Wylie ISD Approved Novel List for Whole Group Instruction
2014 – 2015
Grade
General Education
Advanced/Pre AP/AP
Gifted & Talented
5
The Lightning Thief, Riordan
Esperanza Rising, Ryan
Hatchet, Paulson
Wonder, Palacio
Ungifted, Korman
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P.
Figg, Philibrick
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P.
Figg, Philibrick
Childtimes, Greenfield
The Lightning Thief, Riordan
A Long Way from Chicago, Peck
Mockingbird, Erskine
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P.
Figg, Philibrick
6
Maniac McGee, Spinelli
Al Capone Does My Shirts, Choldenko
When You Reach Me, Stead
Bad Boy, Dean Myers
Chinese Cinderella, Yen Mah
Surviving the Applewhites, Tolan
Zach’s Lie, Smith
Holes, Sachar
The Lightning Thief, Riordan
Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls
Bad Boy, Dean Myers
Chinese Cinderella, Yen Mah
Surviving the Applewhites, Tolan
Zach’s Lie, Smith
A Long Walk to Water, Park
Al Capone Does My Shirts, Choldenko
Maniac McGee, Spinelli
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Taylor
Rules, Ryan
There’s a Knot in my Yo-Yo String, Spinelli
A Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle
Bad Boy, Dean Myers
Chinese Cinderella, Yen Mah
Surviving the Applewhites, Tolan
Zach’s Lie, Smith
*selection is included in adopted literature book
Updated 3/4/15
Grade
General Education
Advanced/Pre AP/AP
Gifted & Talented
7
The Watson’s Go to Birmingham, Curtis
The Outsiders, Hinton
Witness, Hesse
The Pearl, Steinbeck
The Wednesday Wars, Schmidt
A Christmas Carol, Dickens (novel not
drama)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
Witness, Hesse
Tangerine, Bloor
The Pearl, Steinbeck
The Outsiders, Hinton
Touching Spirit Bear, Mikaelsen
The Wednesday Wars, Schmidt
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,
Frank
The Book Thief, Zusak
Hiroshima, Hershey
Maus II, Spiegelman
The Wednesday Wars, Schmidt
8
That Was Then, This is Now, Hinton
The Call of the Wild, London
Peak, Smith
Tom Sawyer, Twain
Flowers for Algernon, Keyes
Anne Frank, Goodrich
Cezanne is Missing, McMillan
The Hobbit, Tolkein
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Shakespeare
Peak, Smith
Tom Sawyer, Twain
The Giver, Lowry
Anthem, Rand
Among the Hidden, Peterson Haddix
The Alchemist, Coelho
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
The Call of the Wild, London
The Glory Field, Myers
Peak, Smith
*selection is included in adopted literature book
Updated 3/4/15
Grade
General Education
Advanced/Pre AP/AP
Gifted & Talented
9
Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
Night, Wiesel
*Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
*The Odyssey, Homer
A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry
To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee
Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, Foer
Big Mouth, Ugly Girl, Joyce Carol Oates
Animal Farm, Orwell
Ellen Foster, Gibbons
Night, Wiesel
*The Odyssey, Homer
Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
*Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee
The House on Mango Street, Cisneros
The Secret Life of Bees, Monk Kidd
Monster, Dean Myers
A Separate Peace, Knowles
Slam, Dean Myers
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, Lubar
Stargirl, Spinelli
Twisted, Halse Anderson
Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, Foer
Ethan Frome, Wharton
The Glass Menagerie, Williams (E & H)
Life of Pi, Martel
My Name is Asher Lev, Potok
Mythology, Edith Hamilton (E & H)
1984, Orwell
Tess of the D’Urbevilles, Hardy
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare (East)
To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee (E & H)
The Hot Zone, Preston
Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare (High)
Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, Foer
10
*Antigone, Sophocles
Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Code Name Verity, Wein
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
*Antigone, Sophocles
Brave New World, Huxley
Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
Frankenstein, Shelley
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
Things Fall Apart, Achebe
The Chosen, Potok
My Name is Asher Lev, Potok
Cold Sassy Tree, Burns
Fallen Angels, Dean Myers
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,
Alvarez
The Good Earth, Buck
The Inferno, Dante (E & H)
King Lear, Shakespeare (E & H)
Oedipus Cycle, Sophocles (E & H)
A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry
Things Fall Apart, Achebe
Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood, Satrapi
Code Name Verity, Wein
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
*selection is included in adopted literature book
Updated 3/4/15
Black Like Me, Griffin
The Joy Luck Club, Tan
Bless Me Ultima, Anaya
A Separate Peace, Knowles
The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood, Satrapi
Code Name Verity, Wein
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
*selection is included in adopted literature book
Updated 3/4/15
Grade
11
12
General Education
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
*The Crucible, Miller
The Scarlett Letter, Hawthorne
The Dark Knight, Miller (Graphic)
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Hamlet, Shakespeare
*Macbeth, Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Ernest, Wilde
Pygmalion, Shaw
Nine Stories, Salinger
Emma, Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Austen
1984, Orwell
Unbroken, Hillenbrand
The Things They Carried, O’Brian
When the Emperor Was Divine, Otsuka
The Buddha in the Attic, Otsuka
Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
*selection is included in adopted literature book
Updated 3/4/15
Advanced/Pre AP/AP
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common,
Fadiman
Freakonomics, Levitt
The Glass Castle, Walls
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
The Guinea Pig Diaries, Jacobs
The Kite Runner, Hosseini
Narrative of the Life of Frederick, Douglass
Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by,
Ehrenreich
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi
The Scarlett Letter, Hawthorne
What the Dog Saw, Gladwell
Into the Wild, Krakauer
The Crucible, Miller
The Dark Knight, Miller (Graphic)
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand
Hamlet, Shakespeare
How to Read Literature Like a, Foster
The Importance of Being Ernest, Wilde
Pygmalion, Shaw
The Road, McCarthy
Othello, Shakespeare
Ender’s Game, Scott Card
The Things They Carried, O’Brian
When the Emperor Was Divine, Otsuka
The Buddha in the Attic, Otsuka
Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
Gifted & Talented
n/a
n/a
*selection is included in adopted literature book
Updated 3/4/15