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Reading Lists

Upper School

9th Grade
English I CP
Dragons of the Autumn Twilight, Weis and Hickman
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Julius Caesar, Golding
The Pearl, Steinbeck
Honors English I
Dragons of the Autumn Twilight, Weis and Hickman
The Crystal Cave, Stewart
Great Expectations, Dickens
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare

10th Grade
English II CP
The Crucible, Miller
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare
Billy Budd, Melville
The Pearl, Steinbeck
A Separate Peace, Knowles

Honors English II
The Crucible, Miller
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare
Billy Budd, Melville
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
The Awakening, Chopin

11th Grade
CP British Literature
Dr. Faustus, Marlowe
Frankenstein, Shelley
A Christmas Carol, Dickens
Wuthering Heights, Bronte
Brave New World, Huxley
The Fifth Child, Lessing
•"Guinevere" excerpt from Idylls of the King, Tennyson

AP English Language
Dr. Faustus, Marlowe
Frankenstein, Shelley
1984, Orwell
Brave New World, Huxley
The Fifth Child, Lessing
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Fowles
Orlando, Wolfe
Idylls of the King, Tennyson
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
King Lear, Shakespeare
St. Joan, Shaw
Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys
Macbeth, Shakespeare (included in textbook - do not buy)

12th Grade
Honors World Literature

Othello, Shakespeare
The Iliad, Homer
A Doll's House, Ibsen
Antigone, Paton
Kite Runner, Hosseini
• The Inferno, Dante
• The Prince, Machiavelli
• The Moon is Down, Steinbeck
• Candide, Voltaire

AP English Literature
The Iliad, Homer
Siddhartha, Hesse
The Inferno, Dante
Othello, Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
The Stranger, Camus
A Doll's House, Ibsen
Dorian Gray, Wilde
The Handmaids's Tale, Atwood
Wit, Edson

Modern Fiction
Othello, Shakespeare
A Doll's House, Ibsen
Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya
Kite Runner, Hosseini

Middle School Reading List - 2007-2008

6th Grade

• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Bobbitt
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

8th Grade
The Diary of Anne Frank – (class set)
 • Animal Farm by Orwell (Honors ONLY) 
The Call of the Wild – (in literature book)
• Romeo and Juliet – (class set)
• The Pigman
The Light in the Forest – (Honors ONLY)

7th Grade
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Among the Imposters by Margaret Peterson Haddix
 • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – (class set)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (in literature book - Honors ONLY)

Note: This Middle School list does not include summer reading.

Student Honors

National Merit Winners
AP Scholars
Duke Talent Search
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Summer Reading Lists

USJ Lower, Middle and Upper School students are assigned books to read over the summer. Details...