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Nantucket High School Reading Lists 2009

For a link to the pdf on the school's site click here

Or see below for the booklist. If books are in stock, they will show as being "On our shelves now." Otherwise, you can place an order and they will ship straight from the warehouse, either for store pickup or for home delivery.

In addition to choosing a title from the full list below, honors students must also read the following:

AP English Literature: Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens & On Writing by Stephen King

Honors English I: October Sky by Homer Hickam

Honors English II: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Honors English III: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Honors English IV: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

 

Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her (Hardcover)

By Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9780743260800
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Simon & Schuster, 11/2008
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Out Stealing Horses (Paperback)

By Per Petterson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427085
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador, 4/2008
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Plague Ship (Mass Market Paperback)

By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780425226698
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Published: Berkley, 3/2009
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Brilliant Idiot: An Autobiography of a Dyslexic (Paperback)

By Abraham Schmitt, Mary Lou Hartzler Clemens
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9781561481088
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Good Books, 2/2002
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The Red Tent (Paperback)

By Anita Diamant
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780312195519
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador, 9/1998
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The River Why (Paperback)

By David James Duncan, Forbes Duncan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780553344868
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Bantam Books, 12/1984
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Vanishing Acts (Paperback)

By Jodi Picoult
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743454551
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Published: Washington Square Press, 11/2005
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)

By Barack Obama
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781400082773
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Broadway, 8/2004
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Suite Francaise (Paperback)

By Irene Nemirovsky
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781400096275
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Published: Vintage, 4/2007
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Jesus Land: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Julia Scheeres
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781582433547
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Published: Counterpoint, 9/2006
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Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)

By Jane Austen, Vivien Jones, Tony Tanner
$8.00
ISBN-13: 9780141439518
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Classics, 12/2002
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Cat's Cradle (Paperback)

By Kurt Vonnegut
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385333481
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 9/1998
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)

By Kim Edwards
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143037149
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 6/2006
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Windows Into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives (Paperback)

By Sarah Cortez, Virgil Suarez
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781558854826
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Published: Pinata Books, 5/2007
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Manchild in the Promised Land (Paperback)

By Claude Brown
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780684864181
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Touchstone, 1/1999
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Stotan! (Paperback)

By Chris Crutcher
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780060094928
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Published: Greenwillow Books, 4/2003
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For One More Day (Paperback)

By Mitch Albom
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9781401309572
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Published: Hyperion, 4/2008
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That Was Then, This Is Now (Mass Market Paperback)

By S. E. Hinton
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780140389661
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Speak, 4/1998
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Nineteen Minutes (Paperback)

By Jodi Picoult
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743496735
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Published: Washington Square Press, 2/2008
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Teacher Man: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Frank McCourt
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743243780
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Published: Scribner, 9/2006
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In the Same Space

In the Same Space

$15.99
Model: 9781419649141

The Rag and Bone Shop (Mass Market Paperback)

By Robert Cormier
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780440229711
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Laurel Leaf, 5/2003
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Dune (Mass Market Paperback)

By Frank Herbert
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780441172719
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: ACE Charter, 9/1990
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Life of Pi (Paperback)

By Yann Martel
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780156027328
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mariner Books, 5/2003
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Bel Canto (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060838720
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Published: Harper Perennial, 8/2005
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Fasting, Feasting (Paperback)

By Anita Desai
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780618065820
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Published: Mariner Books, 1/2000
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Snow Crash (Paperback)

By Neal Stephenson
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780553380958
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Published: Spectra, 5/2000
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Duma Key (Mass Market Paperback)

By Stephen King
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9781416552963
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Published: Pocket Books, 10/2008
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (Paperback)

By Ralph Helfer
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060929510
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Paperbacks, 10/1998
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The Farming of Bones (Paperback)

By Edwidge Danticat
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780140280494
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Published: Penguin Books, 9/1999
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Paperback)

By Robert A. Heinlein
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780312863555
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Published: Orb Books, 6/1997
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Paperback)

By Junot Diaz
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781594483295
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Trade, 9/2008
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)

By Mary Roach
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780393324822
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2004
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Run (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061340642
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial, 8/2008
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Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for It's Soul (Paperback)

By Bill Reynolds
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780312134914
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 9/1995
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345391803
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Published: Del Rey, 9/1995
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The Alchemist (Paperback)

By Paulo Coelho
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061122415
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: HarperOne, 4/2006
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Slumdog Millionaire (Paperback)

By Vikas Swarup
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781439136652
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Published: Scribner, 11/2008
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Airborn (Mass Market Paperback)

By Kenneth Oppel
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780060531829
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Published: HarperCollins, 6/2005
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My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)

By Jodi Picoult
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743454537
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Published: Washington Square Press, 2/2005
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Where the Heart Is (Paperback)

By Billie Letts
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780446672214
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 2/1999
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Never Give Up: My Stroke, My Recovery, and My Return to the NFL (Hardcover)

By Tedy Bruschi, Michael Holley
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780470108697
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Wiley, 8/2007
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The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Paperback)

By Lynn Sherr, Martha Ackmann
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375758935
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 7/2004
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Save the Date (Paperback)

By Tamara Summers
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780061366321
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Published: HarperTeen, 5/2008
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Bleachers (Hardcover)

By John Grisham
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780385511612
Large Print
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Published: Doubleday, 9/2003
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Paperback)

By Mitch Albom
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9781401308582
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Published: Hyperion, 3/2006
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La Casa En Mango Street (Paperback)

By Sandra Cisneros, Elena Poniatowska
$11.00
ISBN-13: 9780679755265
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Published: Vintage, 10/1994
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