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迪尔菲尔德，新生和二年级学生(9、10年级)，2014年暑期阅读
博览群书一直以来都是人生一大快事，而且也是一种开阔视野和获取知识和经验的重要方式。这个清单给拥有各种兴趣爱好和能力的读者提供了多文化视角的书籍。享受您的阅读和发现之旅。在英文课中，所有的学生必须读四本书。其中两本为必读，另外两本由学生自己从清单里面选择。请提前准备，秋季开学后与大家分享您的阅读感受。来校的时候请务必带上你必读的两本书。如果您无法从当地的书店或者网上购买，请拨打迪菲尔德书店的号码（413) 774-1513，让书店安排寄送。
所有学生必读书目：《泽图恩》 作者：戴夫·艾格斯
9年级必读书目： 《玻璃城堡》 作者：珍妮特·沃尔斯
10年级必读书目：《生命不息》 作者：凯特·阿特金森
9年级和10年级选读书-选择阅读两本书
爱德温·阿伯特，《平地：多维的罗曼史》-一部经典小说，以多维的角度去探索世界-(对学习几何有帮助)。
茱莉亚·阿尔瓦雷斯，《加西亚姐妹如何丢掉乡音》- 冲击着旧世界的束缚和憧憬新的自由。来自圣多明哥的四姐妹在美国过着她们的新生活。
伊斯梅尔·比亚，《长路漫漫》-一个曾经的童兵逃离塞拉利昂的战争所带来的恐惧。
乔·安·比尔德，《在赞斯维尔的日子》-讲诉了在20世纪70年代在一个小镇，有两个正在长大的女孩互相结识。
巴兹·比辛格，《胜利之光》-发现德州中学橄榄球的重要性。
拉伊·布拉德伯里，《华氏451度》-想象一个没有书籍的世界-或者书籍可以带来的欢乐。
夏洛蒂·勃朗特，《简·爱》-年轻的简在没有人情味的约克郡寄宿中学过着艰苦的日子，之后终于能够独立生活，并嫁给罗切斯特成为那里的女主人。之后，问题又产生了。
克劳·布朗，《应许之地的儿子》-讲诉了黑人区里充满了骚动和种族主义的激进，在这个背景下，一个年轻人努力拼搏而崛起，从一个不务正业的小混混成长为一个有知识且为自由而努力的人的故事。
丹尼尔·詹姆斯·布朗，《赛艇男孩》-美国赛艇队在1936年的柏林奥林匹克运动会取得胜利的故事。
比尔·布赖森，《林中漫步》-与一个善于讲故事的人一起穿越2100 英里的阿巴拉契亚山道。
威利·卡什，《比家更温馨的地方》-两兄弟能够降服阿帕拉契山脉的小镇上的恶魔吗？
菲利普·康纳斯，《火灾季节》-独自在新墨西哥野外的一座火警观察塔上度过一个夏季。
布莱斯·康特妮，《小子要自强》-一个居住在南非的孤独英国少年在他的两个不同肤色朋友的帮助下，遵从他的内心的意愿，在种族和勇气的认知方面经历挫折，吸取教训。
皮特·霍尔·戴维斯，《威尔士姑娘》-德国的战俘营驻扎在威尔士，这种状况给这个社区带来紧张的气氛也给17岁的以斯帖的生活带来了剧变。
塔蒂阿·娜德罗内，《莎拉的钥匙》-一个记者解开了大屠杀的秘密并发现自己与之的关联。
朱诺·迪亚斯，《沉溺》，这些故事让你以一个移民的角度去看待美国梦。
劳拉·埃斯基韦尔，《巧克力情人》-这部魔幻现实主义的代表作讲述了一个墨西哥女孩发现母亲厨房里和内心秘密的故事。
理查德·弗拉纳根，《欲望》-一个来自塔斯马尼亚岛的孤儿，一个北极探险家和查尔斯狄根思都想在生活中获得更多自己想要的。
欧内斯特·盖恩斯，《垂死的教训》-两个黑人，一个重案在身的罪犯和一个不愿意教书的老师在路易斯安那州相聚，他们一起分享着关于尊严方面的内容。
史蒂芬·杰·高德，《熊猫的拇指》-一位科学界的作家解释了有关进化的古怪事件。
戴维·古兰的，《失落Z城》-一个现代记者跟随着一个探险家的足迹去往亚马逊，解开了一座具有传奇色彩的古城秘密。
朱迪斯·格斯特，《平凡的人》- 描述了一个十分典型的中产阶级的家庭因一个可爱的男孩遭遇溺亡而面临分离的故事。该小说曾被搬上荧幕并获得奥斯卡奖。
大卫·古特森，《落在香杉树的雪花》-第二次世界大战时期在日本与美国的收容所里，一桩谋杀案的谜团笼罩着整个过程。
哈立德·侯赛因，《追风筝的人》-讲诉了在阿富汗这个充斥着战争和塔利班组织纷争的国家里，两个从小玩到大的朋友失去对方到找回对方的过程。
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎，《美丽新世界》-伯纳德·马克思能够在虚拟的乌托邦世界找到爱和保持自我吗？
莎莉·詹金斯，《真正的美国人》-讲述了学院橄榄球项目是如何陪伴吉姆索普在卡莱尔印第安工业学校成长的故事。
珊蒂·琼斯，《小战争》-虽然离战场只有几英里的距离，但是一段婚姻仍然承受着战争的代价。
肯·克西，《飞越疯人院》-麦克墨菲和强悍的护士在一家精神病院里因自由和权威的争执而发生冲突。
特蕾西·基德《生命如歌》-迪欧能够逃离布隆迪种族灭绝的惨案令人称奇，之后他回到自己的国家建立了一个健康诊所（他的弟弟们曾经在迪尔菲尔德中学就读过）。
巴巴拉·金索沃尔《动物之梦》-在西南地区，一个年轻的女士因包容梦想，美洲原住民的神秘感和过去，而找到了生命中的爱以及其新的含义。
约翰·诺尔斯，《独自和解》-享受寄宿中学友谊里最纯真的故事。
裘帕·拉希莉，《疾病解说者》-带领你走进美国人的生活，去感受移民们如何努力去平衡他们以前和现在的生活。
阿尔佛雷德·兰辛，《忍耐》-船在南极海上失事后在冰上经过数月漂流了2000英里。欧内斯特·沙克尔顿在救生船里航行了700多英里去寻求救援。
圣扎迦利·梅森，《奥德赛失落的章节》-由一些创造出来的故事去重新想象一下史诗。
约翰·麦克菲，《校长》-讲诉了弗兰克·博伊登如何使学校变得优秀。
玛德琳·米勒，《阿喀琉斯之歌》-伟大的英雄不仅仅只是为了荣誉而战。
迈克尔·昂达其，《猫的餐桌》-和三个锡兰男孩乘船出海去英格兰。
大冢·朱莉，《皇帝曾为天神时》-在这个背井离乡的家庭，通过每个成员的眼睛，看待二战收容所里日裔美国人的经历。
凯伦·拉索尔，《狼女之家》-在你读到这篇文章之前，你永远也不会想到沼泽地有那么的魔幻和神秘。
JD·塞林格，《麦田里的守望者》-通过具有传奇色彩霍尔顿·考尔菲德思想和心声，我们参加了一个现代版的长途跋涉，就像是一位被开除的预科生在曼哈顿独自一人进行着艰险旅程。
爱丽丝·茜波德，《可爱的骨头》-由一位被谋杀的受害者从天堂俯视人间，讲诉了因为犯罪揭开了家庭里面的爱的点点滴滴。
戴丽雅·索夫，《设拉子的九月号》-在这个半自传式的小说里讲诉了索夫一家人逃离革命后的伊朗的故事。
M. L·斯特德曼，《大洋之间的灯光》-一位澳大利亚的灯塔守护者和他的妻子在感到孤独和悲哀的同时也理解了什么是爱和失去。
雪儿·史翠德，《涉足荒野》-家庭生活变得支离破碎，史翠德通过太平洋山脊步道这个过程找回了自己。
艾米·谭，《喜福会》-带着历史和希望去中国和洛杉矶追溯四个的移民家庭的故事。
特兰波·道尔顿《约翰尼上战场》-霍华德·辛称这本书是最佳反战小说。
凯伦·汤普森·沃克，《奇迹时代》-末日来临即将的时候，茱莉亚仍然能在她的生活里找到美好的事物与各种可能。
珍妮特·沃尔，《半驯之马》 - 《玻璃城堡》的作者基于她祖母的生活写了一篇有关真实生活的小说。
奥斯卡·王尔德，《道林·格雷的画像》-多里安是一个时尚的的青年，为了得到永恒的青春而出卖自己的灵魂，但是后来发现换来的并不是快乐而是颓废和堕落。
珍妮特·温特森，《橘子不是唯一的水果》-一个出生在有基督信仰家庭的英国女孩发现自己是个同性恋，家人和教会出于害怕而决定拯救她。
托拜厄斯·沃尔夫，《守旧派》-访问寄宿中学的著名作家们并不是唯一创造想象中生活和身份的人，老师和学生似乎也可以做类似的事情。
米切尔·朱可夫，《迷失在香格里拉》-这是一个发生在二战期间真实的故事，一队机组人员坠机后在一片丛林里与外界失去了联系，后来存活了下来。
Deerfield Academy Freshmen and Sophomores Summer Reading 2014
Reading remains one of life's great pleasures and an important means of broadening our horizons of knowledge and experience. This list includes books of diverse cultural perspectives for readers with varying interests and abilities. Enjoy your reading discoveries. For English class, all students must read FOUR books, two of which are required. Two other choices from the list are left to you. Please be ready to discuss your reading early in the fall. Bring the required reading book(s) with you when you return. If you cannot obtain a book from your local bookstore or online, please call the Deerfield Academy Bookstore at (413) 774-1513 to arrange a shipment.
All –School required book: Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun
Grade 9 required book: Walls, Jeannette. - The Glass Castle
Grade 10 required books: Atkinson, Kate. - Life After Life
Grade 09 and 10 Choices - select and read TWO
Abbott, Edwin. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - A classic novel that explores the perception of dimensions. - (Recommended for Geometry)
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Clashing against old-world restraints and tempting new freedoms, four sisters from Santo Domingo lead new lives in the U.S.
Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone - A former boy soldier escapes the horrors of the war in Sierra Leone.
Beard, Jo Ann. In Zanesville - Two girls coming of age in small town in the 1970s form a friendship.
Bissinger, Buzz. Friday Night Lights - Discover the importance of Texas high school football.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 - Imagine a world without books—or the joy they can create.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre - Young Jane survives hardships at a grim Yorkshire boarding school and makes an independent life as a governess to Mr. Rochester's ward. - Then, problems arise.
Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land - Harlem's vibrancy and racism's viciousness serve as a backdrop for a young man's struggle to rise from a life of petty crime to an educated freedom.
Brown, Daniel James. The Boys in the Boat - Row to victory with the Americans in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods - Travel the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail with a wonderful storyteller.
Cash, Wiley. A Land More Kind Than Home - Can two brothers face down evil in a small Appalachian town?
Connors, Philip. Fire Season - Spend a summer alone on a fire tower high in New Mexico's wilderness.
Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One - A lonely British boy in South Africa learns important lessons about race and courage in following his own heart and two friends, one black and one white.
Davies, Peter Ho. The Welsh Girl - A P.O.W. camp for Germans placed in Wales creates tensions in the community and upheaval in the life of 17-year-old Esther.
De Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah's Key - A journalist unlocks a secret from the Holocaust and finds a personal bond.
Diaz, Junot. Drown - These stories will ask you to consider the American Dream from an immigrant's eyes.
Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate - A Mexican girl learns the secrets of her mother's kitchen and heart in this favorite of the magic realism genre.
Flanagan, Richard. Wanting - An aboriginal orphan in Tasmania, an Arctic explorer, and Charles Dickens all want something more from life.
Gaines, Ernest. A Lesson Before Dying - Two black men, a condemned criminal and a reluctant teacher, share lessons about dignity in this moving story set in Louisiana.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Panda's Thumb - A science writer explains the oddities of evolution.
Grann, David. The Lost City of Z - A modern-day journalist follows the tracks of an explorer of the Amazon and solves the mystery of a legendary ancient city.
Guest, Judith. Ordinary People - Before the Oscar-winning movie came this portrait of the dissolution of an all-too-typical middle-class family in the face of a beloved boy's accidental drowning.
Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars - A murder mystery wraps around a larger story of lost identities because of World War II and the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner - Two childhood friends lose and find one another in Afghanistan, a country blasted into chaos by war and the Taliban.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World - Can Bernard Marx find love and stay true in an - engineered Utopia?
Jenkins, Sally. The Real All Americans - Discover how college football came of age with Jim Thorpe at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Jones, Sadie. Small Wars - Even miles from the battlefield, the costs of war weigh heavily on a marriage.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - McMurphy and Big Nurse square off in a mental institution where freedom and authority collide.
Kidder, Tracy. Strength in What Remains - Marvel at Deo's escape from genocide in Burundi and his return to his country to found a health clinic. (Deo's younger brothers attended Deerfield.)
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams - In the Southwest, a young woman finds love and new meaning in her life by embracing dreams, Native American myths, and her past.
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace - Enjoy the beloved tale of boarding school friendship.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Interpreter of Maladies - Make your way into American life with the immigrants who struggle to balance their old and new lives.
Lansing, Alfred. Endurance - After being shipwrecked in Antarctica and drifting 2,000 miles on ice floes for many months, Ernest Shackleton then sails more than 700 miles in a lifeboat to bring rescuers.
Mason, Zachary. The Lost Books of the Odyssey - Imagine the epic anew through these inventive stories.
McPhee, John. The Headmaster - Examine how Frank Boyden led a -school to greatness.
Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles - The great hero fights for much more than glory.
Ondjaate, Michael. The Cat's Table - Take a sea voyage with three Ceylonese boys heading to England.
Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine - Follow the Japanese-American experience in the WW II internment camps through the eyes of each member of one uprooted family.
Russell, Karen. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - The Everglades will never seem more magical or mystifying after you read these stories.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye - Through the mind and voice of the legendary Holden Caulfield, we join a modern-day odyssey as the expelled preppie navigates through a lonely weekend in Manhattan.
Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones - Narrated by a murder victim looking down from heaven, a family's story in the wake of the crime unfolds in loving detail.
Sofer, Dalia. The Septembers of the Shiraz - Escape post-revolutionary Iran with the Sofer family in this semi-autobiographical novel.
Stedman, M. L. The Light Between Oceans - In solitude and grief, an Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife discover more about their love and loss.
Strayed, Cheryl. Wild - With her life falling apart, Strayed finds clarity along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club - Trace the stories of four immigrant families with histories and hopes in both China and San Francisco.
Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny Got His Gun - Howard Zinn called this the best anti-war novel ever penned.
Walker, Karen Thompson. Age of Miracles - With the apocalypse approaching, Julia still finds beauty and possibilities in her unfolding life.
Walls, Jeannette. Half Broke Horses - The author of The Glass Castle offers a true-life novel based on her grandmother's life.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Dorian, a fashionable young man, sells his soul for eternal youth, and finds decadence instead of delight.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - A British girl growing up in a Pentecostal family discovers she is a lesbian, to the horror of her family and church, who set out to rescue her.
Wolff, Tobias. Old School - The famous writers visiting a boarding school are not the only ones creating imagined lives and identities. - Teachers and students seem to be practicing the same craft.
Zuckoff, Mitchell. Lost in Shangri-La - The true WW II story of the crew of a downed aircraft surviving in a lost world in the jungles.