Summer Reading List 2006-2007

Grade 11 U.S. History (AP, L1, and L2)

* Learning Center Collection

Students are required to read and take notes on one book from the list below. The notes will be used as part of an

assessment of the reading to be given during the first week of school.

*All The President’s Men – Bernstein

Investigation and report of the burglary at Watergate that climaxed with a President's resignation

*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West – Brown

Documented account of the systematic plunder of the American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century

*The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother – McBride

An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to admit her true identity

*Coming of Age in Mississippi – Moody

The personal story of a young African American woman growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in Mississippi

*Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family – Uchida

A first-person story telling of the U.S. internment of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II

*Farewell to Manzanar - Houston

A true story of the Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment; biography of Jeanne Wakatsuki

Houston relating her experiences living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II and how her was affected.

Flags of Our Fathers – Bradley

Presents an account of the Marines who came together during the battle of Iwo Jima to raise the American flag in a moment

that has been immortalized in one of the most famous photographs of World War II.

*Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of The Emmett Till Case – Crowe

Presents a true account of the murder of a fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi , in 1955.

*Killer Angels – Shaara

A fictional account of four days in July 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans, and preparations for battle

from both the Northern and Southern points of view

*Profiles in Courage – Kennedy, John F.

Presents John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning study of men who, at a risk to themselves, stood fast for a principle, covering

John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, Robert Taft, and others

*Profiles in Courage for our Time – Kennedy, Caroline

Contains profiles of individuals and groups, all elected officials at the national, state, or local level, who have been presented

with the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation since 1990 for standing fast for the ideals of

America in the face of personal risk

*The Things They Carried – O’Brien

A collection of related short fiction stories with recurring characters and an interwoven plot and theme, that recreate the

Vietnam War experiences of an American foot soldier

Truman – McCullough

Full scale biography of Harry S. Truman, his life and times, drawn from newly discovered archival material and interviews with

Truman family, friends, and political figures

*Under A War Torn Sky – Elliott

After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond , Virginia , strives to walk across

occupied France , with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.

*When the Emperor Was Divine – Otsuka

A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being

forced into an internment camp during World War II

In place of one of the above, students in L2 may choose:

Return with Honor – O’Grady

Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady tells the story of how he survived after being shot down over Bosnia on June 2, 1995,

describing his six-day ordeal in hostile territory being hunted by the Bosnian Serbs, his rescue by the U.S. Marines, and his

hero's welcome home.

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang, the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam – Moore

Presents a personal account of infantry combat in the battle of the Ia Drang Valley during the Vietnam War in November 1965