Text Book Ordering
We appreciate your patience as we go through this new process of book ordering for the first time. We believe that, with the bugs
worked out, this new set-up will provide you the resources you need to purchase books at the best prices you can find while
alleviating a huge overstock problem the school used to be encumbered with. For your convenience, we have listed the required
textbooks below including ISBN’s. We welcome any comments or suggestions you have about the process.
To review: Go to www.thacher.org and be sure to log in using your user name and password. This should bring up a page you are
familiar with – where you see campus news, find your child’s grades and comments, etc. The page should say “My Thacher –
Parents” at the top.
The title, “Course Schedule” will be on the right with a tab containing your child’s name. Click that tab to see the courses listed
for the upcoming term.
Now click the “ESCO” textbook link and log-in to the ESCO site. If you have not set up an account with ESCO, you will need to
do so. With an account established, you should be taken to Thacher’s on-line textbook listing, and the directions from there are
fairly straightforward.
About Thacher’s Book Listings
1. Not all Thacher courses will appear on ESCO’s site because Thacher intends to sell books for some courses in the usual way –
here at Thacher in the fall. For example, no books are listed for arts courses, language courses, senior English courses, the junior
level Math III class, or freshman and sophomore history courses.
2. Your child may be at an accelerated level in, say, mathematics. A tenth-grader, for example, in an eleventh grade class, will
have to find his/her text under the eleventh grade listings.
3. For mathematics, there are two books required for each of Math I, Math II and Math III, and you should see both listed on the
ESCO site. One is an algebra (or pre-calculus) text; the other is a geometry text. Returning students in these courses will already
have the geometry text and need not purchase a new copy if they still have theirs from ’08-09.
4. Also in mathematics, check with your child about their algebra, pre-calculus, or calculus text. In some situations, the students
are using the same text again this year and need not purchase a new copy if they still have theirs from this past year.
5. In science, if your child is taking Biology, the course name listed in ESCO is actually “Cellular Molecular Biology.” Order the
text listed there.
6. Finally, we recommend that, for math and science, you purchase a TI calculator through Thacher in the fall.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Grade
Course Name
ISBN
Title
Term
9
English I
316769177
374525749
015602764X
743477103
The Catcher in The Rye
The Odyssey
The Oedipus Cycle
Macbeth
All
All
All
All
10
English II
385474547
140281630
802130593
Heart of Darkness
Galileo
The Tempest
All
All
All
11
AP English Literature
141439513
140281630
385474547
074347712X
Pride and Prejudice
Heart of Darkness
Things Fall Apart
Hamlet
All
All
All
All
11
AP English Language
385474547
140281630
074347712X
316926086
0375701494
Things Fall Apart
Heart of Darkness
Hamlet
The Loved One
Old School
All
All
All
All
All
MATHEMATCS DEPARTMENT
Grade
Course Name
ISBN
Title
Term
9
Math I
0-321-29224-3
978-1-934124-08-6
Algebra 1
Geometry
All
All
Math II
0-321-29223-5
978-1-934124-08-6
Algebra 2
Geometry
All
All
Math III
0-534-49277-0
978-1-934124-08-6
Precalculus
Geometry
All
All
Math II
0-321-29223-5
Algebra 2
All
Math IIIb
0-618-66090-9
Precalculus with Limits
All
Math III H
0-618-66090-9
Precalculus with Limits
All
Math IV
0-534-49277-0
Precalculus
All
Math III
053494824-3
Plane Trigonometry
All
Math IV
0-618-66090-9
Precalculus with Limits
All
Math IV H
0-618-66090-9
Precalculus with Limits
All
AP Calculus AB
0-619-50300-5
Calculus
All
AP Calculus AB
0-619-50300-5
Calculus
All
AP Statistics
1-429-20562-7
The Practice of Statistics
All
Calculus
All
10
11
12
Adv Calculus BC
0-619-50300-5
and Multivariable Calculus
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Grade
Course Name
ISBN
Title
9
Physics
0-13-364749-8
0-13-364730-7
Conceptual Physics (2009 ed.), Hewitt
All
Conceptual Development Workbook, Robinson All
10-12
Chemistry
0-134-34776-5
978-1-930882-74-4
Connections to Our Changing World (2nd ed.)
Student Lab Notebook w/spiral binding,
and 100 carbonless copies
All
All
Honors Chemistry
0-134-34776-5
Connections to Our Changing World
(2nd ed.)
How to Prepare for the
SAT II Chemistry
Student Lab Notebook w/spiral binding,
100 carbonless copies
Life on Earth (8th ed.)
All
Human Anatomy and Physiology 0-13-2380617
Life on Earth (8th ed.)
Winter
Marine Biology
0-13-2380617
978-0062737182
Spring
Spring
Veterinary Medicine
1-4283-1225-0
Geology
013600007X
AP Biology
Item #991461
Life on Earth (8th ed.)
The Marine Biology Coloring Book,
2nd Edition
Introduction to Veterinary
Science (2nd ed.)
Earth Science (12th ed., 2009),
Tarbuck & Lutgens
AP Biology Lab Manual for Students
(2001 ed.)
AP Biology, w/CD ROM
(7th ed.), Campbell
Cliffs AP Biology (3rd ed.), Pack
AP Test Prep Workbook
0-7641-3443-4
978-1-930882-74-4
11-12
Cellular and Molecular Biology
0-13-2380617
0-8053-7187-7
0-47-009764-7
0-8053-7187-7
Term
All
All
Fall
Spring
Winter
All
All
All
All
Grade
Course Name
ISBN
Title
Term
11, 12
AP Chemistry
0-618-52844-X
0-375-76527-1
978-1-930882-74-4
Chemistry (7th ed), Zumdahl & Zumdahl
Cracking the AP Chem Exam (2006-2007 ed.)
Student Lab Notebook w/spiral binding,
with 100 carbonless copies
All
All
All
11, 12
AP Physics B
013-6279449
013-0606200
Physics Study Guide, Boyle
Physics, Principles w/Application (6th ed.)
All
All
11, 12
AP Environmental Science
0-738204005
0-495556718
Coal: A Human History
Living in the Environment
w/CD ROM, (16th ed.)
All
All
ISBN
Title
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Grade
Course Name
11, 12
American Civilization:
A Thematic Exploration
978-0060838652
All
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
Honors US History: A Survey
978-0073124926
American History (12th edition)
AP Human Geography
978-0132435734
The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to
Human Geography (9th Edition) (Hardcover) All
Barron's AP Human Geography, 2nd edition
(Paperback)
All
978-0764138171
Term
All