Board Approved List of K-12 Novels and Supplemental Literature As of: March 25, 2014 Title Author Date Approved Grade Level Supplement to: 1984 George Orwell Pre-1984 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 11/25/2008 1-5 Read 180 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Abigail Takes the Wheel Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 4 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Abigail's Drum Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Abraham Lincoln Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 2 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt 2/27/1990 8 Acts of King Arthur and His Nobel Knights, The John Steinbeck 1/22/2008 9-12 Adam on the Road Elizabeth Gray 11/22/1994 7 Adventure of Sugar and Junior, The Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 2 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Adventures of Captain Underpants Dave Pilkey 11/25/2008 6-8 Read 180 Adventures of George the Dinosaur Doran Blake 10/28/2008 3 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7/23/1992 9-12 Adventures of the Shark Lady: Eugenia Clark Around the World Ann McGovern 11/25/2008 1-5 Read 180 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Mark Twain 5/28/1962 Adventures of Ulysses, The Bernard Evslin 2/26/2008 9-12 Aeneid of Virgil, The Virgil 7/12/1971 9-12 Aeschylus The Oresteia Ted Hughes 2/12/2008 9-12 After the Dancing Days Margaret Rostkowski 2/27/1990 8 Afterlife, The Gary Soto 4/8/2008 9-12 Afterlife, The National Geographic/Hampton Brown 4/22/2008 9-12 EDGE Leveled Library B Afternoon on the Amazon Mary Pope Osbourne 4/10/2001 3 Agony and the Ecstasy, The Irving Stone 10/11/1971 9-12 Alcatraz: Prison for America's Most Wanted C. J. Henderson 11/25/2008 6-8 Read 180 Alexei's Week National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Alia's Mission National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Alison's Trumpet and Other Stories Nat Hentoff and Jean Davies 11/25/2008 6-8 Read 180 All Across America National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum All in a Day's Work (and Other Stories) Megan & William Stine 11/25/2008 6-8 Read 180 All My Sons Arthur Miller 10/28/2003 9-12 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Remarque 5/24/1994 10 All the King's Men Robert Warren Pre-1984 9-12 All Together Scholastic 8/12/1997 1 Almuerzo de Ranita, El Dee Lillegard 6/3/1997 2 Always Running Luis Rodriguez 11/27/2007 12 Amazing Animals National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Amazing Days of Abbey Hayes: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining, The Anne Mazer 11/25/2008 1-5 Amazing Dirt Book, The Bourgeois & Wyatt 4/11/2000 3 Amazing, Impossible Erie Canal, The Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 4 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Amber Brown Goes Fourth Paula Danzinger 4/10/2001 3 Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 2 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Board Approved List of K-12 Novels and Supplemental Literature As of: March 25, 2014 Title Author Date Approved Grade Level Supplement to: Amelia Bedelia's Family Album Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 2 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Amelia Earhart Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Amelia Earhart: Free in the Skies National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Amelia's Road Linda Altman 8/22/2006 American Folklore and Legends John Marcatante 11/8/1994 9-10 American Tall Tales Adrien Stoutenberg 8/12/1997 4-5 America's Story: Before 1865, Book 1 Vivian Bernstein 9/26/2006 Among the Hidden Margaret Haddix 11/25/2008 6-8 Read 180 An Island Like You Judith Cofer 2/12/2008 An Island Like You Judith Cofer 2/12/2008 9-12 Anansi Gives Wisdom to the World National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum And the Earth Did Not Devour Him National Geographic/Hampton Brown 4/22/2008 9-12 EDGE Leveled Library C And the Earth Did Not Devour Him National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 7/23/1973 Animal Farm National Geographic/Hampton Brown 4/22/2008 9-12 EDGE Leveled Library C Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 4/9/1962 8,10 Annie's Gifts Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 2 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Anthem Ayn Rand 4/22/2008 9-12 EDGE Leveled Library B Anti-Slavery Movement, The National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Antonia Novello Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 2 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Any Small Goodness National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum April Morning Howard Fast 11/22/2005 6-8 Aquamarine Alice Hoffman 11/25/2008 9-12 Read 180 As You Like It William Shakespeare Pre-1984 9-12 Aunt Flossie's Hats Elizabeth Howard 2/22/2000 1-3 Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Malcolm X 3/25/2008 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The National Geographic/Hampton Brown 4/22/2008 9-12 EDGE Leveled Library C Baby Beluga Raffi 5/14/2013 Pre-K Bad Boy: A Memoir Walter Myers 11/22/2005 6-8 Badger Claws of Ojai Matt Boardman 1971 Balto and The Great Race Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Band, The Dina Anastasio Pre-1984 6-8 Barnyard Tracks Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 1 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Bartleby and Benito Cereno Herman Melville 6/25/2002 Basic Teachings of Great Philosophers S. E. Frost 6/8/2004 Bean Trees, The Barbara Kingsolver 2/27/1996 Bear Play Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 1 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Beardance Will Hoggs 1/22/2008 Bearstone Will Hoggs 1/22/2008 Bearstone National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Board Approved List of K-12 Novels and Supplemental Literature As of: March 25, 2014 Title Author Date Approved Grade Level Supplement to: Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America Lerone Bennett, Jr. 2/14/1989 Bell for Adano, A John Hersey 1/24/1972 Beloved Toni Morrison 4/8/2008 Benjamin Franklin Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 5 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Beowulf Burton Raffel Pre-1984 Best American Essays of the Century, The Joyce Oats 8/14/2007 Best Match, The National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Best Older Sister, The Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Big Bad Bruce Bill Peet 2/22/2000 Big Bug, The Michael Leviton 11/25/2008 9-12 Read 180 Big Change, The Frederick Allen 8/28/1990 Big Idea, The Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Big Lie: A True Story, The Isabella Leitner 11/25/2008 6-8 Read 180 Big Wave, The Pearl Buck 11/28/2000 Biggest, Smallest, Fastest, Tallest Things, The Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Billy Budd Herman Melville Pre-1984 Birchbark House, The Louise Erdrich 11/12/2013 5 Biscuit Finds a Friend Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 1 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Black Beauty Anna Sewell 11/14/1966 Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues Patricia & Frederick McKissack 11/25/2008 9-12 Read 180 Black Elk Speaks John Neihardt 4/24/2001 Blast Off to Earth Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Blaze and the Forest Fire Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo Anaya 8/12/2003 Bob Books Scholastic 6/3/1997 1-2 Bob Books Plus Scholastic 6/3/1997 1-2 Body Works National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Bones and Muscles National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Book Thief, The Markus Zusak 7/26/2011 10 Boy of the Painted Cave, The Justen Denzel 5/26/1998 Braided Lives Jenny Keyser 8/14/2007 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 7/19/1971 Bravest Cat, The Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 3 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Bravest Dog Ever, The Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 2 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Breadwinner, The Deborah Ellis 1/22/2008 Breaking Free Louann Gaeddert 5/26/1998 Breaking Through Francisco Jimenez 10/9/2007 Breaking Through National Geographic/Hampton Brown 4/22/2008 EDGE Leveled Library B Breaking Through National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Pre-1984 Bridges at Toko-Ri, The James Michener 5/28/1962 Board Approved List of K-12 Novels and Supplemental Literature As of: March 25, 2014 Title Author Date Approved Grade Level Supplement to: Bridges to Change Houghton Mifflin 5/13/2003 4 Supplement to Language Arts California Reading Bring Me Three Gifts! National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes 2/26/2008 Bronx Masquerade National Geographic/Hampton Brown 4/22/2008 9-12 EDGE Leveled Library A Bronx Masquerade, The National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Bronze Bow, The Elizabeth Speare 11/19/1989 Brother Who Gave Rice, The National Geographic/Hampton Brown 8/10/2010 4-8 Supplement to Inside Curriculum Brothers Karamazov, The Fyodor Dostoevsky 8/2/1965 Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Curtis 11/22/2005 6-8 Building Tiny Transistors