VERMONT ACADEMY SUMMER READING 2021
Required Reading for All Incoming and Returning Students All students – Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds 9th Grade – Turtles All the Way Down by John Green 10th Grade – Night by Elie Wiesel 11th Grade – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 12th Grade and Postgraduates – Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Additional requirements for Honors and AP Students HONORS ENGLISH 10 – Interpreter of Maladiesby Jhumpa Lahiri AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides HONORS WORLD LITERATURE – Half A Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Students must bring summer reading books to school in the fall for use in English classes.
Additional Suggestions from Our Faculty The following is a list of well-written media thatour faculty recommends. Some are related to curriculum and others are for sheer enjoyment. Students are encouraged to find a few selections online or at your local library.
Fiction Riot Baby Poetry 1984 Their Eyes Were Watching God American Sonnets for My Past and Future Alias Grace There, There Assassin by Terrance Hayes Americanah To Kill a Mockingbird American Sunrise by Joy Harjo American Street Where the Crawdads Sing Citizen by Claudia Rankine The Color Purple Counting Decent by Clint Smith Drown Podcasts and YouTube A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif East of Eden "How I Built This" Abdurraqib Flatland “Between the World and Me If They Come for Usby Fatimah Asghar The Goldfinch “Deca Tapes” The House on Mango Street I'm Not “Invisibilia” Dying with You Tonight It’s Not Like “Nice White Parents” Non-fiction It’s a Secret “Seeing White” ` Between the World and Me The Invention of Wings Simone Giertz on YouTube The Body is Not an Apology The Kite Runner Becoming by Michelle Obama Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories Hidden Figures Native Son Film & TV How to Be an Antiracist Never Let me Go The Handmaid's Tale Mountains Beyond Mountains So You Notes on a Silencing Just Mercy Want To Talk About Race We Were Of Mice and Men The Last Black Man in San Francisco Eight Years in Power Oryx and Crake Lovecraft Country Parable of the Sower Unbelievable Poet X When They See Us The Poppy Wars The Wilds Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix The Wire Red at the Bone The Round House Ready Player One