2 Welcome to the St. Luke’s Summer Reader
Dear Parents and Students:
We hope that the summer will be a time when we can relax and reflect on the year that has just passed. All too often, as the weeks fill up with various activities, it seems as busy as the school year. Yet it remains critical to take some time to engage the imagination and nothing does this better than reading a book. We believe that these pages include excellent suggestions to keep the mind engaged in the months ahead. Departments have updated some sections and the Librarians’ Picks are almost all new. Please know that many of the classics of English and American Literature are conspicuously absent from this list because we teach a great many of them in our classes and believe that taking the time to read them closely and discuss them thoroughly are keys to making the most of the reading experience.
Finally, many thanks to Ms. Cole and Ms. Yankura and their art students for the beautiful art work included here.
Enjoy the summer and happy reading.
Yours,
Benjamin Moss Librarian
Cover Photo by Danica Lofts ’08 How to use this Guide • We hope all members of the St. Luke’s community will peruse the list and choose titles from it for personal enrichment and pleasure.
• We fully expect that all new and returning students to St. Luke’s will have read at least three books from the collection.
• The student’s three (or more) choices may come from any discipline.
• All titles may be obtained through local libraries, bookstores, or on-line. 3 CONTENTS 4 Fifth Grade 50!
6 Sixth Grade Favorites
7 English
10 Poetry
11 History
15 Sports
16 Math and Technology
17 Health and Wellness
18 Science
20 Music
21 Art
22 World Language
Librarians’ Selections ~ Middle 24
Librarians’ Selections ~ Upper 28
30 Faculty and Staff Favorites 4 Fifth Grade 50! The Last Treasure ...... Janet Anderson Steal Away to Freedom ...... Jennifer Armstrong Poppy, Rye and Crispin ...... Avi Tuck Everlasting and The Search For Delicious ...... Natalie Babbitt House with a Clock in its Walls ...... John Bellairs Penderwicks ...... Jeanne Birdsall The Shakespeare Stealer ...... Gary Blackwood The Boggart ...... Susan Cooper My Teacher Flunked the Planet ...... Bruce Coville The Red Badge of Courage ...... Stephen Crane Chasing Redbird, Walk Two Moons, Granny Torelli Makes Soup and Bloomability ...... Sharon Creech Catherine Called Birdy ...... Karen Cushman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny the Champion of the World ...... Roald Dahl The Light on Hogback Hill ...... Cynthia DeFelice Half Magic ...... Edward Eager The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles and Mandy ...... Julie Andrews Edwards Harriet the Spy ...... Louise Fitzhung Johnny Tremaine ...... Esther Forbes The Thief Lord, Inkheart, and Dragon Rider ...... Cornelia Funke Julie of the Wolves , My Side of the Mountain, and The Other Side of the Mountain ...... Jean Craighead George Johnny Hangtine and The Million Dollar Shot ...... Dan Gutman Old Yeller ...... Fred Gibson The Legend of Jimmy Spoon ...... Kristiana Gregory Olive’s Ocean ...... Kevin Henkes King of the Wind ...... Marguerite Henry Letters from Rivka and Phoenix Rising ...... Karen Hesse Hoot and Flush ...... Carl Hiaasen My Louisiana Sky ...... Kimberly Willis Holt Letters from Rivka ...... Karen Hesse All Creatures Great and Small ...... James Herriot The Phantom Tollbooth ...... Norton Juster A Wrinkle in Time ...... Madeleine L’Engle In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson ...... Bette Bao Lord Number the Stars, The Giver and Gathering Blue ...... Lois Lowry Heat and Travel Team ...... Mike Lupica Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH ...... Robert O’Brien 5 Fifth Grade 50! Island of the Blue Dolphins and Sing Down the Moon ...... Scott O’Dell Eragon and Eldest ...... Christopher Paolini Hatchet, Brian’s Winter, Soldier’s Heart, and The Voyage of the Frog ...... Gary Paulsen A Day no Pigs Would Die and A Long Way from Chicago ...... Robert Newton Peck The Great Gilly Hopkins ...... Katherine Peterson Shiloh ...... Phyllis Reynolds The Edge Chronicles ...... Paul Steward and Chris Riddell Holes ...... Louis Sachar Magyk, Flyte, and Physik ...... Angie Sage Maniac Magee and Stargirl ...... Jerry Spinelli The Bartimaeus Trilogy ...... Jonathan Stroud Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ...... Mildred Taylor Dicey’s Song ...... Cynthia Voight Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade...... Bill Wallace Homeless Bird ...... Gloria Whelan Dragonwings ...... Laurence Yep
Fifth Grade Teachers also recommend the following series:
• The Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer • The Baseball Card Adventures Seeris by Dan Gutman • Shadow of Children Series by Margaret Petersen Haddix • The Merlin Series by T. A. Barron • The Harry Potter Series by J.K.Rowling • The J.R.R. Tolkein Trilogy • The Red Wall Series by Brian Jacques • Alices Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll • The Series of Unfortunate Events *by Lemony Snicket • Alex Rider Series (Stormbreaker) by Anthony Horowitz • The Warrior Series by Erin Hunter • The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
6 Sixth Grade Favorites Skelling… ...... David Almond Whittington… ...... Alan Armstrong Crispin: The Cross of Lead… ...... Avi Tuck Everlasting… ...... Natalie Babbitt The Penderwicks… ...... Jeanne Birdsall The Incredible Journey… ...... Sheila Bunford Al Capone Does My Shirts… ...... Gennifer Choldenko The Chocolate War…...... Robert Cormier Absolutely Normal Chaos… ...... Sharon Creech Elijah of Buxton… ...... Christopher Paul Curtis The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane … ...... Kate DiCamillo The House of the Scorpion ...... … Nancy Farmer Johnny Tremain ...... … Esther Forbes My Side of the Mountain ...... Jean Craighead George Princess Academy ...... … Shannon Hale Out of the Dust… ...... Karen Hesse The Phantom Tollbooth ...... … Norton Juster Weedflower ...... … Cynthia Kadohata The Narnia Chronicles ...... … C.S. Lewis The Call of the Wild ...... … Jack London Rules ...... … Cynthia Lord Island of the Blue Dolphins ...... … Scott O’Dell The Higher Power of Lucky… ...... Susan Patron Hatchet… ...... Gary Paulsen The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials Trilogy)… ...... Phillip Pullman Where the Red Fern Grows… ...... Wilson Rawls Yellow Star… ...... Jennifer Roy Esperanza Rising … ...... Pam Munoz Ryan Holes … ...... Louis Sachar The Cricket in Times Square… ...... George Selden Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!...... Laura Amy Schlitz Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy ...... … Gary D. Schmidt The Wednesday Wars ...... … Gary D. Schmidt Bone: Out From Boneville (graphic novel) ...... … Jeff Smith Eggs ...... … Jerry Spinelli Stargirl ...... … Jerry Spinelli Abel’s Island… ...... William Steig Treasure Island ...... … Robert Lous Stevenson 7 English Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade The Body of Christopher Creed ...... Carol Plum-Ucci Little Women ...... Louisa May Alcott Redwork ...... Michael Beddard The Golden Apples of the Sun ...... Ray Bradbury Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ...... Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass ...... Lewis Carroll The Face on the Milk Carton ...... Caroline Cooney Tunes for Bears to Dance To ...... Robert Cormier Walk Two Moons ...... Sharon Creech Jurassic Park ...... Michael Crichton Going Solo ...... Raould Dahl Zlata’s Diary ...... Zlata Filiopvic Bull Run ...... Paul Fleischman Summer of My German Soldier ...... Bette Greene Murder for Her Majesty ...... Ruth Hilgartner Linger ...... M. E. Kerr Spite Fences ...... Trudy Krishner A Wizard of Earthsea ...... Ursula K.LeGuin The Contender ...... Robert Lipsyte Number the Stars ...... Lois Lowry The Baboon King ...... Anton Quintana After the Rain...... N. F. Mazer Beauty ...... Robin McKinley Rescue Josh McGuire ...... Ben Michaelson Sparrow Hawk Red ...... Ben Michaelson Borning Room ...... Paul Fleischman The River ...... Gary Paulsen Hatchet ...... Gary Paulsen The Lost Boy ...... David Pelzer Summer of the Monkeys ...... Wilson Rawls Holes ...... Louis Sachar Keeping The Moon...... Sarah Dessen My Name is Amelia ...... Donald Sobol The Witch of Blackbird Pond ...... Elizabeth George Speare Cannery Row ...... John Steinbeck The Rain Catchers ...... Jean Thesman The Hobbit ...... J. R. Tolkein Journey Home ...... Y. Uchida The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ...... Arthur Conan Doyle White Fang ...... Jack London The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ...... Washington Irving 8 English Oliver Twist ...... Charles Dickens The Red Badge of Courage ...... Stephen Crane Captains Courageous ...... Rudyard Kipling The Invisible Man ...... H.G. Wells 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ...... Jules Verne The Mighty ...... Rodman Philbrick Rumblefish ...... S.E. Hinton What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? ...... Peter Hedges Fool’s Crow ...... James Welch Tangerine ...... Edward Bloor Kit’s Wilderness ...... David Almond Lizard ...... Dennis Covington The Pearl of the Soul of the World ...... Meredith Ann Pierce Frenchtown Summer ...... Robert Cormier Dave At Night ...... Gail Carson Levine Far North ...... Will Hobbs The Crystal Cave ...... Mary Stewart The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow ...... Ann Turner A Light in the Storm ...... Karen Hesse Speed of Light ...... Sybil Rosen Maus ...... Art Spielman Ninth Grade and Tenth Grade The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ...... Douglas Adams Speak ...... Laurie Halse Anderson Edgar Allan Poe: A Mystery ...... Madelin Anderson The Beast ...... Peter Benchley Something Wicked This Way Comes ...... Ray Bradbury Before And After ...... Rosellen Brown Journey of the Sparrows ...... Fran Leeper Buss Future on Fire ...... Orson Scott Card Booked to Die ...... John Dunning The Borning Room ...... Paul Fleischman Enter Three Witches ...... Kate Gilmore Ordinary People ...... Judith Guest Every Living Thing ...... James Herriot October Sky ...... Homer H. Hickam, Jr. Downriver ...... Will Hobbs Illumination Night ...... Alice Hoffmann Their Eyes were Watching God ...... Zora Neale Hurston A Short Walk around The Pyramids ...... Philip Isaacson Four Past Midnight ...... Stephen King The Endurance ...... Alfred Lansing 9 English West with the Night ...... Beryl Markham A Member of the Wedding ...... Carson McCullers Ain’t I a Woman? ...... Patricia McKissack A Man Named Dave ...... Dave Pelzer The Chosen ...... Chaim Potok The White Mercedes ...... Philip Pullman Others See Us...... William Sleater A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ...... Betty Smith Tortilla Flat ...... John Steinbeck The Fellowship of the Ring ...... J.R.R. Tolkein Plague ...... Jean Ure Striking Out ...... Will Weaver Eleventh Grade and Twelfth Grade Wuthering Heights ...... Emily Bronte Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine ...... Bebe Moore Campbell In Cold Blood ...... Truman Capote Ender’s Game ...... Orson Scott Card Chance ...... Joseph Conrad The Great Santini ...... Pat Conroy Prized Possessions ...... Avery Corman Gone ...... Kit Craig Paddy Clark, Ha, Ha, Ha ...... Roddy Doyle Cold Mountain ...... Charles Frazier A Lesson before Dying ...... Earnest Gaines The Pickup ...... Nadine Gordimer Water for Elephants ...... Sarah Gruen Snow Falling on Cedars ...... David Gunderson Baseball Babylon ...... Dan Gutman Stranger in a Strange Land ...... Robert Heinlein Catch 22 ...... Joseph Heller Sacred Clowns ...... Tony Hillerman Loving Frank ...... Nancy Horan A Prayer for Owen Meany ...... John Irving The Perfect Storm ...... Sebastian Junger On the Road ...... Jack Kerouac Linger ...... M.E. Kerr Dolores Claiborne ...... Stephen King The Bean Trees ...... Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible ...... Barbara Kingsolver Into Thin Air ...... Jon Krakauer I Knew This Much Is True………………………… ...... Wally Lamb Where the Heart Is ...... Billie Letts 10 English In Country ...... Bobbie Ann Mason All the Pretty Horses ...... Cormac McCarthy Waiting to Exhale ...... Terry McMillan A Stranger in the Kingdom ...... Frank Howard Mosher The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned ...... Anne Rice Lost in Place ...... Mark Salzman Grapes of Wrath ...... John Steinbeck The Places in Between ...... Rory Stewart The Joy Luck Club ...... Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife ...... Amy Tan Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ...... Anne Tyler Hocus Pocus ...... Kurt Vonnegut I Am Charlotte Simmons ...... Tom Wolfe The House of Sand and Fog ...... Andre Dubus Lullaby ...... Chuck Palahniuk Dream of Monkey Mountain ...... Derek Walcott
Poetry
Near Changes: Poems ...... Mona Van Duyn Selected Poems ...... James Tate 100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) ...... Philip Smith (Editor) Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th Century American Art ...... Edited by Jan Greenberg The American Poetry ...... Literacy Project (Editor) The Road Not Taken and Other Poems ...... Robert Frost The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou ...... Maya Angelou Carver: A Life in Poems ...... Marilyn Nelson Sailing Alone Around the Room ...... Billy Collins
Lara Berk ‘08 11 History Sixth Grade The Dead Sea Scrolls ...... Ilene Cooper Mara, Daughter of the Nile ...... Eloise McGraw Rome Antics ...... David Macaulay Maroo of the Winter Caves ...... Ann Turnbull Boy of the Painted Cave ...... Justin Denzel A Bone From a Dry Sea ...... Peter Dickinson The Golden Goblet ...... Eloise McGraw His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut ...... Dorothy Sharp Carter The Iron Ring ...... Lloyd Alexander Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad ...... Rosemary Sutcliff The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey ...... Rosemary Sutcliff Joshua in the Promised Land ...... Miriam Chaikin Julius Caesar ...... Robert Green Gladiator ...... Richard Watkin Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth ...... Lloyd Alexander Seventh Grade Narrative of Frederick Douglass ...... Frederick Douglass Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ...... Mildred Taylor Across Five Aprils ...... Hunt Black Profiles in Courage ...... Abdul Jabbar & Steinberg Black Like Me ...... John Howard Griffin Black Elk Speaks ...... Neihardt The House on Mango Street ...... Cisneros When I Was Puerto Rican ...... Santiago My Brother Sam Is Dead ...... Collier The Watsons Go to Birmingham ...... Curtis The Crossing ...... Paulsen In My Hand; Memories of a Holocaust Survivor ...... Opdyke Farewell to Manzanaar ...... Houston The Cay ...... Mildred Taylor The Last of the Mohicans ...... Cooper Maus ...... Art Spiegelman Eighth Grade 1787 ...... Joan Anderson Always Remember: The Story of the Vietnam Memorial ...... Brent Ashabranner We The People: The Story of the United States Constitution ...... Doris & Harold Faber Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution ...... Jean Fritz 12 History The Great Little Madison ...... Jean Fritz Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave ...... Virginia Hamilton Vietnam: Why We Fought ...... Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler The War for Independence: The Story of the American Revolution ...... Albert Marrin The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words 1750-1800 ...... Milton Meltzer The Bill of Rights: How We Got It and What It Means ...... Milton Meltzer Voices From the Civil War ...... Milton Meltzer The Boy’s War ...... Jim Murphy Fallen Angels: A Vietnam Story ...... Walter Dean Myers The Buck Stops Here ...... Alice Provensen The Road to Mississippi ...... Mildred Taylor The Supreme Court ...... Ann Weiss Ninth Grade The New York Times (International Section) United Nations Chronicle Don’t Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned ...... Kenneth Davis Harm de Blij’s Geography Book: A Leading Geographer’s Fresh Look At Our Changing World ...... Harm de Blij Why In The World: Adventures in Geography ...... George Demko The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geography ...... Thomas Sherer Geography for Dummies ...... Charles Heatwole In Search of the Cradle of Civilization ...... George Feuerstein, et al Myths from Mesopotamia ...... Stephanie Dalley The Gifts of the Jews ...... Thomas Cahill The Peloponnesian War ...... Donald Kagan I, Claudius ...... Robert Graves The First Man in Rome ...... Colleen McCullough A Distant Mirror ...... Barbara Tuchman Medieval Cities ...... Henri Pirenne Crusades Through Arab Eyes ...... Amin Maalouf Tenth Grade The Limits of Empire ...... Bejamin Isaac Antiquity and the Middle Age ...... Constance Bouchard The Medieval World ...... David Nicolle The Oxford History of Medieval Europe ...... George Holmes A Distant Mirror ...... Barbara Tuchman How the Irish Saved Civilization ...... Thomas Cahill 13 History The Agony and the Ecstasy ...... Irving Stone The History of Science from the Greeks to the Scientific Revolution……...... Ray Spangenburg & Diane Moser The Complete Idiot's Guide to British Royalty Richard Buskin The Six Wives of Henry VIII ...... Alison Weir Longitude………………………………………… ...... Dava Sobel Citizens A Chronicle of the French Revolution ...... Simon Schama A Tale of Two Cities ...... Charles Dickens Age of Napoleon ...... Christopher Harold Master and Commander ...... Patrick O'Brian Interpreting the Industrial Revolution ...... Peter Steans The First World War ...... John Keegan All Quiet on the Western Front ...... Erich Maria Remarque Nicholas and Alexandra ...... Robert K. Massie Guns of August ...... Barbara Tuchman History of Knowledge ...... Charles Van Doren The Gulag Archipelago ...... Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Eleventh Grade Founding Brothers ...... Joseph Ellis Israel Potter ...... Herman Melville The American Revolution ...... Gorden S. Wood The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin ...... Gorden S. Wood Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 ...... John Ferling Ben Franklin ...... Ben Isaacson Rise to Rebellion ...... Jeff Shaara Rabble in Arms ...... Kenneth Roberts American Scripture ...... Pauline Maier Founding Father ...... Richard Brookhiser John Adams ...... David McCullough Undaunted Courage ...... Stephen Ambrose Battle Cry of Freedom ...... James McPherson The Story of American Freedom ...... Eric Foner From Slavery to Freedom ...... John Hope Franklin Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ...... Alexander Brown A Different Mirror ...... Ronald T. Takaki Bread and Roses ...... Milton Meltzer Theodore Rex ...... Edmund Morris Freedom From Fear ...... David Kennedy No Ordinary Time ...... Doris Kearns Goodwin The Warrior and the Priest ...... John Milton Cooper The Fifties ...... David Halberstam Brave Companions ...... David McCullough 14 History From Salvery to Freedom ...... John Hope Franklin Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ...... Alexander Brown A Different Mirror ...... Ronald T. Takaki Bread and Roses ...... Milton Meltzer Theodore Rex ...... Edmund Morris Freedom from Fear ...... David Kennedy No Ordinary Time ...... Doris Kearns Goodwin The Warrior and the Priest ...... John Milton Cooper The Fifties ...... David Halberstam Brave Companions ...... David McCullough Twelfth Grade Vietnam In Retrospect ...... G. McNamara The Things They Carried ...... Tim O’Brien Chickenhawk ...... Robert Mason Twelfth Grade Civil War The Killer Angels ...... Michael Shaara God and Generals ...... Jeff Shaara Last Full Measure ...... Jeff Shaara Ulysses S. Grant ...... Geoffrey Perret AP European History The Agony and the Ecstasy…………………… ...... …Irving Stone The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance ...... John Hale Guns of August ...... Barbara Tuchman The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age ...... Christopher Hibbert Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War 1642-1649 ...... Christopher Hibbert Barricades and Borders ...... Robert Gilda Face of Battle ...... John Keegan The Oxford History of the French Revolution ...... William Doyle Napoleon ...... Alan Schom The Rise and Fall of the British Empire ...... Lawrence James The First World War ...... John Keegan All Quiet on the Western Front ...... Erich Maria Remarque Nicholas and Alexandra ...... Robert K. Massie Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History Jackson ...... J. Spielvogel Civil Rights Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire ...... Taylor Branch Praying for Sheetrock ...... Melissa Fay Greene Coming of Age in Mississippi ...... Anne Moody The Children ...... David Halberstam Warriors Don’t Cry ...... Melba Patillo Beals 15 History
AP U.S. History The Best and the Brightest ...... David Halberstam Anthropology Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ...... Jared Diamond The Forest People ...... Colin Trunbull Global Issues The New York Times ...... The Wall Street Journal World Religions The Search for God at Harvard ...... Ari Goldman The Life of Pi ...... Yann Martels Mere Christianity ...... C.S.Lewis Women's History My Sister’s Voice ...... Iris Jacob Where the Girls Are ...... Susan Douglas Feminine Mystique ...... Betty Friedan Lakota Woman ...... Mary Crow Dog The Color Purple ...... Alice Walker Can’t Buy Me Love ...... Jean Kilbourne The Second Sex ...... Simone De Beauvoir In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution ...... Susan Brown Miller The Body Project...... Joan Jacobs Bromberg Sports
Heat ...... Mike Lupica Wait Till Next Year ...... Doris Kearns Goodwin All My Octobers ...... Mickey Mantle Running Loose ...... Chris Crutcher Baseball Babylon ...... Dan Gutman Striking Out ...... Will Weaver Black Diamond ...... Patricia McKissack Days of Grace ...... Arthur Ashe The Legend of Bagger Vance ...... Steven Pressfield Shoeless Joe ...... W.P. Kinsella Little Girls in Pretty Boxes ...... Joan Ryan Venus to the Hoop ...... Sara Corbett For the Glory ...... Ken Denlinger Best Seat in the House ...... Spike Lee Show Me A Hero ...... Jeanne Schinto The Contender ...... Robert Lipsyte A Hope in the Unseen ...... Ron Suskind 16 Math & Technology
Mathematics Go Figure! A Totally Cool Book about Numbers ...... Johnny Ball The Parrot’s Theorem ...... Denis Guedj Flatterland ...... Ian Steward A Mathematician's Apology ...... G. H. Hardy How to Lie with Statistics ...... Darrell Huff Five Equations That Changed the World...... Michael Guillen Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe ...... Philip and Phylis Morrison "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feinman" ...... Richard Feynman How to Solve It ...... George Polya Godel, Escher, Bach ...... Douglas Hofstadter Fermat's Last Theorem ...... Amir D. Aczel Fermat's Enigma ...... Simon Singh Innumeracy ...... John Allen Paulos Beyond Numeracy ...... John Allen Paulos A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper ...... John Allen Paulos Men of Mathematics ...... Eric Temple Bell The Mathematical Tourist ...... Ivars & Peterson In Code: A Mathematical Journey ...... Sarah Flammery I Want to Be a Mathematician ...... Paul R.Halmos Fearful Symmetry: Is God A Geometer? ...... Ian Steward & Martin Golubitsky Prime Obsession: Riemann and he Greatest Unsolved Problem in Math ...... John Derbyshire Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea ...... Charles Seife The Magic of Mathematics ...... Theoni Pappas Once Upon a Number:The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories ...... John Allen Paulos The Man Who Knew Infinity ...... Robert Kanigel Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School ...... Louis Sachar The Math Curse ...... Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth ...... Bruce Schechter Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics ...... William Dunham Adventures of a Mathematician ...... Stanislaw Ulam The Fourth Dimension: Towards a Geometry of Higher Reality ...... Rudy Rucker Descartes' Dream:The World According to Mathematics ...... Davis & Hersh The Man Who Loved Only Numbers ...... Paul Hoffman 17 Math & Technology
A History of Pi ...... P. Beckman Number:The Language of Science ...... Tobias Danzig Chaos: Making a New Science ...... James Gleick DaVinci Code ...... Dan Brown Proof ...... David Auburn Arcadia ...... Tom Stoppard Technology Insanely Great ...... Steven Levy Hacker ...... Steven Levy Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas ...... Seymour Papert The Code Book ...... Simon Singh Blondie 24: Playing at the Edge of AI ...... David Fogle Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner ...... Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman Neuromancer ...... William Gibson Bringing Down the House:The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions ...... Ben Mezrch Digital Fortress ...... Dan Brown Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker’s Handbook ...... Shon Harris Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...... Robert Pirsing Snow Crash ...... Neal Stephenson The Mythical Man-Month ...... Frederick Brooks The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ...... Douglas Adams Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Buys and One Quest for Transcendent Software ...... Scott Rosenberg Health & Wellness Body For Life ...... Bill Phillips Eat Right 4 Your Type ...... Peter J. D’Adamo Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff ...... Richard Carlson Eat to Win ...... Robert Haas, M.D. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus ...... John Gray, PhD Slowing Down The Spread of Life ...... Carlson & Bailey Letting Go of Anger ...... Ron & Pat Potter Efron It’s Always Something ...... Gilda Radner Wasted ...... Marya Horbacher Go Ask Alice ...... Anonymous Odd Girl Out ...... Rachel Simmons 18 Science Middle School The Science of Harry Potter ...... Roger Highfield The Science of Super Heroes ...... Roger Highfield This Fine Piece of Water ...... Tom Anderson Dinosaur! ...... David Norman How Do They Do That? ...... Caroline Sutton Get a Grip on Astronomy ...... Robin Kerrod Get a Grip on Evolution ...... David Burnie Get a Grip on Genetics ...... Martin Brookes When do Fish Sleep? ...... David Feldman Why do Clocks Run Clockwise? ...... David Feldman Do Penguins Have Knees? ...... David Feldman The New Way Things Work ...... David Macaulay How in the World? ...... Reader’s Digest Young Oxford Book of Astronomy ...... Jacqueline Milton Young Oxford Book of Ecology ...... Michael Scott The Weather Book ...... Jack Williams The Wild Edge: Life and Lore of the Great Atlantic Beaches ...... P. Kopper and A. Lacy Do Fish Drink Water ...... Bill McLain Upper School The Physics of Baseball ...... Robert K. Adair Science Goes to War ...... Ernest Volkman Eight Preposterous Propositions ...... Robert Erlich A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death and the Immune System ...... Stephen S. Hall A Brief History of Time ...... Stephen Hawkings Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ...... Jared Diamond Every Contact Leaves a Trace ...... Zakaria Erzinclioglu Mismeasure of Man ...... Stephen Jay Gould Book of Life ...... Stephen Jay Gould I Have Landed ...... Stephen Jay Gould Evolution and Extinction ...... Stephen Jay Gould Dinosaur in the Haystack ...... Stephen Jay Gould The Panda’s Thumb ...... Stephen Jay Gould Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes ...... Stephen Jay Gould The Flamingo’s Smile ...... Stephen Jay Gould The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat ...... Oliver Sacks Diversity of Life ...... Edward O. Wilson Microbe Hunters ...... Paul deKruif Beyond the Crime Lab ...... Jon Zonderman Crime Classification ...... John Douglas & et. al. 19 Science Monkey Wars ...... Deborah Blum Spoiled ...... Nicols Fox Why People Believe Weird Things ...... Michael Shermer Secret of Life ...... David Suzuki The Beak of the Finch ...... Jonathon Weiner Sea Change ...... Silvia A. Earle Footsteps in the Jungle ...... Jonathon Maslow Cadillac Desert ...... Marc Reisner Cartographies of Danger: Mapping hazards in America ...... Mark Monmonier How do you Know it’s True: Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition ...... Hyman Richlis World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth ...... Stephen J. Pyne Darwin’s Dangerous Idea ...... Daniel C. Dennett Chaos- Making a New Science ...... James Gleick Fractals: The Pattern of Chaos ...... John Briggs In the Age of Mankind ...... Roger Lewin The Planets: Portraits of New Worlds ...... Nigel Henbest Longitude ...... David Sobel Song of the Dodo ...... David Quanner The Great Dying ...... Kenneth J. Hsii The End of Evolution ...... Peter Ward World Famous Crimes ...... Colin Wilson Mindhunter ...... John Douglas Short History of Planet Earth ...... J. D. MacDougall The Great Scientists ...... Jack Meadows Biomimicry ...... Janine M. Benyus Higher Superstition ...... Paul R. Gross In the Rainforest ...... Catherine Caufield Last Chance to See ...... Douglas Adams The Cases That Haunt Us ...... John Douglas Medicine Quest ...... Mark J. Plotkin Eureka! Leslie ...... Alan Horvitz Galileo’s Finger ...... Peter Atkins Weird Science ...... John Downer Eternal Darkness ...... Robert Ballard Mad About Physics ...... Chris Jargodzk The Anatomy of Motive ...... John Douglas Famous Crimes Revisited and Cracking Cases ...... Dr. Henry Lee Dead Reckoning ...... Dr. Michael Baden Grave Secrets ...... Dr. Cyril Wright Every Contact Leaves a Trace ...... Dr. Z. Erzinclioglu
20 Music
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain ...... Oliver Sacks Music Theory for Guitarists; Everything you Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask ...... Tom Kolb All You Need To Know About the Music Business ...... Donald S. Passman Classical Music for Dummies ...... David Pogue, Scott Speck, and Glenn Dicterow The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution ...... Dave Kusek, and Gerd Leonhard The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music ...... Ted Libbey Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples, Shorter Version (with CD-ROM) ...... Jeff Todd Titon, Linda Fujie, David Locke, David P. McAllester, and David B. B. Reck This Business of Music Marketing and Promotion ...... Tad Lathrop Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook: 201 Self-Promotion Ideas for Songwriters, Musicians and Bands on a Budget ...... Bob Baker The Importance of Music to Girls ...... Lavinia Greenlaw Tibetan Meditation Music: For Quiet Mind and Peaceful Heart ...... Nawang Khechog The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies ...... Steve Gordon
Justin Dunnigan ‘08 21 Art
The Annotated Mona Lisa ...... Carol Strickman The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece ...... Jonathan Harr Michelangelo and the Popes Ceiling………………Ross King Dear Theo (Van Gogh’s Letters to his Brother) ...... edited by Irving Stone Letters from Provence ...... Vincent Van Gogh Daybook ...... Anne Truitt The Agony & The Ecstacy ...... Irving Stone The Artist’s Way (A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity) ...... Julia Cameron Centering ...... M. C. Richards O’Keefe, The Life Of An American Legend ...... Jeffrey Hogrefe Talking with Artists at The Met, The Modern, The Louvre, and Elsewhere ...... Michael Kimmelman Girl with a Pearl Earring ...... Tracy Chevalier Girl in Hyacinth Blue ...... Susan Vreeland Artemisia ...... Alexandra Lapierre Pictures And Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings ...... James Elkins Silence ...... John Cage Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering Lost Techniques of the Old Masters ...... David Hockney The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci ...... Jean Paul Richter On Weaving ...... Anni Albers Time ...... Andy Goldsworthy and Terry Friedman Stone ...... Andy Goldsworthy Georgia O’Keefe: Painter ...... Michael Berry and Martina Horner The Power of Myth ...... Joseph Campbell Christo and Jean Claude and the Vogel Collection ...... Molly Donovan Naked Came I ...... David Weiss Daybooks ...... Edward Weston Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy and One of the Rarest Books in the World ...... Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone Becoming Mona Lisa ...... Donald Sassoon Einstein’s Dreams ...... A. Lightman The Art Spirit ...... Robert Henri The Shape of Content ...... Ben Shahn The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain ...... Betty Edwards Drawing on the Artist Within ...... Betty Edwards 22 World Language
French A Year in Provence ...... Peter Mayle Chasing Cezanne ...... Peter Mayle Les Miserables ...... Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame ...... Victor Hugo Un Coup D’oeil Sur La France ...... Coulanges et Daniel Dans Le Vent ...... Catherine Maley La Gloire de Mon Pere ...... Marcel Pagnol Le Chateau de Ma Mere ...... Marcel Pagnol Cyrano de Bergerac ...... Edmond Rostand Around The World in 80 Days ...... Jules Verne Candide ...... Voltaire French or Foe? ...... Polly Platt Chinese Wild Swans ...... Jung Chang Death of a Red Heroine ...... Qiu Xiaolong Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh ...... Mo Yan To Live ...... Yu Hua
Allie Lee ‘08 23 World Language
Spanish The Flanders Panel ...... Arturo Perez-Reverte The Club Dumas ...... Arturo Perez-Reverte 100 Years of Solitude ...... Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera...... Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paula and The House of Spirits ...... Isabel Allende Don Quijote ...... Miguel Cervantes Como Agua Para Chocolate ...... Laura Esquivel El Libro De Aren ...... Jorge Luis Borges La Herencia: A Latin American Adventure ...... Hernan Navas Rivas El Enredo: An Adventure in Spain ...... Alice Mohrman Kornik El Ojo De Agua: An Adventure in Costa Rica...... Alice Mohrman Kornik La Momia Desaparecio-A Comic Mystery ...... Arturo de Rosa The House on Mango Street ...... Sandra Cisneros Federico Garcia Lorca Trilogy: ...... Yerma, Bodas de Sangre, La Casa de Bernarda Alba When I Was Puerto Rican ...... Esmeralda Santiago Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy ...... Carlos Eire La Voz Dormida ...... Dulce Chacon El Lapiz del Carpintero ...... Manuel Rivas En el Tiempo de las Mariposas ...... Julia Alvarez Cuentos Para Pensar ...... Jorge Bucay Latin Aeneid ...... Vergil Pompeii ...... Robert Hams I, Claudius ...... Robert Graves The Twelve Caesars ...... Suetonius Rubicon ...... Tom Holland The Ruthless Romans ...... Terry Deary The History of Rome ...... Michael Grant Livia ...... Anthony Barrett The Search for Ancient Rome ...... Claude Moatti Petra ...... Fabio Bourbon Augustus ...... Anthony Everitt Pompeii: The Day a City Died ...... Robert Etienne First Man in Rome ...... Colleen McCullough Roman Blood ...... Steven Saylor The Silver Pigs ...... Lindsey Davis
24 Librarians’ Selections
American Library Association’s Best Young Adult Books Top Ten– 2008 (“Young Adults” are those 12 to 18 years of age) The absolutely Ture Diary of a Part-time Indian ...... Sherman Alexie A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier ...... Ishmael Beah Before I die ...... Jenny Downham Your Own, Sylvia: A verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath ...... Stephanie Hemphill Mister Pip ...... Lloyd Jones Skulduggery ...... Derek Landy Tamar: A Novel of Espionage ...... Mal Peet American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China ...... Matthew Polly The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel ...... Brian Selznick The Arrival ...... Shaun Tan
ALA Top Ten Quick Picks Best Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers- 2008
Class Pictures ...... Dawoud Bey Quaking ...... Kathryn Erskine Thin ...... Lauren Greenfield Graffiti...... Steve Grody and James Prigoff Glass ...... Ellen Hoplins Tupack Shakur Legacy ...... Joesph Jamal Safe ...... Susan Shaw Unwind ...... Neal Shusterman Homeboyz ...... Alan L. Sitomer Thalia: Belleza!: Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness ...... Thalia
Timber Pech ‘10 Timber Pech Lara Berk ‘08 25 Librarians’ Selections
The Adventures of Polo ...... Regis Faller The Year of the Dog ...... Grace Lin Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything ...... Lenore Look Aliens are Coming! The True Account of the 1936 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast ...... Meghan McCarthy Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea ...... Sy Montgomery Here’s Looking at Me: How Artists see Themselves ...... Bob Raczka She’s All That! Poems About Girls ...... Belinda Hollyer, editor ...... Joyce Sidman Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Freindship and Freedom ...... Tim Tingle Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom ...... Carole Boston Weatherford Zlata’s Diary ...... Zlata Filipovic Penny from Heaven ...... Jennifer L. Holm Hattie Big Sky ...... Kirby Larson Copper Sun ...... Sharon Draper Standing Against the Wind ...... Traci L. Jones The Road to Paris ...... Nikki Grimes
Allie Lee ‘08 26 Librarians’ Middle School Selections
Science Fiction The Amulet of Samarkand ...... J. Stroud Eragon ...... C. Paolini 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ...... Jules Verne A Wrinkle in Time ...... Madeline L’Engle Enders Game ...... Orson Scott Card Fantastic Voyage: a novel ...... Isaac Asimov The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ...... Douglas Adams The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds ...... H.G. Wells The White Mountains ...... John Christopher Brave New World ...... Aldous Huxley Dune ...... Frank HJerbert Feed ...... M. T. Anderson Popular Recent Titles Bel Canto ...... A. Patchett Life of Pi ...... Martel Yann Stormy Weather ...... Carl Hiaasen The Adrian Mole Diaries ...... Sue Townsend Vernon God Little ...... DBC Pierre The Enchantress of Florence ...... Salman Rushdie The Secret Life of Bees ...... Sue Kidd The White Rose ...... Amy Ephron Mystery Airframe ...... Michael Crichton And Then There Were None ...... Agatha Christie Ender’s Game ...... Orson Scott Card The Egypt Game ...... Zilpha Keatley & Snyder Snyder The Face on the Milk Carton...... Caroline Cooney The House of Dies Drear ...... Virginia Hamilton The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring ...... Bellairs The Man Who Was Poe ...... Avi The Ruby in the Smoke ...... Phillip Pullman The Sylvia Game ...... Vivien Alcock Classics My Friend Flicka ...... Mary O’Hara Robinson Crusoe ...... Daniel Defoe The Chronicles of Narnia ...... C. S. Lewis The Golden Compass ...... Phillip Pullman The Hobbit ...... R. R. Tolkein The Red Badge of Courage ...... Stephen Crane The Secret Garden ...... Frances H. Burnett The Three Musketeers ...... Alexander Dumas 27 Librarians’ Upper School Selections
Boomsday ...... Christopher Buckley Midnight at the Dragon Café ...... Judy Fong Bates The Gathering ...... Anne Enright Beasts of No Nation ...... Uzodinma Iweala Tree of Smoke ...... Denis Johnson Saturday ...... Ian McEwan Kafka on the Shore ...... Haruki Murakami The Road...... Cormac McCarthy Three Cups of Tea ...... Greg Mortenson Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness ...... Kenzaburo Oe Non-Fiction Collapse: how Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ...... Jared Diamond The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ...... Thomas L. Friedman The Tipping Point ...... Malcolm Gladwell Never Cry Wolf ...... Farley Mowat Human Cargo: A Journey among Refugees ...... Caroline Moorehead Guts ...... Gary Paulsen American Theocracy ...... Kevin Phillips
Olivia-Rose Tow ‘10 28 Librarians’ Upper School Selections
Classics Letters to a Young Poet ...... Rainer Maria Rilke House of the Spirits ...... Isabel Allende Invisible Man ...... Ralph Ellison Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays ...... Albert Camus No Exit ...... Jean Paul Sartre Up From Slavery ...... Booker T. Washington On the Road ...... Jack Kerouac Siddartha ...... Herman Hesse The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes ...... Langston Hughes The Jungle ...... Upton Sinclair The Republic ...... Plato The Trial ...... Franz Kafka Song of Solomon ...... Toni Morrison Pale Fire ...... Vladimir Nabakov Thus Spake Zarathustra ...... Friedrich Nietzsche War and Peace ...... Leo Tolstoy The Souls of Black Folks ...... W.E.B DuBois Tao Teh Ching ...... Lao Tzu
Maren Engh ‘09 29 Theatre Department
This is a list of works that are being considered for production next year. Upper School The Children’s Hour ...... Lillian Hellman In the Summer House ...... Jane Bowles The Girl’s of the Garden Club ...... John Patrick Carousel ...... Rogers and Hammerstein Bye Bye Birdie ...... Strouse and Adams Blood Wedding ...... Federico Garcia Lorca The Tempest ...... William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream ...... William Shakespeare Middle School Mullen’s Alley ...... Timothy Mason Masque of the Red Death Mulan Aladdin Fifth Grade Cinderella Emperor’s New Cloths ...... Hans Christian Anderson Megan Douglass ‘09 Megan Douglass 30 Faculty and Staff Favorites
Jim Decatur: A Prayer for Owen Meany ...... John Irving The Cider House Rules ...... John Irving Blindman's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage ...... Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew Great Expectations ...... Charles Dickens The Hero With a Thousand Faces ...... Joseph Campbell
Jane Olsen: The Descent of Woman ...... Elaine Morgan
Steve Flachsbart: A Man without a Country ...... Kurt Vonnegut In the Heart of the Sea ...... Nathaniel Philbrick Sometimes a Great Notion ...... Ken Kesey The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test ...... Tom Wolfe The Road ...... Cormac McCarthy A thousand Splendid Suns ...... Khaled Hosseini A Walk in the Woods ...... Bill Bryson
Chris Phelps: The Universe in a Nutshell ...... Stephen Hawking The Moon by Whale Light ...... Diane Ackerman A Natural History of the Senses ...... Diane Ackerman The Tempest ...... Shakespeare Africa, the Biography of a Continent ...... John Reader The Journals of Lewis and Clark ...... Lewis, Clark, and Brandt A Walk in the Woods ...... Bill Bryson A Brief History of The Universe ...... Stephen Hawking
Mark Davis: The Sun Also Rises ...... Earnest Hemingway The Color Purple ...... Alice Walker Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ...... John Le Carre The Killer Angels ...... Michael Shaara Catch 22 ...... Joseph L. Heller A River Runs Through It ...... Norman F. Maclean John Adams ...... David McCullough The Inferno ...... Dante Alighieri Silent Spring ...... Rachel Carson King Lear ...... William Shakespeare Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir ...... Thomas Oliphant The Clouds ...... Aristophanes The Key to Rebecca ...... Ken Follett
Elaine Greene: Bringing Down the House ...... Ben Mezrich 31 Jen Pokorney: Johnny Got His Gun ...... Dalton Trumbo Declaration of Independence ...... Howard Zinn The Party is Over ...... Richard Heinberg Just and Unjust War ...... Michael Walzer Mitakuye Oyasin-We Are All Related ...... Dr. A. C. Ross
Susan Doran: I Capture the Castle ...... Dodie Smith Spring Torrents ...... Ivan Turgenev Howard’s End ...... E.M. Forster East of Eden ...... John Steinbeck Persuasion ...... Jane Austen The Portrait of a Lady ...... Henry James
Jeff Kress: Immortal Game: A History of Chess ...... David Shenk The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America’s Top High School Chess Team ...... Michael Weinreb
Mark Bisson: North of Boston ...... Robert Frost The Tales of King Arthur and His Noble Knights ...... John Steinbeck Kon-Tiki ...... Thor Heyerdahl Demon of the Waters ...... Gregory Gibson Country of the Pointed Firs ...... Sarah Orne Jewett Cape Cod ...... Henry David Thoreau Old School ...... Tobias Wolff Cannery Row ...... John Steinbeck
Jason Haynes: Song of Solomon ...... Toni Morrison The Constant Gardner ...... John LeCarre Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed ...... Philip Paul Hallie Light in August ...... William Faulkner The City and Man ...... Leo Strauss
Nancy Walsh: The Power of One ...... Bryce Courtenay The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood ...... Rebecca Wells A Prayer for Owen Meany ...... John Irving The Joy Luck Club ...... Amy Tan
Sarah Johnson Pride and Prejudice ...... Jane Austen Raide With Me, Mariah Montana ...... Ivan Doig The Whistling Season ...... Ivan Doig The Once and Future King ...... T.H. White Palgrave’s Treasury of Great English Poetry Wuthering Hights ...... Emily Bronte 32 www.stlukesct.org New Canaan, CT 06840 377 North Wilton Road St. Luke’s School