Curriculum Information
Secondary Schools Literature Selection Reviews
- A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
- A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- After the War by Carol Matas
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- April Morning by Howard Fast
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorainne Hansberry
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
- Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
- A Tale Dark and Grimm by Gidwitz
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
- Battle Scars by John Wilson
- Bearstone by Will Hobbs
- Being Me by Lori Williams
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Blindness by José Saramago
- Bottled Up by Jaye Murray
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Breaking Point by Alex Flinn
- Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
- Can't Get There from Here by Todd Strasser
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
- Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton
- Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
- Choosing Up Sides by John H. Ritter
- Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Crash by Jerry Spinelli
- Crystal by Walter Dean Myers
- Cut by Patricia McCormick
- Dangerous Skies by Suzanne Staples
- Don't Scream by Joan Lowery Nixon
- Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Dope Sick by Walter Dean Myers
- Downriver by Will Hobbs
- Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
- Eight Plus One by Robert Cormier
- Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- Flip by David Lubar
- Flush by Carl Hiaasen
- Game by Walter Dean Myers
- Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
- Goodbye Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Green Glass Sea by Ellen Kleges
- Half Upon A Time by James Riley
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (for AP courses)
- Hero by S.L. Rottman
- Heroes by Robert Cormier
- Hoot by Carl
- Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
- I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Inside the Walls of Troy by Clemence McLaren
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Invisible by Pete Hautman
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Jesse by Gary Soto
- Journey to Jo'Burg by Beverly Naidoo
- Just Ella by Margaret Petterson Haddix
- Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
- London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
- Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Maus I by Art Spiegelman
- Mississippi Trial 1955 by Chris Crowe
- Mississippi Trial 1955 by Chris Crowe - OLMS review
- Missing Since Monday by Ann M. Martin
- Monkey Island by Paula Fox
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier
- Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- On the Fringe Various; edited by Don Gallo
- On Writing by Stephen King
- On Writing the College Application Essay by Harry Bauld
- Payback Time by Carl Deuker
- Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
- Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco
- Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
- Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
- Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
- Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
- Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
- ScorpionsMS by Walter Dean Myers - Middle School Review
- Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
- Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - OHS review
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - OLHS review
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - Middle School review
- Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
- Success Express for Teens by Sean Covey
- Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
- The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make by Sean Covey
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Beast by Walter Dean Myers
- The Beasties by William Sleator
- The Brimstone Journals by Ron Koertge
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - OOHS review
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- The Creek by Jennifer L. Holm
- The Eyes of Kid Midas by Neal Shusterman
- The Frog Princess by ED Baker
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wells
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Grimm Legacy by Shulman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - OHS review
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - OLHS review
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - OOHS review
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Jacket by Andrew Clements
- The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - OHS review
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - OLHS review
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Shadow Club by Neal Shusterman
- The Sisters Grimm:The Fairy Tale Detectives by Buckley
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Trapped by Michael Northrop
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Twisted Summer by Willo Davis Roberts
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- Water Buffalo Days by Huynh Quang Nhuong
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
- When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Veronica Asbury
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- Zap by Paul Fleischman
- Zeitoun by David Eggers