Menlo-Atherton High School Summer Reading List 2012

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:

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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:

• Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

AS English II (both books required)

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Junior

English III - Choose one of the following:

• Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

AP Language and Composition (both books required)

• West with the Night by Beryl Markham
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

AS English III (both books required)

• Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

Senior

English IV (required)

• Add: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Creative Writing (both books required)

• Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories by James Thomas and Robert Shapard
• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg

AP Literature (both books required)

• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner