Summer Reading 2013

ARCHMERE ACADEMY SUMMER READING LIST- 2013

grade level applies to the 2013-14 school year

FRESHMEN:

To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee – Grand Central Publishing – ISBN #0446310786

The Alchemist - Coelho- Penguin – ISBN #9780061122415

Girl with a Pearl Earring – Chevalier – Plume – ISBN #0452282152

Bless Me, Ultima – Anaya – Grand Central Publishing – ISBN 13 #978-0446675369

SOPHOMORES:

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston – Harper Perennial Modern Classics – ISBN-10 #0061120065

Ethan Frome – Wharton – Signet – ISBN-10 #0451527666

Ordinary People-- Guest--Penguin – ISBN-10 #0140997180

The Alchemist—Gibbons—Vintage -- ISBN-13:# 9780061122415

SOPHOMORE HONORS ONLY—instead of Ordinary People, read:

The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne—Bantam – ISBN - 10 #0553210092

(You do not need to read “The Custom House”)

JUNIORS:

The Alchemist - Hardy – Penguin - ISBN – 10 #9780061122415

Pride and Prejudice - Austen – Dover – ISBN #0486284735

Brave New World – Huxley – Harper Perennial Modern Classic – ISBN- 10 #0060929871

All Quiet on the Western Front—Remarque—Ballantine Books – ISBN – 10 #0449213943

JUNIOR AP— instead of All Quiet on the Western Front, read:

Hard Times—Dickens—Barnes & Noble-- ISBN-13: 9781593081560

SENIORS:

White Noise – DeLillo – Penguin – ISBN #0140077022

The Joy Luck Club - Tan – Penguin – ISBN # 0143038095

The Alchemist – Hemingway – Scribner – ISBN #9780061122415

For your fourth book choose ONE of the following (any edition):

Atonement - McEwan

Ragtime - Doctorow

Deliverance –Dickey

AP LITERATURE SENIORS—instead of In Our Time, read:

*Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky (Gibian, editor; Coulson translation) -- Norton - ISBN #0393956237

OR Dostoevsky (Volokhonsky/Pevear translation) -- Vintage- ISBN #0679734503

Most books now have two ISBN #s; one 10 digit and one 13 digit

Also, see the grade-specific summer reading documents, posted on the department website, and below under "Student Downloads" for goals and information about each novel.