REQUIRED SUMMER READING | |
IIIrd form (Class of 2028) | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon (ISBN: 978-1400032716) Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo (ISBN: 978-0-593-17708-2) |
IVth form (Class of 2027) | Born a Crime, Trevor Noah (ISBN: 978-1473635302) Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo (ISBN: 978-0-593-17708-2) |
IVth form honors | Born a Crime, Trevor Noah (ISBN: 978-1473635302) Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo (ISBN: 978-0-593-17708-2) The Tradition, Jericho Brown (ISBN: 978-1556594861) *Optional but encouraged |
Vth form (Class of 2026) |
There There, Tommy Orange (Vintage ISBN-10: 0525436146 ISBN-13: 978-0525436140)
Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo (ISBN 978-0-593-17708-2)
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Vth form honors |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (Harvest; ISBN: 978-0156034029)
Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo (ISBN: 978-0-593-17708-2)
There There, Tommy Orange (Vintage ISBN-10: 0525436146 ISBN-13: 978-0525436140) *Optional but encouraged |
VIth form (Class of 2025) |
VIth form students (not enrolled in AP) are required to read two texts over the summer. In addition to reading Home is Not a Country by Afia Elhillo, we recommend incoming VIth form student read Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Students should read the text that corresponds to their English elective listed below. They receive their fall course schedules in early August.
REQUIRED FOR ALL VITH FORM Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo (ISBN: 978-0-593-17708-2) Suggested for all VIth Form Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (ISBN-13: 978-0593318171) FALL ELECTIVE CLASSES
Elements of Poetry Bright Dead Things: Poems, Ada Límon (ISBN-10: 1571314717, ISBN-13: 978-1571314710) Elements of Fiction Writing I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: A novel, Lorrie Morre Difficult Fruit Lunar Follies – Gilbert Sorrentino (ISBN: 978-1566891691) Witchcraft Circe – Madeline Miller (ISBN: 9781408890042) |
VIth form AP |
Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo (ISBN: 978-0-593-17708-2)
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (ISBN: 978-0385474542) A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki (ISBN: 978-0143124870) |