The CBA Summer Reading Program allows students to explore compelling and topical works associated with the various subject disciplines they will encounter during the school year.
We are confident each student can do well on his tests if he prepares accordingly:
Note: Students who change courses over the summer are still responsible for the summer reading for that new course.
THEOLOGY I (ACADEMY OATH): Season of Life, Jeffrey Marx ISBN: 978-0743269742
ENGLISH I STANDARD:A Separate Peace, John Knowles, ISBN: 978-0743253970
ENGLISH I HONORS:The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie ISBN: 978-1495950810
WORLD HISTORY STANDARD:A Little History of the World, E.H. Gombrich, ISBN: 978-0300143324
WORLD HISTORY HONORS: Hard Times, Charles Dickens, ISBN: 978-1416523734
AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: Fast-Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser, ISBN: 978-0547750330
BIOLOGY STANDARD: The Serengeti Rules, Sean B. Carroll, ISBN: 978-0691175683
BIOLOGY HONORS:Prey, Michael Crichton, ISBN: 978-0061703089
ENGLISH II STANDARD (ACADEMY OATH): Old School, Tobias Wolff, ISBN: 978-0375701498
ENGLISH II HONORS (ACADEMY OATH): Old School, Tobias Wolff, ISBN: 978-0375701498
US HISTORY I STANDARD: Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis, ISBN: 978-0375705243
US HISTORY I HONORS: The Americans: The Colonial Experience, Daniel Boorstin,
ISBN: 978-0394705132
AP WORLD HISTORY: The Vietnam Wars: 1945-1990, Marilyn B. Young, ISBN: 978-0060921071
CHEMISTRY STANDARD: This Borrowed Earth, Robert Emmet Hernan, et al, ISBN: 978-0230619838
CHEMISTRY HONORS: Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth, Keith Veronese, ISBN: 978-1616149727
AP CHEMISTRY: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean, ISBN: 978-0316051637
THEOLOGY II STANDARD: This Is Our Exile, James Martin , ISBN: 978-1570759239
THEOLOGY II HONORS: The Day Christ Died, Jim Bishop, ISBN: 978-0060608163
ENGLISH III STANDARD: The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro, ISBN: 978-0307271037
ENGLISH III HONORS: The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro, ISBN: 978-0307271037
US HISTORY II STANDARD: The Devil in the White City, Erik Larsen, ISBN: 978-0553813531
US HISTORY II HONORS: The Devil in the White City, Erik Larsen, ISBN: 978-0553813531
AP AMERICAN HISTORY: The Devil in the White City, Erik Larsen, ISBN: 978-0553813531
FRENCH (all levels): The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Expury (only Juniors read this book), ISBN: 978-0156012195
LATIN (all levels): Rubicon, Steven Saylor, (only Juniors read this book) ISBN: 978-0312582425
SPANISH (all levels): Reaching Out, Francisco Jimenez (English edition, only Juniors read this book) ISBN: 978-0-547-25030-4
THEOLOGY III STANDARD: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis, ISBN: 978-0809149803
THEOLOGY III HONORS: Walking the Bible: A Journey By Land Through the Five Books of Moses, Bruce Feiler, ISBN: 978-0062336507
ENGLISH IV STANDARD: Born a Crime, Trevor Noah, ISBN: 978-0399588174
AP ENGLISH LIT: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, ISBN: 978-0802130204
THEOLOGY IV STANDARD/ DIMENSIONS OF CATHOLIC LIFE (ACADEMY OATH): Just Mercy, Bryan Stephenson, ISBN: 978-0812984965
THEOLOGY IV HONORS/ THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY (ACADEMY OATH): Just Mercy, Bryan Stephenson, ISBN: 978-0812984965
GURU: Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, ISBN: 978-0807014295
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY:The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friederich Engels (any edition) and The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli (any edition)
AP ART HISTORY: Instant Art History; From Cave Art to Pop Art, Walter Robinson, ISBN: 978-0449906989
AP CHEMISTRY:The Disappearing Spoon: And Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean, ISBN: 978-0316051637
AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: The World Without Us, Alan Weisman, ISBN: 978-0312427900