Monday - Friday on School Days
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Follett Virtual Bookstores is Ursuline's online textbook provider. Textbooks will be available online beginning August 3, 2020. 

Other notes:

• All Vista Higher Learning books should be bought through their website https://vistahigherlearning.com/school/ursulinedallas
• Books that have “Teacher will have required material information” are digital texts that were bought by the school and will be charged to the students Bear Necessities student accounts, parents do not need to purchase.

2020-21 Book List

English Department Summer Reading 2020

• English I: Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 
• English I Honors: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens  
• English II: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 
• English II Honors: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• English III: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• English III Honors: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 
• AP Language:  The Jungle Upton Sinclair andUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• English IV Reading in the Dark: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• English IV Gods Behaving Badly: Circe by Madeline Miller
• English IV Foodie Lit:   A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• AP Lit: Humanity: 
  • 1) A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf.  Harcourt  
  • 2) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.  Random House
• AP Lit: S. Cat: 
  • 1) A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit 
  • 2) The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald

The English Department requires that all paperback novels be purchased new. Bear Necessities is currently not carrying the summer reading books as the campus is closed. In the meantime, books can be purchased from various online stores.

Bear Necessities stocks many of the school supplies that students need for classes, including copy paper, flashdrives, poster board, index cards, report covers, folders, pens, pencils and notebooks.

Bear Necessities also stocks supplies required for specific courses, such as chemistry goggles, geometers, compasses, graph paper books and P.E. uniforms. Bear Necessities store hours allow students to conveniently shop for needed supplies before school, at lunch, or between classes.

Bear Necessities carries a full line of Ursuline logo items and casual clothing to show your school spirit. There's always something new and cute in stock! In addition to in-store purchase, orders may be placed by phone 469-232-3581, or by email to Rachel Brewer. Visa and MasterCard are accepted.

The bookstore compiles the Ursuline Academy booklist for each school year. Parents should purchase both first and second semester books at one time. Some of the required books and supplies are available exclusively at Bear Necessities. Textbooks should be purchased from Folett Virtual Bookstore. The English Department requires that all paperback novels be purchased new. Bear Necessities stocks all of the required paperback novels for English classes.