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Summer Reading 2024: Upper School

class 12

Required Summer Reading for Class 12

English Elective: Contemporary American Poetry

  • Choose one of the following:
    • Mahogany by erica lewis (ISBN 9780819500779)
    • Hydra Medusa by Brandon Shimoda (ISBN 9781643621715)
    • The Thomas Salto by Timmy Straw (ISBN 9780578358543)

English Elective: Reimagining Austen

  • The Annotated Pride and Prejudice (revised and expanded edition) by Jane Austen (ISBN 9780307950901)

English Elective: Science Fiction

  • Severance by Ling Ma (ISBN 9781250214997)

English Elective: Shakespeare’s World

  • Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt (ISBN 97-0393352603

Art History

  • Ways of Seeing by John Berger (ISBN 9780140135152)

Advanced Biology

  • The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (ISBN 9781594482694)

Molecular Genetics

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (ISBN 9781400052189)

Advanced French IV

  • C'est bien by Philippe Delerm (ISBN 9782745990860)

Advanced French V

  • Tout bouge autour de moi by Dany Laferrière (ISBN 9782253162032)

Advanced Latin IV

  • Medea et Peregrinus Pulcherrimus (Latin edition) by Rachel Beth Cunning (ISBN 9781708842246)

Advanced Latin V

  • The Aeneid by Vergil and translated by Sarah Ruden (ISBN 9780300240108)

Advanced Spanish IV

  • La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca (ISBN 9788437622453)

Advanced Spanish V

  • Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel (ISBN 9780385721233)