Dunn School
Summer Reading List
for the 2008-2009 school year

AP English Literature and Composition (12th grade)
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, JamesJoyce
The Elements of Style, William Strunk & E.B. White

English 12 (12th grade)
Aesop’s Fables, Aesop
The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende
Werewolves in Their Youth, Michael Chabon

AP English Language and Composition (11th grade)
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker (Ch. 1 - 4 & 12)
The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson

English 11 (11th grade)
Native Son, Richard Wright

English 10 Honors (10th grade)
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
The 826 Quarterly, Volume 8, Various authors

English 10 (10th grade)
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

English 9 (9th Grade)
Autobiography/Biography – Read a book about the life of someone working in a career in which you are interested.  Bring the book to school on the first day of classes.

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