ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List
Grades 6 - 12
Governing Board Approved February 2017
According to Policies IJ and IJJ, the following books were selected for grades 6-12 and approved for the
2017-2018 school year. Selections were based on the following:
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Consideration of varied interest, abilities, learning styles and maturity levels of the students
served.
Stimulation of growth in factual knowledge, critical analysis of differing sides of issues,
literary appreciation, aesthetic values and recognition of various societal values.
Assurance of a comprehensive collection of resources appropriate for the complete
education of all students placing principle above personal opinion and reason above
prejudice.
Due to some mature or potentially sensitive topics that are covered, we feel it is important for parents
to be a part of the educational experience. The Flagstaff Unified School District recommends parents
review the books that will be read in your child’s class. Please feel free to reach out to your child’s
teacher if you have any concerns or questions.
ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List Grades 6 – 12
Approved February 2017
Sixth Grade (6):
Required reading: choice of novel & short
stories
Title
Author
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen
Junior Great Books (4-6) anthology
Supplemental Reading options:
A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park
Among the Hidden
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Call It Courage
Armstrong Sperry
Dragonwings
Laurence Yep
Feed
M.T. Anderson
Holes
Louis Sachar
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Sing Down the Moon
Scott O’Dell
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson)
Rick Riordan
The Rescue
The Watsons Go To Birmingham
Nicholas Sparks
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Christopher Paul Curtis
ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List Grades 6 – 12
Approved February 2017
Seventh Grade (7):
Required reading: choice of novel & short stories
Title
Author
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Transall Saga
Gary Paulsen
Junior Great Books (6-7) anthology
Supplemental Reading options:
A Break with Charity
Ann Rinaldi
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Crossing the Wire
Will Hobbs
Downriver
John Hart
Fever
Laurie Halse Anderson
Habibi
Naomi Nye
House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Lyddie
Katherine Paterson
October Sky
Homer Hickman
Rabbitt Proof Fence
Doris Pikington
River Thunder
Will Hobbs
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Midred Taylor
Seedfolks
Paul Fleischman
Stonewall’s Gold
Robert J. Mrazek
Sunrise Over Falluja
Walter Dean Myers
Tangerine
Edward Bloor
The Devil’s Arithmetic
The Little Prince
Jane Yolen
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Whirligig
Paul Fleischman
Antoine de Saint-Expery
ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List Grades 6 – 12
Approved February 2017
Eighth Grade (8):
Required reading & option of short stories
Title
The Outsiders
Author
S.E. Hinton
Junior Great Books (7-9) anthology
Supplemental Reading options:
A Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
A Mighty Long Way (Little Rock High School)
C. Lanier & L. Page
Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Goodnight Mr. Tom
Michelle Magorian
Henry the 5th
William Shakespeare
Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai
Poe Anthology
Edgar Alen Poe
Stonewall’s Gold
Robert J. Mrazek
Stotan
Chris Crutcher
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Island on Bird Street
Uri Orlev
The Man From the Otherside
Uri Orlev
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
Warriors Don’t Cry (Little Rock High School)
Melba Pattillo Beals
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi
ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List Grades 6 – 12
Approved February 2017
Ninth Grade (9):
Required Reading options:
Title
Author
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Required reading - choose one of the following
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Speak
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
Laurie Halse Anderson
Sherman Alexie
Supplemental Reading options:
Cry the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
I Am Malala
C. Lamb & M. Yousafzai
Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Necessary Roughness
Marie G. Lee
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Pact
Drs. S. Davis, G. Jenkins, R. Hunt
ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List Grades 6 – 12
Approved February 2017
Tenth Grade (10):
Required Reading options:
Title
Author
Night and
Elie Wiesel
1984 or
George Orwell
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Required reading - choose one of the following
A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Memoir of a Geisha
Sayo Masuda
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Woman Warrior
Maxine Kingston
Supplemental Reading Options:
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Kiss Every Step
Doris Martin Springer
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
The Odyssey
Homer
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List Grades 6 – 12
Approved February 2017
Eleventh Grade (11):
Required Reading options:
Title
Author
The Crucible and
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass or
Arthur Miller
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Required reading choose one of the following:
Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Huck Finn
Mark Twain
Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Frederick Douglass
Supplemental Reading options:
Always Running
Luis J. Rodriguez
Bless Me, Ultima
Rodolpho Anaya
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Every Day
Lone Ranger & Tonto First Fight in Heaven
David Levithan
Ordinary People
Judith Guest
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Tortilla Curtain
T.C. Boyle
Sherman Alexie
ELA (English Language Arts) Reading List Grades 6 – 12
Approved February 2017
Twelveth Grade (12):
Required Reading:
Title
Death of a Salesman
Author
The Things They Carried
Arthur Miller
Tim O'Brien
Required reading - choose one of the following:
A Place to Stand
Jimmy Santiago Baca
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Breaking Clean
Judy Blunt
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Supplemental Reading options:
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Brave New World
Change Me Into Zeus' Daughter
Aldous Huxley
Barbara Robinette Ross
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
King Richard III
William Shakespeare
Lokota Woman
Mary Crow Dog
Leaving Home
Lynn Freed
Long Walk
Slovamir Rawicz
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Native Son
James Baldwin
Othello
William Shakespeare
Rule of the Bone
Russell Banks
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
The Color of Water
James McBride
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
The Other Wes Moore
Wes Moore
This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte