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Upper School Summer Reading 2012    
as of 4/18/13

The following titles are required Summer Reading for your daughters. They will be available for purchase at the Book Fair April 30th and May 1st.  Please take advantage of buying these titles at this event.  They will not be sold here at school at any other time. There are several titles that would be difficult to buy or borrow from local resources. 

 

Books may be purchased by check or cash only for the total amount.
The check should be made out to Newton Country Day School. Please add 6.25% sales tax to the total order.
Prices may be subject to change.



Title  
                                                                                                                                                                             Price

Students entering Grade 9

                  Northern Light/Donnelly/Graphia (English)                                                                            $9.99             

                  Catcher in the Rye/Salinger/Back Bay Books (English)                                                        $13.99                     

                  The Book Thief/Zusak/Knopf (Religion)                                                                                 $12.99

                  The Septembers of Shiraz/Sofer/HarperPerennial  (History)                                                 $13.99

                  Warmth of Other Suns/Wilkerson/Vintage Books (all 9th grade)                                             $16.95

                 

Students entering Grade 10

                  Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood/Fuller/Random House (English)     $16.00

                  The Quiet American/Greene/Penguin Classics (Honors History)                                              $16.00

                  The Prince/Machiavelli/University of Chicago Press (Honors History)                                      $10.00

                  A Tale of Two Cities/Dickens/Dover (Honors History)                                                                 $3.50

                  Warmth of Other Suns/Wilkerson/Vintage Books (all 10th grade)                                             $16.95

                              

Students entering Grade 11

                  The Things They Carried- O'Brien/Mariner (All English including AP English Language)         $14.95

                  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard/Harper (AP English Language only)                                          $14.99

                  The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
                             
Sacks/Touchstone (AP English Language only)                                                           $15.99

                  Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion/Free Press(Religion)                  $14.99

                  Ragtime/Doctorow/Random House (History and Honors History)                                            $16.00

                  Democracy: An American Novel/Adams/Penguin (Honors History)                                         $14.00                 

                  Warmth of Other Suns/Wilkerson/Vintage Books (all 11th grade)                                            $16.95

 

Students entering Grade 12

                  Deep River/Endo/New Directions (Religion)                                                                            $16.00

                  The Awakening/Chopin/Dover (English)                                                                                   $ 3.00

                  Warmth of Other Suns/Wilkerson/Vintage Books (all 12th grade)                                              $16.95

                 

AP English Literature

                  Fathers and Sons/Turgenev/Dover                                                                                            $3.50

                  The Awakening/ Chopin/Dover                                                                                                  $3.00

                                   

AP American Government

                  Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and Turned its Back on
                 the Middle Class/Hacker and Pierson/Simon and Schuster                                                         $15.00

                                   

AP Comparative Government

                  The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran Wright/Vintage Books              $15.00

 


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