SAINT JAMES SCHOOL hagerstown, MD 21740

2018 Summer Reading

Dear Parents and Students,

Independent reading is a crucial skill that our students must work on over the summer. Reading not only increases vocabulary and expands our knowledge of the world, but it also reinforces language acquisition skills and promotes fo- cused and concentrated industry. As a community of readers, we also know that reading can offer hours of entertainment and enjoyment. Sometimes all it takes is just the right book to turn someone into an avid reader, and we hope that book is somewhere on this list.

This year, the English Department has created a required summer reading assignment for all students, new and returning, to encourage and reinforce the idea of Saint James School as a community of readers. This common experience, and these shared stories, will hopefully create lively and new conversations, friendships, and classroom discussions in our early opening fall days together. The English Department’s required summer reading list is available at:

www.mbsdirect.net

Simply search for “Saint James School – Maryland” (you may also just search for “Saint James” – then click “Saint James School – Maryland” from the choices offered) and then go “Menu.” Click “Order Your Materials.” Go to “Summer Reading” and scroll down to find the appropriate class in which you are enrolled. Put a checkmark next to the course and then click “View Your Materials.” You will see several purchase options, depending on the title of the book. Check your course selections in Blackbaud to make sure you are ordering the right material. Books for the regular school year will be available on MBS beginning July 2.

I want this reading list to have good variety and a sense of personality. The faculty give something of themselves to this project by including their favorite authors and titles along with the recommended books from the various titles for college preparatory students. While there are plenty of other titles and authors from which we could choose, I think we have chosen wisely and well in both fiction and non-fiction this year.

With the encouragement of parents, we would like our students to pursue independent summer reading. In addition to the required titles in MBS, please select any two books from the lists below. Using the provided lists as a guide, visit your local libraries and bookstores with our recommended booklist in hand. Explore the list, read the book covers, do some research, talk to other readers; take the time to be an active participant in your education. There is something for everyone on our lists, and we hope you enjoy discovering the pleasure of a good story. Have a good and safe summer vacation. We look forward to seeing you this coming fall.

Marc Batson, Assistant Headmaster

Form 2 (Grade 8) (Read any two (2) of the following titles) Adams Born Free Claflin Sojourner Truth and Goodman The Winter Hare Holm North to Freedom the Struggle for Freedom Songs From Home Alcott Little Women Hunt Across Five Aprils Collier My Brother Sam is Dead Waiting for the Rain Baker The First Woman Doctor Gordon Huxley, A. Brave New World Cormier I Am The Cheese The Wind in Baum The Wizard of Oz Grahame Huxley, E. The Flame Trees The Chocolate War the Willows Beagle The Last Unicorn of Thika Craven I Heard the Owl Call Grey The Shortstop Borland When the Legends Die The Mottled Lizard My Name Herriot All Creatures Boston An Enemy at Green Knowe Great and Small Jacques Redwall Fast April Morning Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki Mariel of Redwall Frank Anne Frank: Crichton The Andromeda Strain The Diary of a Young Girl Hickam Rocket Boys Knowles A Separate Peace Christopher The White Mountain Forbes Johnny Tremain (October Sky) Konigsburg From the Mixed up (continued on page 2) Form 2 (Grade 8) (continued from page 1) Arnow The Dollmaker Golding The Lord of the Flies Proulx The Shipping News

Lewis Young Fu of the Asimov The Fantastic Voyage Goodwin No Ordinary Time Rice The Witching Hour UpperYangtze The Foundation Series Grisham The Testament, Interview With a Vampire Little From Anna Austin Pride and Prejudice, and many others Rifkin Entropy London The Call of the Wild and others Hamill Snow in August Ryan A Bridge Too Far White Fang Baldwin Go Tell It On The Hayslip When Heaven and Sears Landscape Turned Red Mountain Earth Changed Places Lord A Night to Remember Seth An Equal Music Beagle A Fine and Heinlein A Stranger in a Gods and Generals Lowry The Giver Private Place Strange Land Shaara, J. The Pushcart War Last Full Measure Merrill Binchy Circle of Friends Starship Troopers The Blue Sword Shaara, M. Killer Angels McKinley The Lilac Bus Heller Catch-22 The Hero and The Crown Sinclair The Jungle Bradley The Mists of Avalon Hemingway The Old Man Montgomery Anne of Green Gables Brinkley Washington Goes to War and the Sea Simmons Hyperion Series (& any other in the series) Brokaw The Greatest Generation For Whom the Bell Tolls Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Emily of New Moon Life of Ivan Denisovitch (& any other in the series) Brunner Due South Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany Spark The Prime of Joyce A Portrait of the Artist Mowat Never Cry Wolf Burger Sphereland Miss Jean Brodie as a Young Man O’Brien Z for Zachariah Camus The Stranger Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath King The Last Empress O’Dell Island of the BlueDolphins Carr The Alienist Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife Krakauer Into Thin Air Paulsen The Dogsong Carter The Education of Little Tree The Hundred Secret Senses Into the Wild Hatchet Carter The Late Shift Theroux The Mosquito Coast Lawrence & Lee Inherit the Wind Nightjohn Cervantes Don Quixote (part one) Tolkien The Lord of the Rings Least Heat-Moon Blue Highways Peterson The Bridge to Charriere Papillon Toole A Confederacy of Dunces Terabithia Leppek The Surrogate Assassin Chopin The Awakening Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun Rawlings The Yearling Letts Where the Heart Is Clancy The Hunt For Tryon The Other Remarque All Quiet on the Red October, and others Lewis Arrowsmith Turkle Life on the Screen Western Front Collins The Moonstone Malamud The Natural Tyler A Patchwork Planet Renault The King Must Die Conroy Lords of Discipline Mandela Long Walk to Freedom Tyler Ladder of Years Rowling Harry Potter Series Prince of Tides Mantel Eight Months on Gazzah Street Saint Maybe Sanders Clover Beach Music Markham West With The Night Uris Mila-18 Sleato Singularity The Water is Wide Marquez Hundred Years of Exodus Steinbeck The Acts of King Cooper The Dark is Rising Arthur and His Noble Knights Solitude Valens The Other Side of the Coupland Microserfs Mountain Taylor The Cay Massie Drednaught Dickens Bleak House Van Tilburg Clark The Ox-Bow Twain The Prince and Nicholas & Alexandra Dinesen Out of Africa Incident The Pauper Mathabane Kaffir Boy Dodd The Mourner’s Bench Walker The Color Purple Voight Homecoming Mayle A Year in Provence Donald Lincoln Wells Divine Secrets of the Wreed Dealing with Dragons McBride The Color of Water Eco The Name of the Rose Ya-Ya Sisterhood Yep Dragonwings McCarthy All The Pretty Horses Esquivel Like Water For Chocolate White Mama Makes Up Her Mind Zindel The Pigman McCullers The Heart is a Long Days Journey Faulkner As I Lay Dying Lonely Hunter Wientraub into War Feel free to choose titles from Feynman Surely You’re Joking McPhee Coming Into the Country the Upper School list. Mr. Feynman Winner The Whale: The Reactor McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom Finney Time and Again Williams-Garcia Fast Talk on a Michener Covenant, and others Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at Slow Track Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz Upper School the Whistle Stop Cafe Woodward & Bernstein All The Morrison Beloved President’s Men Forms 3 - 6 Welcome to The World, Baby Girl Neville Eight Wolff This Boy’s Life: A Memoir (Grades 9 - 12) Florman The Introspective (Read any two (2) Engineer O’Connell Stone Angel Woolf To The Lighthouse of the following titles) Ford The Good Soldier Ondaatje The English Patient Orlando Frazier Cold Mountain Payne The Confessions of a Zindel The Effects of Gamma Abbott Flatland Taoist on Wall Street Rays on Man-in-the Fromkin In the Time of Americans Adams A Hitchhiker’s Plimpton The Paper Lion Moon Marigolds Guide to the Galaxy Gaiman Stardust Powell My American Journey Gaines The Autobiography of Angelou I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Miss Jane Pittman Prange At Dawn We Slept Allende The House of Spirits Golden Memoirs of a Geisha Price The Tongues of Angels Revised 2018