Summer Reading

Senior M.A.P.P.

Rising third graders: please read The Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, in addition to reading and completing an AR quiz for three of the following books:

• The Bathwater Gang by Spinelli, Jerry
• anything from the Berenstein Bears series by Berenstein, Stan and Jan
• Be Careful What You Wish For by Stine, R.L.
• Best Wishes by Rylant, Cynthia
• The BFG by Dahl, Roald
• The Borrowers by Norton, Mary
• The Boxcar Children by Warner, Gertrude Chandlier
• Bridge to Terabithia by Paterson, Katherine
• The Castle in the Attic by Winthrop, Elizabeth
• Charlotte's Web by White, E.B.
• Davy Crockett by Parks, Aileen Wells
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell, Scott
• It's Not the End of the World by Blume, Judy
• Fudge-A-Mania by Blume, Judy
• The Pain and the Great One by Blume, Judy
• Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Blume, Judy
• Henry Fordby Aird, Hazel
• Helen Keller by Wilkie, Katharine E
• The Lemonade Trick by Corbett, Scott
• The Littles by Peterson, John
• Maniac Magee by Spinelli, Jerry
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Cleary, Beverly
• The Princess and the Pea by Anderson, Hans Christian
• The Rescuers by Sharp, Margery
• Sideway Stories from Wayside School by Sachar, Louis
• The Star Maiden by Esbensen, Barbara

Rising fourth graders, please read The Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, in addition to reading and completing an AR quiz for three of the following books:

• Artemis Fowl by Colfer, Eoin
• Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Colfer, Eoin
• Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Colfer, Eoin
• Be Careful What You Wish For by Stine, R.L.
• Best Wishes by Rylant, Cynthia
• The BFG by Dahl, Roald
• The Borrowers by Norton, Mary
• Bridge to Terabithia by Paterson, Katherine
• Call it Courage by Sperry Armstrong
• The Castle in the Attic by Winthrop, Elizabeth
• Charlotte's Web by White, E.B.
• Davy Crockett by Parks, Aileen Wells
• The Ersatz Elevator by Snickett, Lemony
• Fudge-A-Mania by Blume, Judy
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Rowling, J.K. (worth two books)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Rowling, J.K. (worth two books)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Rowling, J.K. (worth two books)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Rowling, J.K. (worth two books)
• Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by Rowling, J.K. (worth two books)
• Henry Fordby Aird, Hazel
• Helen Keller by Wilkie, Katharine E
• It's Not the End of the World by Blume, Judy
• The Littles by Peterson, John
• Maniac Magee by Spinelli, Jerry
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Cleary, Beverly
• The Pain and the Great One by Blume, Judy
• The Rescuers by Sharp, Margery
• Sideway Stories from Wayside School by Sachar, Louis
• The Twenty-One Balloons by Dubois, William
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Rawls, Wilson

Middle Grades

Fifth graders are to read the first two books plus one free choice book, three books total.

Sixth graders are to read the first three books plus one free choice book, four books total.

Seventh graders are to read all four books plus one free choice book, five books total.

Reading assignments:

1. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2. Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
3. Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
4. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
5. Free choice—any book of your choice off the AR list or this list

Upper School

You are required to read four books over the summer. Please look below for the class level you will be in next fall. You will find the list of titles you are responsible for reading before school begins. You must pass the AR test on all four titles by August 27th.

Rising 7th graders:

1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
2. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
3. Farenheit 451 by Rad Bradbury
4. And one title of your own choosing from the AR list

English 8/9:

1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. And one title of your own choosing from the AR list

Advanced English 8/9:

1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. And one title of your own choosing from the AR list

English 10, 11, 12:

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. One of the following plays:
   1. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
   2. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
   3. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
   or Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
4. And one title of your own choosing from the AR list

Advanced Placement Composition:

1. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
   This book is not on the AR list; if you choose to read it, an essay will be due on 8/27.
   Essay topic: Explain how the structure of the novel, a series of exchanges by letter, helps accentuate the idea that love is a stragety not unlike war.
   Principal points of emphasis:
   • How does the novel reflect the culture of the 18th century French aristocracy?
   • How is sex a weapon?
   • How do the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont ironically become instruments of their own destruction?