Dear Delbarton Students:
Below is your summer reading list. We are excited about the summer book choices and hope you will be, too. While you do not need to keep a journal or write an essay on these books, you should read the books actively and attentively. When you return to school in the fall, your teacher will lead activities to assess your comprehension of the books.
Please note that, beginning May 16, these books may be ordered directly from our online bookstore (MBS Direct). You will be able to order them simply by using the following URL: http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/delbarton.htm. Click on Order My Books, then select Summer Reading 2012.
We also encourage you to read for pleasure during the summer. Reading good books is the best way to improve your reading comprehension, reading rate, and vocabulary. Please go to your local bookstore and find works of fiction and nonfiction that interest you.
Finally, ALL students and faculty are required to read Eric Greitens’ The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL. This additional school-wide reading requirement addresses our educational goal of global awareness.
ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY: Required Reading:
1. The Heart and the Fist by Eric Greitens. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN# 978-0547424859 (school-wide text)
Entering 7th Grade (EN001): Required Reading:
1. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Scholastic. ISBN 13: 978-0-439-02352-8
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Penguin Classics. ISBN# 978-0140437683
Entering 8th Grade (EN050): Required Reading:
1. That was Then, This is Now by S. E. Hinton. Puffin Unicorn. ISBN 13: 978-0-14-038966-1
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell. Signet Classics. ISBN 13: 978-0-451-52634-2
Entering 9th Grade (EN101): Required Reading:
1. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Ballantine Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-345-41005-4
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN# 978-0446310789 (students should re-read this text if they have read it previously)
Entering 10th Grade (EN201): Required Reading:
1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Vintage Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-679-74558-7
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Ballantine Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-345-36179-0
Entering 11th Grade (EN301): Required Reading:
1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Vintage Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-307-38789-9
2. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. Penguin Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-14-100182-1
Entering 11th Grade: AP LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION (EN605): Required Reading:
1. Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley. Theatre Communications Group. ISBN 13: 978-1-55936-347-1
2. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Penguin Group (USA) Inc. ISBN 13 # 978-0-14-303943-3
3. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Charles Scribner’s & Sons. ISBN 13 # 978-0-684-80154-4
Entering 12th Grade (EN401): Required Reading:
1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Anchor Press. ISBN 13 # 978-0-385-47454-2
2. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. Ballantine Books. ISBN 13 # 978-0-345-49038-4
Entering 12th Grade: AP LITERATURE (EN602): Required Reading:
1. Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. Penguin Classics. ISBN 13 #978-0-14-143978-5
2. Never Let Me Go by Kuzuo Ishiguro. Vintage Books. ISBN 13 # 978-1-4000-7877-6
3. Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford. Vintage Books. ISBN 13 # 978-0-307-74420-3 (students should read only the first part, titled Some Do Not . . ., which is the first 310 pages of this edition)