Burlingame High School - Summer Reading List 2008

Freshman

CP - CP classes must choose two books. They may be from either list. At least one book must come from List Two.
AS - Students entering AS must choose a total of three books. At least one book must come from List Two.

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Hoopster by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

• Massive by Julia Bell
• Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe

List Two:

• Montana 1948 by Larry Watson

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Sophomore Summer Reading

CP - Read at least two of the following:

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Longitude by Dava Sobel
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

• A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

AS - Required title plus two others:

• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger *Required

• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

• The Power of One by Bryce Courtney
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Juniors

Book A

Book B

List C

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

• The Amazing Adventures
  of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
• We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• My Antonia by Willa Cather

CP - Choose any two titles from the list:

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Macho by Victor Villaseñor
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Senior Summer Reading

CP - You will be reading two books this summer in preparation for your senior English class. Choose one book from this list and choose one autobiography or biography of your choice.

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Milagro Beanfield War by John Treadwell Nichols

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
• The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

AP - Purchase, read and annotate:

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

The following pairs of books comprise a conversation that should take place between the two books and yourself. They have some idea in common which should be clear enough by the time you finish reading them. While there is no required order, you might consider reading Foster’s book first as a way of preparing to read the two novels.

• Beowulf Seamus Heaney translation and Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
• Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros and The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Obasan by Joy Kogawa
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and The Fall by Albert Camus