<p>I'll be a sophomore next year and I'm taking AP European History. It'll be my first AP class and I've heard that it's one of the harder ones, so I was wondering if anyone could recommend me some books or something to do to help prepare for it over the summer?</p>
<p>Well it’s the only AP class that’s available to sophomores at my school besides AP Biology so I took it this year(I’m going into Junior year).</p>
<p>It’s really easy. My textbook was extremely good at preparing us for the tests if you read and my teacher mainly got his tests off of Quizlet and the book’s study website.</p>
<p>As far as preparing yourself goes, I recommend buying the AP Euro Princeton Guide 2013 edition. It pretty much took all the information in my 1100 page textbook and condensed it into 250 pages of information. There’s something on every line and it offers a brief overview on every topic.</p>
<p>You’ll do fine! If you need any help throughout next year or over the summer, just PM me.</p>
<p>I took it this year and it was pretty challenging because our teacher and textbook were awful. However, whatever the circumstance you can do well if you apply yourself. If you’re really serious about reading books over the summer related to it, you could try The Prince (Machiavelli), Candide (Voltaire), The Communist Manifesto (Marx), All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque sp?). Stuff like that. But those are more so to offer insight as to what the views of certain people were. You could also just try getting the textbook early and read some to get ahead.</p>
<p>The class was pretty interesting, and not all that challenging.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies! I bought the Barron’s review book to sort of skim through over the summer and then I can use it throughout the school year.</p>