HRA SUMMER READING 2006

Order Form for the 12th Grade due April 6, 2006

 

Student Name ________________________________Telephone__________________

 

Current English Teacher/Block ______________________ Locker No. __________

 

Email address ____________________________

 

Students entering the twelfth grade are required to read three books.   Students may read three books from the list below, or two from the list below and one selected from a current list of best sellers.  (See the New Releases’ table at Barnes and Noble for ideas if needed.)  Check off the books you are ordering.

 

_____               Cry,  the Beloved Country                                Alan Paton                                  $15.00

The New Republic calls this “the greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.”  This is the passionate story of a Zula pastor and his set in a land ravaged by racial injustice.

 

_____               A Lesson Before Dying                         Ernest J. Gaines                         $13.00           

In a small Cajun community in 1940’s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder of a white shopkeeper during a robbery gone bad.  The man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger.  However, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or penalty.

 

_____               The Alchemist                                                  Paulo Coelho                             $14.00           

In this fable Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, follows his dream to discover distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids, meeting spiritual messengers along the way.

 

_____               The Handmaid’s Tale                                        Margaret Eleanor Atwood         $14.00

Set in a frightening America of the near future where women—categorized in terms of whether or not they are able to bear children—function only in the strictly defined roles assigned to them by man.  Atwood combines historic events and societies to create a futuristic world that is highly plausible.

 

_____               The Last Temptation of Christ                           Nikos Kazantzakis                      $14.00

This novel is a fictional exploration of the life of one of history’s most intriguing figures, Jesus Christ.

 

_____               Freakonomics                                                  S. Levitt, S. Dubner                  $28.00

Economics is, at the root, the study of incentives – how people get what they want/need, especially when other people want/need the same thing.  In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of… well, everything:  the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the myths of campaign finance.  The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

 

_____               The Kite Runner                                               Khaled Hosseini                       $14.00

Years after he flees Afghanistan, Amir, now an American citizen, returns to his native land and attempts to atone for the betrayal of his best friend before he fled Kabul and the Taliban.

 

_____               A Chronicle of a Death Foretold                       Gabriel Garcia Marquez          $11.00

On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 in the morning to wait for the boat that the bishop was coming on.  The novel reconstructs the events of his murder by the Vicario brothers.

 

 

 

 

Total Cost                                                                                                                                $___________

 

Please make checks payable to Friends of the Arts

and return to the Development Office using the enclosed envelope by April 6th.

Questions?  Call Mary Waddill @ 599-6557 or Joni Hafley @ 884-9177.