Soundview Preparatory School
Upper School Summer Reading List
Summer 2010

• 9th Grade - Classical Literature
  1. The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
  2. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
  3. American Indian Mythology by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin

• 10th Grade - World Literature (read three)
  1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• 11th Grade - American Literature
  1. Tales from the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald (collection of short stories)
  2. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  3. Black Boy by Richard Wright

• 12th Grade - British Literature
  1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  2. Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier
  3. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

All students: Read two (2) of the books listed for your grade. During the first week of classes, you will be given a writing assignment on one of the books selected.

Reminder: All incoming seniors MUST have a double-spaced first draft of their college essay on the first day of classes in September.