New World School of the Arts High School

2008 Summer Reading List

9^th Grade English I		10^th Grade English II
Regular	Honors	Regular	Honors
Mythology by Edith Hamilton (Warner Books ISBN # 0-446-60725-8) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Students will be tested during the first week of school.	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (No library copies/any paper edition/try Oxford Classics, Barnes & Noble, or Pocket Books) Students will be tested on its three parts during the first two weeks of school. A unit test and critical essay follow on author’s methods and purpose.	Anthem by Ayn Rand A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines Students will be tested during the first three weeks of school.	Anthem by Ayn Rand Siddhartha by Herman Hesse A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Students will be tested during the first three weeks of school.

11^th Grade English III		12^th Grade English IV
Regular	Honors	*Regular & Honors
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (Must read all the short stories in the book) Students will be tested during the first three weeks of school.	The Jungle by Upton Sinclair A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Awakening by Kate Chopin A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (Must read all the short stories in the book) Students will be tested during the first three weeks of school.	*Both groups are expected to read the following novels… A House for Mister Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Silas Marner by George Eliot The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Students will be tested during the first three weeks of school.