Secondary Core Texts
Creekside High School
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Night
A Raisin in the Sun
The Martian Chronicles
Lord of the Flies
The Color of Water
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Death of a Salesman
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Anthem
Irvine High School
9th grade
 To Kill a Mockingbird
 Of Mice and Men
 Lord of the Flies
 Romeo and Juliet
 Fahrenheit 451
H. 9th
 Grapes of Wrath
 A Separate Peace
 9th grade novels?
10th grade
 Things Fall Apart
 Julius Caesar
 Night
 Catcher in the Rye
H. 10th
 Macbeth
 Dorian Gray
 Frankenstein, 1984
11th grade
 The Crucible
 Death of a Salesman
 The Old Man and the Sea
 The Great Gatsby
 Into the Wild
12th grade
 Hamlet
 Brave New World
 The Importance of Being Earnest
AP Language
 Textbook: Literature and Society by
Annas and Rosen
 Textbook: The Language of
Composition by Shea, Scanlon, and
Aufses
 Falling Leaves by Yen Mah,
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by
Dorris,
 Down and Out in Paris and London
by Orwell,
 The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald,
 The House on Mango Street by
Cisneros,
 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
Angelou,
 Their Eyes Were Watching God by
Hurston,
 Night by Wiesel
 Shakespeare's Othello
AP – Debra Gala
 Oedipus Rex
 The Importance of Being Earnest
 A Streetcar Named Desire
 Fences
 Hamlet
 Novels:
 18th - 19th c of choice from Pride
and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights,
Jane Eyre, Jude the Obscure, The
Picture of Dorian Grey, Crime and
Punishment The Stranger, First
Confession, The Things They
Carried, As I Lay Dying, Wise Blood
Two 20th-21st c of choice from
Indignant, One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, Waiting, Typical
American, Wide Saragossa Sea,
Beloved, The Bluest Eye, The Road,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
Northwood High Text List - updated
ELD
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House on Mango Street
Farewell to Manzanar
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Antigone
Romeo and Juliet
Things Fall Apart
All Quiet on the Western Front
H-10
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Raisin in the Sun
The House on Mango St.
The Quiet American
Piano Lesson
Great Gatsby
Honors Euro Lit
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Candide
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Pride and Prejudice
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A Room of One’s Own
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The Stranger
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
 Lord of the Flies
Euro Lit
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The Illiad
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Macbeth
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Candide
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Pride and Prejudice
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1984
Lit and Society
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Fences
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Contemporary Lit
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Fences
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Housekeeping
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Jazz
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Nine Stories
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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White Noise
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Seven Guitars
Flash Fiction
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Lord of the Flies
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Hunger Games
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The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian
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Life of Pi
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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And Then There Were None (possibly)
AP English – Emery
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Hamlet
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Beloved
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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
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Imagining Argentina
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Heart of Darkness
AP English – Gates
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Hamlet
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Beloved
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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
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Beloved
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Heart of Darkness
University High School - updated
9th grade
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Odyssey
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Romeo and Juliet
10th grade
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorainne Hansberry
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A Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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House of Mirth
11th grade
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Power and the Glory
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Hardy novel (The Mayor of Casterbridge)
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The Taming of the Shrew or Macbeth
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1984
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Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte
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Emma
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Jane Eyre
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Persuasion
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Sense and Sensibility
Contemporary Literature
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Into the Wild by Krakauer
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The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Career Prep
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by
Covey
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Deep Survival by Gonzales
12th grade
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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Brave New World by Huxley
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Children of Men by P.D. James
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Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
Oedipus by Sophocles
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey
“The Guest” by Camus
Othello by Shakespeare
The Namesake by Lahirir
Antigone by Sophocles
The Stranger by Albert Camus
12th AP
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“The Custom House” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Oedipus the King by Sophocles
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James
Joyce
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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“The Sandbox” by Edward Albee
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom
Stoppard
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Much Ado About Nothing and Othello by
William Shakespeare
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesmen
ELD 1
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Penguin Press Leveled Readers
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Romeo & Juliet
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Alice in Wonderland
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White Fang
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Little Women
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True Stories Short Story Collection
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Kelly Gallagher’s Article of the Week
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Diary of Anne Frank
Moby Dick (Adapted/Pearson)
The House on Mango Street
English 3D, Kate Kinsella
Three Cups of Tea
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Woodbridge High School - updated
ELD
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The Absolutely True Story of a PartTime Indian
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time
 Persepolis
English 1
 Romeo and Juliet
 To Kill a Mockingbird
 House of Mango Street
H. English 1
 The Crucible
 Romeo and Juliet
 To Kill a Mockingbird
 Lord of the Flies
English 2
 Julius Caesar
 All Quiet on the Western Front
 Twelve Angry Men
 The Catcher in the Rye
 Of Mice and Men
AP Language and Composition (H. English 2)
 The Catcher in the Rye
 Julius Caesar
 Persepolis
 Into the Wild
 Importance of Being Earnest
American Literature
 The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
 The Great Gatsby
 A Raisin in the Sun
 In Cold Blood
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
 Proof by David Auburn
Applied Communications
 Into the Wild
 The Color of Water
 The Absolutely True Story of a PartTime Indian
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H. American Literature
 The Scarlet Letter
 The Great Gatsby
 Death of a Salesman
 Joy Luck Club
 The Bell Jar
 The Night Thoreau Spend in Jail
World Literature
 Kite Runner
 Street Car Named Desire
 Siddhartha
 Othello
 Antigone
 Escape from Camp 14
 Things Fall Apart
AP Literature and Composition
 Metamorphosis
 King Lear
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time
 Pride and Prejudice
 Candide
 Frankenstein
 Heart of Darkness
 Oedipus Rex
 Antigone
 Great Expectations
 Hamlet
 Please Look After Mom
 Tess of D’Urbervilles
 Wuthering Heights
 Jane Eyre
 The Stranger
 No Exit
 Life of Pi
Lakeside Middle School - updated
7th Grade
 Beowulf
 Master Puppeteer
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8 Grade
 Something Wicked This Way Comes
 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 Behind Rebel Lines
 Johnny Tremain
Both Levels
 Night
 Tangerine
 The Outsiders
 The Giver
 Flowers for Algernon
 Roll of Thunder
Plaza Vista School - updated
6th Grade (elementary list, not middle school)
 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
 D’ Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
 The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
7th Grade
 Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye
 The Giver by Lois Lowry
 Animal Farm by George Orwell
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8 Grade
 The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton),
 The Glory Field (Walter Dean Myers)
 Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston)
Rancho Middle School updated
7th Grade GATE
 Shadow Spinner (benchmark)
 Fahrenheit 451
 I, Juan de Pareja
 Chasing Vermeer
 The Outsiders
 The Giver - optional
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7 Grade General Ed:
 Shadow Spinner (benchmark)
 Outsiders
 The Giver
 Beowulf: A New Telling
 Selections from Arabian Nights
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8th Grade GATE List:
 Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
 Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Anthem by Ayn Rand
 Call of the Wild
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8 Grade General Ed:
 O’Pioneers! By Wila Cather
 My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier
brothers
 Call of the Wild by Jack London
Sierra Vista Middle School - updated
7th Grade GATE
 Beowulf: A New Telling
 Samurai's Tale
 The Giver
7th Grade Gen Ed
 Beowulf: A New Telling
 Sign of the Chrysanthemum
 The Giver
 Catherine, Called Birdy
8th Grade GATE
 Animal Farm
 Call of the Wild
 Nothing But the Truth
8th Grade Gen Ed
 Animal Farm
 Call of the Wild
 Nothing But the Truth
 The Outsiders
Southlake Middle School - updated
7th Grade
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Holt Literature and Language Arts (7th)
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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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City of Ember by DuPrau
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Animal Farm by Orwell
8th Grade
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Holt Literature and Language Arts (8th)
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
 Nothing But the Truth by Avi
 Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
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Venado Middle School - updated
7th grade
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Crispin: the Cross of Lead (Teachers would like to give this book up, but they are using it at this
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Samurai’s Tale
 Beowulf
 Freak the Mighty
 The Giver (?)
GATE:
 Julius Caesar (probably a onetime thing.)
 Raffel’s Beowulf
8th grade
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
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Nothing But the Truth
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Pigman (Only one of us teaches this)
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The Outsiders
GATE:
 Tom Sawyer
All Quiet on the Western Front, may be used in the future for GATE
Would like to add: Call of the Wild to replace Pigman
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
Farewell to Manzanaar
Vista Verde School
6th grade
 Boy of the Painted Cave
 Hatchet
 Number the Stars
 Maniac McGee
7th grade
 Text Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths
 Beowulf: A New Telling
 The Outsiders
 The Pearl (Steinbeck)
 Witness (Hesse)
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8 grader
 And Then There Were None (Christie)
 April Morning; My Brother Sam Is Dead
 Animal Farm; Martian Chronicles
 Fahrenheit 451
 Lincoln: A Photobiography
 To Be a Slave
 Rifles For Watie
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Killer Angels
Jeffrey Trail – updated
7th
 The Giver by Lois Lowry
 Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
 The Outsiders by SE Hinton
7th GATE
 The Giver by Lois Lowry
 The Sword in the Stone
 The Outsiders by SE Hinton
8th
 Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
 Call of the Wild by Jack London
 Nothing But the Truth by Avi
8th GATE
 Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
 Nothing But the Truth by Avi
 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
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