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At Belmont Hill we value highly the reading our students do outside of class. With that in mind, our summer reading policy asks all boys to read a total of four books over the summer. Each form has required commonly read selections that are listed below. We also have one book, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, which will be read by all students and faculty. Given the length of our school wide read, all boys in Forms I and II can omit chapters 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14. The remaining elective books for all students can be selected from the enclosed Supplemental Summer Reading list. In addition, students can email our English Department Chair David Leonardis ([email protected]) or me ([email protected]), to have an unlisted book approved. The required commonly read books are, respectively: All students and faculty: Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson I: Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip, Jordan Sonnenblink; The MisFits, James Howe II: New Boy, Julian Houston III: The Real All Americans, Sally Jenkins IV: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini; All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque V: The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien; In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick VI: The Road to Character David Brooks Just to complicate matters, many of our AP courses require summer reading. Each of these required titles will be counted towards the students’ total of four. Given the length of Fall of Giants this work will count as two titles. Required titles follow: AP European History (History 4): Fall of Giants, Ken Follet AP Environmental Science: Empire of the Beetle, Andrew Nikiforuk AP French Language: Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry AP Spanish Language: Devolver al remitente by Julia Álvarez While we will continue to require certain checks on reading in September (usually a report or quiz in the first week or so of school), we do hope these selections will help foster a love of reading in all of our students. Families are required to purchase these titles independently. Sincerely, Michael Grant Dean of Studies [email protected] Supplemental SummerThe ReadingEmperor of Ocean List Park , Stephen L. Carter Empire Falls, Richard Russo June 201 6 Fiction English Creek, Ivan Doig* Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton* A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole Fade, Robert Cormier* A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury* A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving* Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Fallen Angels, Walter D. Myers Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner* A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway* Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid Flatland, Edward Abbot And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje The First Man in Rome, Colleen McCollough Fools Crow, James Welch Another World, Pat Barker The Foundation, Isaac Asimov* Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne Fountainhead, Ayn Rand Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie Friday Night Lights, H. G. 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