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The Anacapa School 2008 Summer Reading Department of English Lower School Required: The Hobbit, Tolkien Recommended: A Single Shard, Park A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery Dicey's Song, Voigt Hatchet, Paulsen Holes, Sachar Homecoming, Voigt Julie of the Wolves, George Kidnapped, Stevenson Kim, Kipling The Little House on the Prairie, Wilder Little Men, Alcott Little Women, Alcott Number the Stars, Lowry Out of the Dust, Hesse Redwall, Jacques Sarah, Plain and Tall, MacLachlan Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss The Bridge to Tarabithia, Paterson The Golden Compass, Pullman The Illustrated Man, Bradbury The Island of the Blue Dolphins, O’Dell The Jungle Book, Kipling The Little House on the Prairie,Wilder The Midwife's Apprentice, Cushman The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster The Secret Garden, Burnett Tisha, Specht Treasure Island, Stevenson KonigsburgWatership Down, Adams
Upper School
Required: The Chosen, Potok (Required of ALL Upper School Students) The Color Purple, Walker (Required of AP Lit Students Only) Recommended: A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Dorris Appearing Live at the Final Test, Teton April Morning, Fast Beloved, Morrison Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown Call of the Wild, London Catch 22, Heller Death Comes for the Archbishop, Cather East of Eden, Steinbeck For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway Franny and Zooey, Salinger Gone with the Wind, Mitchell Mama Day, Naylor My Ántonia, Cather My Name is Asher Lev, Potok Sister Carrie, Dreiser Skinwalkers, Hillerman Snow Falling on Cedars, Guterson The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck The Jungle, Sinclair The Milagro Beanfield War, Nichols The Natural, Malamud The Red Badge of Courage, Crane The Reivers, Faulkner The Sky Fisherman, Lesley Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee Turtle Moon, Hoffman
About the required books: For each grade level, there is one required book. Students in Advanced Placement (AP) Literature have two required books. English classes will be using these books at the beginning of the year, so be sure that you are prepared. You will be asked to discuss and write about them. They can be purchased from local bookstores (Chaucer's will have extra copies on hand for us) or borrowed from the Public Library.
Required for students entering 7th and 8th grades: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. These first lines of Tolkien’s The Hobbit introduce us to the hobbit-hole and the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who inhabits it, enjoying a comfortable life, but not for long. Soon the adventures begin with the arrival of a wizard and 13 fortune-seeking dwarves. This wonderful fantasy story, first published in 1937 by Anglo-Saxon scholar J.R.R. Tolkien, later led into the author’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.
Required for students entering 9th - 12th grades: The Chosen, by Chaim Potok For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other’s existence. These lines begin a story about Jewish boys, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, growing up in New York during the middle of the Twentieth Century, at the same time as a Jewish state is being formed in Israel. While you learn about their unusual culture, transplanted from Eastern Europe, you are entertained by “normal” American plot-lines involving baseball rivalries and girlfriend complications.
Additional required reading for students in Advanced Placement (AP) Literature: The Color Purple by Alice Walker Celie’s first letter begins, Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl. Maybe you could give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. This story is told through the half-literate letters that Celie, the protagonist, writes to God about her lonely, abused life with her “Pa” and later her husband. As dreadful as Celie’s experiences are, Walker makes the story surprising and funny, as Celie meets her husband’s girlfriend and other outrageous characters, and discovers herself in the process.
About the recommended books We also offer a list of recommended books for your enjoyment and edification. The books on this list were chosen for their literary value and their importance, but primarily because they are fun to read. They should be easy to get at the Public Library or bookstores.
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