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Grade 11: All juniors read the following book.
Click on the image to see if a copy is available at the
Peabody Institute Library.
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Spun from a series of stories set in Haiti under the brutal Duvalier
regime, this novel reveals the truth about the past of a Haitian
immigrant to the United States. Through his viewpoint and
those of his artist daughter and others, his story is slowly unwound
as we learn about his "work" in Haiti and its undying effects on his
victims, no matter where they live - in basement apartments in
Brooklyn, N.Y., Florida or anywhere their troubled pasts follow.
This winner of the American Book Award, the 1989 National Book
Critics Circle Award and nominee for the PEN/Faulkner Award for
fiction explores the effects of past experiences on the present.
AP Assignment
Advanced Placement Students:
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Dreams from My Father: A
Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack O'bama
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Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert Pirsign
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