Honors 9th World History Summer Reading

Students will be required to read one book related to first semester studies and a second book
related to second semester studies.
Please print the rubric twice and attach a copy to each book report.
First Semester Choices:
Choose one of the following book from the first semester related unit of studies:
Medieval prelude to Renaissance
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization written by Lars
Brownworth.
Patience: Princess Catherine de Medici Young Royals Series by Carolyn Meyer
Age of Exploration and Absolute Divine Right
Rivers of Gold The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan Written by Hugh Thomas
The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada Written by Neil Hanson
The Bad Queen: Instructions and Rules for Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer Young Royals Series
Doomed Queen Anne Young Royals series by Carolyn Meyer
Beware Princess Elizabeth: Young Royals Series by Carolyn Meyer
Mary, Bloody Mary Young Royals series by Carolyn Meyer
Scientific Revolution
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Aladdin Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World by John Freely
Isaac Newton Written by James Gleick
Age of Enlightenment
How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created
Our World and Everything in It Written by Arthur Herman
Victorian England
At her majesty's request : an African princess in Victorian England Written by Walter Dean Myers.
Age of Imperialism
Into Africa The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone Written by Martin Dugard
The Great Wave Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan Written by
Christopher Benfey
Second Semester Choices:
Choose one of the following books from the second semester related unit of studies:
Asia
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him
Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Written by Arthur
Herman
Africa
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith
The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy by Nigel Worden
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah