Senior list
A.P. Literature list
Open to all seniors, but 12th-graders in the A.P. Literature class must read one from this list (11th-graders in the A.P. Language class should read from the junior list)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, when one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying, and haunts his friend, John, into his adulthood. Mixing flashbacks of their growing up years through the ‘50s and ‘60s with his present year of 1987, John narrates this coming of age story which involves comedy and tragedy, friendship and faith.
by John Irving
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, when one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying, and haunts his friend, John, into his adulthood. Mixing flashbacks of their growing up years through the ‘50s and ‘60s with his present year of 1987, John narrates this coming of age story which involves comedy and tragedy, friendship and faith.