Books by authors of color that are either required or offered as ‘student choice’ texts in Middle and Upper Divisions include: English 9 Required of All Students: The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas Between Shades of Grey – Ruta Sepetys Student Choice Texts: Passing - Nella Larsen Monster - Walter Dean Myers Stealing Buddha’s Dinner: A Memoir - Bich Minh Nguyen The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho English 10 Required of All Students: The Good Braider – Terry Farish A Tempest – Aime Cesaire (Companion text read along with Shakespeare’s The Tempest) One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Student Choice Texts: A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi The Belles - Dhonielle Clayton Legend - Marie Lu Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson English 11 (Traditionally this course, along with Honors English 11, has focused on the evolution of American Literature. As such, a significant amount of current content is not novels, but primary source documents and shorter nonfiction passages from authors of color, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and W.E.B. Du Bois. ) Required of All Students: Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (summer reading used to begin the year) Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston Student Choice Text: The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston Honors English 11 Required of All Students: Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (summer reading used to begin the year) Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison Student Choice Texts: Washington Black - Esi Edugyan The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston English 12 Required of All Students: The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri Purple Hisbiscus: A Novel – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Student Choice Texts: A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates Honors English 12 Required of All Students: Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates Student Choice Texts: Passing – Nella Larsen Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison AP English Literature Required of All Students: Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Czeslaw Milosz One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories – various contributors When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka Student Choice Texts: The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya AP English Language Required of All Students: Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates The Norton Reader – an anthology that includes representation from an evolving diversity of voices Student Choice Texts: Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood – Trevor Noah Grade 6 English Required Texts: Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai – Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton; Herman Viola Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor Student Choice Texts: The Crossover – Kwame Alexander The Greatest: Muhammad Ali – Walter Dean Myers Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson Grade 7 English Required Texts: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (young readers’ edition) – Malala Yousefzai OR The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (young readers’ edition) – William Kampkwamba The Red Pencil – Andrea Davis Pinkney; Shane Evans Student Choice Texts: Flygirl – Sherri L. Smith Grade 8 English Required Texts: The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros Student Choice Texts: American Born Chinese – Gene Leun Yang Warcross – Marie Lu .