Summer Reading 2009


 













Entering 7th Grade: EN001

Required Reading:

1. House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. Simon Pulse Publisher
ISBN13#978-0689852237
2. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Laurel Leaf Publisher
ISBN13 #978-0440227533

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Entering 8th Grade: (same as last year) EN050

Required Reading:

1. Going Solo by Roald Dahl. Puffin Classics Publisher
ISBN 13#978-0141303109
2. That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton. Puffin Unicorn Publisher
ISBN 13#978-0140389661
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell. Signet Classics
ISBN 13 #

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Entering 9th Grade:EN101

Required Reading:

1. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Anchor Press ISBN #0-385-49478-5
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Warner Books ISBN# 0-44631078-6
3. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Ballantine Books ISBN # 0-345—41005-X

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Entering 10th Grade:EN201

Required Reading:

1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Vintage Books ISBN # 0-679-74558-0
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Ballantine Books, Inc. ISBN # 0-345-36179-2
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Charles Scribner’s & Sons ISBN# 0-684-80335-6

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Entering 11th Grade: EN301

Required Reading:

1. In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick Penquin Book, Inc.
ISBN# 0-14-100182-8
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Vintage Books
ISBN #0-307-38789-5
3. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner Paperback Fiction.
ISBN #9780684822761

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Entering 11th Grade: EN605: AP LANGUAGE

Required Reading:

1. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Charles Scribner’s & Sons ISBN # 0-684-83339-5
2. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback. Penquin Group (USA) Inc. ISBN # 0-14-303943-1
3. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scribner. ISBN # 978-068424482 / #0684824485

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Entering 12th Grade: EN401

Required Reading:

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Anchor (September 1, 1994
ISBN-13: 978-0385474542
2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Vintage (October 7, 2003)
ISBN-13: 978-1400034710
3. Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN-13: 9780143038580

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Entering 12th Grade: EN602 : AP Literature

Required Reading:

1. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Penguin Classics ISBN # 0-316-92634-5
2. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. Harvest Books ISBN# 0-15-671142-7
3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown and Company ISBN # 0-31692634-5

 

 

Faculty

Mrs. Sally Walsh
Department Chair
B.A. Yale University
M.A. Columbia University
M.A. New York University
(973)538-3231 x2372

Mr. Andrew Baird
B.A., Brown University
X2348

Mr. John Barincle
B.S., Quincy College
X2302

Ms. Katharine L. Beck
B.A., Union College
M.A., Seton Hall University
X2344

Mr. Michael Carr, ’01
B.S., Boston University
X2368

Rev. Brian H. Clarke, O.S.B.
B.A. St. Vincent College
M.A. Seton Hall University
X3033

Mr. Robert Flynn
B.A., Trinity College
X2339

Mr. Douglas Goodale
B.A., Franklin & Marshall College
X2334

Mr. Michael McGoldrick
B.A., Yale University
X2346

Mr. Christopher J. Pillette
B.S., University of Oregon
X2362

Mr. Michael P. Vermylen ’95
B.A., Yale University
Diploma, University of St. Andrews
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
X2375

Mr. Sean Gleeson
B.A., Williams College
x2324

 

Recommended Reading

The English Department has also provided a list of recommended books that have emerged through word of mouth from students as enjoyable, interesting books. We hope our students will want to go beyond the required summer reading and explore topics and genres that interest them.

Click here to access the list.