Salesianum School Summer Reading List 2009

All incoming freshmen are to read 2 of the following:

• Lord of the Flies — William Golding
• To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• Black Like Me — John Howard Griffin

*Many students have read one or more of the above selections during 7th or 8th grade. We request that students who have already read a book from the list please make another selection or read the book again to avoid failing the reading test. The reading test is a major grade for the 1st quarter, and many students fail it because they rely on their memory from junior high.

All sophomores are to read 2 of the following:

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time — Mark Haddon
• Ender’s Game — Orson Scott Card
• The Jester — James Patterson and Andrew Gross
• The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux — VERY different from any movie versions

* Students who were in Mrs. Dignan’s phase 4 freshman course are free to choose the last book in the series The Once and Future King as one of their choices.

All juniors are to read ONE of the following:

• The Killer Angels — Michael Shaara
• The Lords of Discipline — Pat Conroy *Warning: explicit description and language
• Eye of the World — Robert Jordan

Juniors: AP English Language and Composition read one of the above AND

• The Quiet American — by Graham Greene

All seniors NOT TAKING AP are to read TWO of the following:

• The Lost World — Michael Crichton
• Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer
• The Hunt for Red October — Tom Clancy
• The Kite Runner — Khaled Husseini * Warning: violent content

Seniors assigned to Mr. Crawford’s AP class are to read all of the following:

• Candide — Voltaire
• 1984 — George Orwell
• The Glass Menagerie — Tennessee Williams

Seniors assigned to Ursuline’s AP class (course #251) are to read all of the following:

• Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Wolff
• The Things They Carried — Tim O’Brien
• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald