987, 2006B)
Mrs. Dalloway—Woolf (1994, 1997, 2005)
Mrs. Warren’s Profession—Shaw (1987, 1990, 1995, 2002)
Much Ado About Nothing—Shakespeare (1997)
Murder in the Cathedral—Eliot (1976, 1980, 1985, 1990)
My Antonia—Cather (2003B)
My Last Duchess—Browning (1985)
My Name is Asher Lev—Potok (2003B)
Native Son—Wright (1979, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1995, 1999, 2001)
Native Speaker—Lee (1999, 2003B, 2005B)
No Exit—Sartre (1986)
Obasan—Kogawa (1994, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2006B)
O Pioneers!----Cather (2006)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Kesey (2001)
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Garcia-Marquez (1989)
The Optimist’s Daughter—Welty (1994)
Orlando—Woolf (2004)
Our Mutual Friend—Dickens (1990)
Our Town—Wilder (1986, 1997)
Out of Africa----Denison (2006)
Peer Gynt---- (2006B)
Pale Fire—Nabokov (2001)
Pamela—Richardson (1986)
Paradise Lost—Milton (1985, 1986)
Passage to India—Forster (1977, 1978, 1988, 1991, 1992)
Pere Goriot—Balzac (2002)
Persuasion—Austen (1990, 2005)
Phedre—Racine (1992, 2003)
The Piano Lesson—Wilson (1996, 1999, 2002B)
The Plague—Camus (2002)
The Playboy of the Western World—Synge (2002B)
Pain—Nabokov (1997)
Pocho—Villareal (2002)
The Portrait of a Lady—James (1988, 1992, 1996, 2003B,2005)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—Joyce (1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1986,
1988, 1996, 1999, 2004 2005, 2006)
The Power and the Glory—Greene (1995)
Praisesong for the Widow—Marshall (1996)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—Sparks (1990)
Ragtime—Doctorow (2003)
Redburn—Melville (1987)
The Remains of the Day—Ishiguro (2000, 2003B)
Richard II—Shakespeare (1979)
Richard III—Shakespeare (1987)
A Room of One’s Own—Woolf (1976)
A Room With a View—Forster (2003B)
Sent for You Yesterday—Wideman (2003)
A Separate Peace—Knowles (1982)
The Shipping News—Proulx (1997)
Sister Carrie—Dreiser (1987, 2002, 2004)
Song of Solomon—Morrison (1979, 1981, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2002B, 2005B, 2006B)
Sons and Lovers—Lawrence (1977, 1990)
The Sound and the Fury—Faulkner (1986, 1997, 2001, 2004)
The Stranger—Camus (1979, 1982, 1986)
A Streetcar Named Desire—Williams (1991, 1992, 2001)
Sula—Morrison (1992, 1997, 2002, 2004)
Tartuffe—Moliere (1987)
The Tempest—Shakespeare (1978, 1996, 2003B)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles—Hardy (1982, 1991, 2003)
To the Lighthouse—Woolf (1977, 1986, 1988)
Tom Jones—Fielding (1990, 2000, 2006)
The Trial—Kafka (1989, 2000)
Tristram Shandy—Sterne (1986)
Twelfth Night—Shakespeare (1985, 1994, 1996)
Typical American—Jen (2002, 2003B, 2005B)
Victory—Conrad (1983)
Volpone—Janson (1983)
Waiting for Godot—Beckett (1977, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1994, 2001)
The Warden—Trollope (1996)
Washington Square—James (1990)
Watch on the Rhine—Hellman (1987)
The Watch that Ends the Night—MacLennan (1992)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—Albee (1988, 1994, 2000, 2004)
Wide Sargasso Sea—Rhys (1989, 1992, 2005)
The Wild Duck—Ibsen (1978)
Winter in the Blood—Welch (1995)
The Winter’s Tale—Shakespeare (1986, 1989, 2006)
The Woman Warrior—Kingston (1991)
The Zoo Story—Albee (1982, 2001)
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