​2016-2017
Whitefish Bay High School English Department Book Lists​
Students are responsible for purchasing the books they will be reading in their English classes
this year. These books are organized by course and teacher below. Be sure to select the correct
translation/edition/version of each book by using the ISBN numbers indicated. These numbers
are found on the back of the book cover or on the back of the title page. You may type the ISBN
number, instead of the title, when searching for books online at sites like Boswell Book
Company, Barnes and Noble or ​Amazon.com​. Students are welcome to use siblings’ books or to
buy used books when available.
Please order only the books needed for the current semester to eliminate any confusion that may
result if there is a future schedule change. Students should bring books on the first day of class.
Ashlock, Costa, Scott, Sibbersen
ENGLISH 1
(Semester 1)
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding ISBN: 9780399537424
The Odyssey by Homer ISBN: 9781580493895
Sampe, Grossmayer, Thompson, Sibbernsen
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ​ISBN: 9780439023528
The Odyssey by Homer (provided in class)
ENGLISH 1S/2S
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(Semester 1&2)
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ​ISBN: 9780061120084
Rite of Passage by Richard Wright: ​ISBN: 9780064471114
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry ​ISBN: 9780679755333
or
GRADE 9
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Of Mice and Men (the Play) by John Steinbeck ​ISBN: ​9780143127277
Costa, Scott, Sampe, Wepfer, Grossmayer
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ​ISBN: 9780061120084
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Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry I​SBN: 9780679755333
ENGLISH 2
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(Semester 2)
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Choose
ONE:
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw ​ISBN: ​9781416500407
Of Mice and Men (the Play) by John Steinbeck​ ISBN: ​9780143127277
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Master Harold and the Boys by Athel Fugard​ ​ISBN: 9780307475206
ENGLISH 3
(no book)
Ashlock, Kind-Keppel, Skoglund
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald​ISBN: 9780743273565
ISBN: 9781586172619
IS
GRADE 10
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ENGLISH 4
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Hamlet Ignatius Critical Ed. , Ed. By Joseph Pearce
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
BN: 9780440180296
Choose
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
ONE:
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Ordinary People by Judith Guest
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GRADE 11
only
How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez
ADVANCED
COMPOSITION
(no book)
AP Language and Ashloc(to(T(Ok
Composition
(to be determined)
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Sampe, Scott, Wepfer
GRADES 11
& 12
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Outside Reading Novel: (Choose one)
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Grossmayer
BRITISH
LITERATURE
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Costa
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
CONTEMPORARY
AUTHORS
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven - by Sherman Alexie
Post apocalyptic novel (choose 1):
Choose
ONE:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Blindness by Jose Saramago
JOURNALISM Wepfer
COMPOSITION &
LITERATURE None
Skoglund
Grendel by John Gardner
MODERN
THOUGHT IN
LITERATURE
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard.
Choose 1984 by George Orwell
ONE:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
(no book)
WORLD
LITERATURE
Sibbernsen
Some titles TBA
AP ENGLISH
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Wit by Margaret Edson
Othello by William Shakespeare (Pelican Addition)
Sibbernsen
Some titles TBA
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
HONORS
AP ENGLISH
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Wit by Margaret Edson
Thompson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
GENERAL
ENGLISH
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak