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School Wide Reading List Eldon High School 2013-2014 School Year School Wide Reading List Eldon High School Art Mr. Stephenson Studio Art The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain/Edwards American Gothic/Biel Andy Warhol : Supernova/Biel Van Gogh in Perspective/Welsh-Ovcharov 50 Sculptures You Should Know/Kuhl Communication Arts Mrs. Henley Honors American Literature Death Comes for the Archbishop/Willa Cather The Awakening/Kate Chopin The Last of the Mohicans/James Fenimore Cooper The Red Badge of Courage/Stephen Crane Any collection of Emily Dickinson’s poetry An American Tragedy/Theodore Dreiser Selected Essays/Ralph Waldo Emerson The Sound and the Fury/ William Faulkner Any collection of Robert Frost’s poetry For Whom the Bell Tolls/Ernest Hemingway The Portrait of a Lady/Henry James Main Street/Sinclair Lewis The Call of the Wild/Jack London Moby Dick/Herman Melville Death of a Salesman/Arthur Miller The Crucible/Arthur Miller A Good Man is Hard to Find/Flannery O’Connor Long Day’s Journey into Night/Eugene O’Neill The Catcher in the Rye/J.D. Salinger The Grapes of Wrath/John Steinbeck Uncle Tom’s Cabin/Harriet Beecher Stowe Walden/Henry David Thoreau Collected Stories/Eudora Welty Leaves of Grass/Walt Whitman Native Son/Richard Wright Honors College Composition The Scarlet Letter/Nathaniel Hawthorne Moby Dick/Herman Melville Grapes Of Wrath/John Steinbeck Don Quixote/Miguel de Cervantes Great Expectations/Charles Dickens Siddhatha/Herman Hesse Brave New World/Aldous Huxley Divine Comedy/Alighieri Dante Walden/Henry David Thoreau The Power Of Myth/Joseph Campbell The Poetry of Robert Frost The Metamorphoses/Franz Kafka One Day in The Life Of Ivan Denisovich/Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn **** Any of these books may not be used if they were included as part of American Lit/ American Novel curriculum your sophomore year. Honors English I 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Jules Verne A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams A Separate Peace / John Knoles Animal Farm / George Orwell Any novel written by Charles Dickens As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath Brave New World / Aldous Huxley Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier The Color Purple / Alice Walker The Diary of Anne Frank / Anne Frank Dune / Frank Herbert The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte Life of Pi / Yann Martel The Lord of the Flies / William Golding Masque of the Red Death / Bethany Griffin Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck The Red Pony / John Steinbeck Romiette and Julio / Sharon Draper *Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe (This is one of Mrs. B’s absolute favorites) Watership Down / Richard Adams Monster/Walter Dean Myers Ms. Hoerr English III, English IV The Education of Little Tree / Forrest Carter Life of Pi / Yann Martel Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen Deadline / Chris Crutcher Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass Fahrenheit 451/ Ray Bradbury The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini Beloved / Toni Morrison The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingslover Pigs in Heaven / Barbara Kingslover Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston Anything by Edgar Allan Poe The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien Great Expectations / Charles Dickens Lord of the Flies / William Golding Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck Ms. Hudson English 1, English 3 & 4 – Transition Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck – Audio Book Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare – Audio Book Ms. Miller English I, English II Animal Farm / George Orwell The Diary of Anne Frank / Anne Frank The Lord of the Flies / William Golding The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck The Shack / William P. Young Nineteen Minutes / Jodi Picoult (Anything by Jody Picoutl) Year of the Fog / Michelle Richmond In Cold Blood / Truman Capote Tuesdays with Morrie / Mitch Albom The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold Redeeming Love / Francine Rivers Sisters in War / Christina Asquith 1000 Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini Feed / M.T. Anderson A Child Called “It” / Dave Pelzer Ms. Wilson English III Honors English II English II On Writing / Stephen King Eats, Shoots, and Leaves / Lynne Truss Life of Pi / Yann Martel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime / Mark Haddon When the Emperor was Divine / Julie Otsuka Wicked / Gregory Maguire A Girl Called Zippy / Haven Kimmell The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien Travels with Charlie / John Steinbeck 1984 / George Orwell Saving Fish from Drowning / Amy Tan The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath How to Breathe Underwater / Julie Orringer The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers / Alexandre Dumas The Thirteenth Tale / Diane Setterfield Great Expectations / Charles Dickens Altas Shrugged / Ayn Rand A Prayer for Owen Meany / John Irving The Call of the Wild / Jack London Beloved / Toni Morrison Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer The Fault in Our Stars/John Green The Night Circus/Erin Morgenstern Water for Elephants/Sara Gruen The Help/Kathryn Stockett Family and Consumer Science Ms. Scheiderer CFL/Nutrition and Wellness Nutrition and Culinary Arts America’s Unhealthy Lifestyle/Sanna Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health/Ronzio Health Science Projects About Nutrition/Gardner Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Disease/Joint WHO/FAO Expert The Best You Can Be/Hovius Your Nutrition Style Making the Pyramid Personal/Learning Seed Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal Vitamins and Minerals/Nardo Taking Sides, Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition/Nestle Food and Emotions/Turck The Everything Nutrition Book/Tessmer The Ten Best Tools to Boot Your Immune System/Levy Allergies/Edelson Cool as a Cucumber, Hot as a Pepper/Hughes Teens Cook/Carle 100 Great Chicken Recipes/Prager Opportunities in Food Service Careers/Chmelynski Careers in Focus, Food Express Lane Meals/Ray Vitamins and Minerals Demystified/Blake Cooking Basics for Dummies/Miller The Healthy Kitchen/Daley Child Development The Challenge of Toddlers: Parenting Your Child from One to Three/Lindsay Working Families and Growing Kids: Caring for Children and Adolescents/WCIT The Wonder Years/Altmann Building Baby’s Brain Power/Lantry Your Preschooler, Ages Three and Four/Rubin 365 Toddler Tips/Warner Down Syndrome: the Facts/Selikowitz Baby 411/Brown Family Violence/Havelin A Family Failing/Arundel When Families Fail/Holmes When Madness Comes Home/Secunda The Two-Income Trap/Warren Hand-Me Down Dreams/Jacobsen Career and Family Leadership The Christmas Box/Richard Paul Evans Promise Me/Richard Paul Evans The Carousel/Richard Paul Evans The Locket/Richard Paul Evans A Stolen Life/Jaycee Dugard Housing Buy It, Fix It, Sell It/Myers Budget Living/Budget Living Magazine Editors Two-Hour No Sew Decorating/Dunkley Consumer Education The Personal Finance Calculator/Faerber 1000 Best Smart Money Secrets for Students/Fowles Will the Dollars Stretch?/Pollock Teenvestor/Modu Teen Guide to Personal Finance Management/Bijlefeld Debt Information for Teens/Bellenir The Teenage Investor/Olsen Ralph Nader/Celsi Tricks of the Trade/Lieberman Fashion Careers in Focus, Fashion Dressed for the Occasion/Miller Absent Fathers Abortion Flour Babies/Fine Gingerbread/Cohn Seek/Fleischman AIDs Alcoholism It Happened to Nancy/Sparks The Late, Great Me/Scoppettone The Boy Who Drank Too Much/Greene Life is a Lonely Planet/Ryan Rules of the Road/Bauer Crosses/Stoehr Burned/Hopkins Francesca, Baby/Oppenheimer Comfort/Dean The Invisible Enemy/Anonymous Anger Management Anorexia Nervosa Cruise Control/Trueman Wintergirls/Anderson Bullying Cancer Slob/Potter Side Effects/Koss Indigo’s Star/McKay Notes from the Dog/Paulsen Please Stop Laughing at Me/Blanco Autobiography of a Face/Grealy Dating Violence Daughter-Mother Problem Breathing Underwater/Flinn Over the Water/Casey Death Depression Under the Wolf, Under the Dog/Rapp Blackbox/Schumacher Catalyst/Anderson Dragon Road/Yep Wintergirls/Anderson Deadline/Crutcher Disfigurement-Car Accident Divorce Autobiography of a Face/Grealy Stand Tall/Bauer Peeling the Onion/Orr Emotionally Disturbed Family Problems Amandine/Griffin Lightkeeper’s Daughter/Lawrence Damage/Jenkins When She Was Good/Mazer Lovey: a Very Special Child/McCracken When She Was Good/Mazer Girl Made To Take Care of Family Crosses/Stoehr Here Today/Martin Impulse/Hopkins A Northern Light/Donnelly Under the Wolf, Under the Dog/Rapp Almost Lost/Sparks Homeless Person/Street Children Interpersonal Relations Blade: Playing Dead/Bowler Missing Abby/Weatherly Kidnapping When Jeff Comes Home/Atkins A Face on the Milk Carton/Cooney Mental, Sexual, or Physical Abuse Manchausen Syndrome by Proxy Picture Perfect/Alphin Sickened/Gregory Forged by Fire/Draper Identical/Hopkins Sold/Hopkins Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder A Child Called “it”/Pelzer Devil in the Details/Traig The Lost Boy/Pelzer A Man Named Dave/Pelzer Becoming Anna/Michener, Anna Orphan They Cage the Animals at Night/Burch A Single Shard/Park The Scarlet Letter/Hawthorne Bloody Jack/Meyer Saying It Out Loud/Abelove Breathing Underwater/Flinn Peer Pressure The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear/Platt Jumping the Nail/Bunting The Rules of Survival/Werlin White Oleander/Fitch (ADULT BOOK) Self-Confidence Self-Destructive Behavior Pip/Kane Crank/Hopkins Glass/Hopkins Single-Parent Families Son-Father Problem Kaleidoscope Eyes/Bryant The Great Santini/Conroy Pip/Kane Son-Mother Enmeshment Suicidal Behavior Bucking the Sarge/Curtis Impulse/Hopkins Under the Wolf, Under the Dog/Rapp The Burn Journals/Runyon Teenage Pregnancy All Jodi Picoult Books The First Part Last/Johnson The Dear One/Woodson Hanging Onto Max/Bechard With Child/Chesler Plainsong/Haruf Mathematics Mrs. Hanks Algebra I, Honors Algebra I, Algebra II The Total Money Makeover/Dave Ramsey Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra/Wendy Lichtman The Phantom Tollbooth/ Norton Juster The Mathematics of Oz/Clifford A.
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