2016-2017 Novels
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Kindergarten Novels
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Marcia Brown
The Hare and the Tortoise by Rob Greco
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld
What a Beautiful Sky! By Yanitzia Canetti
Grade 1 Novels
Should I Share My Ice Cream by Mo Willems *
Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Grade 2 Novels
Froggy Learns to Swim by Jonathan London *
Drinking Gourd by F. N. Monjo
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
Grade 3 Novels
Skinny Bones by Barbara Park *
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
(*- Summer Reading Assignment)
Grade 4 Novels
Frindle by Andrew Clements *
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
There’s An Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George
Bread Sister of Sinking Creek by Robin Moore (partial novel- excerpts only)
Grade 5 Novels
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor *
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Grade 6 Novels
Wonder by Raquel Palacio *
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Grade 7 Novels
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt *
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Giver by Lois Lowry
(*- Summer Reading Assignment)
Grade 8 Novels
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick *
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Grade 9 Novels
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom *
The Odyssey by Homer
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Night by Elie Wiesel
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (partial novel- excerpts only)
White Fang by Jack London (Honors option)
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar (Accelerated)
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Grade 10 Novels
Lord of the Flies by William Golding *
A Long Way Gone by Ishmail Beah
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fences by August Wilson
(*- Summer Reading Assignment)
Grade 11 Novels
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien *
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen D. Levitt and
Stephen Dubmer ***
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ***
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald / And So We Read On ***
Grade 12 Novels
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini **
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Excerpts)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ***
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ***
The Awakening by Kate Chopin ***
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ***
(*- Summer Reading Assignment for Career and College)
(**- Summer Reading Assignment for AP) (***- AP Option)