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St. Mary's Summer Reading

First year

  • Maus by Art Spiegelman
  • Whale Rider by Witi Inimaera
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • Honors added book The Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon


    Sophmore

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  • Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Honors added book The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner


    • Junior

  • Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • Honors added book Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck


    • Senior

  • The Once and Future King by T. H. White
  • Honors added book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

    • Southwick Summer Reading

    Grade 9 (all students) Night by Elie Wiesel

    Grade 10 (all students) Hiroshima by John Hersey

    Grade 11 (all students) The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride

    Grade 12 (A level) 1984 by George Orwell

    Grade 12 (B level) First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

    Advanced Placement students are required to read all three following books: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle

     

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    You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
    -- Dr. Seuss