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Grade 6
Baseball in April and Other Stories - Gary Soto
Brian’s Winter - Gary Paulsen
Bridge to Terabithia -Katherine Patterson
Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Cay - Taylor
The Chocolate War - Cormier
Dogsong - Paulsen
Flying Solo - Fletcher
Hatchet - Paulsen
Island of the Blue Dolphins - O’Dell
A Jar of Dreams - Uchida
Walk Two Moons - Creech
The Yearling
Holes - Louis Sachar
James and the Giant Peach - Dahl
Wind in the Willow
Old Yeller
Sounder
Going Home - Mohr
Homeless Bird - Whelan
Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice
Frozen Fire: A Tale of Courage - Houston
Julie of the Wolves - George
The Sign of the Beaver - Speare
Shark Beneath the Reef - George
The Star Fisher - Yep
Taking Sides - Soto
Tuck Everlasting - Babbitt
Walkabout - Marshall
Windcatcher - Avi
The Westing Game - Raskin
Grade 7
Wrinkle in Time
Where the Red Fern Grows-Rawls
Year of  Impossible Goodbyes
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
White Fang-Jack London
Summer of my German Soldier
The Adventures of  Tom Sawyer
The Good Earth
Chinese Cinderella
The Clay Marble-Ho
Crash-Spinelli
Downriver-Hobbs
Flowers for Algernon-Keyes
Bearstone-Hobbs
Retreat to Glory: The Story of Sam Houston
Waiting for the Rain-Gordon
The Wave-Strasser
Whirligig-Fleischman
Woodsong-Paulsen
Wolfrider: A Tale of Terror-Avi
The Underdogs-Azuela
Watership Down-Adam
Tunes for Bears to Dance To-Cormier
The Red Pony-Steinbeck
The Taming of the Shrew-Shakespeare
Seedfolks-Fleischman
Sword & Circle: King Arthur & Knights-Sutcliff
Running Out of Time-Haddix
Shabanu
Canyons-Paulsen
Maniac Magee-Spinelli
Night-Wiesel
 Grade 8
Across Five Aprils-Hunt
The Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway
Snows of Kilimanjaro-Hemingway
The Giver-Lois Lowery
Diary of Anne Frank
Dracula-Stoker
The Outsiders-Hinton
Midsummer Night’s Dream-Shakespeare
Something Wicked This Way Comes-Bradbury
A Day No Pigs Would Die-Peck
Switching Well, The- Griffen
Wringer-Spinelli
Red Badge of Courage
Zlata’s Diary-Filipovic
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The-Speare
Perloo the Bold-Avi

Grade 9
Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
The Odyssey-Homer
Lord of the Flies-Golding
The Miracle Worker-Gibson
A Separate Peace-Knowles
Animal Farm-Orwell
So Far From the Bamboo Grove-Watkins
Jubilee-Walker
Things Fall Apart-Achebe
Killing Mr. Griffin
Sing Down the Moon-O’Dell
The Chosen-Potok
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him-Rivera
The Crossing-Paulsen
The Contender-Lipsyte
Grade 10
Oedipus-Sophocles
Antigone-Sophocles
Long Walk to Freedom-Autobiography N. Mandela
Hiroshima-Hershey
Cry the Beloved Country-Alan Paton
A Tale of Two Cities-Dickens
The Tragedy of Julius Ceasar-Shakespeare
Gulliver’s Travels-Swift
Fahrenheit 451-Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye-Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck
The Tragedy of MacBeth-Shakespeare
A Doll’s House-Ibsen
Hunchback of Notre Dame-Hugo
 Grade 11
The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Twain
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
1984-Orwell
A Raisin in the Sun-Hansberry
The Crucible-Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne
The Bean Trees-Kingsolver
Souls of Black Folk, The- DuBois
Heart of Darkness-Conrad
Fallen Angels-Myers
Of Mice and Men-Steinbeck
The Awakening-Chopin
Death of a Salesman-Miller

Grade 12
Catch 22-Heller
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
Frankenstein-Shelley
Hamlet-Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice-Austen
Pygmalion-Shaw
The Inferno and Paradise Lost-Dante
Wuthering Heights-Bronte
The Time Machine and War of the Worlds-H.G. Wells
The Metamorphosis-Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Wilde
West With the Night-Markham
The Sound and the Fury-Faulkner
The Cherry Orchard-Chekhov
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead-Stoppard
Slaughterhouse 5-Kurt Vonnegut
The Things They Carried
The Importance of Being Earnest-Wilde
Outdoor Education
Roughing It- Mark Twain
Walden-Thoreau
Steep Trails-John Muir
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69-Whymper
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian-John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Desert Solitaire-Edward Abbey
Shackleton-Roland Huntford
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains-Isabella Bird
A Sand County Almanac-Aldo Leopold
Into Thin Air-John Krakauer
The Man Who Walked Through Time-Colin Fletcher
Adrift
Leaves of Grass (Poetry) Walt Whitman
Journals of Robert Falcon Scott-Scott
Wild Solutions…How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank-Beattie & Ehrlich
When Elephants Weep
Into the Wild
One Man’s Wilderness-An Alaskan Odyssey-Keith
Wildest Dreams-Biography of George Mallory

 


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