Alamo Heights High School Reading 2019-2020 School Year

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School Year 2019-2020 List:

  • English I GL
    • Speak, Laurie Halse
  • English I Pre-AP/GT
    • Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library Series), William Shakespeare
      • This is the required edition for freshmen. Please do not buy "No Fear Shakespeare" editions.
    • Speak, Laurie Halse.
  • English II GL
    • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie
    • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
  • English II Pre-AP/GT
    • All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
    • Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
    • Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library Series), William Shakespeare
      • This is the required edition for sophomores. Please do not buy "No Fear Shakespeare" editions.
  • English III GL
    • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • All The Pretty Horses, Cormack McCarthy
  • English III AP
    • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
    • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • English IV GL
    • The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
    • Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library Series), William Shakespeare
      • This is the required edition for seniors. Please do not buy "No Fear Shakespeare" editions.
  • English IV AP Literature
    • Frankenstein (Bantam), Mary Shelley
    • Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library Series), William Shakespeare
      • This is the required edition for seniors. Please do not buy "No Fear Shakespeare" editions.
    • Jane Eyre (Bantam), Charlotte Bronte
  • English III/IV DC, for rising 11th and 12th graders taking their first DC course
    • Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
    • The Stranger, Albert Camus, translated by Matthew Ward. This translation only.
  • English IV BW, for rising seniors who took DC as juniors with Davenport or Foss during the 2018-2019 school year
    • Beowulf, Translated by Seamus Heaney. This translation only.

 

Speak: (National Book Award Finalist) By Laurie Halse Anderson Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9780312674397
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Published: Square Fish - May 10th, 2011

The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice.


Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) By William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine, Ph.D. (Editor) Cover Image
$6.99
ISBN: 9780743477116
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 1st, 2004

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable.


The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) By Sherman Alexie Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316013697
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - April 1st, 2009

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold!


Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.


All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel By Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translated by) Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780449213940
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Published: Ballantine Books - March 12th, 1987

The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.
 
“[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank.”—The New York Times Book Review


Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck Cover Image
$12.00
ISBN: 9780140177398
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Published: Penguin Books - September 1st, 1993

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
 
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.


Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) By William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine, Ph.D. (Editor) Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781451694727
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 8th, 2013

The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material.


The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition By F. Scott Fitzgerald Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780743273565
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Published: Scribner - September 30th, 2004

The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

The Great Gatsby, F.


All the Pretty Horses: Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner) (Vintage International) By Cormac McCarthy Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780679744399
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Published: Vintage - June 29th, 1993

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road


The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott (Introduction by), Robert DeMott (Notes by) Cover Image
By John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott (Introduction by), Robert DeMott (Notes by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143039433
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Published: Penguin Classics - March 28th, 2006

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

A Penguin Classic


The Things They Carried By Tim O'Brien Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780618706419
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Published: Mariner Books Classics - October 13th, 2009

“O'Brien has written a vital, important book—a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well.”Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene


Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) By William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine, Ph.D. (Editor) Cover Image
$6.99
ISBN: 9780743477123
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 1st, 2003

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark.


Frankenstein By Mary Shelley Cover Image
$5.95
ISBN: 9780553212471
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Published: Bantam Classics - May 1st, 1984

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read


Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte Cover Image
$5.95
ISBN: 9780553211405
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Published: Bantam Classics - September 1st, 1983

Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read


Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Cover Image
$5.00
ISBN: 9780486266909
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Published: Dover Publications - January 1st, 1991

Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle.


The Stranger (Vintage International) By Albert Camus Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780679720201
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Published: Vintage - March 13th, 1989

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.


Beowulf By Seamus Heaney (Editor) Cover Image
By Seamus Heaney (Editor)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393320978
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 17th, 2001

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.