Required Reading
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Please note that during the summer, incoming Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade students are required to read a total of six books. There is one required title that a student should read based on his advisory placement. Students will get information on their Advisory book selection in July. The other five books are free choice.
| Image | Name | Book Author | Description | Price | Buy | price_hsort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Grade 02 Required: Sam the Man & the Chicken Plan | Frances O’Roark Dowell | Sam the Man needs a job. His sister gets $20 a pop for mowing people’s … | $7.99 | 7.99 | |
 | Grade 03 Required: The Flight of the Phoenix (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist Book #1) | R.L. LaFevers | Nathaniel Fludd’s life has taken a turn for the worst. With his parents lost at … | $6.99 | 6.99 | |
 | Grade 04 Required: The Trail | Meika Hashimoto | Toby has to finish the final thing on The List. It’s a list of brave, … | $7.99 | 7.99 | |
 | Grade 05 Required: Scar Island | Dan Geneimhart | Jonathan Grisby is the newest arrival at the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys — … | $7.99 | 7.99 | |
 | Grade 09 Required: The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | The last of his novels Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea … | $12.99 | 12.99 | |
 | Grade 10 Required: The Odyssey | Homer, Emily Wilson (Translator) | Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is … | $18.95 | 18.95 | |
 | Grade 11 Required: Best American Short Stories of 2020 | Heidi Pitlor and Curtis Sittenfeld (Editors) | “To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing … | $16.99 | 16.99 | |
 | Grade 12/African American Lit Required: Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City | Antero Pietila | Eugenics, racial thinking, and White supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government’s actions toward housing … | $28.95 | 28.95 | |
 | Grade 12/Art of Truth Required: The Best American Essays 2018 | Hilton Als (Editor) | “The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you … | $15.99 | 15.99 | |
 | Grade 12/Award-Winning Novels Since 2000 Required: The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he … | $8.99 | 8.99 | |
 | Grade 12/Film & Literature Required: On Directing Film | David Mamet | Calling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed … | $16.00 | 16.00 | |
 | Grade 12/Heroic Journey Required: The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | The opening novel of The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which … | $8.99 | 8.99 | |
 | Grade 12/Leadership Lit Required: The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | This is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his … | $16.00 | 16.00 | |
 | Grade 12/Lit of the 60s Required: The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: young, brilliant, beautiful, and enormously talented, but … | $16.99 | 16.99 | |
 | Grade 12/Literary Letters Required: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he … | $15.99 | 15.99 | |
 | Grade 12/Ulysses Required: Dubliners | James Joyce | James Joyce was the singular figure of modernism, and to this day his grand vision … | $11.00 | 11.00 | |
 | Grade 12/Writers in Revolt Required: Animal Farm | George Orwell | “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is … | $9.99 | 9.99 |