HICKSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Collection of Suggested Reading Lists
2013-2014
HICKSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Collection of Suggested Reading Lists
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Introduction …………………………………………………………..........................
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Genres of Literature …………………………………………………………………..
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Book Lists
Newbery Award Winners………………………………………………….………
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Caldecott Award Winners…………………………………………………..…….
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Recommended Readings to Support ELA Curriculum Modules ………….
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Teens/Young Adult ………………………………………………………………..
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College Bound Readers …………………………………………………………..
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Resources
Association for Library Service to Children…………………………………..
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College Board……………………………………………………………………….
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Engage NY…………………………………………………………………………..
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Genres of Literature……………………………………………………………….
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Good Reads ………………………………………………………………………...
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Lexile Framework for Reading …………………………………………………..
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how
many of them you can get through,
but rather how many can get through to you.”
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― Mortimer J. Adler
Introduction
We know our children need to read, but the question is, “What should they be reading?”
This question cannot be answered the same way for everyone. The answer is multifaceted and is dependent on many variables, including the interests of the child.
As educators and parents, we have a responsibility to support the literacy development
of children. We must work together to provide children with opportunities to open their
hearts and minds to the written word.
Parents play an important role in developing literacy skills in children. We must read to
younger children regularly and often. This experience provides modeling of fluency,
expression, intonation, and access to the world of language they might not experience
on their own. Reading aloud to children helps them to develop vocabulary and an
understanding of story structure, characters, problems and solutions.
As adults, we can support literacy development by modeling literacy behaviors. This is
done by having children see adults reading books, newspapers, or journal articles to
learn new information.
We must give children access to books. As parents, obtain a library card and visit the
public library regularly to browse aisles, peruse titles, and to provide time for choice.
This list has been compiled to help provide guidance and suggestions to help extend
literacy in the home. Please use this list as one resource, but not as the only source for
text selection. Additional resources are provided at the end of this document for future
exploration. Working together, we can strengthen the home and school connection in
advancing the literacy development of children.
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Genres of Literature
Texts are classified into genres on the basis of the intent of the writer. The two main
categories separating the different genres of literature are fiction and nonfiction. There
are several genres of literature that fall under the nonfiction category. Examples from
both the fiction and nonfiction genres of literature are explained in detail below.
Autobiography gives the history of a person’s life, written or told by that person. Often
written in Narrative form of their person’s life.
Biography is a written account of another person’s life.
Drama is the genre of literature that’s subject for compositions is dramatic art in the way
it is represented. This genre is stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical
performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action.
Essays are a short literary composition that reflects the author’s outlook or point. A short
literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally
analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
Fable is a story about supernatural or extraordinary people Usually in the form of
narration that demonstrates a useful truth. In Fables, animals often speak as humans
that are legendary and supernatural tales.
Fairy Tales or wonder tales are a kind of folktale or fable. Sometimes the stories are
about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children.
Fantasy is the forming of mental images with strange or other worldly settings or
characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality.
Fiction can be defined as narrative literary works whose content is produced by the
imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. In fiction something is feigned,
invented, or imagined; a made-up story.
Fiction in Verse is full-length novels with plot, subplots, themes, with major and minor
characters. Fiction of verse is one of the genres of literature in which the narrative is
usually presented in blank verse form.
Folklore includes songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a person of “folk” that was
handed down by word of mouth. Folklore is a genre of literature that is widely held, but
false and based on unsubstantiated beliefs.
Historical Fiction is a story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.
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Horror is an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by literature that is frightfully
shocking, terrifying, or revolting. Fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread in both
the characters and the reader.
Humor is the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical. Fiction full of fun, fancy,
and excitement which meant to entertain. This genre of literature can actually be seen
and contained within all genres.
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Legend is a story that sometimes of a national or folk hero. Legend is based on fact but
also includes imaginative material.
Mystery is a genre of fiction that deals with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of
secrets. Anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown.
Mythology is a type of legend or traditional narrative. This is often based in part on
historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism;
often pertaining to the actions of the gods. A body of myths, as that of a particular
people or that relating to a particular person.
Narrative Nonfiction is information based on fact that is presented in a format which
tells a story.
Nonfiction is informational text dealing with an actual, real-life subject. This genre of
literature offers opinions or conjectures on facts and reality. This includes biographies,
history, essays, speech, and narrative nonfiction. Nonfiction opposes fiction and is
distinguished from those fiction genres of literature like poetry and drama which is the
next section we will discuss.
Poetry is verse and rhythmic writing with imagery that evokes an emotional response
from the reader. The art of poetry is rhythmical in composition, written or spoken. This
genre of literature is for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
Realistic Fiction is a story that can actually happen and is true to real life.
Science Fiction is a story based on impact of potential science, either actual or
imagined. Science fiction is one of the genres of literature that is set in the future or on
other planets.
Short Story is fiction of such briefness that is not able to support any subplots.
Speech is the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one’s
thoughts and emotions by speech, sounds, and gesture. Generally delivered in the form
of an address or discourse.
Tall Tale is a humorous story with blatant exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the
impossible with an here of nonchalance.
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Newbery Award Winners
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery.
It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the
American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to
American literature for children.
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
2011: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a
Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by
Nancy Willard
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
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1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Caldecott Award Winners
Randolph Caldecott was one of a group of three influential children's illustrators working
in England in the 19th century. His illustrations for children were unique to their time in
both their humor, and their ability to create a sense of movement, vitality, and action that
complemented the stories they accompanied.
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator
Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to
Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most
distinguished American picture book for children.
2013 This Is Not My Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen, published by
Candlewick Press. In this darkly humorous tale, a tiny fish knows it’s wrong to
steal a hat. It fits him just right. But the big fish wants his hat back. Klassen’s
controlled palette, opposing narratives and subtle cues compel readers to
follow the fish and imagine the consequence.
2012 A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
In a wordless book with huge children’s appeal, Chris Raschka gives us the
story of an irrepressible little dog whose most prized possession is accidently
destroyed. With brilliant economy of line and color, Raschka captures Daisy’s
total (yet temporary) devastation. A buoyant tale of loss, recovery and
friendship.
2011 A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by
Philip C. Stead
In this tender tale of reciprocity and friendship, zookeeper Amos McGee gets
the sniffles and receives a surprise visit from his caring animal friends. Erin
Stead’s delicate woodblock prints and fine pencil work complement Philip
Stead’s understated, spare and humorous text to create a well-paced, gentle
and satisfying book, perfect for sharing with friends
2010 The Lion & the Mouse illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney
The screech of an owl, the squeak of a mouse and the roar of a lion transport
readers to the Serengeti plains for this virtually wordless retelling of Aesop’s
classic fable. In glowing colors, Pinkney’s textured watercolor illustrations
masterfully portray the relationship between two very unlikely friends.
2009 The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan
Marie Swanson
Richly detailed black-and-white scratchboard illustrations expand this timeless
bedtime verse, offering reassurance to young children that there is always
light in the darkness. Krommes' elegant line, illuminated with touches of
golden watercolor, evoke the warmth and comfort of home and family, as well
as the joys of exploring the wider world.
2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an awakening Paris in
1931, this tale casts a new light on the picture book form. Hugo is a young
orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to
complete a mysterious invention left by his father.
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2007 Flotsam by David Wiesner
Flotsam is a cinematic unfolding of discovery. A vintage camera washed up on
the beach provides a young boy with a surprising view of fantastical images
from the bottom of the sea. From fish-eye to lens-eye, readers see a frame-byframe narrative of lush marinescapes ebbing and flowing from the real to the
surreal.
2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka and written
by Norton Juster. In this sunny portrait of familial love, a little girl tells us about
her everyday experiences visiting her grandparents’ house. Raschka’s style
resembles the spontaneous drawings of children, perfectly mirroring the
guileless young narrator’s exuberant voice. White space balances the density
of the layered colors, creating a visual experience that is surprisingly
sophisticated.
2005 Kitten's First Full Moon illustrated and written by Kevin Henkes
Henkes employs boldly outlined organic shapes and shades of black, white
and gray with rose undertones on creamy paper to tell a simple story of a
kitten who mistakes the moon for a bowl of milk. The moon, the flowers, the
fireflies' lights and the kitten's eyes create a comforting circle motif. The
gouache and colored pencil illustrations project a varied page design that
rhythmically paces the spare text.
2004 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers illustrated and written by
Mordicai Gerstein This true story recounts the daring feat of a spirited young
Frenchman who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center twin
towers in 1974. His joy in dancing on a thin wire high above Manhattan and
the awe of the spectators in the streets far below is captured in exquisite ink
and oil paintings that perfectly complement the spare, lyrical text.
2003 My Friend Rabbit illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann
In the book, Mouse shares his brand-new toy airplane with his friend Rabbit,
and no one can predict the disastrous—but hilarious—results. When the
airplane lands in a tree, the chaos only builds as Rabbit drags, pushes and
carries the whole neighborhood, including Elephant, Hippo, and Crocodile, to
the rescue. It’s a lighthearted celebration of a friendship that will last – even if
whatever Rabbit does and wherever he goes, trouble follows.
2002 The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
The plot and form of a familiar folktale unravel as the pigs are huffed and
puffed off the page and into a new world. The trio cavorts through scenes from
nursery rhyme to fairy tale, liberating other characters on the fly. Wiesner uses
a range of artistic styles and thrilling perspectives to play with the structure
and conventions of traditional storytelling, redefining the picture book.
2001 So You Want to Be President? illustrated by David Small. Text: Judith
St. George
In illustrations rendered in a harmonious mix of watercolor, ink, and pastel
chalk, David Small employs wiry and expansive lines with an echo of political
cartooning investing this personable history of the presidency with imaginative
detail, wry humor, and refreshing dignity.
2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
"Joseph Had a Little Overcoat," is the story of a resourceful and resilient tailor
who transforms his worn-out overcoat into smaller and smaller garments. The
book is illustrated in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink, and collage.
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1999 Snowflake Bentley illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline
Briggs Martin.
The book takes children back to the days when farmers worked with ox and
sled and cut the dark with lantern light. It introduces Wilson Bentley, a boy
who loved snow more than anything in the world and is determined that one
day his camera would capture the extraordinary and unique beauty of
snowflakes.
1998 Rapunzel, retold and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, retells the story
based on the familiar Grimm's folktale as well as earlier French and Italian
sources.
1997 Golem written and illustrated by David Wisniewski.
From the shimmeringly powerful hand of God to the life-giving hands of the
rabbi and on through the murderously destructive hands of the Golem, the
universal themes of power and redemption are reflected. Created to protect
Jews in 16th-century Prague, this soulless clay giant comes to find that life is
precious.
1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria written and illustrated by Peggy Rathmann.
Gloria's irreverent acrobatics behind Buckle's back contrast with the officer's
straight-laced safety tips to school audiences. The original, lively, and
energetic art leads the readers through a story of cooperation and friendship.
1995 Smoky Night illustrated by David Diaz, text by Eve Bunting.
Inspired by the Los Angeles riots, Smoky Night relates the happenings of a
night of urban rioting from a child's perspective.
1994 Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Grandfather's Journey eloquently portrays a Japanese immigrant's travels to
a new land. Exquisite watercolors portray vast landscapes along with intimate
family portraits that communicate hope, dignity, sadness, and love. Say
powerfully connects the personal and the universal to create a rare harmony
of longing and belonging.
1993 Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who
stayed in her mother's boarding house. But no one excited her as much as
Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird. When
Mirette discovers that fear has kept him from performing for years, she sets out
to show him that sometimes a student can be the greatest teacher of all.
1992 Tuesday by David Wiesner
On Tuesday, just as the full moon is rising, the lily pads take off--each topped
by a serene, personable frog. This extraordinary flock startles some dozing
birds and blunders into a line full of sheets before joining a woman drowzing by
her TV; with dawn approaching, the frogs set out for home but don't quite
make it before their magic carpets fall to earth, leaving them to hop back to the
pond and the passing humans to marvel at the unusual debris in the road.
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1991 Black and White by David Macaulay
A robber hides out in a herd of cattle who, in turn, disrupt the passage of a
train. At the train station, passengers at first are absorbed in the newspapers
they are reading, but as the wait lengthens, they start playing with the
newspapers and with each other. A boy, a passenger on the train, witnesses
some of the events, but not all of them. Parents, previously staid and distant,
have apparently changed, at least temporarily, because of their time spent
waiting for the train that day.
1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
The ancient Chinese version of the favorite fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood".
1989 Song and Dance Man illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen
Ackerman
Three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his
old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on
the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see
what it was like to be a song and dance man.
1988 Owl Moon illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen
A girl and her father go owling on a moonlit winter night near the farm where
they live. Bundled tight in wool clothes, they trudge through snow "whiter than
the milk in a cereal bowl"; here and there, hidden in ink-blue shadows, a fox,
raccoon, fieldmouse and deer watch them pass. An air of expectancy builds as
Pa imitates the Great Horned Owl's call once without answer, then again.
From out of the darkness "an echo/ came threading its way/ through the trees."
1987 Hey, Al illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks
The travails of Al, a janitor who lives in a dingy apartment on Manhattan's
West Side with his dog Eddie. One day, a funny-looking bird sticks its huge
head through Al's bathroom window and proposes a journey to a terrific place
where there are "no worries" and "no cares." Al agrees and takes Eddie with
him. What the two experience is paradise--butterflies, wildflowers, chirping
birds and cool streams--but it soon gives way to the uncertainties of being
away from home, and a moral: that home is where the heart is.
1986 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The tale of a young boy lying awake on Christmas Eve only to have Santa
Claus sweep by and take him on a trip with other children to the North Pole.
1985 Saint George and the Dragon illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text:
retold by Margaret Hodges
Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in
which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing
the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land.
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1984 The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice
& Martin Provensen
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the
Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the
English Channel.
1983 Shadow translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown
Shadow is a translation of the poem La Féticheuse by French writer Blaise
Cendrars.
1982 Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more
excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle
adventure board game.
1981 Fables illustrated by Arnold Lobel
Short, original fables with fresh, unexpected morals poke subtle fun at human
foibles through the antics of animals.
1980 Ox-Cart Man by Paul Goble
A lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing
seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man
packs his goods and travels to the market to sell his goods, one by one - even
his beloved ox. Then, with his pockets full of coins, he wanders through the
market, buying provisions for his family, and returns to his home. And the cycle
begins again.
1979 The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
The story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's
horses.
1978 Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of each kind trudged aboard
Noah's famous vessel. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenthcentury Dutch poem about this most famous menagerie.
1977 Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text:
Margaret Musgrove
This book explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning
with letters from A to Z.
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1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears illustrated by Leo & Diane
Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema
Mosquito tells iguana such a preposterous tall tale that iguana puts sticks in
his ears so he won't have to hear her nonsense. This causes a chain of events
that upsets all the animals. When lion calls a council to solve the problem, the
animals realize mosquito is at fault. To this day, mosquitoes whine in people's
ears to ask if everyone is still angry.
1975 Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth that explains how the spirit of the Lord
of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
1974 Duffy and the Devil illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve
Zemach
The Zemachs have interpreted the folk tale which the play dramatized,
recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story.
1973 The Funny Little Woman illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene
Mosel
In this tale set in old Japan, a lively little woman who loves to laugh pursues
her runaway dumpling-and must outwit the wicked three-eyed Oni when she
lands in their clutches. While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by
wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the
richest woman in Japan.
1972 One Fine Day retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
The jaunty red fox stole milk from an old farm woman, lost his tail under the
annoyed woman's knife, and spent the day bargaining to get it back.
1971 A Story A Story retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley
Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept
them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them-and caught three sly creatures to get them. Recounts how most African folk
tales came to be called "Spider Stories."
1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
On a rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come
true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish
that brings unexpected results. How Sylvester is eventually reunited with his
loving family and restored to his true self makes a story that is beautifully
tender and filled with true magic.
1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship illustrated by Uri Shulevitz;
text: retold by Arthur Ransome
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1968 Drummer Hoff illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara
Emberley
The cumulative folk song about seven soldiers who build a magnificent cannon
and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off.
1967 Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
Samantha (known as Sam) is a fisherman’s daughter who dreams rich and
lovely dreams—moonshine, her father says. But when her tall stories bring
disaster to her friend Thomas and her cat Bangs, Sam learns to distinguish
between moonshine and reality.
1966 Always Room for One More illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text:
Sorche Nic Leodhas
The generous hero of this enchanting tale, is the exception to the rule that the
Scots are a thrifty lot. In his "wee house in the heather," where he lives with his
family of twelve, he welcomes to his hearth every weary traveler who passes
by on a stormy night.
1965 May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice
Schenk de Regniers
An imaginative boy graciously accepts an invitation from the King and Queen
and then invites them to the zoo.
1964 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Max is being so terrible that his mother sends him to his room without supper.
But Max doesn't care -- he sails off to the land of the Wild Things, and they
make him his king. There, Max can be as terrible as he pleases, and the Wild
Things join in the rumpus. Finally, Max is tired of being wild, and yearns to go
home.
1963 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Waking up to a world of snowy white-what could be better? Young peter can't
wait to jump in his snowsuit and run out to explore. There are snowmen to
build snowballs to pack, mountains to climb and snowbanks to collapse in-to
carve a snow angel! And when the day is done, there's a dark night of dreams
and drifting snow, and a new snowy day to awake to.
1962 Once a Mouse retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown
In this Indian fable, hermit knows the magic to change a small mouse into a
cat, a dog, and a majestic tiger. As it changes, a hermit's pet also becomes
increasingly vain.
1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text:
Ruth Robbins
The Russian folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child.
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1960 Nine Days to Christmas illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall
Ets and Aurora Labastida
Ceci's first Christmas posada party and pinata have made her Mexican town
come alive.
1959 Chanticleer and the Fox illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted
from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney
King of the barnyard, Chanticleer struts about all day. When a fox bursts into
his domain, dupes him into crowing, and then grabs him in a viselike grip,
Chanticleer must do some quick thinking to save himself and his barnyard
kingdom.
1958 Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
The spell of rain, gulls, a foggy morning, the excitement of sailing, the quiet of
the night, the sudden terror of a hurricane, and the peace of a Maine island as
a family packs up to leave are shown in poetic language and vibrant, evocative
pictures.
1957 A Tree Is Nice illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry
Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its
trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies
can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds can make nests in the branches. A tree is
good to have around. A tree is nice.
1956 Frog Went A-Courtin' illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by
John Langstaff
The well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the
frog and the mouse.
1955 Cinderella illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles
Perrault by Marcia Brown
This translation is excellent for storytelling and also reading aloud. Marcia
Brown's illustrations are full of magic and enchantment from the little cupids
putting back the hands of the clock to the last scene at the palace.
1954 Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
When Madeline falls into the river Seine and nearly drowns, a courageous
canine comes to her rescue. Now Genevieve the dog is Madeline's cherished
pet, and the envy of all the other girls. What can be done when there's just not
enough hound to go around? A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine,
becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns
with a surprise.
1953 The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns
with a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the
neighbors.
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1952 Finders Keepers illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff);
text: Will, pseud. William Lipkind
Two dogs find one bone and have difficulty deciding which of them owns it.
1951 The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
One Easter morning, Katy and Carl went on an egg hunt through Grandmom's
house. Katy couldn't find anything until she went up to the attic. And there she
discovered a very special set of eggs. Grandmom had painted them when she
was a little girl. And now, she hung them from the branches of a tiny tree -- an
Egg Tree! So began a very special Easter tradition.
1950 Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
Every summer, the swallows leave San Juan Capistrano and fly far away, to a
peaceful green island-but they always come back in the spring, on St.
Joseph's Day. Juan loves las golondrinas, and so does his friend, Julian, the
gardener at the mission. This year Juan plants a garden in his own yard.
There's nothing he wants more than for the swallows to nest there. And on St.
Joseph's Day, his dream comes true.
1949 The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader
Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are
delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.
1948 White Snow, Bright Snow illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin
Tresselt
When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a
winter blizzard.
1947 The Little Island illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden
MacDonald, pseud.
Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go,
as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.
1946 The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham
A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping
rhymes, jingles, and counting-out rhymes.
1945 Prayer for a Child illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel
Field
A prayer full of the love of friends and family and the kindly protection of God.
Though it was written for one little girl, the prayer is for all boys and girls, and it
carries a universal appeal for all ages and races.
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1944 Many Moons illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish
for the moon.
1943 The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic,
grows up around her.
1942 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
The busy Boston streets are too dangerous for eight little ducklings! But with a
little help from a friendly policeman Mrs. Mallard and her family arrive safely at
their new home.
1941 They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
Robert Lawson introduces us to his forefathers and with them we brave
Caribbean storms, travel to the wharf markets of New York, and fight in the
civil war. Amidst these adventures Lawson's grandparents meet, marry and
raise a family, and later his parents follow the same cycle of life. But this book
is more than just a story of one family, it's a social history of our country. It
reminds us to be proud of our ancestors - who they were, what they did, and
the effect they had on the nation we live in today.
1940 Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier
who became the sixteenth president of the United States.
1939 Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
After spending an eventful day at the fair held on New Year's Eve, Mei Li
arrives home just in time to greet the Kitchen God.
1938 Animals of the Bible illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by
Helen Dean Fish
Thirty richly detailed black-and-white drawings illustrate the favorite stories of
the Creation, Noah's Ark, the first Christmas, and many others.
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Recommended Lists to Support the ELA Curriculum Modules
The English Language Arts Curriculum includes adaptations from the curriculum
modules. This list aligns to the themes of the curriculum modules. It is important for
students read a high volume of texts in order to build academic vocabulary and fluency.
The overarching themes of the grades 3-5 modules include Becoming a Close Reader
and Reading to Learn: Grade 3,The Power of Reading; Grade 4, Native Americans in
New York; Grade 5, Stories of Human Rights. The themes of the grades 6-8 modules
include Close Reading and Writing to Learn: Grade 6, Myths, Not Just Long Ago; Grade
7, Journeys and Survival; Grade 8, Finding Home: Refugees.
Grade 3 - Module 1
Virginia Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Children Around the World by Donata Montanari
Clara and the Bookwagon by Nancy Smiler Levinson
My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits
A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting
Beatrice’s Dream: A Story of a Kibera Slum by Karen Lynn Williams
Moses Goes to School by Isaac Millman
Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine,
Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Ruby’s Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges
Beatrice’s Goat by Page McBrier
Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia by Jeanette Winter
The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos by Lucia Gonzales
A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Ines by Pat Mora
Going North by Janice N. Harrington
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller
The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron
Going to School in India by Lisa Heydlauff
My School in the Rain Forest: How Children Attend School Around the World by
Margriet Ruurs
Running the Road to ABC by Denize Lauture
My Name is Jorge: On Both Sides of the River by Jane Median
Grade 4 - Module 1
The Maiden of the Mist: A Legend of Niagara Falls by Veronika Martenova Charles
The World Before This One: A Novel Told in Legend by Rafe Martin
Life in the Time of the First Americans by Lisa Trumbauer
Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle by Chief Seattle
If You Lived with the Iroquois by Ellen Levine
Native Americans: The First Peoples of New York by Kate Schimel and Lynn
George
The Iroquois by Emily Dolbear and Peter Benoit
The Iroquois by Stefanie Takacs
The Iroquois and Their History by Cenevieve St. Lawrence
The Iroquois: The Six Nation Confederacy by Mary Englar
Seneca Chief, Army General: A Story about Ely Parker by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Peace Walker: The Legend of Hiawatha and Tekanawita by Carrie J. Taylor
Life in a Longhouse Village by Bobbie Kalman
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Hiawatha: Founder of the Iroquois Confederacy by Nancy Bonvillain
New York Native Peoples by Mark Stewart
100 Native Americans Who Shaped History by Bonnie Juettner
Grade 5 - Module 1
For Every Child: The Rights of the Child in Words and Pictures by Caroline Castle
I Have the Right to Be a Child by Alain Serres
The Color of Home by Mary Hoffman
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang
Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together by Herb
Shoveller
Giant Steps to Change the World by Spike Lee and Tanya Lewis Lee
Shannen and the Dream for a School by Janet Wilson
Stand Up, Speak Out: A Book about Children’s Rights by Selda Altun
The Girl from Chimel by Rigoberta Menchu
Our World of Water: Children and Water around the World by Beatrice Hollyer
Out of War: True Stories from the Front-lines of the Children’s Movement for
Peace in Colombia by Sara Cameron
Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Gandhi by Demi
Human Rights Activist: Victory over Violence by Ellen Rodger
This Child, Every Child: A Book about the World’s Children by David J. Smith
Free the Children: A Young Man Fights against Child Labor and Proves That
Children Can Change the World by Craig Kielburger
We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures by
Amnesty International
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor by Russell
Freedman
Grade 6 - Module 1
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Holes by Louis Sachar
Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Crispin: At the Edge of the World by Avi
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O’Brien
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
The Odyssey by Homer
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Heroes in Greek Mythology Rock! by Karen Bornemann Spies
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Grade 7 - Module 1
My Name is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams
Now Is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
Brothers in Hope : The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Mary Williams
Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo
South Sudan by Lisa Owings
A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk by Jan Coates
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau
Refugees & Asylum Seekers by Dave Dalton
War Child: A Child’s Soldier’s Story by Emmanuel Jal
The Lost Boys of Sudan by Jeff Burlingame
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Sudan, Darfur and the Nomadic Conflicts by Philip Steele
Give Me Shelter: Stories about Children Who Seek Asylum by Frances Lincoln
Children’s Books
Hoping for Peace in Sudan: Divided by Conflict, Wishing for Peace by Jim Pipe
Jackie’s Nine: Jackie Robinson’s Values to Live By by Sharon Robinson
First Pitch: How Baseball Began by John Thorn
Jackie Robinson: Champion for Equality by Michael Teitelbaum
Stars in the Shadows: The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934 by Charles R.
Smith Jr.
Grade 8 - Module 1
All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata
Why Vietnamese Immigrants Came to America by Lewis K. Parker
Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
Echoes of the White Giraffe by Sook Nyul Choi
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by
Andrea Warren
Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Natalie M. Rosinsky
The Fall of Saigon by Mary Englar
Vietnam by Charlotte Guillain
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Quang Nhuong Huynh
Vietnamese American by John F. Grabowski
The Vietnam War by Cath Senker
Water Buffalo Days: Growing up in Vietnam by Quang Nhuong Huynh
Vietnam in Pictures by StacyTaus-Bolstad
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo
The Vietnamese Americans by Hien Duc Do
The Vietnamese Boat People: 1954 and 1975-1992 by Nghia M Vo
Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996 by Carina
Hoang
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Best Young Adult Books
Young-adult books are books marketed to adolescents, roughly between the ages of 12
and 17, and usually feature main characters in that age range. This list includes the best
of young adult books as identified by the Good Reads online resource.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Giver by Lois Lowry
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Marked by P.C. Cast
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
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The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by
Mark Haddon
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by
Ally Carter
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
1984 by George Orwell
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Watership Down by Richard Adams
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by
E.L. Konigsburg
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Evermore by Alyson Noel
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by
Sherman Alexie
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George
Speare
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Matched by Ally Condie
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
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The College Board’s Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers
In 1900, the College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Formed
by a handful of colleges, the purpose of the College Board was to simplify the application
process for students and college admission offices and to help students prepare for a
successful transition to college each year. The College Board serves the education
community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators and
schools.
A Death in the Family by James Agee
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Antigone by Sophocles
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Candide by Voltaire
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Inferno by Dante
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Native Son by Richard Wright
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkhov
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliiot
The Odyssey by Homer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Portrait of a Lady by James Henry
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Turn of the Screw by James Henry
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Additional Resources
Association for Library Service to Children:
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldec
ottmedal
College Board:
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html
EngageNY:
http://www.engageny.org/resource/appendix-b-common-core-standards-for-elaliteracytext-exemplars-and-sample-performance
Genres of Literature:
http://genresofliterature.com
Good Reads:
http://www.goodreads.com
The Lexile Framework for Reading:
http://www.lexile.com
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