Menlo School - Summer Reading List 2013

Visit the Menlo High School website for complete lists and instructions or use the list below for links into our catalog.

Note: All Menlo Students (Grades 6-12) are required to Read Wonder by Palacio

9th Grade

English 9:

• Book Thief by Zusak (Required)

10th Grade

English 10:

• Glass Castle: A Memoir by Walls (Required)

11th Grade

AP American Literature:

• Materials available via Menlo School

AP British Literature:

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

AP English Language:

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
  Abridged Bantam Classic edition preferred,
  which might be in these records
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Heath/Heath (Required

12th Grade

Shakespear 1S:

• Essays That Worked: 50 Essays from Successful Applications to the Nation's Top Colleges by Curry, Kasbar & Baer
• How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Marche

Representation Race 1S:

• Drown by Diaz

Looking Glass Self 1S:

• Power of One by Courtenay

Modern Writers in English H 1S:

• Room (use digital version on iPads) by Donoghue

Baseball Lit 1S:

• One Shot at Forever by Ballard

Freak Character in American Lit 1s:

• Collected Stories of Carson McCullers - McCullers (Not in PLS)

Myth, Archetypes & Lit 1S:

• One Shot at Forever by Ballard

Freak Character in American Lit 1s:

• Parallel Myths by Bierlein

War Stories 1S:

• Red Badge of Courage by Crane

American Rebels 1S:

• Detroit: An American Autopsy by LeDuff

World Religions 9:

• Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature by Brande

Modern World History 10:

• A newspaper project on current events will be assigned.

Essential Economics 1S:

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Ehrenreich

AP Microeconomics 1S:

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Ehrenreich

AP Latin Vergil:

• Caesar: Selections From His Commentarii de Bello Gallico by Caesar (Not in PLS)