th 7 ​ Grade Required Reading List ​ The Giver by Lois Lowry ​ The Pearl by John Steinbeck ​ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne ​ The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau ​ During one grading period, students will select a book to read from a list given by the teacher . During one grading period, students will read a book of choice approved by the teacher. th 8 ​ Grade Required Reading List ​ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton ​ The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ​ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ​ Sounder by William Armstrong ​ During one grading period, students will select a book to read from a list given by the teacher. During one grading period, students will read a book of choice approved by the teacher. th 9 ​ Grade Required Reading List ​ Monster by Walter Dean Myers ​ Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece by W.H.D. Rouse ​ Lord of the Flies by William Golding ​ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry ​ A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner ​ th 10 ​ Grade Required Reading List ​ A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks ​ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ​ No Fear: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ​ The Wave by Todd Strasser ​ Our Town by Thornton Wilder ​ th 11 ​ Grade Required Reading List ​ Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle ​ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ​ Turn of the Screw by Henry James ​ 1984 by George Orwell ​ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ​ th 12 ​ Grade Required Reading List ​ And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ​ Antigone and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles ​ ​ ​ The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells ​ No Fear: The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare ​ .