TITLE
GRADE
1984 10,12
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time
11
Indian
Across Five Aprils
8
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
11
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
8
Al Capone Does My Shirts
6
AUTHOR
Orwell, George
Sherman Alexie
Lexile
1090
600
Hunt, Irene
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Choldenko, Gennifer
1100
980
950
600
Alas, Babylon
Alchemist, The
Alias Grace
All Creatures Great and Small
All Over But the Shoutin’
All the Kings Men
American Born Chinese
9
9
12/AP Lit
9
9
12
10
Frank, Pat
Coelho, Paulo
Atwood, Margaret
Herriot, James
Bragg, Rick
Warren, Robert Penn
Yang, Gene Luen
870
910
Among the Hidden
6
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
800
Amusing Ourselves To Death
11
Postman, Neil
An American Tragedy
An Island Like You
And Then There Were None
Angela’s Ashes
Angels and Demons
Animal Farm
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
12
6
8
12
12
8
8
Dreiser, Theodore
Cofer, Judith Ortiz
Christie, Agatha
McCourt, Frank
Brown, Dan
Orwell, George
Frank, Anne
1240
910
570
1110
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex 8
Manheim, Ralph
950
Anthem
Art of Racing in the Rain, The
9,10
9,10
Rand, Ayn
Stein, Garth
880
850
As I Lay Dying
Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
Ava’s Man
Awakening, The
Bat 6
Bean Trees, The
Bearstone
Bel Canto
Bell Jar, The
Beloved
Beowulf
Big Wave, The
Black Boy
Black Gold
11,12
11,12
11
12
11
8
9
6
12,AP
10
11
12
6
11
7
Faulkner, William
Grealy, Lucy
Haley, Alex
Bragg, Rick
Chopin, Kate
Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Kingsolver, Barbara
Hobbs, Will
Patchett, Ann
Plath, Sylvia
Morrison, Toni
Seamus (Translated by)
Buck, Pearl S.
Wright, Richard
Henry, Margueritte
870
1200
1120
1150
960
930
900
780
1150
1140
870
1660
790
950
820
Black Pearl, The
Black Ships Before Troy
6
8
O’Dell, Scott
Sutcliff, Rosemary
980
1300
Blindness**
AP
Saramaga, Jose
990
1160
1350
530
Notes
Included in APEX
Curriculum
Included in APEX
Curriculum
1370
1080
Parent permission
Parent permission
Blink
All HS
Gladwell, Malcolm
1100
Bluest Eye, The
Bones of Boulder Creek
Book Thief, The
Boy
Boy Called “It” , The
Brave New World
Breadwinner, The
12
8
9,10
6
12
10,12
7
Morrison, Toni
McCord, S.H.
Zusak, Markus
Dahl, Roald
Pelzer, Dave
Aldous Huxley
Ellis, Deborah
1340
1090
730
1090
850
870
630
Bridge to Terabithia
Call of the Wild, The
Canterbury Tales
Catch 22
Catcher and the Rye, The
Catching Fire
Catherine Called Birdy
Ceremony
Cheaper by the Dozen
Chosen, The
Christmas Carol, A
Christmas In Plains
Clay Marble, The
Code Talkers
5
8
12
12
11
6,7,8
6
11
5
9
7
8
7
5
Paterson, Katherine
London, Jack
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Heller, Joseph
Salinger, J.D.
Collins, Suzanne
Cushman, Karen
Silko, Leslie Marmo
Gilbreth, Frank B.
Potok, Chaim
Dickens, Charles
Carter, Jimmy
Ho, Minfong
Bruchac, Joseph
810
780
1310
1140
790
820
1170
890
890
970
890
Cold Mountain
Cold Sassy Tree
Color of Water, The
Color Purple, The
Confederacy of Dunces, The
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court, A
Contender, The
Copper Sun
Cornerstone, The
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Crime and Punishment
Crooked House
Crossing, The
Crucible, The
Cry the Beloved Country
Crystal Cave
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dahl, Roald Short Stories
Dark is Rising, The
Darkness Before Dawn
David and Goliath
12/AP Lit
10
12
11,12
12,AP
7
Frazier, Charles
Burns, Olive Ann
McBride, James
Walker, Alice
Toole, John Kennedy
Twain, Mark
1210
930
1240
NC670
800
1080
8
8
12
9,10
12
6
7
11
12
9,10
10
Lipsyte, Robert
Draper, Sharon
Oldenburg, Zoe
Duma, Alexandra
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Christie, Agatha
McCarthy, Cormac
Miller, Arthur
Paton, Alan
Stewart, Mary
Haddon, Mark
760
820
9
12
7
8
All HS
Rostand, Edmond
Dahl, Roald
Cooper, Susan
Draper, Sharon
Gladwell, Malcolm
NP
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, A
Day No Pigs Would Die, A
Dead End in Norvelt
12
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Peck, Robert Newton
Gantos, Jack
900
690
920
8
7
860
910
See Appendix 1
930
990
630
1320
860
960
1180
920
670
Approved
Death of a Salesman
Devil in the White City
Devil’s Arithmetic
Disappearing Spoon, The
10,11,12
11,12
6
10,11,12
Miller, Arthur
Larson, Erik
Yolen, Jane
Kean, Sam
NP
1170
730
1300
Chemistry
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir
Divergent
11
8
Cooper, Anderson
Roth, Veronica
HL700
See Appendix 1
Dogsong
Doll’s House, A
Door in the Wall, The
Down and Out in Paris and London
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, The
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Egypt Game, The
Ella Minnow Pea
Ellen Foster
End of Your Life Book Club, The
6
10,12
6
9
12
12
7
9,10,11,12
9,10,11
9,10,11
9
11
Paulsen, Gary
Ibsen
de Angeli, Marguerite
Orwell, George
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Farmer, Nancy
Truss, Lynne
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
Dunn, Mark
Gibbons, Kaye
Schwalbe, Will
930
NP
990
1020
NP
1070
Ender’s Game
Ethan Frome
Fahrenheit 451
Far North
Farewell to Arms, A
Fast Food Nation
Fat Boy Chronicles, The
Feakonomics
6,7,8
11,12
9
7
11
11,12
9,10,11,12
11,12
Card, Orson
Wharton, Edith
Bradbury, Ray
Hobbs, Will
Hemingway, Ernest
Schlosser, Eric
Winterpock, Jimmy
Levitt, Steven
780
1200
890
820
730
1240
800
Fellowship of the Ring
Fences
Fever 1793
Flags of Our Fathers Adolescent Ver.
Flipped
Flowers for Algernon
10,12
11
4,5
8
6
9
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Wilson, August
Anderson, Laura Halse
Bradley, James
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Keyes, Daniel
860
NP
580
950
720
910
Forged by Fire
Fountainhead, The
Frankenstein
Freak the Mighty
Freedom Riders
8
11
10,12
6
8
Draper, Sharon
Rand, Ayn
Shelley, Mary
Philbrick, W. Rodman
Bausum, Ann
780
780
940
1000
1090
Funny in Farsi
10
Dumas, Firoozeh
Gap Creek
Giver, The
Glass Castle
Glass Menagerie, The
Glory Field, The
Go Down Moses
Going to Ground: Simple Life on a
Georgia Pond
12
8
11,12
11
8
11,12
8
Morgan, Robert
Lowry, Lois
Wall, Jeanette
Williams, Tennessee
Myers, Walter Dean
Faulkner, William
Blackmarr, Amy
380
1010
870
Social Studies
NA
760
1010
NP
800
Pair with Social
Studies when
possible. Added 03/15
Gone With the Wind
Good Earth, The
Grapes of Wrath
Graveyard Book, The
8
9
11
7
Mitchell, Margaret
Buck, Pearl S.
Steinbeck, John
Gaiman, Neil
1100
1530
680
820
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby, The
Great Gilly Hopkins, The
Greater than Yourself: The Ultimate
Lesson of True Leadership
9,10,11,12
10, 11
5
Dickens, Charles
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paterson, Katherine
1200
1070
800
11
Farber, Steve
Green Angel
Grendel
Guts
Hamlet
Handmaid’s Tale, The
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Hatchett
8
12
6
12
12, AP
6,7,8
5
William, Tad
Gardner, John
Paulsen, Gary
Shakespeare, William
Atwood, Margaret
Rowling, J.K.
Paulsen, Gary
920
NC1230
NP
750
880
1020
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
Heart of a Chief, The
Heart of Darkness
Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek
Myth
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Hobbit, The
Hound of the Baskervilles, The
House on Mango Street, The
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
11
7
11,12
9
McCullers, Carson
Bruchac, Joseph
Conrad, Joseph
Evslin, Bernard
760
750
1050
800
10,12
7
7
7
10,11,12
Adams, Douglas
Tolkien, JRR
Doyle, Conan Arthur
Cisneros, Sandra
Foster, Thomas
1000
1000
1090
870
Hunger Games
I am Malala
6,7,8
9
Collins, Suzanne
Yousafzai, Malala
810
1000
I Am the Cheese
I Know What you Did Last Summer
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
7
8
11
Cormier, Robert
Duncan, Lois
Angelou, Maya
810
760
1330
I, Juan de Pareja
7
1100
Illustrated Man, The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
10
11,12
De Trevino, Elizabeth
Borton
Bradbury, Ray
Skloot, Rebecca
Importance of Being Earnest, The
In Cold Blood
Incredible Journey, The
Inherit the Wind
Inside the Walls of Troy
Into the Wild
Into Thin Air
Invisible Man
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island on Bird Street
Jacob Have I Loved
Jane Eyre
Johnny Tremain
12
11
6
10,11
6
11
10
11,12
5
6
6
12
8
Wilde, Oscar
Capote, Truman
Burnford, Sheila
Lawrence, Jerome
McLaren, Clemence
Krakauer, Jon
Krakauer, Joh
Ellison, Ralph
O’Dell, Scott
Orlev, Uri
Patterson, Katherine
Bronte, Charlotte
Forbes, Esther
NP
1040
1060
850
900
1270
1320
950
1000
690
880
780
840
680
1140
See Appendix 1
Journey to Jo'burg
Joy Luck Club, The
Julie of the Wolves
Jungle Book
Jungle, The
Killer Angels, The
Kitchen House, The
7
10
6
7
11
9,10,11
8
Naidoo, Beverley
Tan. Amy
George, Jean Craighead
Kipling, Rudyard
Sinclair, Upton
Shaara, Michael
Grissom, Kathleen
760
930
860
1080
1170
610
Kite Runner, The
AP Lang,12 Hossein,Khaled
840
Land, The
Last Book in the Universe, The
Last Lecture, The
8
7
HS
Taylor, Mildred
Philbrick, Rodman
Pausch, Randy
760
740
Latin Deli, The
Lesson Before Dying
Life as We Knew It
8
11,12
7,8
Cofer, Judith Ortiz
Gaines, Ernest J.
Pfeffer, Susan
900
750
770
Life is So Good
12
680
Life of Pi
Life on the Mississippi
Lightning Thief, The
Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe, The
Little Brother
10
11
6
8
9
Dawson, George Glaubman,
Richard
Martel, Yann
Twain, Mark
Riordan, Rick
Lewis, C.S.
Doctorow, Cory
Loch
Long Walk to Water, A
6
7
Zindel, Paul
Park, Linda Sue
840
720
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy
Soldier, A
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings, The
Lost World, The
Lottery Rose
Love That Dog
9,10
Beah, Ishmael
920
9,10
10,12
12
8
7
Golding, William
Tolkien, J.R.R
Doyle, Sir Conan
Hunt, Irene
Creech, Sharon
770
1010
690
1070
1010
Macbeth
Madame Bovary
Mama Makes Up Her Mind
Martian Chronicles
Maus
10,12
12/AP Lit
8
7
8
Shakespeare, William
Flaubert, Gustave
White, Bailey
Bradbury, Ray
Spiegelman, Art
770
1150
NP
740
GN
Max the Mighty
Maze Runner, The
7
7,8
Philbrick, Rod
Dashner, James
930
HL770
Memories of Anne Frank
Metamorphosis
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Midwife’s Apprentice, The
Miracle Worker, The
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar
Children
Mistaken Identity
7
10
8
6
7
Gold, Alison Leslie
Kafka
Shakespeare, William
Cushman, Karen
Gibson, William
890
1320
NP
1240
NP
7,8
10
Riggs, Ransom
Van Ryn, Don & Susie
890
820
Moby Dick
Mockingjay
Moneyball
11
6,7,8
10,11,12
Melville, Herman
Collins, Suzanne
Lewis, Michael
1200
800
830
1090
740
940
900
1030
See Appendix 1
Math
Monkey Bridge
Morbid Taste for Bones, A
Much Ado About Nothing
Mutation
My Brother Sam is Dead
My Name is Asher Lev
My Side of the Mountain
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and
Goddesses
9
12
9,10,11,12
10,12
4
9
5
9,10
Cao, Lan
Peters, Ellis
Shakespeare, William
Cook, Robin
Collier , James Lincoln
Potok, Chaim
George, Jean Craighead
Hamilton, Edith
1160
NP
750
770
640
810
1040
Napolean's Buttons
10,11,12
Le Couteur, Penny &
Burreson, Jay
1340
Native Son
Natural, The
Nickel and Dimed in America
Night
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The
Night to Remember, A
Notes from the Underground
Nothing But the Truth
Number the Stars
October Sky
Odyssey / Iliad
Oedipus Rex
Of Mice and Men
Old Man and the Sea, The
Old Yeller
Once and Future King, The
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Othello
Our Town
Out of the Dust
Outliers
11
11
11,12
9
11
6
12/AP Lit
8
5
8
9,10
9,10
11
8
6
12
11,12
12
9,10,11,12
11
5
8
Wright, Richard
Malamud, Bernard
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Wiesel, Elie
Lee and Lawrence
Lord, Walter
Dostoyevsky
Avi
Lowry, Lois
Hickam, Homer H.
Homer
Socrates
Steinbeck, John
Hemingway, Ernest
Gipson, Fred
White, T.H.
Kesey, Ken
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Shakespeare
Wilder, Thornton
Hesse, Karen
Gladwell, Malcolm
700
1060
1340
590
NP
950
1050
NP
670
900
NP
NP
630
940
910
1080
1110
1410
NP
NP
1040
1080
Outsiders, The
Pact, The
8
9
750
940
Painted House, A
Paradise Called Texas, A
Peace Like a River
Peak
Pearl, The
Pedro Paramo
Phineas Gage
Phoenix Rising
Picture of Dorian Gray
Pigman and Me, The
Pigman, The
Pigs in Heaven
Poisonwood Bible, The
11,12
8
10
7
8
11,12
8
7
12
8
8
12
12
Hinton, S.E.
Davis, Jenkins, Hunt, and
Page
Grisham, John
Shelfelman, Janice Jordan
Enger, Leif
Smith, Roland
Steinbeck, John
Rulfo, Juan
Fleischman, John
Hesse, Karen
Wilde, Oscar
Zindel, Paul
Zindel, Paul
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kingsolver, Barbara
780
900
760
1010
1030
610
920
1040
950
910
960
Chemistry
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Power of One, The
Prayer for Owen Meany, A
President, The
Pride and Prejudice
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
Princess Bride
Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Pure
12
12
12
12
12
12
9,10
11,12
11
10
Joyce, James
Courtenay, Bryce
Irving, John
Asturias, Miguel Angel
Austen, Jane
Spark, Muriel
Goldman, William
Hope, Anthony
Twain, Mark
Baggott, Julianna
1120
940
1050
1200
1190
1120
870
640
1130
Pygmalion
Radical Leap Reenergized, The
11
10
Shaw, George Bernard
Farber, Steve
NP
REMOVE
Included in APEX
Curriculum
Raisin in the Sun, A
11
Hansberry, Lorraine
Rebecca
Red Badge of Courage, The
Red Rising
10
8
du Maurier, Daphne
Crane, Stephen
Brown, Pierce
880
900
Red Scarf Girl
Remains of the Day
Return of the Native
Road, The
Robinson Crusoe
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Romeo and Juliet
Room: A Novel
7
12
12
10,12
10, 12
7
9
12
Jiang, Ji-Li
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Hardy, Thomas
McCarthy, Cormac
Defoe, Daniel
Taylor, Mildred
Shakespeare, William
Donoghue, Emma
780
1210
1040
670
920
920
NP
HL730
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
12
Stoppard, Tom
NP
Rumble Fish
Sarny
Say Goodnight Gracie
Scarlet Letter
Seabiscuit
Secret Garden,The
Secret Life of Bees, The
Secret of the Andes
Separate Peace, A
Siddhartha
Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
Slaughterhouse Five**
So Far from the Bamboo Grove
8
8
8
11
9
4,5
9,10
6
9,10
9,10
7
11,12
7
Hinton, S.E.
Paulsen, Gary
Deaver, Julie Reece
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hillenbrand, Laura
Burnett,Frances Hodgson
Kidd, Sue Monk
Clark, Ann Nolan
Knowles, John
Hesse, Hermann
Doyle, Conan Arthur
Vonnegut, Kurt
Watkins, Yoko Kawashawa
680
840
580
940
990
970
840
710
1110
1010
1090
850
730
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Speak
Spoon River Anthology
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human
Cadavers
Stranger, The
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Summer of My German Soldier, The
9
9
11
AP Lang
Bradbury, Ray
Anderson, Laurie H.
Masters, Edgar Lee
Roach, Mary
820
680
NP
1230
10,12
11,12
8
Camus, Albert
Williams, Tennessee
Green, Bette
880
NP
800
Need Rubric
See Appendix 1
Parent permission
Parent permission
Summer of the Swans
Sun Also Rises, The
Surviving the Applewhites
Swindle
Taking Sides
Tale of Two Cities, A
Taming of the Shrew
Tartuffe
Tears of a Tiger
Tempest, The
5
10,11
6
6
8
10,12
9,10,11,12
9,10
8
12
Byars, Betsy
Hemingway, Ernest
Tolan, Stephanie S.
Korman, Gordon
Soto, Gary
Dickens, Charles
Shakespeare, William
Moliere
Draper, Sharon
Shakespear, William
830
610
820
710
750
990
NP
NP
700
980
Tex
That was Then, This is Now
Their Eyes Were Watching God
They Cage the Animals at Night
Things Fall Apart
Things They Carried
Third Policeman, The
Thousand Splendid Suns, A
Three Little Words: A Memoire
8
8
11,12
8
9,10
11,12
12
11,12
9,10
Hinton, S.E.
Hinton, S.E.
Hurston, Zora Neale
Burch, Jennings Michael
Achebe, Chinua
O’Brien, Tim
O’Brien, Flann
Hosseini, Kahleid
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley
710
780
1080
450
890
880
Three Musketeers
Tipping Point
9
All HS
Duma, Alexandra
Gladwell, Malcolm
790
1160
To Be a Slave
To Dance With a White Dog
To Kill a Mockingbird
Travels With Charley
Treasure Island
Trouble River
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Tuck Everlasting
Tuesdays with Morrie
Twelve Angry Men
Unbroken
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Unvanquished
View from Saturday, The
Waiting for Godot
Walden
Walk in the Woods, A
Walk Two Moons
Walkabout
Walking Across Egypt
War of the Worlds
Warriors Don’t Cry
Watsons Go to Birmingham, The
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Wednesday Wars, The
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
When the Legends Die
Where the Lilies Bloom
8
8
8
11
12
7
7
5
9,10,11,12
9,10
11
8
11
6
12
10,11
11
8
6
Lester, Julius
Kay, Terry
Lee, Harper
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Byars, Betsy
Avi
Babbitt, Natalie
Albom, Mitch
Rose, Reginald
Hillenbrand, Laura
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Faulkner, William
E.L. Konigsburg
Beckett, Samuel
Thoreau, Henry David
Bryson, Bill
Creech, Sharon
Marshall, James Vance
Edgerton, Clyde
Wells, H.G.
Beals, Melba Pattillo
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Jackson, Shirley
Schmidt, Gary D.
Kerr, Judith
Borland, Hal
Cleaver, Bill & Vera
1080
12
9
5
9,10
7
5
8
7
830
810
870
1010
870
770
740
770
830
NP
1040
1050
1160
870
NP
1340
1210
770
800
670
1170
1000
1000
980
990
940
850
920
Included in APEX
Curriculum
Where the Red Fern Grows
While the World Watched
Whirligig
White Fang
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Winesburg, OH
Wise Blood
Wit
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The
Wolf Rider
Wonder
7
8
8
7
12/AP Lit
10,11
11,12
11,12
8
7
4
Rawls, Wilson
Maull-McKinstry, Carolyn
Fleischman, Paul
London, Jack
Albee, Edward
Anderson, Sherwood
O’Connor, Flannery
Edson, Margaret
Speare, Elizabeth
Avi
Palacio, R.J.
700
World Without Us, The
Wrinkle in Time, A
Wuthering Heights
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Year of Wonders
Year the Lights Came On, The
Yearling, The
Yellow Star
Z for Zachariah
11
5
12
7
12/AP Lit
8
7
6,7,8
7
Stevenson, Robin
L’Engle, Madeleine
Bronte, Emily
Choi, Sook Nyul
Brooks, Geraldine
Kay, Terry
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Roy, Jennifer
O'Brien, Robert C.
560
740
880
840
1080
760
900
NP
1050
920
NP
850
530
790
750
710
820
See Appendix 1
Included in APEX
Curriculum