Summer Reading

Introduction

Of all the skills we teach at Nantucket High School, perhaps no skill is more important than reading. Our graduates will turn out to be doctors, lawyers, and indian chiefs and all of them will need to read high level, difficult materials.

Freshman

The following works will be offered to the freshmen.

Work

Author

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Sword in the Stone

Theodore White

A String Too Short to be Saved

Donald Hall

Winterdance

 Gary Paulsen

Wait Till Next Year

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

Stephen Ambrose

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Where the Heart Is

Billie Letts

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

The Water is Wide

Patrick Conroy

Searching for Rachel Wallace

Robert B. Parker

Sophomore

The following works are offered to sophomores.

Work

Author

Last Chance to See

Doug Adams

Illumination Night

Alice Hoffman

The Bean Trees

Kingsolver

A Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger

Raptor Red

Robert Bakker

A River Runs Through It

Norman Maclean

Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

Kaffir Boy

Mark Mathabane

Our Guys

 Bernard Lefkowicz

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

Listening Woman

Tony Hillerman

Antonietta

Erich Remarque

Juniors

The following works offered to the Juniors.

iett

Work

Author

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Remarque

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

Animal Dreams

Barabara Kingsolver

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

The Orchid Thief

Susan Orlean

By the Lake of the Sleeping Children

Luis Alberto Urrea

West With the Night

Beryl Markham

Lost Moon (also known as Apollo 13)

Jim Lovell

Firefly Summer

Maeve Binchy

Quite a Year for Plums

Bailey White

Slaughterhouse 5

Kurt Vonnegut

Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey

Seniors

The following works are for the Seniors.

Work

Author

Blindness

Jose Saramago

Neuromancer

William Gibson

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest Gaines

Always Running

Luis Rodriguez

In the Time of the Butterflies

Julia Alvarez

The Color of Water

David McBride

The Prince of Tides

Patrick Conroy

Pauls

Isobel Allende

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Rebecca Wells

In the Heart of the Ocean

Nat Philbrick

Growing Up

Russell Baker

Sula

Toni Morrison

Galileo's Daughter

Dava Sobel

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Irving Stone