Recommended Book List – Grades 9-12 Grade 9 NOVEL
AUTHOR
* Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Ernest Gaines
Breaking Boxes
A.M. Jenkins
Burning Up
Caroline Cooney
* Clover
D. Sanders
Day They Came to Arrest the Book, The
Nat Hentoff
Friends, The
Rosa Guy
* Glory Field, The
Walter Dean Myers
Hamilton's Mythology
Little, Brown & Cox
Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
* Hoops
Walter Dean Myers
Ironman (9th Grade Repeaters)
Chris Crutcher
* The Learning Tree
G. Parks
Merchant of Venice, The
Shakespeare (Folgers)
* Miracles' Boys (9th Grade Reading Academy) Mrs. Mike
Jacqueline Woodson Benedict & Nancy Freedman
Night John
Gary Paulsen
* Picture Bride
Yoshiko Uchida
Pigman, The
Paul Zindel
* Place Where Sea Remembers, A
Sandra Benitez
Remembering the Good Times
Richard Peck
Seed Folks (9th Grade Reading Academy)
Paul Fleshman
Shane
Jack Schaeffer
* Slam! (9th Grade Reading Academy)
Walter Dean Myers
Soul Fire
Louis Hewett
Stargirl (9th Grade Repeaters)
Jerry Spinelli
* To Sir With Love
E.R. Braithwaite
We All Fall Down
Robert Cormier
* When the Legends Die
Hal Borland
Wizard of Earth Sea, The
Ursula K. LeGuin
Z for Zachariah
Robert O'Brien
Grade 10 NOVEL * Adventures of Huck Finn, The American Dream - Zoo Story
AUTHOR Mark Twain Edward Albee
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Bear, The (Newark) Bernice Bobs Her Hair Billy Budd
Thomas Rivera W. Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Herman Melville
* Bless Me Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
* Bluest Eye, The
Toni Morrison
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
Chesapeake Cut
James Michener Patricia McCormick
Dreamland
Sarah Dessen
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Famous All Over Town Farewell to Arms, A Fifteen American One Act Plays Gathering of Flowers, A: Stories About Being Young in America * Go Tell It On the Mountain
D. Santiago Ernest Hemingway Paul Kozelka, ed. Joyce Thomas, ed. James Baldwin
* Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich
A. Childress
Hold Fast
Kevin Major
In Cold Blood Inherit the Wind * Ishi, Last of His Tribe * Join-In: Multi-Ethnic Anthology Jurassic Park
Truman Capote Jerome & Lee Lawrence Theodora Kroeber Donald Gallo, ed. Michael Crichton
Killer Angels, The
Michael Shaara
Killing Mr. Griffith
Lois Duncan
Leaving Home * Little Big Man Main Street
David French Thomas Berger Peter Viney
Miss Lonely Hearts/Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
* Monster
Walter Dean Myers
* Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
* Native Son No Easy Answers No Promises in the Wind
Richard Wright Donald Gallo, ed. Irene Hunt
Old Man and the Sea, The
Ernest Hemingway
On Golden Pond
Ernest Hemingway
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
* Patch of Blue, A
Elizabeth Kata
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain
Red Badge of Courage, The
Stephen Crane
So Much to Tell You
John Marsden
* Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
* Their Eyes Were Watching God
Thomas Rivera
* To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Lorraine Hansbery
* Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Up A Road Slowly
Irene Hunt
When Jeff Comes Home
Catherine Atkins
* Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
Working Days
Anne Mazer, ed.
Yearling, The
Marjorie Rawlings
You Don't Know Me
David Klass
Grade 11 NOVEL After the First Death Animal Farm (Newark & Glasgow)
AUTHOR Robert Cormier George Orwell
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Blood and Chocolate
Annette Klause
Body of Christopher Creed
Carol Plum-Ucci
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
* Color of Water, The
James McBride
Confession of a Teenage Baboon
Paul Zindel
Dr. Faustus
C. Marlowe
* Final War of Ollie Winter
Author Unknown
Ghost Boy
Iain Lawrence
Give the Boy a Gun
Todd Strasser
Go Ask Alice * Heart of the Matter Help Wanted: Short Stories About Young People Working Howard's End * If You Come Softly
Anonymous Graham Green Anita Silvey, ed. E.M. Forster Jacqueline Wood
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
* Joe Turner's Come and Gone
August Wilson
* Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
Killer's Cousin
Nancy Werlin
King Lear
Shakespeare
Night Shift
Stephen King
Ordinary People
Judith Guest
Other, The
Thomas Tyron
Passage to India, A
E.M. Foster
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King
Room With A View, A
E.M. Forster
Shattering Glass
Gail Giles
Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults
Donald Gallo, ed.
Slave Day
Rob Thomas
Someone Like You
Sarah Dessen
Swallowing Stones
Joyce McDonald
Tempest, The
Shakespeare
Utopia
Thomas Moore
* Walkabout
James Marshall
Grade 12 NOVEL After the First Death Anthem As You Like It Bless the Beasts and Children * Brian Piccolo: A Short Season Brothers Karamazov, The Burning Bones Candide Chekhov's Major Plays
AUTHOR Robert Cormier Ayn Rand Shakespeare Glendon Swarthout Jeannie Morris Fyodor Dostoyevski Christopher Golden & Rick Hautala Francois Voltaire Anton Chekhov
Child Called It
Dave Pelzer
Doll's House, A
Henrik Ibsen
Doing Time: Notes From the Underground
Rob Thomas
Dubliners, The
James Joyce
* Farewell to Manzanar Give the Boy a Gun Hamlet
Jeanne Houston Todd Strasser Shakespeare
Hard Times Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
Charles Dickens Victor Hugo
It's Good to be Alive
Ray Campanella
Lord of the Flies (Christiana)
William Golding
Malcom X: Any Means Necessary Man for All Seasons, A Monster No Language But a Cry Of Mice and Men (Christiana) * Obasan * One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich * Parallel Journeys
Walter Dean Myers Robert Bolt Walter Dean Myers R. D'Ambrosio John Steinbeck Joy Kogawa Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Eleanor Ayer, et al.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Portairt of a Lady
Henry James
Sartre's Plays Secret Sharer, The Shattering Glass Shoeless Joe
Jean-Paul Sartre Joseph Conrad Gail Giles W.P. Kinsella
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Smack
Melvin Burgess
Swallowing Stones
Joyce McDonald
Tartuffe
Jean Moliere
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare
* Where the Lillies Bloom
Vera & Bill Cleaver
