Summer+Reading

Click above to access a MS Word version of the Summer Reading Assignment. Feel free to email me at bhartley@newington-schools.org with any questions about the assignment, or to get approval for a nonfiction book that is NOT on the list. If you email me to seek approval for a nonfiction book NOT on the Summer Reading list, please give me the book's title, author, and a link to amazon.com where I can find additional information about the book. ||
 * **United States History (Level 1) Summer Reading** ||
 * = [|U.S. History Summer Reading.doc]
 * ** Other Suggested Books... **
 * [|In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex] by Nathaniel Philbrick
 * [|The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey] by Candice Millard
 * [|The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America] by Erik Larson
 * [|Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History] by Erik Larson
 * [|Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal] by Eric Schlosser
 * [|The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl] by Timothy Egan
 * [|Band of Brothers] by Stephen Ambrose
 * [|Lies by Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong] by James Loewen
 * [|The Watsons go to Birmingham: 1963] by Christopher Paul Curtis
 * [|Travels with Charley in Search of America] by John Steinbeck
 * [|Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of WWII's Greatest Rescue Mission] by Hampton Sides
 * [|In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors] by Doug Stanton
 * [|The Wordy Shipmates] by Sarah Vowell
 * [|Assassination Vacation] by Sarah Vowell
 * [|Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory] by Ben Macintyre
 * [|Columbine] by Dave Cullen ||