Master Novel List - Dysart Unified School District The following list was compiled by a large number of DUSD teachers. In order to avoid students reading the same novel in successive grades, you are asked to stick to your grade level for novel choices. If, upon checking within your school, you find that students have not read a novel at a LOWER grade level, you may teach that novel. However, you are asked to NEVER choose from a grade above that which you are teaching. *Key: M = Levels of Meaning S = Structure L = Language Conventions and Clarity K = Knowledge Demands: Life Experiences, Cultural & Literary Knowledge, Content & Discipline Knowledge CC = Common Core 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade CC Lexile Range 6-8 CC Lexile Range 9-10 CC Lexile Range 11-12 955-1155 1080-1305 1215-1355 And Then There Were Across Five Aprils LEX Because of Romek Animal Farm LEX 1170 Adventures of Huck Finn 1984 LEX 1090 None LEX 850 1100 RL 6.5 By Christie, Agatha By Irene Hunt By David Faber By George Orwell By Mark Twain By George Orwell Anne Frank: The Diary The Adventures of Tom The Book Thief (CC) LEX As I Lay Dying LEX 870 of a Young Girl (7th Antigone LEX 940 Antony and Cleopatra Sawyer (CC) 730 MSK* Grade, CC) LEX 1080
By Frank, Anne By Mark Twain By Marcus Zusak By Sophocles By William Faulkner Canterbury Tales, The (CC) Around the World in 80 Brave New World LEX Beloved LEX 870 - AP Brian's Song LEX 791 Book of Virtues, The By Geoffrey Chaucer Days 870 classes Crime and Punishment By William Blinn By Jules Verne Fahreheit 451 (CC) By Aldous Husley By Toni Morrison (CC) Call of the Wild, The (CC) Bean Trees, The LEX 900 By Ray Bradbury Chosen, The Billy Budd, Sailor (CC) By Fyodor Dostoevsky LEX 790 RL 6.5 Ghosts in Love and Other Cry The Beloved Country By Jack London By Barbara Kingsolver Doll’s House, A By Herman Melville Plays LEX 860 MSK* Children of the River LEX Body in the Library, The Good Earth By Ibsen, Henrik Black Boy By Alan Paton 700 RL 5.6 Catcher in the Rye, The House on Mango Street Glass Menagerie, The Death and the King's By Linda Crew By Richard Wright (8th Grade, CC) LEX 790 LEX 870 MSK* (CC) Horsman: A Play Cyrano de Bergerac Bluest Eye, The MSK* - AP By Salinger, J.D. By Sandra Cisneros By Tennessee Williams Wole Soyinka (7th Grade, CC) classes I Know Why the Caged Grapes of Wrath, The Gulliver’s Travels (8th By Rostand, Edmond Curse of the Mummy, The By Toni Morrison Bird Sings LEX 680 MSK* Grade CC) LEX 1330 Danger in the Desert LEX Flowers for Algernon LEX By Maya Angelou By Steinbeck, John Catch 22 By Swift, Jonathan Dysart780 Unified School District910 #89 RL 5.9 9/18/2013 Page 1 Master Novel List - Dysart Unified School District Lesson Before Dying, A Heart of Darkness LEX By Fields, Terri By Daniel Keyes By Joseph Heller Don Quixote LEX 750 MSK* 1050
The Dark Is Rising (CC) Hobbit, The By Ernest Gaines By Joseph Conrad Color Purple, The LEX 670 By Miguel Cervantes
Mousetrap and Other By Susan Cooper By Tolkien, J.R.R. Hiroshima LEX 1190 By Alice Walker Dracula Plays, The The Devil's Arithmetic Joy Luck Club, The (CC) Homecoming Odyssey, The Crucible, The By Bram Stoker LEX 730 LEX 930 By Jan Yolen By Ray Bradbury By Homer By Tan, Amy By Arthur Miller Emma LEX 1070 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Strange Case Killing Mr. Griffin Pearl, The LEX 1010 RL 6.5 Julius Caesar Death of a Salesman By Jane Austen of (7th Grade CC) Fountainhead, The LEX By Stevenson, R.L. By Lois Duncan By John Steinbeck Life of Pi LEX 830 By Arthur Miller 780 Last of the Mohicans, Romeo & Juliet / West Dragonwings (CC) The (8th Grade CC) LEX Fallen Angels By Ayn Rand Side Story 1350 By Yann Martel Time Machine/Invisible By Laurence Yep By Cooper, James F. Metamorphoses Farewell to Arms, A (CC) Frankenstein LEX 1170 Man Lord of the Flies (8th Dune By H.G. Wells By Ovid Great Gatsby, The (CC) By Mary Shelley Grade CC) LEX 770 To Kill a Mockingbird LEX Invisible Man, The LEX 980 French Lieutenant's By Frank Herbert By Golding, William The Metamorphosis 870 MSK* Woman, The Eagle Strike LEX 690 Monster By Harper Lee By Franz Kafka By H.G. Wells By John Fowles Midsummer Night’s By Anthony Horowitz Night (7th Grade, CC) Walkabout Jungle, The LEX 1170 Grendl Dream, A Of Mice and Men (8th Egypt Game, The RL 6.6 By James Marshall Much Ado About Nothing By Upton Sinclair Hamlet Grade CC) LEX 630 Importance of Being By Zilpha Snyder By John Steinbeck War of the Worlds By William Shakespeare Moby Dick Earnest , The (CC) Old Man and the Sea, The Ender's Game LEX 780 By H.G. Wells Oedipus Rex (CC) By Herman Melville by Oscar Wilde (CC) LEX 940 RL 8.1 A Prayer for Owen Meany By Orson Scott Card By Ernest Hemingway Winesburg, Ohio LEX 1050 My Antonia MSK* Jane Eyre (CC) LEX 890 LEX 1050
Dysart Unified School District #89 9/18/2013 Page 2 Master Novel List - Dysart Unified School District Out of the Silent Planet Giver, The LEX 760 RL6 By S. Anderson By John Irving Our Town By Charlotte Bronte LEX 1020 By Lois Lowry By C.S. Lewis Zlata's Diary Rhinoceros Raisin in the Sun, A Les Miserables Outsiders, The (8th Holes LEX 660 RL 5.1 By Zlata Filipovic By Eugene Ionesco By Lorraine Hansberry By Victor Hugo Grade, CC) Freshman Honors Separate Peace, A LEX Scarlet Letter, The LEX By Louis Sachar By S.E. Hinton The Tragedy of Macbeth (all of the above plus) 1110 1420 Edith Hamilton’s Home of the Brave (CC) Perelandra By John Knowles By Nathaniel Hawthorne Madame Bovary LEX 1030 Mythology Count of Monte Cristo, The Sound and the Fury LEX By Katherine Applegate By C.S. Lewis Sophocles By Gustave Flaubert LEX 930 870 Souls of Black Folk, The Homecoming Pigman LEX 950 RL 5.9 By Alexander Dumas By William Faulkner Medea LEX 1280 House of the Scorpion By Paul Zindel Fahrenheit 451 LEX 890 By W.E.B. DuBois Sun Also Rises, The The Namesake (CC) (CC) Roll of Thunder, Hear My By Nancy Farmer By Ray Bradbury Speak LEX 690 MK* By Ernest Hemingway By Jhumpa Lahiri Cry (CC) LEX 920 RL 6.9 Their Eyes Were Watching Once and Future King, The I, Robot By Mildred Taylor Great Expectations By Laurie H. Anderson God LEX 1080 1080 Sorry, Wrong Number That Hideous Strength By Isaac Asimov By Charles Dickens By Z.N. Hurston By T.H. White (CC) LEX 960 Jacob, Have I Loved LEX Midsummer Night's By Louise Fletcher By C.S. Lewis Transell Saga Poisonwood Bible LEX 960 880 RL 5.8 Dream, A These Is My Words LEX Red Badge of Courage LEX The Tragedy of Macbeth By K. Patterson Twelve Angry Men Barbara Kingsolver 1110 RL 9 900 (CC) Lizzie Bright and the Pride and Prejudice LEX To Be a Slave LEX 1080 By Stephen Crane Things Fall Apart LEX 930 By Reginald Rose Buckmaster Boy LEX 1000 1090
Welcome to the Monkey By Gary D. Schmidt By Julius Lester Tangerine LEX 680 By Ode Ogede By Jane Austen House LEX 810 Maniac Magee LEX 820 When Legends Die By Edward Bloor By Kurt Vonnegut Pygmalion RL 5.0 Sophmore Honors By Jerry Spinelli By George Bernard Shaw (all of the above plus) Martian Chronicles LEX Tale of Two Cities, A LEX Anthem 740 1130 Dysart Unified School District #89 9/18/2013 Page 3 Master Novel List - Dysart Unified School District By Ray Bradbury Dante’s Inferno By Charles Dickens Messenger LEX 720 RL 5.3 Native Son Taming of the Shrew By Lois Lowry Oedipus Tartuffle (CC) By Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Milkweed LEX 510 RL 5.2 Stranger, The Moliere By Jerry Spinelli Tess of the d'Ubervilles Miracle Worker (7th The Tragedy of Hamlet Grade, CC) (CC) Tragedy of Othello, the Nerd Landia RL 6.8 Moor of Venice, The By Gary Soto Works of Euripedes, The
Wuthering Heights LEX 880 Nothing But the Truth By Emily Bronte By Avi Prince and the Pauper, The (7th Grade, CC) By Mark Twain Shadows on the Sea LEX 670 RL 6.6 By Joan H. Harlow Shelter Dogs LEX 940 RL6.4 Summer of My German Soldier LEX 800 RL 7.4
Swiss Family Robinson, The LEX 1260 RL 8.9 Treasure Island (7th Grade, CC) LEX 1010 Where the Red Fern Grows LEX 700 RL 6.5 White Fang LEX 970 RL 7.1 A Wrinkle in Time (CC) DysartBy Madeleine Unified L'EngleSchool District #89 9/18/2013 Page 4 Master Novel List - Dysart Unified School District
Other District Approved Novels/Collections
21 Great American Stories Latino Literature White Fang (adapted) 24 One Act Plays Lottery Winner, The Wild West, the 4 Great Plays : A Doll's Mex./ Amer. Literature Witness House Acorn People, The Multi-cultural Voices Woman Hollaring Creek All the Pretty Horses New Yorkers On the Edge: Stories on Amazon Rally the Brink America Street (short One Way Ticket stories) American Reader, An Othello Made Easy Paint Me Like I Am American Short Stories (poems) Blue Diamond, The Piano, The (Sherlock Holmes) Braided Lives Point of View
Door Near Here, A Retold American Classics Downriver Retold British Classics Edgar Allen Poe Short River of Ice Stories
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