DUXBURY HIGH SCHOOL 2007 REQUIRED SUMMER READING

In-coming Grade 9:

Barry, Dave & Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers

In-coming Grade 10: (One of the following)

Allen, Thomas, George Washington: spymaster

Bober, Natalie, Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Doctorow, E.L. The March: A Novel

Marrin, Albert, Commander-in-Chief: Lincoln and the Civil War

McCullough, David, Brave Companions

Shaara, Michael, Killer Angels

In-coming Grade 11: (One of the following)

Bradley, James, Flags of our Fathers

Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime

Freedman, Russell, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Wait Until Next Year

Hickam, Homer, October Sky

MacDonald, Michael, All Souls

Grade 11 AP English

King, Stephen, On Writing

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)

Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath

In-coming Grade 12: (One of the following)

Bryson, Bill, A Walk in the Woods

Chevalier, Tracy, Girl with the Pearl Earring

Tsukiama, Gail, A Samurai's Garden

Grade 12 AP English

Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll's House

Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D'Ubervilles

O'Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried

Paton, Alan, Cry the Beloved Country

Grade 12 AP European History (choose one)

Gaddis, John Lewis, The Cold War: a new history

Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra

Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ecstasy

Tuchman, Barbara , The March of Folly

Tuchman, The Guns of August