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100 Best-Loved Poems N/A NP

101 Great American Poems N/A NP

1984 George Orwell 1090

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1030

A Book of Plays Anthology NP

A Changing America, 1865-1900 N/A N/A

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1080

A Midsummer Night’s Dream N/A N/A

A Northern Light Jennifer Donnelly 700

A Place Where the Sea Remembers Sandra Benitez 790

A Tale of Two Cities N/A N/A

A Separate Peace John Knowles 1110

A Stillness at Appomatox Bruce Catton N/A

A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle 740

Abe Lincoln Grows Up Carl Sandburg 1260

Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt 1100

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mark Twain 990

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Mark Twain 950

African-American Poetry: N/A NP

An Anthology, 1773-1927

African American Writers N/A N/A

American West, The N/A N/A

Ancient Greece, 2000-300 B.C. N/A N/A

Ancient Rome, 200 B.C.-A.D. 350 N/A N/A

Ancient World, The Anthology N/A

Ancient World, 2600-100 B.C., The N/A N/A

And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Tomas Rivera 690

Animal Farm George Orwell 1170

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1080

Antigone Sophocles 1570

As You Like It William Shakespeare NP

Atomic Bomb, The N/A N/A

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The Ernest J. Gaines 710

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Awakening, The Kate Chopin 960

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1110

Bat 6 Virginia Euwer Wolff 930

Bearstone Will Hobbs 780

Behind Rebel Lines Seymour Reit 860

Beowulf Anonymous 990

Bhagavad-Gita Swami Prabhavananada NP

Billy Budd and Other Tales Herman Melville 1430

Black Beauty Anna Sewell 900

Bleak House Charles Dickens 1180

Bread and Roses, Too Katherine Paterson 810

Break with Charity Ann Rinaldi 730

Brothers Karamazov, The Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1010

Buried Onions Gary Soto 850

Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Curtis 950

Call of the Wild Jack London 1170

Candide Francois M. Voltaire 1110

Canterbury Tales, The Geoffrey Chaucer NP

Captain’s Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1020

Castle David Macaulay 1180

Cathedral David Macaulay 1120

Chicago Poems Carl Sandburg NP

Chocolate War, The Robert Cormier 820

Chosen, The Chaim Potok 970

City David Macaulay 1100

Civil Rights: The African-American N/A N/A

Struggle for Equality

Civil War, The N/A N/A

Clay Marble, The Minfong Ho 860

Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 930

Color of My Words, The Lynn Joseph 840

Common Sense Thomas Paine 1300

Complete Plays of Sophocles, The Sophocles NP

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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 1080

Contender, The Robert Lipsyte 760

Count of Monte Cristo, The Alexandre Dumas 930

Cyrano de Bergerac: Edmond Rostand NP

A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts

Dairy Queen Catherine Gilbert 990

Murdock

Dark is Rising, The Susan Cooper 920

David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1070

Dead and the Gone, The Susan Beth Pfeffer 680

Dead is the New Black Marlene Perez 640

Dogsong Gary Paulsen 930

Don Quixote Miquel de Cervantes 1410

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 910

Dracula Bram Stoker 870

Dragon’s Blood, Volume 1 Jane Yolen 870

Dragonwings Lawrence Yep 870

Dubliners James Joyce 900

Dunk David Lubar 520

Early Poems W.B. Yeats NP

El Bronx Remembered Nicholoasa Mohr 610

Emma Jane Austen 1070

Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card 780

Endless Steppe, The Esther Hautzig 940

Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan 750

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1160

Euripides: Ten Plays Paul Roche NP

Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers 650

Fall of the House of Usher and Other Edgar Allen Poe NA

Famous Stories for Performance Anthology NP

Farewell to Manzanar James D., Jeanne W. 1040

Houston

Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1110

Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev NA

Fighting Ground, The Avi 550

Fire Next Time, The James Baldwin 1300

Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keys 910

Forging a New Nation N/A N/A

Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1170

Friends, The Rosa Guy 730

Gifts Ursula K. Le Guine 830

Giver, The Lois Lowery 760

Glory Field, The Walter Dean Myers 800

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Goodbye, Vietnam Gloria Whelan 810

Graceling Kristin Cashore 730

Great American Short Stories Anthology 1110

Great Depression, The N/A N/A

Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1230

Great Gilly Hopkins, The Katherine Paterson 800

Great Short Poems N/A NP

Great Speeches N/A N/A

Great Speeches of African Americans Anthology NA

Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift NA

Gym Candy Carl Deuker 710

Harlem Renaissance, The N/A N/A

Harriet Tubman Ann Perry 660

Harris and Me Gary Paulsen 1060

Hatchet Gary Paulsen 1020

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1020

Hitch Jeanette Ingold 830

Hobbit Juvenile Art J.R.R. Tolkien N/A

Holes Louis Sachar 660

Holocaust, The N/A N/A

Homecoming Cynthia Voight 630

Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1090

House of Mirth, The Edith Warton 1230

House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne NA

How to Eat a Poem N/A NP

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Victor Hugo 950

I, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borton 1100

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Iliad, The Homer 1040

Immigrants, The N/A N/A

Importance of Being Ernest, The Oscar Wilde NP

Inferno, The Dante N/A

Invisible Man, The H.G. Wells 680

Irish Americans, The N/A N/A

Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell 1000

Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll N/A

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 840

Japanese-American Internment N/A N/A

Johnny Tremaine Esther Forbes 840

Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 620

Jubilee Margaret Walker 1090

Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George 860

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Julius Caesar N/A N/A

Jungle Book, The Rudyard Kipling 570

Jungle, The Upton Sinclair 1170

Kidnapped Robert Louis 990

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Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore Joan Lowery Nixon 710

King Lear William Shakespeare NP

Kissing Tennessee Kathi Appelt 920

Kon-Tiki Thor Heyendale 1310

Land I Lost, The Quang Nhuong Huynh 1090

Last of the Mohicans, The James Fenimore Cooper 1350

Latin American Writers N/A N/A

Latino Writers in the U.S. N/A N/A

Le More D’ Arthur: King Arthur and Thomas Malory N/A

Legend of the Round Table

Life As We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer 770

Life of Pi, The Yann Martel 830

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1090

Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1210

Local News Gary Soto 770

Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela 1120

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1110

Lost Horizon James Hilton 1060

Love, Ruby Lavender Deborah Wiles 570

Lupita Mañana Patricia Beatty 760

Macbeth William Shakespeare NP

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1030

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1010

Maniac, Magee Jerry Spinelli 820

Man in the Iron Mask, The Alexandre Dumas 950

Más allá de mí Francisco Jimenez NA

Mayor of Casterbridge, The Thomas Hardy 1090

M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton 620

Merchant of Venice, The William Shakespeare 1380

Metamorphosis, The Franz Kafka (Ovid) N/A

Middle Ages, 350-1450, The N/A N/A

Midwife’s Apprentice, The Karen Cushman 1240

Miracle Worker, The William Gibson NP

Moby Dick Herman Melville 1200

Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare 1470

My Antonia Willa Cather 1010

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Namesake, The Jhumpa Lahiri 1210

Native American Perspectives N/A N/A

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 920

Neighborhood Odes Gary Soto NP

Never Cry Wolf Farley Mowatt 1330

New Boy Julian Houston 990

Novio Boy Gary Soto NP

Number the Stars Lois Lowry 670

Off Season Catherine Gilbert 1160

Murdock

Old Yeller Fred Gipson 910

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1060

On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer 750

Othello William Shakespeare NP

Overcoat and Other Stories, The Nikolai Gogol N/A

Pacific Crossing Gary Soto 750

Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained John Milton 1460

Parrot in the Oven Victor Martinez 1000

Peak Roland Smith 760

Petty Crimes Gary Soto 800

Picture Bride Yoshiko Uchida 970

Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings Oscar Wilde 920

Pigman, The Paul Zindel 950

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A James Joyce 1120

Presidency, The N/A N/A

Pride aand Prejudice Jane Austen 1190

Prince and the Pauper, The Mark Twain 1160

Prince, The Niccolò Machiavelli 1510

Princess Bride, The William Goldman 870

Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw NP

Pyramid David Macaulay 1110

Rascal Sterling North 1140

Reaching Out Francisco Jimenez 910

Readings in World Literature Anthology N/A

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin 1190

Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 920

Red Scarf Girl Ji-li Jiang 780

Renaissance, 1300-1600, The N/A N/A

Richard III William Shakespeare NP

Road not Taken, The (and Other Poems) Robert Frost NP

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Stevenson 1070

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Romeo and Juliet N/A N/A

Scarlett Letter, The Nathaniel Hawthorne 1340

Secret Garden, The Frances Hodgson 970

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Seedfolks Paul Fleischman 710

Sees Behind Trees Michael Dorris 840

Selected Poems John Donne NP

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1180

Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1010

Silas Marner George Eliot 1330

Sing Down the Moon Scott O’Dell 820

Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 980

Sisters/Hermanas Gary Paulsen 1150

Slavery in America N/A N/A

So Far From the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins 730

Song of Myself Walt Whitman N/A

Song of the Trees, The Mildred Taylor 710

Souls of Black Folk, The W.E.B. DuBois 1280

Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters NP

Stories by O. Henry O. Henry N/A

Story of My Life, The Helen Keller 1150

Story Time Edward Bloor 730

Struggle for Civil Rights, 1940s-1970s, The N/A N/A

Summer of the Swans, The Betsy Byars 830

Sword of the Rightful King Jane Yolen 1010

Taming of the Shrew, The William Shakespeare 1340

Taking Sides Gary Soto 750

Tartuffe Jean Moliere NP

Tempest, The William Shakespeare 1290

The Declaration of Independence and N/A N/A

Other Great Documents of American

History 1775-1865

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1030

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Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 890

Things They Carried, The Tim O’Brien 880

Time Machine and War of the Worlds H.G. Wells 1100

Time Windows Kathryn Reiss 800

Treasure Island Robert Louis 1100

Stevenson

Troy Adele Geras 670

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi 740

Turn of the Screw, The Henry James 1140

Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will William Shakespeare 590

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1050

Underdogs Mariano Azuela 850

Underground David Macaulay 1230

Upstairs Room, The Johanna Reiss 380

Vietnam War N/A N/A

Walden, or Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau 1360

War of the Worlds, The H.G. Wells 1170

Wasteland and Other Poems, The T.S. Eliot NP

Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam Huynh Quang Nhuong 1120

Wednesday Wars, The Gary D. Schmidt 990

Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 700

Whipping Boy, The Sid Fleischman 570

White Fang Jack London 970

Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson NA

Wish You Well David Baldacci 840

Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Elizabeth Gordon Speare 850

Wizard of Oz, The Frank L. Baum 970

Women’s Voices N/A N/A

World Drama N/A N/A

World Myths and Folktales N/A N/A

Wreath for Emmett Till, A Marilyn Nelson

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 880

Yearling, The Marjorie Kinnan 750

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