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Board-Approved Literary Titles for Grades 6-12
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| Author | Work |
Core/ Reserved |
Author | Work |
Core/ Reserved |
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| Achebe | Things Fall Apart | . |
Lord |
A Night to Remember |
Reserved 8 |
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Aeschylus |
The Oresteia |
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Lowry |
The Giver |
Reserved 7 |
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Albom |
Mitch Albom IV |
Reserved 7 |
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Lueders |
Zero Makes Me Hungry: A Collection Of Poetry For Today |
. |
| Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie | Reserved 8 Honors |
Maloney |
Plays To Remember |
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Angus |
The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age |
. |
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Marlow |
Doctor Faustus |
Reserved AP Lit |
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Anouih |
Beckett |
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Marshall |
Christy |
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Austen |
Pride And Prejudice |
Reserved British Lit |
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McCullers |
A Member of the Wedding |
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Avi |
Nothing but the Truth |
Reserved 7 Honors |
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McCullers |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
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Avi |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
Core 7 and 7 Honors |
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McLeish |
J.B. |
. |
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Avi |
Wolf Rider |
Reserved 7 |
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Melville |
Four Short Novels |
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Baldwin |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
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Melville |
Moby Dick |
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Balzac |
Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet |
. |
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Merrill |
Pushcart War |
. |
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Barnet et al |
Eight Great Comedies |
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Miller |
"The Death of a Salesman" |
Core American Lit. and American Lit. Honors |
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Barnet et al |
Eight Great Tragedies |
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Miller |
The Crucible |
Reserved Am Lit and Am Lit Honors |
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Barrett |
Lilies of the Field |
. |
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Milton |
Paradise Lost |
. |
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Beckett |
Waiting for Godot |
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Moffet |
Points of View |
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Bedier |
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
. |
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Moliere |
Eight Plays by Moliere |
. |
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Bolt |
A Man for All Seasons |
. |
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Molloy |
Poetry USA |
. |
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Bond |
A String in the Harp |
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Moyer |
A World of Ideas |
. |
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Bonham |
Durango Street |
. |
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Muller |
The McGraw Hill Reader |
. |
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Borland |
When the Legends Die |
. |
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Nathan |
Women of Courage |
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Bradbury |
Something Wicked This Way Comes |
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Naisbitt |
Megatrends |
. |
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Bradford |
Red Sky at Morning |
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Neville |
It’s Like This, Cat |
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Brecht |
Galileo |
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O"Dell |
Streams to the River, River to the Sea |
. |
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Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
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O’Neill |
"Long Day’s Journey into Night" |
Reserved American Lit. Honors |
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Bronte |
Wuthering Heights |
Reserved British Lit |
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O’Neill |
"The Hairy Ape" |
Reserved American Lit. Honors |
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Brooks |
Tales of King Arthur |
Reserved 6 |
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Oates/O’Neill |
Seven Famous Greek Plays |
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Buck |
The Good Earth |
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Orczy |
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
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Cather |
My Antonia |
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Orwell |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
Reserved British Lit |
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Chaucer |
Canterbury Tales |
Core British Lit |
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Parks |
The Learning Tree |
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Chekov |
Four Great Plays |
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Pasternak |
Doctor Zhivago |
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Chekov |
The Cherry Orchard |
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Paton |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
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Cisneros |
"Straw Into Gold" |
Reserved Am Lit |
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Peck |
The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Clemens |
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court |
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Perrine |
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry |
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Clemens |
Tom Sawyer |
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Pettit |
Poems To Enjoy |
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Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
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Plato |
The Republic |
. |
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Conrad |
Lord Jim |
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Poe |
The Fall of the House of Usher |
Core American Lit. and American Lit. Honors |
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Cooper |
The Dark is Rising |
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Poe |
Selection of short stories |
Core 7 Honors |
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Cormier |
Beyond the Chocolate War |
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Potok |
My Name is Ahser Lev |
Reserved AP Lit |
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Cox |
Come All You Brave Soldiers: Blacks in the Revolutionary War |
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Potok |
The Chosen |
Reserved Freshman Honors |
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Coynik |
Film: Real to Real |
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Renault |
The King Must Die |
. |
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Crane |
The Red Badge of Courage |
Reserved American Lit. |
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Richter |
Light in the Forest |
Reserved 8 |
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Craven |
I Heard the Owl Call my Name |
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Rodriguez |
Hunger of Memory |
Reserved American Lit. Honors |
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Creech |
Love That Dog | K-8 | ||||
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Dante |
The Inferno |
Reserved Classics World Lit |
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Rostand |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
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Dell Publisher |
Six Great Modern Short Novels |
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Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (book 2) |
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Demby |
Beetlecreek |
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Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book 4) |
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Dickens |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Reserved 8 Honors |
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Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (book 3). |
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Dickens |
Great Expectations |
Core Freshman Honors |
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Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (book 1) |
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Dostoevski |
Crime and Punishment |
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Ryan |
Within You, Without You |
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DuBois |
Souls of Black Folk |
Core American Lit. and American Lit. Honors |
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Saint Exuprey |
The Little Prince |
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DuBois |
Twenty-one Balloons |
Core 6 and 6 Honors |
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Salinger |
Catcher in the Rye |
Reserved American Lit. |
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Dunning et al |
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle |
Reserved 7 |
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Saroyan |
The Human Comedy |
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Eastman |
The Norton Reader |
Core AP Lang |
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Schaefer |
Shane |
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Ellison |
Invisible Man |
Reserved AP Lang |
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Sebranck |
Writing Inc. |
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Evslin |
Adventures of Ulysses |
Core 6 Honors |
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Shakespeare |
Anthony and Cleopatra |
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Fagles |
The Three Theban Plays |
Reserved AP Lang |
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Shakespeare |
As You Like It |
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Fielding |
Joseph Andrews |
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Shakespeare |
Coriolanus |
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Fitzgerald |
The Great Gatsby |
Core American Lit. and American Lit. Honors |
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Shakespeare |
Hamlet |
Core British Lit |
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Forbes |
Mama’s Bank Account |
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Shakespeare |
Julius Caesar |
Core Freshman (alternate) |
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Forbes |
Johnny Tremain |
Reserved 8 Honors |
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Shakespeare |
King Henry IV |
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Frank |
The Diary of a Young Girl |
Core 8 Honors |
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Shakespeare |
King Lear |
Core AP Lit |
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Frost |
Selected Poems |
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Shakespeare |
Macbeth |
Core Freshman Honors |
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Fuller |
Bullfinch’s Mythology |
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Shakespeare |
The Merchant of Venice |
Reserved Classics of World Lit |
| Gibran | The Prophet | . | ||||
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Gibson |
The Miracle Worker |
Reserved Freshman |
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Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
Core 8 Honors |
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Golding |
Lord of the Flies |
Reserved British Lit |
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Shakespeare |
Much Ado about Nothing |
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Goodrich/Hackett |
"Diary of Anne Frank" (drama) |
Core 8 |
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Shakespeare |
Othello |
Core Humanities |
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Gorman |
Five Modern English Plays |
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Shakespeare | Richard III | Core Shakespeare (alternate) |
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Green |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
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Shakespeare |
Romeo and Juliet |
Core Freshman (alternate) |
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Greene |
A Burnt-Out Case |
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Shakespeare |
The Taming of the Shrew |
Core Shakespeare (alternate) |
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Greene |
Summer of My German Soldier |
Reserved 7 Honors |
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Shakespeare |
The Tempest |
Reserved AP Lit |
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Shakespeare |
Twelfth Night |
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Guth, Hans ed. |
Our World Today |
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Shaw | Arms and the Man | Reserved AP Lit |
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Hadas |
Greek Drama |
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Shaw |
Man and Superman |
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Hall |
Realm of Fiction |
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Shaw |
St. Joan |
Reserved AP Lit |
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Hansberry |
Raisin in the Sun |
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Shaw |
Four Plays by George Bernard Shaw |
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Hardy |
Return of the Native |
Reserved British Lit |
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Shaw |
Pygmalion |
Reserved British Lit |
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Hardy |
Tom Jones |
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Shelley |
Frankenstein |
Reserved Freshman Honors |
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Hawthorne |
The House of Seven Gables |
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Sillitoe |
The Loneliness of the Distance Runner |
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Hawthorne |
The Scarlet Letter |
Reserved American Lit. |
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Smiley, et al |
Western Sampler |
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Smith |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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Hayakawa |
Language in Thought and Action |
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Sophocles | Antigone | Reserved AP Lit |
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Heat-Moon |
"Blue Highway" |
Reserved American Lit. |
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Sophocles |
The Oedipus Cycle |
Core Humanities |
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Heller |
Catch 22 |
Reserved AP Lit |
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Speare |
A Pocket Book of Short Stories |
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Hemingway |
A Farewell to Arms |
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Sperry |
Call it Courage |
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Hemingway |
The Nick Adams Stories |
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Steinbeck |
The Grapes of Wrath |
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Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea |
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Steinbeck |
The Pearl |
Reserved Freshman |
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Hemingway |
The Short Stories Of Earnest Hemingway |
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Steinbeck |
The Red Pony |
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Hemingway |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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Steinbeck |
Of Mice and Men |
Reserved Freshman |
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Hesse |
Demian |
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Stevenson |
Treasure Island |
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Hesse |
Siddhartha |
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Stoker |
Dracula |
Reserved Freshman |
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Hilton |
Lost Horizon |
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Stoppard |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead |
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Hinton |
That was Then, This is Now |
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Swarthout |
Bless The Beasts And Children |
. |
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Hinton |
The Outsiders |
Reserved 7 |
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Swift |
Gulliver’s Travels |
Core British Lit |
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Homer |
The Iliad |
Core Humanities |
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Synge |
The Playboy of the Western World |
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Homer |
Odyssey |
Core AP Lit |
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Taggard |
Twenty Grand Short Stories |
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Houston |
Frozen Fire |
Reserved 6 |
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Tan |
"Mother Tongue" |
Reserved American Lit. |
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Hunt |
No Promises in the Wind |
Reserved 8 |
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Taylor |
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry |
Reserved 7 |
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Hunt |
Across Five Aprils |
. |
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Thoreau |
Walden-Civil Disobedience |
Core American Lit. and American Lit. Honors |
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Hurston |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Reserved American Lit. Honors |
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Turgenev |
Fathers and Sons |
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Hutchinson, adapt. |
A Christmas Carol |
Reserved 6 |
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Twain |
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn |
Core (excerpts) American Lit. and American Lit. Honors |
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Huxley |
Brave New World |
Reserved British Lit |
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Twain |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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| Ibsen | Doll's House | Reserved AP Lit |
Twain |
Puddin’ Head Wilson |
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| Ibsen | Enemy of the People | Reserved AP Lit |
Ulman |
Banner in the Sky |
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Ibsen |
Four Great Plays |
Reserved British Lit |
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Virgil |
The Aeneid |
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| Ibsen | Hedda Gabler | Reserved AP Lit |
Voigt |
Homecoming |
Reserved 7 Honors |
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Isherwood |
Great English Short Stories |
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Walter |
Ivanhoe |
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James |
Daisy Miller |
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Warren |
All The King’s Men |
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James |
Turn of the Screw |
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Watkins |
My Brother, My Sister and I |
Reserved 7 |
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Jenkins |
A Walk Across America |
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Watling |
Theban Plays |
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Joyce |
A Portrait Of the Artist As A Young Man |
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Waugh |
The Loved One |
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Judy |
The Creative Word |
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Wiesel |
Night |
Reserved 8 Honors |
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Jukes, ed. |
A World Elsewhere: Romance, The Ways of the World: Satire and Irony, A World Remade: Comedy, A World Enclosed: Tragedy |
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Wersba |
Run Softly, Go Fast |
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Juster |
Phantom Tollbooth |
Reserved 6 |
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Wharton |
Ethan Frome |
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Kinsey-Warnock |
The Canada Geese Quilt |
K-8 |
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Keyes |
Flowers for Algernon |
Core 8 and 8 Honors |
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Wild | Lady Windermere's Fan | Reserved British Lit |
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Kingsolver |
The Bean Trees |
Reserved Freshman Honors |
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Wilder |
Three Plays by Wilder |
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Kjeigaard |
Big Red |
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Wilder |
Our Town |
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Knight |
The Liveliest Art |
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Wilder |
The Bridge Of San Luis Rey |
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Knowles |
A Separate Peace |
. |
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Williams |
"Glass Menagerie" |
Reserved American Lit. |
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Konigsburg. |
Proud Taste for Scarlet and Minerver |
Reserved 6 Honors |
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Williams |
Immortal Poems of the English Language |
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Kuhns/Stanley |
Exploring the Film |
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Williams |
"A Streetcar Named Desire" |
Reserved American Lit. Honors |
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Lee |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Core Fr |