Menlo-Atherton High School Summer Reading List 2013

Visit the Sequoia School District website for complete lists and instructions, or use the list below for links into our catalog.

Freshman

English I - Read one of the following:

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Sold by Patricia McCormick

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

Sophmore

English II - Read one of the following:

• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

AS English II (both books required)

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Plague by Albert Camus

Junior

English III - Read the following:

• Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock

English III SDAIE

• The Pearl by John Steinbeck

AP Language(both books required)

• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
• This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff

Senior

English IV (required)

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night –Time by Mark Haddon
• Highwire Moon by Susan Straight

English IV SDAIE

• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Creative Writing

• Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories by James Thomas and Robert Shapard