Summer 2018 AP U.S. History Gordon Ladd ([email protected])
The students are to select any book with a 1 next to it to read this summer. After reading they are to write a 1 - 2 page book report that will be presented to the class at the beginning of school.
TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION
The Unredeemed Captive John Demos 973.25 1
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson see Ms. Piccoli 2
Isaac’s Storm Erik Larson 976.4139 2
In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson 943.086 2
In the Heart of the Sea 1 Nathaniel Philbrick 910.9164 Mayflower 2 Nathaniel Philbrick 973.22 ( multiple copies) Team of Rivals: The Political Doris Kearns Goodwin 973.7092 Genius of Abraham Lincoln 1 Bunker Hill: A city, a Siege Nathaniel Philbrick 1
The Last Stand: Custer, Nathaniel Philbrick Sitting Bull and the Battle 2
Sea of Glory: America's Nathaniel Philbrick Voyage of Discovery 1
Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 973.099 2
The Wordy Shipmates 1 Sarah Vowell 974.00882859 Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell 996.9 2
The Partly Cloudy Patriot 1 Sarah Vowell Take the Canolli Sarah Vowell 2
Seabiscuit 2 Laura Hillenbrand 798.400929 Unbroken: A WWII Story of Laura Hillenbrand 940.547252092 Survival, Resilience, & Redemption 2 The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley 320.54092 Malcolm X 2
Bury My Heart at Wounded Dee Alexander Brown 970.00497 Knee 1&2
TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION
John Adams David McCullough 973.44092 1
1776 David McCullough 973.3 (multiple copies) 1
The Greater Journey: David McCullough 920.009213044361 Americans in Paris 2
Brave Companions 1&2 David McCullough 920.073 Truman 2 David McCullough 973.918 The Great Bridge: The Epic David McCullough Story of the Brooklyn Bridge 2 Chasing Lincoln’s Killer 1 James L. Swanson 973.7092 Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase James L. Swanson see Ms. Piccoli for Lincoln’s Killer 1 The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw 940.548173 2
Lies My Teacher Told Me James W. Loewen 973 1&2
Don’t Know Much About the Kenneth C. Davis 973.7 Civil War 1
Don’t Know Much About US Kenneth C. Davis see Ms. Piccoli (multiples) History 1&2
Triangle: The Fire That Dave Von Drehle 974.71041 Changed America 2 Freedom Riders: 1961 & the Raymond Arsenault 323.092 Struggle for Racial Justice 2 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 338.7610 2
Benjamin Franklin 1 Walter Isaacson Kissinger: A Biography 2 Walter Isaacson A Man on the Moon 2 Andrew Chaikin 629.4540973
TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION
Confederates in the Attic Tony Horowitz 973.7 1&2
Midnight Rising: John Brown Tony Horowitz 973.7166 and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War 1
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Rebecca Skloot 616.02774092 Lacks 2 The Secretary: A Journey Kim Ghattas 327.7300 with Hillary Clinton 2 The Audacity of Hope 2 Barack Obama 973.0460730092 Blackwater 2 Jeremy Scahill Dirty Wars 2 Jeremy Scahill Franklin & Winston: An Jon Meacham 940.530922 Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship 2 Citizens of London: The Lynne Olson Americans Who Stood w/Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour 2 Those Angry Days: Lynne Olson Roosevelt, Lindbergh & America’s Fight Over WWII 2
American Lion: Andrew Jon Meacham Jackson in the White House 1
American Sphinx: The Joseph J. Ellis Character of Thomas Jefferson 1
The Hemingses of Monticello: Annette Gordon-Reed 973.460922 An American Family 1 The River of Doubt: Teddy Candice Millard 918.13045 Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey2
The Destiny of the Republic: Candice Millard 918.13045 A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President 2 One Minute to Midnight: Michael Dobbs Kennedy, Khrushchev & Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 2
Empire of the Summer S.C. Gwynne 978.004974572 Moon2 FICTION
TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION
Cold Mountain 1 Charles Frazier FIC Frazier The Jungle 2 Upton Sinclair FIC Sinclair Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe FIC Stowe Ahab’s Wife 1 Sena Jeter Naslund FIC Naslund Invisible Man Ralph Ellison FIC Ellison 2
Juneteenth Ralph Ellison FIC Ellison 2
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara the Mexican War 1
The Glorious Cause: A Novel Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara of the American Revolution 1
The Rising Tide: A Novel of Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara WWII 2
The Steel Wave: A Novel of Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara WWII 2
No Less Than Victory: A Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara Novel of WWII 2
A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of Jeff Shaara FIC Shaara the Battle of Shiloh 1
The Killer Angels 1 Michael Shaara see Ms. Piccoli
Gods & Generals: A Novel of Jeff Shaara the Civil War 2 The Help 2 Kathryn Stockett FIC Stockett
The Lions of Little Rock 2 Kristin Levine FIC Levine Caleb’s Wars 2 David L. Dudley FIC Dudley Mary Coin 2 Marisa Silver FIC Silver Caleb’s Crossing 2 Geraldine Brooks FIC Brooks Fever 2 Mary Beth Keane FIC Keane
The House Girl 1 Tara Conklin The Alienist Caleb Carr 2
Snow Falling on Cedars 2 David Guterson FIC Guterson A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith FIC Betty Smith 2
The Grapes of Wrath 2 John Steinbeck FIC Steinbeck Out of the Easy Ruta Sepetys FIC Sepetys 2
The Color Purple 2 Alice Walker FIC Walker Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides FIC Eugenides 2
Walking to Gatlinburg: A Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher Novel 1
A Stranger in the Kingdom Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher 2
Where the Rivers Flow North Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher
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On Kingdom Mountain Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher 2
Disappearances Howard Frank Mosher FIC Mosher 2
The Mathews Men 2 William Geroux 940.5451 Geroux Lost in Shangri-La 2 Mitchell Zuckoff 940.548 Zuckoff Dead Wake Erik Larson 940.5414 2
Elephant Company 2 Vicki Constantine Croke 940.259591092 The Girls of Atomic City Denise Kiernan 976.873 Kiernan 2 S.C. Gwynne 973.7 3092 JACKSON Rebel Yell 1
Killing of Crazy Horse 2 Thomas Powers