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Reading Lists OSA Recommended Books at Each Grade Level Summer Reading Lists OSA Recommended Books at Each Grade Level *Indicates a book read in class, or a Literature Circles choice book for that grade 6th Grade Booklist Title Author Black Ships Before Troy* Rosemary Sutcliff The Boy of the Painted Cave* Justin Denzel The Call of the Wild* Jack London Code Talker Joseph Bruchac Dragonwings Laurence Yep D’Aulaires’s Book of Greek Myths Ingri and Edgar Parrin D'Aulaires Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan The Giver* Lois Lowry The Golden Goblet Eloise Jarvis McGraw Hatchet Gary Paulsen Inside Out and Back Again Thanhha Lai The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart Ninth Ward Jewell Parker Rhodes One Crazy Summer* Rita Williams-Garcia Pacific Crossing* Gary Soto The Pearl John Steinbeck The People Could Fly Virginia Hamilton Percy Jackson and the Olympians Rick Riordan Red Scarf Girl* Ji-Li Jiang Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry* Mildred Taylor The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett The Sisters Grimm Michael Buckley Tale of Despereaux Kate di Camillo Vanished Sheela Chari The View from Saturday* E.L. Konigsberg Walk Two Moons* Sharon Creech The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963* Christopher Paul Curtis When you Reach Me Rebecca Stead Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle 7th Grade Booklist Title Author All the Light we Cannot See Anthony Doerr Arthur: The Seeing Stone Kevin Crossley-Holland Beowulf (graphic novel) Gareth Hinds A Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance Larry Gonick Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction David Macauley A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Double Dutch Sharon M. Draper The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Jacqueline Kelly Feathers Jacqueline Woodson Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn* Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler A Girl Named Disaster Nancy Farmer The Greatest: Muhammad Ali* Walter Dean Myers Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad* Ann Petry Heat Mike Lupica I am Malala* Malala Yousafzai The Kabul Chronicles N.H. Sensai A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein A Long Walk to Water* Linda Sue Park Lyddie* Katherine Patterson A Mango Shaped Space Wendy Mass The Midwife's Apprentice* Karen Cushman My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George Parvana’s Journey Deborah Ellis The Planet of Junior Brown Virginia Hamilton The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano Sonia Manzano Shadow Spinner* Susan Fletcher Tales of the Arabian Nights Wafa Tarnowska, trans. The Well of Sacrifice Chris Eboch 8th Grade Booklist Title Author Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Autobiography of Malcolm X* Alex Haley with Malcolm X The Book Thief Markus Zusak Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Carver: A Life in Poems Marilyn Nelson The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank The Ear, the Eye and the Arm Nancy Farmer Gentlemen of the Road Matthew Chabon Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salmon Rushdie The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein The House on Mango Street* Sandra Cisneros Howl’s Moving Castle Dianne Wynn Jones I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings* Maya Angelou Into Thin Air John Krakauer Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor Russell Freedman The Life of Pi Yann Martel The Lord of the Flies William Golding March: Books 1-3 (Graphic Novels) John Lewis Monster* Walter Dean Myers The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Out of the Dust Karen Hesse The Outsiders* S.E. Hinton The Princess Bride William Goldman A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry To Kill a Mockingbird* Harper Lee Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells We Beat the Street* Sampson Davis, George Jenson and Rameck Hunt, with Sharon Draper The Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sook Nyui Choi 9th Grade Booklist Title Author Anon(ymous) Naomi Iizuka Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Saenz The Alchemist* Paulo Coelho The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Between the World and Me Ta-Nahesi Coates Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya Binti* Nnedi Okorafor Bone Fae Myenne Ng Caramelo Sandra Cisneros Complete Poems Emily Dickinson An Ember in the Ashes Sabaa Tahir Fahrenheit 451* Ray Bradbury The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead Kindred* Octavia Butler Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog Little Brother Cory Doctorow The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven* Sherman Alexie The Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward The Odyssey* Homer Oedipus Rex Sophocles The Oracles Pati Poblete Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood* Marjane Satrapi Romeo and Juliet* William Shakespeare Speak* Laurie Halse Anderson Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo When The Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Zeitoun Dave Eggers 10th Grade Booklist Title Author The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Matthew Chabon American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang Animal Farm George Orwell Antigone Sophocles The Beginning and the End Naguib Mahfouz Beowulf Anonymous Borderlands/La Frontera:The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldua The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Brave New World Aldous Huxley Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Joy Harjo The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer Great Expectations Charles Dickens Half of a Yellow Sun Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Homegoing* Yaa Gyasi In the Time of Butterflies* Julia Alvarez In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Alice Walker The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Macbeth* William Shakespeare Maus I & II Art Spiegelman Night* Elie Wiesel Night Sky with Exit Wounds* Ocean Vuong Passing Nella Larsen Persuasion Jane Austen South of the Border, West of the Sun** Haruki Murikami The Stories of Eva Luna** Isabel Allende Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Amongst Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston * class novel ** Reader discretion advised 11th Grade Booklist Title Author 1984 George Orwell A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway The Allegory of the Cave Plato Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Candide Voltaire Catch 22 James Heller The Catcher in the Rye* J. D. Salinger Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant The Crucible* Arthur Miller The Fall Albert Camus The Fountainhead Ayn Rand The Great Gatsby* F. Scott Fitzgerald The House of Spirits Isabel Allende The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri Invisible Man* Ralph Ellison The Jungle Upton Sinclair The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Narrative of a Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck On Revolution Hannah Arendt On The Road Jack Kerouac Radio Golf August Wilson Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Slouching Toward Bethlehem Joan Didion Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche * class novel 12th Grade Booklist Title Author The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Beloved* Toni Morrison Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes East of Eden John Steinbeck Evelina Frances Burney Fictions Jorge Luis Borges The Fire Next Time James Baldwin Frankenstein Mary Shelley The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Graceland Chris Abani Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte The Known World Edward P. Jones Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Metamorphosis* Franz Kafka Middlesex Geoffrey Eugenides One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest* Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Othello William Shakespeare A Passage to India E.M. Forster The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson The Stranger* Albert Camus The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera White Teeth Zadie Smith * class novel .
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