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Recommended Reading List

Grades 2-3

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Reading List

Allard, Harry. Miss Nelson books

Baylor, Byrd. The Desert Is Theirs; Hawk, I'm Your Brother

Cameron, Ann. The Stories Julian Tells; More Stories Julian Tells

Cleary, Beverly. The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Cohen, Barbara. Molly's Pilgrim

Davidson, Margaret. I Have A Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King

Ets, Marie Hall. Play With Me

Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork Quilt

Fritz, Jean. What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Galdone, Paul. The Three Bears; Three Little Pigs
3 Bears HTML: http://www.editec.net/the_three_bears/index.htm , 3 Pigs HTML: http://www.editec.net/Three_Little_Pigs/index.htm

Greenfield, Eloise. Honey I Love and Other Love Poems

Heide, Florence Parry & Gilliland, Judith Heide. The Day of Ahmed's Secret

Hurwitz, Johanna. Class Clown; School's Out

Jeschke, Susan. Perfect The Pig

Johnston, Tony. Whale Song Yonder

Keats, Ezra. A Letter To Amy

Lobel, Arnold. Fables; Frog and Toad books

McKissack, Patricia. Mirandy and Brother Wind

Prelutsky, Jack. The New Kid on the Block

Rey, H. A. Curious George books

Schwartz, David M. How Much Is A Million?

Steig, William. Dr. DeSoto

Steptoe, John. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

Surat, Michele M. Angel Child, Dragon Child

Udry, Janice May. What Mary Jo Shared

Williams, Vera B. A Chair For My Mother

Wise, William. In the Time of the Dinosaurs

Young, Ed. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China

Zelinsky, Paul O. Rumpelstiltskin
(Blue Fairy Book - http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/Andrew_Lang/The_Blue_Fairy_Book_894.html )

Grades 4 - 5

Reading List

Alphin, Elaine Marie. The Ghost Cadet

Armstrong, Jennifer. Steal Away

Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Baylor, Byrd. I'm In Charge of Celebrations

Boyd, Candy Dawson. Circle of Gold

Burnett, Frances H. The Secret Garden: Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/For_Girls_and_Boys/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett/The_Secret_Garden_795.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a73

Chase, Richard. Grandfather Tales; The Jack Tales

Coerr, Mildred. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Dodge, Mary Mapes. Hans Brinker Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/For_Girls_and_Boys/Hans_Brinker_or_The_Silver_Skates--Mary_Mapes_Dodge_5032.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a402

Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Cincoteague; King of the Wind

Howe, Deborah & James. Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

Lewis, C. S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"

Lawry, Lois. Number the Stars; Anastasia books

MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall

Mathis, Sharon. The Hundred-penny Box

Moss, Jeff. The Butterfly Jar; The Other Side of the Door

Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say; Mrs. Katz and Tush

Rockwell, Thomas. How to Eat Fried Worms

Rylant, Cynthia. Every Living Thing; Missing May

Sachar, Louis. There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom

Scieszka, Jon. Knights of the Kitchen Table

Smith, Doris B. A Taste of Blackberries

Turner, Ann. Dakota Dugout

White, E. B. Charlotte's Web; Stuart Little

Yashima, Taro. Crow Boy

Grade 6

Required for Entering 6th Grade:

Lowry, Lois. The Giver

George, Jean Craig Head. The Talking Earth

Hautzig, Esther. The Endless Steppe*

Reading List

Adams, Richard. Watership Down

Babbitt, Natalie. Eyes of the Amarylis

Bagnold, Enid. National Velvet

Brink, Carol Ryrie. Caddie Woodlawn

Burnford, Sheila. Incredible Journey

De Jong, Meindert. House of 60 Fathers

Du Boise, William P. 21 Balloons

Edmonds, Walter D. Bert Breen's Barn

Fritz, Jean. Cabin Faced West

Garfield, Leon. Night of the Comet

Garner, Alan. Elidor

Gilbreth, Frank. Cheaper by the Dozen; Belles on Their Toes

Grahame, Kenneth. Wind in the Willows Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/The_Wind_in_the_Willows_810.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/g#a153

Gray, Elizabeth. Adam of the Road

Hunt, Irene. Up a Road Slowly

Kjlegaard, Jim. Big Red

Konigsburg, E. L. George; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild Multiple Formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Jack_London/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a120

London, Jack. White Fang Multiple Formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Jack_London/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a120

McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong

Merrill, Jean. Pushcart War

North, Sterling. Rascal

O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins

Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows

Richter, Conrad. Light in the Forest

Robinson, Barbara. Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Robert_Louis_Stevenson/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a35

Stewart, Mary. A Walk in Wolf Wood

* Social Studies requirement

Grade 7

Required for Entering 7th Grade:

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shabana

Taylor, Theodore. The Cay

Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder; Hear my Cry*

Reading List

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women; Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Louisa_May_Alcott/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a102

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Louisa_May_Alcott/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a102

Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Bennett, George, ed. Great Tales of Action and Adventure

Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes Multiple Formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a48

Doyle, A. Conan. The Stories of A. Conan Doyle Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Mystery/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a69

Fast, Howard. April Morning

Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller

Gilbreth, Frank. Cheaper by the Dozen

Grahame, Kenneth. Wind in the Willows Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/The_Wind_in_the_Willows_810.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/g#a153

Guthrie, A. B. The Big Sky

Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small

Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki

Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils

LeGuin, Ursula. A Wizard of Earthsea

London, Jack. The Sea Wolf; The Call of the Wild Multiple Formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Jack_London/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a120

Lucas, George. Star Wars - copies of original movie script available: http://www.totse.com/en/ego/science_fiction/anewhope.html

McKinley, Robin. The Blue Sword; The Hero and the Crown

Richter, Conrad. Light in the Forest

Sandburg, Carl. Abe Lincoln Grows Up

Schaefer, Jack. Shane

Speare, Elizabeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped; Treasure Island Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Robert_Louis_Stevenson/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a35

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit MS Reader format: http://www.ojster.com/eBooks/index.html

Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson Text: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/For_Girls_and_Boys/Swiss_Family_Robinson--Johann_David_Wyss_7660.html http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3836
(Swiss Family Robinson in words of just one syllable: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/For_Girls_and_Boys/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson--Mary_Godolphin_10403.html ) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6692

Grade 8

Required for Entering

Christie, Agatha. And Then There Were None

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451

Choose One for Social Studies:

Harold, Keith. Rifles for Watie* or

Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March*

Reading List

Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot

Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles

Dickens, Charles. Tale of Two Cities Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/19th_Century/Charles_Dickens/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities_45.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a37

Doyle, Arthur Conan. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Mystery/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a69

Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Alexander_Dumas_Pere/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1257

Heyerdahl, Thor. Aku Aku

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Science_Fiction/20th_Century/Green_Mansions_A_Romance_of_the_Tropical_Forest_2907.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/942

Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils

Herriott, James. All Creatures Great and Small

Heyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon

Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Rudyard_Kipling/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/k#a132

Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Plant

London, Jack. The Sea Wolf Multiple Formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Jack_London/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1074

Neufeld, John. Lisa, Bright and Dark

Pyle, Howard. King Arthur and His Knights HTML format: http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com/pyle_ka/index.htm

Renault, Mary. The King Must Die

Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage

Schaefer, Jack. Shane

Stuart, Jesse. The Thread That Runs So True

Thurber, James. My Life and Hard Times

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring MS Reader format: http://www.ojster.com/eBooks/index.html

Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Mark_Twain/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/t#a53

Verne, Jules. Journey to the Center of the Earth; Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Science_Fiction/19th_Century/Jules_Verne/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/v#a60

Wells, H. G. The Time Machine Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Science_Fiction/H_G_Wells/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a30

Zindel, Paul. The Pigman

Grade 9

Required for Entering

Honors and Regular:

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace

Frank, Pat. Alas, Babylon*

Additional for Honors English:

Gibbons, Kay. Ellen Foster

Reading List

Asimov, Isaac. Fantastic Voyage

Boulie, Pierre. Bridge Over the River Kwai

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth

Clark, Walter V. The Ox-Bow Incident

Clarke, Arthur. Childhood's End

Conroy, Pat. The Water is Wide

Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain

Doyle, A. Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page&cat_id=94
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a69

Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud

Herbert, Frank. Dune

Hersey, John. Hiroshima

Hilton, James. Good-bye, Mr. Chips; Lost Horizon

Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country

Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy

Shute, Nevil. On the Beach

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Robert_Louis_Stevenson/index.html MS Reader: http://ebooks.barnesandnoble.com/ms_reader/special_features/free_adventure_ebooks.asp, HTML: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/authorstart?S
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a35

Stuart, Jesse. The Thread That Runs So True

Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings MS Reader Format: http://www.ojster.com/eBooks/index.html

Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Mark_Twain/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/t#a53

Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Science_Fiction/19th_Century/Jules_Verne/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/v#a60

Wells, H. G. The Time Machine; Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Science_Fiction/H_G_Wells/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a30

Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a30

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Grade 10

Required for Entering

Honors and Regular:

Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men

Welch, James. Fools Crow

Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the Western Front*

Additional for Honors English:

Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye

World History Honors:

Orwell, George. Animal Farm* Multiple Formats: http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page&cat_id=450 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/

Reading List

Agee, James. A Death in the Family

Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio Text only: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=416
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/416

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Berger, Thomas. Little Big Man

Cather, Willa. My Antonia (text only: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=242); Death Comes for the Archbishop

Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Greenberg, Joanne. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables; Mosses from an Old Manse Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Nathaniel_Hawthorne/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/h#a28

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt; Main Street Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/20th_Century/Sinclair_Lewis/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a278

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/mitchell/margaret/

Norris, Frank. The Octopus Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/19th_Century/Naturalists/Frank_Norris/The_Octopus_4888.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/268

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar

Poe, Edgar Allan. Short Stories Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Gothic_Tales/Edgar_Allan_Poe/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p#a481

Rolvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Liberal_Arts/Transcendentalists/Henry_David_Thoreau/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/t#a54

Thurber, James. Thurber Country

Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Mark_Twain/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/t#a53

Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men

Wouk, Herman. Caine Mutiny

Grade 11

Required for Entering

Regular and Honors English:

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Gothic_Tales/Mary_Shelley/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a61

Waugh, Evelyn. The Loved One

Markham, Beryl. West with the Night

Honors English Only:

Orwell, George. 1984 Multiple Formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/20th_Century/George_Orwell/index.html http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Elizabethans/William_Shakespeare/index.html & http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/works/
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a65

Advanced Placement and Regular U. S. History:

Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman*

Additional for U. S. History Advanced Placement:

Riordon, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall* Text only: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2810

Reading List

Brontes, Charlotte. Jane Eyre Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Brontes/index.html http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a408

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/The_Way_of_All_Flesh_219.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2084

Chute, Marchette. Shakespeare of London

Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Mystery/Wilkie_Collins/The_Moonstone_130.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/155

Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim; Victory Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Nautical/Joseph_Conrad/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a125

Eliot, George. Adam Bede; Silas Marner Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/George_Eliot/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/e#a90

Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/18th_Century/Henry_Fielding/The_History_of_Tom_Jones_A_Foundling_630.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6593

Forster, E. M. A Passage to India

Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory; The Third Man

Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Return of the Native Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page&cat_id=40 http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/h#a23

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

Kipling, Rudyard. The Light That Failed Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Action_Adventure/Rudyard_Kipling/index.html http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2876

Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/20th_Century/D_H_Lawrence/index.html http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/217

Maugham, Somerset. Of Human Bondage (Text: http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=351&full=yes&ftpsite=ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/351 ; The Razor's Edge

Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/18th_Century/Walter_Scott/Ivanhoe_917.html http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/82

Sterne, Laurence J. Tristram Shandy Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Fiction/18th_Century/Laurence_Sterne/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy_Gentleman._617.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1079

Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/William_Makepeace_Thackeray/index.html http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/599

Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91md/

Grade 12

Required for Entering

Regular English:

Camus, Albert. The Stranger

Dickey, James. Deliverance

The Old Testament. Genesis and Exodus* Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Religion/King_James_Bible_Old_Testament_1318.html

Advanced Placement English:

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms

Dickey, James. Deliverance

Heller, Joseph. Catch 22

William, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire

The New Testament. The Gospel according to Luke* Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Religion/King_James_Bible_New_Testament_3211.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/results

* Students may want to read these in a King James Version for the beauty of the language, but it is recommended that they have a paperback copy of a modern translation like the Revised Standard Version for use in class.

Reading List

Bellow, Saul. Herzog

Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Nautical/Joseph_Conrad/index.html http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a125

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood

Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever

Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy

Farrell, James. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy

Faulkner, William. Light in August

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/tender/

Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables Multiple formats: http://www.blackmask.com/Fiction/19th_Century/Victor_Hugo/index.html (In French: http://www.blackmask.com/Europa/Victor_Hugo/index.html ) http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/h#a85