Demarest Summer Readings 2008
Seniors: Required- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson and choose one of the following: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy or Talk, Talk by T.C. Boyle.
Senior Advanced Placement: Required- How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Juniors: Required- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and choose one of the following: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde or A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Scholastic Juniors: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.
Junior Honors: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Sophomores: Required- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and choose one of the following: Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote or All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
Scholastic Sophomores: Marley and Me by John Grogan.
Freshmen: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.
Honors Freshmen: The King Must Die by Mary Renault and A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.