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MBS Booklist Fall 21 Edit Site Course Title ISBN-13 Format Title Author Edition Publisher Middle School - English ENGLISH 7 978-1-4516-7331-9 Paperback Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray / Hamilton, Tim 1995 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Middle School - English ENGLISH 7 978-0-573-61463-7 Paperback Raisin in the Sun, Anniversary Edition Hansberry, Lorraine 1988 Concord Theatricals Middle School - English ENGLISH 7 978-0-446-31078-9 Paperback To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper 1960 Hachette Book Group USA Middle School - English ENGLISH 7 978-0-451-52634-2 Paperback Animal Farm, 75th Anniversary Edition OrWell, George 1996 Penguin Random House Llc Middle School - English ENGLISH 8 978-0-679-73477-2 Paperback House on Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra 1984 Penguin Random House Llc Middle School - English ENGLISH 8 978-0-14-200174-5 Paperback Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk 2002 Penguin Random House Llc Middle School - English ENGLISH 8 978-1-58049-267-6 Paperback Vocabulary PoWer Plus - Book H, Level 8 Reed, Daniel A. 2005 Prestwick House, Inc. Middle School - English ENGLISH 8 978-1-4516-9472-7 Paperback Macbeth Shakespeare, William 2013 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Middle School - English ENGLISH 8 978-0-14-017739-8 Paperback Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John 1937 Penguin Random House Llc Middle School - History & Global Studies7TH GRADE GEOGRAPHY Hardback No Text Required For This Course ZZDIRECT NONE MBS Textbook Exchange Inc. Middle School - History & Global StudiesCIVICS 978-0-89818-220-0 Paperback We the People, Level 2 Gallo, Maria / Quigley, Charles N. / Hale, John 3RD 17 Center for Civic Education Middle School - Language CHINESE I Hardback No Text Required For This Course ZZDIRECT NONE MBS Textbook Exchange Inc. Middle School - Language CHINESE II Hardback No Text Required For This Course ZZDIRECT NONE MBS Textbook Exchange Inc. Middle School - Language FRENCH I 978-1-5433-0024-6 Access Code D'accord, Level 1 - Prime Access Blanco, Jose A 3RD 19 Vista Higher Learning Middle School - Language FRENCH IA Instant Access Code D'accord, Level 1 - Prime Access Blanco, Jose A. 3RD 19 Vista Higher Learning Middle School - Language LATIN I 978-0-86516-807-7 Hardback Latin for the NeW Millennium, Level 1 Minkova, Milena / Tunberg, Terence 2ND 17 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. Middle School - Language LATIN I 978-1-5432-0309-7 Paperback Rufus Et Arma Atra Piantaggini, Lance 2017 Amazon Middle School - Language LATIN I 979-86-86571-04-4 Paperback Elissa: Dux Femina Facti Vanderpool, Emma 2020 Amazon Middle School - Language LATIN I 978-1-68666-941-5 Paperback Sacri Pulli Vanderpool, Emma 2019 Amazon Middle School - Language LATIN IB 978-1-5432-0309-7 Paperback Rufus Et Arma Atra Piantaggini, Lance 2017 Amazon Middle School - Language LATIN IB 979-86-86571-04-4 Paperback Elissa: Dux Femina Facti Vanderpool, Emma 2020 Amazon Middle School - Language LATIN IB 978-1-68666-941-5 Paperback Sacri Pulli Vanderpool, Emma 2019 Amazon Middle School - Language LATIN IB 978-0-86516-560-1 Hardback Latin for the NeW Millennium, Level 1 - Text Only Minkova, Milena 2008 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. Middle School - Language SPANISH IA 978-1-5433-4121-8 Access Code Descubre 1 - Prime Access (36 Month) Blanco, Jose A. 3RD 22 Vista Higher Learning Middle School - Language SPANISH IB 978-1-5433-4121-8 Access Code Descubre 1 - Prime Access (36 Month) Blanco, Jose A. 3RD 22 Vista Higher Learning Middle School - Mathematics ALGEBRA 1 978-0-13-350040-0 Hardback Algebra 1 Charles 2011 Savvas Learning Company Llc Middle School - Mathematics ALGEBRA 8 HONRS 978-0-547-64713-5 Hardback Algebra 1 Larson, Ron 2012 Houghton Mifflin-High School Middle School - Mathematics PREALGEBRA 978-0-358-40368-5 VitalSource eBook Pre-Algebra Larson, Ron 2012 Hm Mifflin Harcourt K-12 (cc) Middle School - Mathematics PREALGEBRA 978-0-547-58777-6 Hardback Pre-Algebra Larson, Ron 2012 Houghton Mifflin-High School Middle School - Science LIFE SCIENCE 978-0-544-85222-8 Emailed Product ScienceFusion 1 Year Digital Student Resource Package Module B: Diversity of Living Things Holt McDougal 2017 Houghton Mifflin-High School Middle School - Science LIFE SCIENCE 978-0-544-85228-0 Emailed Product ScienceFusion 1 Year Digital Student Resource Package Module D: Ecology and the Environment Houghton Mifflin 2017 Houghton Mifflin-High School Middle School - Science PHYSICAL SCIENCE 978-0-544-85234-1 Emailed Product ScienceFusion 1 Year Digital Student Resource Package Module F: Earth's Water and Atmosphere Holt McDougal 2017 Houghton Mifflin-High School Middle School - Science PHYSICAL SCIENCE 978-0-544-85268-6 Emailed Product ScienceFusion 1 Year Digital Student Resource Package Module H: Matter and Energy Houghton Mifflin 2017 Houghton Mifflin-High School Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE 978-0-8129-9354-7 Hardback BetWeen the World and Me Coates, Ta-Nehisi 2015 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE 978-0-7432-7356-5 Paperback Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott 2004 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE 978-1-59463-452-9 Paperback Florida Groff, Lauren 2018 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE 978-0-451-16396-7 Paperback One FleW Over Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken 1962 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE 978-1-4000-3342-3 Paperback Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni 2004 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE 978-0-345-80434-1 Paperback Nickel Boys Whitehead, Colson 2019 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE 978-1-55659-495-3 Paperback Night Sky With Exit Wounds Vuong, Ocean 2016 Ingram Publisher Services Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 978-0-679-72020-1 Paperback Stranger Camus, Albert / Ward, MattheW 1988 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 978-0-7352-1220-6 Paperback Exit West Hamid, Mohsin 2018 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 978-0-06-083702-0 Paperback Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia 1996 HarperCollins Publishers Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 978-0-7434-7712-3 Paperback Hamlet (Blue Cover) - With Pages 281-312 Shakespeare, William REV 12 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 978-0-345-80434-1 Paperback Nickel Boys Whitehead, Colson 2019 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 978-0-8112-1601-2 Paperback Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Williams, Tennessee (REV)04 W.W. Norton & Co. Upper School - English ENGLISH 10 978-1-4000-7877-6 Paperback Never Let Me Go Ishiguro, Kazuo 2005 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 10 978-0-7434-7755-0 Paperback Othello - Folger Edition (Updated Edition) Shakespeare, William 2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Upper School - English ENGLISH 10 978-0-486-28211-4 Paperback Frankenstein Shelley, Mary 1994 Dover Publications, Inc. Upper School - English ENGLISH 10 978-0-15-602764-9 Paperback Oedipus Cycle of Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Colonus, Antigone Sophocles / Fitts, Dudley (Translator) / Fitzgerald, Robert (Translator) 1939 Harcourt Trade Publishers Upper School - English ENGLISH 10 978-0-385-53707-0 Hardback Nickel Boys Whitehead, Colson 2019 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 11 978-1-925240-70-2 Paperback BetWeen the World and Me Coates, Ta-Nehisi 2015 Text Publising Company Upper School - English ENGLISH 11 978-0-7432-7356-5 Paperback Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott 2004 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Upper School - English ENGLISH 11 978-1-59448-329-5 Paperback Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Diaz, Junot 2007 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 11 978-0-451-16396-7 Paperback One FleW Over Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken 1962 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 11 978-0-307-27844-9 Paperback Bluest Eye Morrison, Toni (REV)07 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 11 978-0-345-80434-1 Paperback Nickel Boys Whitehead, Colson 2019 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 12 978-0-679-72020-1 Paperback Stranger Camus, Albert / Ward, MattheW 1988 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 12 978-0-7434-7712-3 Paperback Hamlet (Blue Cover) - With Pages 281-312 Shakespeare, William REV 12 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Upper School - English ENGLISH 12 978-0-345-80434-1 Paperback Nickel Boys Whitehead, Colson 2019 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 9 978-0-395-92720-5 Paperback Interpreter of Maladies Lahiri, Jhumpa 1999 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Upper School - English ENGLISH 9 978-0-679-75268-4 Paperback Sound of Waves Mishima, Yukio 1994 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English ENGLISH 9 978-0-316-76948-8 Paperback Catcher in the Rye (234 Pages) Salinger, J.D. 1979 Hachette Book Group USA Upper School - English ENGLISH 9 978-0-7434-7711-6 Paperback Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William 2011 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Upper School - English ENGLISH 9 978-0-345-80434-1 Paperback Nickel Boys Whitehead, Colson 2019 Penguin Random House Llc Upper School - English JOURNALISM Hardback No Text Required For This Course ZZDIRECT NONE MBS Textbook Exchange Inc. Upper School - English WRITER'S WORKSHOP Hardback No Text Required For This Course ZZDIRECT NONE MBS Textbook Exchange Inc. Upper School - History & Global StudiesAFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY978-0-7425-6057-4 Paperback Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and ReneWal: An African-American AnthologyMarable, Manning 2ND 09 RoWman & Littlefield Publishing Group Site Course Title ISBN-13 Format Title Author Edition Publisher Upper School - History & Global StudiesAP EUROPEAN HISTORY 978-1-319-22163-8 Hardback History of Western Society - AP Edition McKay, John P. / CroWston, Clare Haru 13TH 20 MacMillan Higher Education Upper School - History & Global StudiesAP MICRO AND MACRO ECON Hardback No Text Required For This Course ZZDIRECT NONE MBS Textbook Exchange Inc.
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