Menlo-Atherton High School Summer Reading List 2008

Freshman

• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

• Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier

AS English I - Read the following:

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
  Abridged Bantam Classic edition preferred,
  which might be in these records

Sophomore

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indain by Sherman Alexie

AS English II - Required reading:

• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

• Timeline by Michael Crichton

Junior

• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

Junior AP Language - Read the following:

• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

Junior AS English III - Read the following:

• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Senior

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time by Mark Haddon

• Highwire Moon by Susan Straight

Senior AP Literature - Choose from the following:

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Atonement by Ian McEwan

Senior English IV Creative Writing - Read the following:

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg