Summer Reading Choices

La Salle Academy – Summer 2017 – Reading Across the Curriculum

This summer, all students are required to read any two books – selected from those listed below.

English Language & Arts

• Our Town, by Thornton Wilder

• Shakespeare: The World as a Stage, by Bill Bryson

• A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman

• The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan

• Battle of Jericho, by Sharon Draper

Science & Technology

• The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts, by Neal Bascomb

• Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter, by Simon Mayo

• The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston

Religion

• The Grunt Padre, by Fr. Daniel Mode

• The Lord is My Shepherd, by Harold Kushner

• Joshua: A Parable for Today, by Joseph Girzone

Mathematics

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott

• How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng

• The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Social Sciences

• Little Fish, by Ramsey Beyer (graphic novel)

• History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, by Deborah Lipstadt

• Grit, by Angela Duckworth

World Language

• The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

• Don Quixote, by Miguel De Cervantes

• The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• In the Time of the Butterflies, by JuliaAlvarez

Physical Education & Health

• Boy 21, by Matthew Quick

• The Running Dream, by Wendelin Van Draanen