Congratulations, it is summer time!
And you have homework.
The Cold Spring Harbor Library has copies of the 2011 summer assignments for the Cold Spring Harbor Junior/Senior High School. You can also find your assignment by visiting the school’s webpage.
To make your life easier, here is a list of the books you may be required to read this summer (check your assignment). Each title is a link to the catalog, where you can a) see what’s on the shelf and b) request a copy.
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Best American Essays 2010 edited by Robert Atwan
Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Struggle for Black Equality by Harvard Sitkoff
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien