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Exclusion List (Arranged by Author) Revised March 15, 2021
NOTE: When a movie based on an AR book opens, that book is immediately placed on the Exclusion List until a new test is made. It is the student's responsibility to check with a librarian before testing on a current "movie book." The permanent Exclusion List below does not include any of these “new movie” books because they are usually on the Exclusion List for a limited time.
The books on this list may NOT be used for summer reading credit, bonus or otherwise. To read these books during the school year, the student must get special written permission from his/her English teacher. Additionally, it is the student’s responsibility to check to see if the test is even accessible as some tests are completely blocked in our program.
Victoria Aveyard - Red Queen Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (required junior book) Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Game (can be taken for junior research paper only) Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Shadow Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None Tom Clancy - Debt of Honor Tom Clancy - The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy - Patriot Games Tom Clancy - Red Rabbit Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (required sophomore honors book) James Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans James Dashner - The Death Cure Terry Davis - Vision Quest Sarah Dessen - Just Listen Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key Sarah Dessen - The Truth about Forever Sarah Dessen - What Happened to Goodbye Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Peter Dickinson - The Tears of the Salamander Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (junior required book) Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning (senior required book) Ernest Gaines - A Lesson before Dying (freshman honors required book) William Golding - Lord of the Flies (sophomore required book) Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter (can be taken junior year only) Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha (required senior book)
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Homer - The Iliad Homer - The Odyssey Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (can be taken for junior research paper only) Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon (can be taken for junior research paper only) Stephen King - Christine Stephen King - Cujo Stephen King - Firestarter Stephen King - Needful Things Stephen King - Pet Sematary Stephen King - The Shining (can be taken for junior research paper only) Stephen King - The Stand Barbara Kingsolver - The Bean Trees Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera Michael Lewis - The Blind Side Jack London - The Call of the Wild (can be taken for junior research paper only) Norman Maclean - A River Runs Through It Bernard Malamud - The Natural (can be taken for junior research paper only) Arthur Miller - The Crucible (required junior play) George Orwell - 1984 (required senior book) Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows Trent Reedy - Burning Nation -- librarians must confirm student has read/tested on Book #1 in series Rick Riordan - The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan - Sea of Monsters J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye (required junior book) Deborah Savage - Summer Hawk Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones (no AR test available at STM) William Shakespeare - Hamlet William Shakespeare - Henry V William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar William Shakespeare - King Lear (Folger Library) William Shakespeare - Macbeth William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare - Tempest Neal Shusterman - Scythe Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (required senior book) Elizabeth George Speare - The Witch of Blackbird Pond John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men (required freshman book) Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Nicholas Sparks - The Longest Ride Nicholas Sparks - The Last Song Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (can be taken junior year only) Exclusion List as of March 2021 3
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur 's Court Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Cynthia Voigt - Homecoming Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds Johann Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson Jane Yolen - Mapping the Bones