School Wide Reading List

2013-2014 School Year
School Wide Reading List
Eldon High School
Art
Mr. Stephenson
Studio Art
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain/Edwards
American Gothic/Biel
Andy Warhol : Supernova/Biel
Van Gogh in Perspective/Welsh-Ovcharov
50 Sculptures You Should Know/Kuhl
Communication Arts
Mrs. Henley
Honors American Literature
Death Comes for the Archbishop/Willa Cather
The Awakening/Kate Chopin
The Last of the Mohicans/James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage/Stephen Crane
Any collection of Emily Dickinson’s poetry
An American Tragedy/Theodore Dreiser
Selected Essays/Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sound and the Fury/ William Faulkner
Any collection of Robert Frost’s poetry
For Whom the Bell Tolls/Ernest Hemingway
The Portrait of a Lady/Henry James
Main Street/Sinclair Lewis
The Call of the Wild/Jack London
Moby Dick/Herman Melville
Death of a Salesman/Arthur Miller
The Crucible/Arthur Miller
A Good Man is Hard to Find/Flannery O’Connor
Long Day’s Journey into Night/Eugene O’Neill
The Catcher in the Rye/J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath/John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom’s Cabin/Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walden/Henry David Thoreau
Collected Stories/Eudora Welty
Leaves of Grass/Walt Whitman
Native Son/Richard Wright
Honors College Composition
The Scarlet Letter/Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick/Herman Melville
Grapes Of Wrath/John Steinbeck
Don Quixote/Miguel de Cervantes
Great Expectations/Charles Dickens
Siddhatha/Herman Hesse
Brave New World/Aldous Huxley
Divine Comedy/Alighieri Dante
Walden/Henry David Thoreau
The Power Of Myth/Joseph Campbell
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Metamorphoses/Franz Kafka
One Day in The Life Of Ivan Denisovich/Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
**** Any of these books may not be used if they were included as part of American Lit/ American Novel
curriculum your sophomore year.
Honors English I
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Jules Verne
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams
A Separate Peace / John Knoles
Animal Farm / George Orwell
Any novel written by Charles Dickens
As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner
The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath
Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
The Color Purple / Alice Walker
The Diary of Anne Frank / Anne Frank
Dune / Frank Herbert
The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo
Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
Life of Pi / Yann Martel
The Lord of the Flies / William Golding
Masque of the Red Death / Bethany Griffin
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
The Red Pony / John Steinbeck
Romiette and Julio / Sharon Draper
*Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe (This is one of Mrs. B’s absolute favorites)
Watership Down / Richard Adams
Monster/Walter Dean Myers
Ms. Hoerr
English III, English IV
The Education of Little Tree / Forrest Carter
Life of Pi / Yann Martel
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
Deadline / Chris Crutcher
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
Fahrenheit 451/ Ray Bradbury
The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini
Beloved / Toni Morrison
The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingslover
Pigs in Heaven / Barbara Kingslover
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
Lord of the Flies / William Golding
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
Ms. Hudson
English 1, English 3 & 4 – Transition
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck – Audio Book
Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare – Audio Book
Ms. Miller
English I, English II
Animal Farm / George Orwell
The Diary of Anne Frank / Anne Frank
The Lord of the Flies / William Golding
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
The Shack / William P. Young
Nineteen Minutes / Jodi Picoult (Anything by Jody Picoutl)
Year of the Fog / Michelle Richmond
In Cold Blood / Truman Capote
Tuesdays with Morrie / Mitch Albom
The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold
Redeeming Love / Francine Rivers
Sisters in War / Christina Asquith
1000 Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
Feed / M.T. Anderson
A Child Called “It” / Dave Pelzer
Ms. Wilson
English III
Honors English II
English II
On Writing / Stephen King
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves / Lynne Truss
Life of Pi / Yann Martel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime / Mark Haddon
When the Emperor was Divine / Julie Otsuka
Wicked / Gregory Maguire
A Girl Called Zippy / Haven Kimmell
The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien
Travels with Charlie / John Steinbeck
1984 / George Orwell
Saving Fish from Drowning / Amy Tan
The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold
A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly
The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath
How to Breathe Underwater / Julie Orringer
The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers / Alexandre Dumas
The Thirteenth Tale / Diane Setterfield
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
Altas Shrugged / Ayn Rand
A Prayer for Owen Meany / John Irving
The Call of the Wild / Jack London
Beloved / Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer
The Fault in Our Stars/John Green
The Night Circus/Erin Morgenstern
Water for Elephants/Sara Gruen
The Help/Kathryn Stockett
Family and Consumer Science
Ms. Scheiderer
CFL/Nutrition and Wellness
Nutrition and Culinary Arts
America’s Unhealthy Lifestyle/Sanna
Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health/Ronzio
Health Science Projects About Nutrition/Gardner
Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Disease/Joint WHO/FAO Expert
The Best You Can Be/Hovius
Your Nutrition Style Making the Pyramid Personal/Learning Seed
Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal
Vitamins and Minerals/Nardo
Taking Sides, Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition/Nestle
Food and Emotions/Turck
The Everything Nutrition Book/Tessmer
The Ten Best Tools to Boot Your Immune System/Levy
Allergies/Edelson
Cool as a Cucumber, Hot as a Pepper/Hughes
Teens Cook/Carle
100 Great Chicken Recipes/Prager
Opportunities in Food Service Careers/Chmelynski
Careers in Focus, Food
Express Lane Meals/Ray
Vitamins and Minerals Demystified/Blake
Cooking Basics for Dummies/Miller
The Healthy Kitchen/Daley
Child Development
The Challenge of Toddlers: Parenting Your Child from One to Three/Lindsay
Working Families and Growing Kids: Caring for Children and Adolescents/WCIT
The Wonder Years/Altmann
Building Baby’s Brain Power/Lantry
Your Preschooler, Ages Three and Four/Rubin
365 Toddler Tips/Warner
Down Syndrome: the Facts/Selikowitz
Baby 411/Brown
Family Violence/Havelin
A Family Failing/Arundel
When Families Fail/Holmes
When Madness Comes Home/Secunda
The Two-Income Trap/Warren
Hand-Me Down Dreams/Jacobsen
Career and Family Leadership
The Christmas Box/Richard Paul Evans
Promise Me/Richard Paul Evans
The Carousel/Richard Paul Evans
The Locket/Richard Paul Evans
A Stolen Life/Jaycee Dugard
Housing
Buy It, Fix It, Sell It/Myers
Budget Living/Budget Living Magazine Editors
Two-Hour No Sew Decorating/Dunkley
Consumer Education
The Personal Finance Calculator/Faerber
1000 Best Smart Money Secrets for Students/Fowles
Will the Dollars Stretch?/Pollock
Teenvestor/Modu
Teen Guide to Personal Finance Management/Bijlefeld
Debt Information for Teens/Bellenir
The Teenage Investor/Olsen
Ralph Nader/Celsi
Tricks of the Trade/Lieberman
Fashion
Careers in Focus, Fashion
Dressed for the Occasion/Miller
Absent Fathers
Flour Babies/Fine
Seek/Fleischman
AIDs
It Happened to Nancy/Sparks
Abortion
Gingerbread/Cohn
Anger Management
Cruise Control/Trueman
Anorexia Nervosa
Wintergirls/Anderson
Alcoholism
The Late, Great Me/Scoppettone
The Boy Who Drank Too Much/Greene
Life is a Lonely Planet/Ryan
Rules of the Road/Bauer
Crosses/Stoehr
Burned/Hopkins
Francesca, Baby/Oppenheimer
Comfort/Dean
The Invisible Enemy/Anonymous
Bullying
Slob/Potter
Indigo’s Star/McKay
Please Stop Laughing at Me/Blanco
Cancer
Side Effects/Koss
Notes from the Dog/Paulsen
Autobiography of a Face/Grealy
Dating Violence
Breathing Underwater/Flinn
Daughter-Mother Problem
Over the Water/Casey
Death
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog/Rapp
Catalyst/Anderson
Wintergirls/Anderson
Deadline/Crutcher
Depression
Blackbox/Schumacher
Dragon Road/Yep
Disfigurement-Car Accident
Autobiography of a Face/Grealy
Peeling the Onion/Orr
Divorce
Stand Tall/Bauer
Emotionally Disturbed
Amandine/Griffin
Damage/Jenkins
Lovey: a Very Special Child/McCracken
When She Was Good/Mazer
Crosses/Stoehr
Impulse/Hopkins
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog/Rapp
Almost Lost/Sparks
Family Problems
Lightkeeper’s Daughter/Lawrence
When She Was Good/Mazer
Homeless Person/Street Children
Blade: Playing Dead/Bowler
Interpersonal Relations
Missing Abby/Weatherly
Girl Made To Take Care of Family
Here Today/Martin
A Northern Light/Donnelly
Kidnapping
When Jeff Comes Home/Atkins
A Face on the Milk Carton/Cooney
Mental, Sexual, or Physical Abuse
Picture Perfect/Alphin
Forged by Fire/Draper
Identical/Hopkins
Sold/Hopkins
A Child Called “it”/Pelzer
The Lost Boy/Pelzer
A Man Named Dave/Pelzer
Becoming Anna/Michener, Anna
They Cage the Animals at Night/Burch
The Scarlet Letter/Hawthorne
Saying It Out Loud/Abelove
Breathing Underwater/Flinn
The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear/Platt
The Rules of Survival/Werlin
White Oleander/Fitch (ADULT BOOK)
Manchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Sickened/Gregory
Self-Confidence
Pip/Kane
Self-Destructive Behavior
Crank/Hopkins
Glass/Hopkins
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Devil in the Details/Traig
Orphan
A Single Shard/Park
Bloody Jack/Meyer
Peer Pressure
Jumping the Nail/Bunting
Single-Parent Families
Kaleidoscope Eyes/Bryant
Pip/Kane
Son-Father Problem
The Great Santini/Conroy
Son-Mother Enmeshment
Bucking the Sarge/Curtis
Suicidal Behavior
Impulse/Hopkins
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog/Rapp
The Burn Journals/Runyon
Teenage Pregnancy
The First Part Last/Johnson
The Dear One/Woodson
Hanging Onto Max/Bechard
With Child/Chesler
Plainsong/Haruf
All Jodi Picoult Books
Mathematics
Mrs. Hanks
Algebra I, Honors Algebra I, Algebra II
The Total Money Makeover/Dave Ramsey
Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra/Wendy Lichtman
The Phantom Tollbooth/ Norton Juster
The Mathematics of Oz/Clifford A. Pickover
Mrs. Wyatt
Statistics
What are the Odds?/Mike Orkin
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics/Larry Gonick
College Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus
Zero – The Biography of a Dangerous Idea/Charles Seife
The DaVinci Code/Dan Brown
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime/Mark Haddon
Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott
The Fractal Murders / Mark Cohen
Title Selections for Any Class
Reality Conditions: Short Mathematical Fiction / Alex Kasman
Flatterland / Ian Stewart
Fantasia Mathematica / Clifton Fadiman, ed.
Imaginary Numbers / William Frucht
Any Profiles in Mathematics
Ancient Mathematicians
Mathematics Frontiers: 1950 – Present
Modern Mathematics: 1900-1950
Sophie Germain
Women Mathematicians
Alan Turing
Carl Gauss
Pierre de Fermat
Rene Descartes
Ms. Lowery, Ms. Keeth
Algebra II, Geometry
A Beautiful Mind/Silvia Nasar
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers/Paul Hoffman
A Mathematician’s Apology/G.H. Hardy
What Do You Care What Other People Think?/Richard Feynman
Exploring Chaos/Nina Hall
The Emperor’s Codes/Michael Smith
In Code/Sarah Flannery
Godel, Escher, Bach/Douglas Hofstadter
The Pattern on the Stone-Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work/W. Daniel Hills
Why Flip a Coin?/H.W. Lewis
The Joy of Pi/David Blatner
Longitude/Dava Sobel
The Measure of All Things/Ken Alder
Mathemagics/Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer
The Enjoyment of Math/Hans Rademacher and Otto Topeplitz
How the Other Half Thinks/Sherman Stein
The Joy of Mathematics/Theoni Pappas
Life by the Numbers/Keith Devlin
Algebra the Easy Way/Douglas Downing
Fantasia Mathematica/Clifton Fadiman, ed.
The Man Who Counted/Malba Tahan
The Phantom Tollbooth/Norton Juster
Can You Win?: the Real Odds of Casino Gambling, Sports Betting, and Lotteries/Mike Orkin
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics/Larry Gonick
How Math Explains the World/James D. Stein
Number Freak/Derrick Niederman
100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know/John D. Barrow
Conned Again, Watson/Colin Bruce
Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers/Paul Nahin
What Are the Odds?/Jefferson Weaver
Physical Education
Mr. Sneed, Mr. Lemmon
Boys PE, Girls PE, Health
Life Sports
Performance-Enhancing Drugs/James Haley
Science Projects about the Physics of Sports/Robert Gardner
Sports Speed/George Dintiman
Endurance Athlete’s Edge/Marc Evans
365 Activities For Fitness, Food and Fun for the Whole Family/Julia E. Sweet
Health Science Projects About Sports Performance/Robert Gardner
Pick-Up Games: the Rules, the Players, the Equipment/Deborah Crisfield
Thirty Years of Best Sports Stories/Irving T. Marsh
Sports and Athletes: Opposing Viewpoints/Laura K. Egendorf
Mark McGwire 70!/Dr. Jones Beckett
The Real Athletes Guide: How to Succeed in Sports, School and Life/Marc Isenberg
The Best American Sports Writing/Dick Schapp
Extreme!: The Ultimate Guide to Action Sports/Linc Wonham
Extreme Sports/Chris McNab
Baseball: a History of America’s Game/Benjamin G. Rader
Extreme Sports: In Search of the Ultimate Thrill/Joe Tomlinson
Drive: the Story of my Life/Larry Bird
Barry Bonds/Ross Bernstein
Babe: the Legend Comes to Life/Robert W. Creamer
The Book of Rules: a Visual Guide to the Laws of Commonly Played Sports and Games
The Nutrition-Fitness Link: How Diet Can Help Your Body and Mind/Charles Salter
Fitness for Dummies/Suzanne Schlosberg
Beginner’s Guide to Power Walking/Janice Meakin
Basketball/John Wright
Maximum Energy For Life/Mackie Shilstone
Fed Up!: the Breakthrough Ten-Step, No-Diet Fitness Plan/Wendy Oliver-Pyatt
Complete Conditioning for Baseball/Murphy
Winning Weight Training for Girls/Porter
Weight Training/McNab
Street Lawyer/John Grisham
The Hobbit/J.R.R. Tolkien
Science
Mr. Eldridge
Physical Science/Honors Physical Science
Honors Chemistry
212: the Extra Degree/Parker
The Way the Cookie Crumbles/Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Good Chemistry/Leo Sternbach
Ms. O’Donnell
Chemistry / Honors Chemistry
21st Century Skills : Learning for Life in Our Times/ Bernie Trilling
Mind in Society / L.S. Vygotsky
Thought and Language / L.S. Vygotsky
Breaking the Science Barrier / Shelia Tobias
Periodic Tales: a Cultural History of the Elements / Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Mr. Taylor
Physical Science / Honors Biology / Biology
The Last Child in the Woods / Richard Louv
Call of the Wild / Jack London
White Fang / Jack London
War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells
Mr. Wulff
Biology / Honors Biology
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom / Walter Alvarez
Unwind / Neal Shusterman
Silent Spring / Rachel Carson
Social Sciences
Ms. Pratt, Ms. Sash, Mr. Herren, Ms. Tompkins, Mr. White
American History
Band of Brothers/Stephen Ambrose
Truman/McCullough
Killer Angels/Michael Shaara
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era/James M. McPherson
Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation/Joseph J. Ellis
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: an American Indian History of the American West/Dee Brown
Nothing Like It In the World: the Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869/Stephen Ambrose
All the President’s Men/Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
The Day Lincoln Was Shot/Jim Bishop
Undaunted Courage-Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West/Stephen
Ambrose
The Pacific/Hugh Ambrose
Sunrise Over Fallujah/Walter Dean Myers
Thirteen Days/Ninety Miles: the Cuban Missile Crisis/Norman Finkelstein
A Break with Charity: a Story About the Salem Witch Trials/Ann Rinaldi
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World/Kati Marton
Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of the President/Candice Millard
Honors Contemporary Issues
God is Not the One: Eight Rival Religions That Run the World-and Why Their Differences Matter/Stephen
Prothero
Civil Liberties/Laura S. Friedman
What Rights Should Illegal Immigrants Have?/Merino Noel
Should Marijuana Be Legalized?/Scott Barbour
It’s Not the Media: the Truth About Pop Culture’s Influence on Children/Karen Sternheimer
Is Torture Ever Justified?/Tamara L. Roleff
Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: the Straight Scoop on Freeemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones,
Black Helicopters, The New World Order/Arthur Goldwag
Endgame/Nancy Garden
Beyond 2010: Catastrophe or Awakening? A Complete Guide to End-of-Time Predictions/Geoff Stray
Sold/Patricia McCormick
The Earthquake in Haiti/Anne Lies
Honors Current Events
The Next American Civil War: The Populist Revolt Against the Liberal Elite/Lee Harris
Are American Elections Fair?/Stuart A. Kallan
The Ten-Year Century: Explaining the First Decade of the New Millennium/James Sutherland
The American Teenager/Kate Burns
Against All Enemies:Inside America’s War onTerror/Richard A. Clarke
Barack Obama, The New Face of America/Martin Dupuis
What Every American Should know About the Rest of the World: Your Guide to Today’s Hot Spots, and
Incendiary Issues/Melissa L. Rossi
Is Iran a Threat to Global Security?/Stefan Kiesbye
Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America/Mark Svenhold
Government and Geography
1984/ George Orwell
Executive Orders/Tom Clancy
Longitude/Dava Sobel
Not Without My Daughter/Betty Mahmoody
No More Vietnams/Richard Nixon
Huckleberry Finn/Mark Twain
Common Sense/Thomas Paine
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays/Henry David Thoreau
Up From Slavery/Booker T. Washington
Utopia/Thomas More
Animal Farm/George Orwell
Clear and Present Danger/Tom Clancy
The Communist Manifesto/Karl Marx
Around the World in 80 Days/Jules Verne
Born Fighting/James Webb
One Second After/Fortschen
Escape From Camp 14 / Blaine Harden
Murderers, Madmen and Mayhem
Killing Lincoln / Bill O’Reilly
Killing Kennedy / Bill O’Reilly
Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of the President / Candice Millard
One Door Away From Heaven / Dean Koontz
The Chosen One / Carol Lynch Williams
Chromosome 6 / Robin Cook
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler / James Giblin
The Columbine Shooting / Louise I. Gerdes
First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers / Loung Ung
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America / Erik
Larson
Paper Valentine / Brenna Yovanoff
Green River Killer: a True Detective Story / Jeff Jenson
World Civilization
The Source/James A. Michener
Hawaii/ James A. Michener
Alaska/ James A. Michener
Poland/ James A. Michener
Texas/ James A. Michener
The Covenant/ James A. Michener
Chesapeake/ James A. Michener
Exodus/ Leon Uris
QBVII/Leon Uris
Mila 18/ Leon Uris
The Walking Drum/Louis L’Amour
The Three Musketeers/Alexandre Dumas
The Twilight of Courage/Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
To the Last Man/Jeff Shaara
The Final Storm/Jeff Shaara
Nazi Hunter/Alan Levy
Black Count/Tom Reiss
Pearl Harbor/Newt Gingrich (Number 1 in Series)
Days of Infamy/Newt Gingrich (Number 2 in Series)
Rising Tide/Shaara
(Number 1 in Series)
Steele Wave/Shaara
(Number 2 in Series)
No Less Than Victory/Shaara (Number 3 in Series)
A Blaze of Glory/Jeff Shaara
The Warlord Chronicles
The Winter King /Cornwell (Book 1)
Enemy of God / Cornwell
(Book 2)
Excalibur/ Cornwell
(Book 3)
Must Read These Books in Order
Must Read These Books in Order
Must Read These Books in Order
Saxon Series – 5 Titles in Series
The Last Kingdom/Cornwell (Number 1 in Series)
The Pale Horseman/Cornwell (Number 2 in Series)
Lords of the North/Cornwell (Number 3 in Series)
Sword Song/Cornwell
(Number 4 in Series)
The Burning Land/Cornwell (Number 5 in Series)
Death of Kings/Cornwell
(Number 6 in Series
Agincourt: a Novel/Cornwell (Check at Circulation Desk for Title)
In the Garden of Beasts/Erik Larson
Helmet for my Pillow/Robert Leckie
With the Old Breed/E.B. Sledge
The Storm of War/Andrew Roberts
Empire of the Summer Moon/S.C. Gwynne
Ghost on the Throne/James Romm
Tears in the Darkness/Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman
Rape of Nanking/ Iris Chang
Les Miserables/Victor Hugo (abridged or unabridged version)
Catherine the Great/Robert K. Massie
Nicholas and Alexandra/Robert K. Massie
The Jefferson Lies/David Barton
Escape from Camp 14/Blaine Harden
The Pope Who Quit/Jon Sweeney
River of Doubt/Candace Millard
Cleopatra: a Life/Stacy Schiff
The Devil in the White City/Erik Larson
Isaac’s Storm/Erik Larson
Killing Lincoln/Bill O’Reilly
Savage Continent/Keith Lowe
Must Read These Books in Order
Mr. Herren
Recommended Titles – Any of His Classes
Lone Survivor/Marcus Luttrell
The Great Divorce/C.S. Lewis
Barsoom Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
American Sniper/Chris Kyle
Once Upon a Secret/Mimi Alford
Behind the Beautiful Forevers/Katherine Boo
Seal of Honor/Gary Williams (Recommend you read Lone Survivor 1 st)
Atlas Shrugged/Ayn Rand
Sea Biscuit/Laura Hillenbrand
Last Gunfight/Jeff Guinn
Go Down Together/Jeff Guinn
Mr. White
Honors American History & American History
Honors American History – Required Reading
Centennial/James Michener
American History
Centennial/James Michener
Spanish
Ms. Creath / Ms. Juliano
Spanish I, II, III, IV
Note: The following selections are recommended reading.
Bless Me, Ultima/Rudolfo Anaya
The House on Mango Street/Sandra Cisneros
Zorro/Isabel Allende
City of the Beasts (1)/Isabel Allende
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2)/Isabel Allende
Forest of the Pygmies (3)/Isabel Allende
The Shadow of the Eagle/Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Club Dumas/Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Prince of Mist/Charlos Ruiz-Zafon
Las Christmas/Esmeralda Santiago
Love in Times of Cholera/Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Mr. Ives’s Christmas/Oscar Hijuelos
Sister Chicas/Lisa Alvarado
In the Time of Butterflies/Julia Alvarez
The Old Gringo/Carlos Fuentes
Note: Must read these books in order
Vocational Education
Mr. Reichel, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Schmidt
Agriculture Department
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of A Leader/John C. Maxwell
See You At The Top/Zig Zigler
The Book of Exodus from the Bible
How To Win Friends And Influence People/Dale Carnegie
An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of A Rural Boyhood/Jimmy Carter
Silent Spring/Rachel Carson
The American Farm/John Frasier Hart
Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy/Baxter Black
The Long Winter/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House of the Prairie/ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lonesome Dove/Larry McMurty
The Quick And The Dead/Louis L’Amour
I Dare You!/William H. Danforth
Industrial Technology
Mr. Hannah
Drafting 1; Power Technology 1 & 2
Material Processing 1 & 2; Industrial Technology
The Seventy Wonders Of The Ancient World: The Great Monuments & How They Were Built/Thames & Hudson
How to Plan, Subcontract and Build Your Dream House/Warren V. Jaeger
Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton’s Retail Phenomenon/Sandra Stringer Vance and Roy V. Scott
Iacocca: An Autobiography/Lee Iacocca
Longaberger: An American Success Story/Dave Longaberger
Applied Robotics/Edwin Wise