Tutor – Ginger McCreery
Good readers make good students! Good literature provides academic excellence and excellence of character. This class will be both academic and appreciative, in nature. Every attempt will be made to accommodate the interests of both male and female students. We will examine lots of different genres, including short stories, mystery, fantasy, poetry, historical fiction and biography.
Please do not purchase text or class materials until after Registration Day in May. There may be updates or changes made to this page before that date. We suggest that class materials are purchased by mid-June at the latest to allow for any shipping lag times and so that students may have any class-preparatory assignments completed.
While you will need a lot of books for this class, most of these titles can be found at used bookstores or through online sources quite cheaply. Instead of buying an expensive textbook that you will never use again, you will be investing in real books for your student and home. ISBN’s and publisher names have been provided below, but these specific editions are not required (unless noted). Bargain books are fine as long as they are unabridged and the student has a physical copy to bring to class.
Summer Reading:
THE CHILDREN’S HOMER
by Padraic Colum
Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 0-02-042520-1
THE LANTERN BEARERS
by Rosemary Sutcliff
A Sunburst Book, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
ISBN: 0-374-44302-5
A WRINKLE IN TIME
by Madeleine L’Engle
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0-0440-99805-0
A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO
by Richard Peck
Puffin Book from Penguin Putnam publishers
ISBN: 0-14-130352-2
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
by Arthur Ransome
David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 0-87923-573-X
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
by James Herriot
Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0-553-266812-0
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
by Johann David Wyss
Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0-553-214 03-9
*Need this exact book*
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Bantam Starfire
ISBN: 0-553-272500
ANIMAL FARM
by George Orwell
Signet Modern Classics
ISBN: 0-451-52634-1
THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE
by Jesse Stuart
A Touchstone Book (Simon & Schuster)
ISBN: 0-684-71904-5
THE EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Puffin Classics
ISBN: 0-14-036705-5
FRECKLES
by Gene Stratton Porter
Dell Yearling Classic
ISBN: 0-440-40050-3
A CERTAIN SMALL SHEPHERD
by Rebecca Caudill
Yearling
ISBN: 0440411947
Required summer reading: Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum. Aladdin Paperbacks
Recommended for Grades 7-9
This class requires approximately 5-10 hours of study per week, depending on the speed and skill of the reader.
3 Ring Binder
Notebook paper