Atheneum School’s Summer Reading List 2009

Dear Atheneum Students,

Please choose at least two of the following books to read this summer. We recommend
that you write coaching notes because we will have oral exams on what you’ve read
during the first week of school. Enjoy your summer!

-The Atheneum Faculty

Esperanza Rising- Pam Munoz Ryan

Wind, Sand and Stars- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Night Flight- Antoine de Saint Exupery
A Firmament of Time- Loren Eiseley, with Introduction by Gary Holthaus
Arab/American –Gary Paul Nablan
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now, Buddhist Poet Monks of China- Edited by Red
Pine Mike & Mike O’Connor

Rounding the Human Corners- Linda Hogan

Just Six Numbers- Sir Martin Rees
The Pine Island Paradox- Kathleen Dean Moore
The Chalice & the Blade- Riane Eisler
Chills & Fever- Robert Fortuine
Minus 148- Art Davidson
The Birth of Tragedy- Nietzsche
The Little World of Don Camillo- Giovanni Guareschi
Platero & I- Juan Ramon Jimenez
Magister Ludi (also called, The Glass Bead Game) –Herman Hesse
The Analects- Confucius
The Only Kayak- Kim Heacox
Rip Rap & Cold Mountain- Gary Snyder
Because of Winn Dixie- Kate DiCamillo
Touching Spirit Bear- Ben Mikaelsen
The Green Book- Elizabeth Rogers
Adventures of Huck Finn- Mark Twain
The Trap- John Smelcer
Winter News- John Haynes
Abstract Wild- Jack Turner
Grizzly Years- Doug Peacock
The Blue Bear- Lynn Schooler
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Things Fall Apart- Achebe
Hamlet- Shakespeare
Uncle Tungsten- Oliver Sachs
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler- Italo Calvino
Call of the Wild- Jack London
White Fang – Jack London
The Double Helix- James Watson
Three Cups of Tea –Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Billy Budd –Herman Melville
The Alchemist –Paul Coelho
The Starship & the Canoe –Kenneth Brower