Bishop Hendricken High School
Summer Reading List --2008

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Please note that students assigned to ADVANCED PLACEMENT in Grades 11 and 12 have an entirely separate reading list, which is located below the Honors titles.
Grade 9

Summer 2008:
College Prep and College Prep I
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella

Honors:
Read the two above and the following:
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Grade 10

Summer 2008:

College Prep and College Prep 1:
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

Honors:
Read the two listed above and the following selection:
Team Mates by David Halberstam Remarque

Grade 11

Summer 2008:

College Prep and College Prep 1:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Honors:
Read the two listed above and the following selection:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Advanced Placement Grade 11:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology by Mahatma Gandhi, edited by Louis Fischer
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
 

Grade 12

Summer 2008

College Prep and College Prep 1
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Beowulf trans. Seamus Heaney

Honors:
Read the two listed above and the following selection:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Advanced Placement Grade 12:
Beowulf trans. Seamus Heaney
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Moby Dick, or The Whaleby Herman Melville