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Collier County Public School Current “Sacred Book” list Sunshine State Young Readers’ Novels Sunshine State: Florida Teen Reads Reader’s Journey Novels SpringBoard Suggested Novels Prentice Hall Literature Suggested Novels Janet Allen Suggested Novels College Board Top 100 Novel List Advanced Placement Recommendations: • High School Teacher Syllabi • College Board A.P. Literature Suggestions • College Board A.P. Language Suggestions • Novels from A.P. Free Response Questions 1 Elementary Book List Grade 2
Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse, Lionni (Lexile 490) Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones, Adler (Lexile 490) Horrible Harry in Room 2B, Kline (Lexile 480) The one in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, ( Lexile 310)Blume Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, (Lexile 700) Steig Grade 3
Be a Perfect Person, Manes (720) Grade 4
The Talking Earth, George (770) Grade 5
Lion to Guard Us, Bulla (360) Boxcar Children, Warner (490) Snow Treasure, McSwigan (690) Sign of the Beaver, Speare (770) The Chocolate Touch, Catling (770) Help, I’m a Prisoner in the Library, Clifford (630) Night of the Twisters, Ruckman(790) Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Blume (470) Cabin Faced West, Fritz (860) Caddie Woodlawn, Brink (890) How to Eat Fried Worms,Rockwell (650) Cricket in Times Square, Seldon (780) Oliver Dibbs to the Rescue, Steiner (630) From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Konigsberg (700) The Indian in the Cupboard, Banks (780) Max & Me & the Time Machine, Greer (860) Dear Mr. Henshaw, Cleary (910) Tikki Tkki Tembo, (Level 1090 Mosel Ramona and Her Father, Cleary (840) Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, MacDonald (1070) Freedom Train, Sterling (650) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis (940) 2 Gifted Garden of Abdul Gasazi, (Lexile 580)Van Allsburg Gifted Gifted Sarah Plain and Tall (560) A Year Down Yonder (610) Bridge to Terabithia (810) Bud Not Buddy (950) Charlottes’ Web(680) Everything on a Waffle (950) Sunshine State Readers Sunshine State Readers The Blue Ghost, Dane The Sloppy Copy Slipup, (440) DiSalvo (590) No Talking, Clements The Thing About (440) Georgie, Graff (770) Dexter the Tough, Haddix The Homework Machine, (680) Gutman (680) The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco, Repka (710) Because of Winn‐Dixie, DiCamillo (610) Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, DiCamillo (700) Escaping the Giant Wave, Kehert (750) Touching Spirit Bear, Mikaelson (670) Clementine, Pennypacker (790) Gifted A Girl From Yamhill (1040) The Egypt Game (1010) Tuck Everlasting (770) Number the Stars (670) Walk Two Moons (770) Talk About a Family (650) Sunshine State Readers The Missing Manatee, DeFelice (830) Phineas L. MacGuire….Erupts!, Dowell (810) Stumptown Kid, Gorman, Findley (620) Listen! , Tolan (910) Roxie and the Hooligans, Naylor (930) The Ghost’s Grave, Kehert (790) The Lightning Thief,Riordan (740) Peter and the Starcatchers, Barry, Pearson (770) Heir Apparent, Velde (820) 3 Middle School Book List
6th grade
Title Author
Lexile
SpringBoard *Dragonwings Yep, Laurence
870 *Holes *Island of the Blue Dolphins *Taking Sides Sachar, Louis
660 1000 750 Reader’s Journey ‐A Long Way from Chicago ‐Things Not Seen ‐Miracle’s Boys ‐Bearstone ‐Redwall ‐Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets, The ‐Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, A ‐Boy ‐Westing Game, The ‐Pushing Up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children ‐Liberation of Gabriel King ‐Hero’s Trail ‐Mousetrap, The ‐Hiroshima ‐Play to Win Peck, Richard
Woodson, Jacqueline Hobbs, Will Redwall George, Jean Craighead 750 690 660 780 800 830 Green, Michelle Y. 860 Raskin, Ellen Bruchac, Joseph 1090 750 NP Going, K.L. Barron 780 850 Christie, Agatha Yep, Laurence Jongh, James de and Carles Cleveland NP 660 NP O'Dell, Scott
Soto, Gary
Clements, Andrew
4 CCPS Recommendations A Wrinkle in Time Call it Courage Hatchet My Side of the Mountain Tuck Everlasting The Heart of a Chief Incredible Journey Journey Home King of the Wind M.C. Higgins the Great Shark Beneath the Reef Sing Down the Moon My Brother Sam is Dead L'Engle, Madeleine
740 830 1020 810 770 750 1320 830 620 800 820 770 Out of the Dust Sperry, Armstrong
Paulsen, Gary
George, Jean Craighead
Babbitt, Natalie
Bruchac, Joseph
Burnford, Sheila
Henry, Marguerite
Hamilton, Virginia
George, Jean Craighead
O'Dell, Scott
Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher
Collier
Gilbreth, Frank and Ernestine Carey
890 720 910 1070 NP 870 Prentice Hall Rules, Cynthia Rorby, Ginny A Backwoods Boy White, Bailey NP Advanced ^Cheaper by the Dozen ^Freedom’s Crossing ^Swiss Family Robinson ^Treasure Island Sunshine State Young Readers
+Rules +Hurt Go Happy Clark, Margaret Goff
Wyss, Johann
Stevenson, Robert Louis
5 7th grade
Title Author
Lexile SpringBoard *Tangerine *The Call of the Wild *Dogsong *Julie of the Wolves *Sukey and the Mermaid Bloor, Edward London, Jack Paulson, Gary 680 790 930 860 820 Reader’s Journey ‐Rules of the Road ‐Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff ‐Heat ‐Stand Tall ‐Who Moved My Cheese ‐Oddballs ‐F is for Freedom ‐Touching Spirit Bear ‐Crazy Loco ‐Storm Breakers ‐Novio Boy ‐Doors ‐Lost in Yonkers ‐Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things ‐Portraits of African‐American Heroes ‐Watsons Go To Birmingham Craighead, George
San Souci, Robert Bauer, Joan Myers, Walter Dean Lupica, Mike Bauer, Joan Johnson, Spencer
Sleator, William
Mikaelsen, Ben
Rice, David
Horowitz, Anthony Soto, Gary
Neil Simon Bolden, Tonya
Curtis, Christopher Paul
850 860 940 520 880 1010 670 830 NP NP 1140 1000 6 CCPS Supplementary The Cay A Christmas Carol The Contender Esperanza Rising Goodbye, Vietnam Local News The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Where the Red Fern Grows Adventure of Ulysses Child of the Owl Clay Marble Famous Stories for Performance I, Juan the Pareja Jaguar Letters from Rifka Lupita Manana Red Scarf Girl Sounder Taylor, Theodore
860 510 760 750 770 740 700 720 860 1100 690 660 760 780 900 Advanced ^Adventures of Tom Sawyer ^The Call of the Wild ^A Paradise Called Texas Sunshine State Young Readers
+Eggs Sims, Lesley
Lipsyte, Robert
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Whelan, Gloria
Soto, Gary
Avi Rawls, Wilson
Yep, Laurence
Ho, Minfong
De Trevino, Elizabeth B.
Smith, Roland
Hesse, Karen
Beatty, Patricia
Jiang, Ji-Li
Armstrong, William H.
Mark Twain Jack London Shefelman, Janice Jordan
Spinelli, Jerry
490 790 NP Prentice Hall NP No Gumption An American Childhood Angela’s Ashes Baker, Russell Dillard, Annie McCourt, Frank NP 1040 1110 7 8th Grade
Title Author
Lexile
SpringBoard *The Giver *Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust Lowry, Lois Bunting, Eve 760 NP 860 NP Morey, Janet and Wendy Dunn Cofer, Judith Ortiz Choldenko, Gennifer Bruchac, Joseph Rifa’l, Amal; Ainbinder, Odelia with Tempel, Sylke Davis, Jill 1170 NP 600 910 920 Yolen, Jane Ritter, John H Speigelman, Art Soto, Gary Zindel, Paul NA 730 750 NP NP NP CCPS Recommendations Myers, Walter Dean Malone, Robert Morley, Janet 670 1230 1170 The Cay Taylor, Theodore
860 Reader’s Journey ‐Thwonk ‐Baseball’s Biggest Bloopers: The Games That Got Away ‐Famous Hispanic Americans ‐An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio ‐Al Capone Does My Shirts ‐Code Talker ‐We Just Want to Live Here ‐Open your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places ‐Under the Royal Palm ‐Devil’s Arithmetic, The ‐Under the Baseball Moon ‐Maus: A Survivor’s Tale ‐Nerdlandia ‐Effect of Gamma Rays on Man‐in‐the‐Moon Marigolds, The ‐Monster ‐Ultimate Robot ‐Famous Hispanic Americans NP 8 A Christmas Carol The Contender Esperanza Rising Goodbye, Vietnam Local News The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Where the Red Fern Grows Adventure of Ulysses Child of the Owl Clay Marble Famous Stories for Performance I, Juan de Pareja Jaguar Letters from Rifka Lupita Manana Red Scarf Girl Sounder Advanced ^Adventures of Tom Sawyer ^*The Call of the Wild ^A Paradise Called Texas Sunshine State Young Readers
+Peak Dickens, Charles
Lipsyte, Robert
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Whelan, Gloria
Soto, Gary
Avi
Rawls, Wilson
Yep, Laurence
Ho, Minfong
De Trevino, Elizabeth B.
Hesse, Karen
Beatty, Patricia
Jiang, Ji-Li
Armstrong, William H.
Twain, Mark
London, Jack
Smith, Roland
1080 760 750 810 820 740 700 NA 920 860 NP 1100 660 760 780 900 750 1120 NP Prentice Hall 780 Cub Pilot on the Mississippi An American Childhood Travels with Charley I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Anne Frank: The Diaries of a Young Girl Twain, Mark Dillard, Annie Steinbeck, John Angelou, Maya Frank, Anne NP 1040 NP 1330 NP 9 KEY NP – Not printed +Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program ^Advanced Honors ‐Reader’s Journey * Spring Board 10 High School Reading List 9 10
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* Romeo and Juliet * To Kill a Mockingbird * Slam * Speak * Star Girl * Monster ~ The Great Fire 12
*Things Fall Apart *Into the Wild ~ Phineas Gage *Their Eyes are Watching God ~ Among the Hidden * The Crucible ~ Devil's Arithmetic ^ The Awakening ~ Birmingham, 1963 ^ Catcher in the Rye ~ The Girls' Life Guide to Growing Up ^ Ethan Frome ~ Horrible Science: Disgusting ^ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Digestion ~ No More Dead Frogs ~ Oh Yikes! History's Grossest, ^ The Scarlett Letter Wackiest, Moments ~ The Skin I'm In ~ Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the ! Daisy Miller Donner Party ~ Are We Alone?: Scientists Search for ~ Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious ! Billy Budd Life in Space Creatures That May or May Not Exist
~ Cold Light: Creatures, Discoveries, and ~ Tell All the Children Our Story: ! The Great Gatsby Inventions That Glow Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America *Pygmalian *Othello * Poisonwood Bible Brave New World Crime and Punishment Cry, the Beloved Country Cyrano de Bergerac ~ Curse of the Pharaohs: My Adventures Alas, Babylon with Mummies ~ The Down‐to Earth Guide to Global All Quiet on the Western Front Warming ~ Journeys for Freedom: A New Look at Antigone America's Story ~ Oh Yuck!: The Encyclopedia of Farewell to Manzanar Everything Nasty ~ Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case ~ Bronx Masquerade The Importance of Being Earnest ~ Finn: A Novel MacBeth Death and the King's Horseman Death of a Salesman Hamlet Heart of Darkness Lysisrata ~ Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of Madame Bovary the Japanese Incarceration of World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference 11 ~ Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille Grendel ~ We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin The Illiad ~ Mick Harte Was Here Julius Caesar ~ Nightjohn Kitchen God's Wife ~ Scorpions Midsummer's Night Dream ~ Who Put That Hair on My Toothbrush Medea Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Night Alice in Wonderland Animal Farm ^ Great Expectations Lord of the Flies The Odyssey Of Mice and Men Old Man and the Sea ^ A Separate Piece Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Walkabout Fallen Angels Power of One River Ran Out of Eden Siddartha ^ Hiroshima ^Gilgamesh Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ^ A Dolls House ^ Oedipus Rex ~ From Bone Shakers to Choppers: Much Ado About Nothing The Rip‐Roaring History of Motorcycles ~ Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self‐
Experimenters in Science and Medicine ~ Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: One Hundred Years of Solitude The Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America ~ Mental Floss Presents Condensed Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again ~ Tough Boy Sonatas ~ Tupac Shakur (Just the Facts Biographies ~ Is and Them: A History of Intolerance in America The Bluest Eye Cannery Row The Children's Story Fahrenheit 451 Glass Menagerie Grapes of Wrath Inherit the Wind Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Old Man and the Sea Ordinary People Our Town Raisin in the Sun Red Badge of Courage ! Beloved The Stranger A Tale of Two Cities Tess of the D'Urbervilles Waiting for Godot Woman Warrior Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead Beowulf 12 KEY * Required Reading ‐ Springboard
* Supplemental ‐ Springboard ~ Janet Allen ^ Advanced ! AP (No notation) Existing Supplemental Reading List
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