MATER DEI HIGH
SCHOOL
SUMMER 2007 READING LIST
FRESHMEN
A test will be given on these readings during the first
full week of school. Text substitutions are NOT permitted
AMERICAN LITERATURE 9H: Three Readings
Required Reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Read at least ONE of the following:
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
Chasing the Dream – Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life – Lance
Armstrong
AMERICAN LITERATURE 9B: Two Readings
Required Reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Read at least ONE of the following:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life – Lance
Armstrong
AMERICAN LITERATURE 9C: Three Readings
Required Reading:
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
Read at least ONE of the following:
It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life – Lance Armstrong
April Morning - Howard Fast
SOPHOMORES
A test will be given on these readings during the first
full week of school. Text substitutions are NOT permitted
AMERICAN LITERATURE 10H: Three Readings
Required Reading:
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
The Fantastic Voyage – Isaac Asimov
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
AMERICAN LITERATURE 10B: Three Readings
Required Reading:
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
Read at least TWO of the following:
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky –
Farah Ahmedi with Tamin Ansary
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Chocolate Wars – Robert Cormier
Izzy Willy Nilly - Cynthia Voight
God on the Starting Line: The Triumph of a Catholic School Running Team
and Its Jewish Coach – Marc Bloom
JUNIORS
A test will be given on ALL books. Text substitutions
are NOT permitted
BRITISH LITERATURE 11H: All readings are required;
a separate journal is required for each reading
Required Reading:
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
BRITISH LITERATURE 11B: Three Readings
Required Reading:
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
To Sir with Love – E.H. Braithwaite
Read at least ONE of the following:
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
SENIORS
A test will be given on ALL books. Text substitutions
are NOT permitted
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE: All readings are required;
a separate journal is required for each reading
Required Reading:
Othello – William Shakespeare
A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Native Son – Richard Wright
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
An Enemy of the People – Henrik Ibsen
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
Things Fall Apart: A Novel – Chinua Achebe
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
WORLD LITERATURE 12H: Four Readings
Required Reading:
A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
Things Fall Apart: A Novel – Chinua Achebe
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint Exupery
WORLD LITERATURE 12B: Three Readings
Required Reading:
A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
