Literature Selection Review
Middle School and High School Literature Selections
| Book Title | Author | Book Review |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Things I Hate About Me | Randa Abdel-Fattah | Book Review |
| 2001 The Space Odyssey | Author C. Clark | Book Review |
| A Corner of the Universe | Ann M. Martin | Book Review |
| A Crack in the Line | Michael Lawrence | Book Review |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J. Gaines | Book Review |
| A Long Walk to Water | Linda Sue Park | Book Review |
| A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah | Book Review |
| A Million Junes | Emily Henry | Book Review |
| A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | Book Review |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | Book Review |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorainne Hansberry | Book Review |
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles | Book Review |
| A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | Book Review |
| A Tale Dark and Grimm | Adam Gidwitz | Book Review |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | Book Review |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseni | Book Review |
| A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Tahereh Mafi | Book Review |
| Abduction | Peg Kehret | Book Review |
| Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt | Book Review |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | Book Review |
| After the War | Carol Matas | Book Review |
| Aliens on Vacation | Clete Barrett Smith | Book Review |
| All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | Robert Fulghum | Book Review |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | Book Review |
| Among the Hidden | Margret Peterson Haddix | Book Review |
| An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | Book Review |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | Book Review |
| Anna of Byzantium | Tracy Barrett | Book Review |
| Anne Frank: The Diary of Young Girl | Anne Frank | Book Review |
| Anything But Typical | Nora Raleigh Baskin | Book Review |
| April Morning | Howard Fast | Book Review |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Book Review |
| Ashes of Roses | Mary Jane Auch | Book Review |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan - OOHS Review | Book Review |
| Bad Boy | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Battle Scars | John Wilson | Book Review |
| Bearstone | Will Hobbs | Book Review |
| Being Me | Lori Williams | Book Review |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | Book Review |
| Between Shades of Gray; also title Ashes in the Snow | Sepetys | Book Review |
| Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott | Book Review |
| Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | Book Review |
| Blindness | Jose Saramago | Book Review |
| Boost | Kathy Mackel | Book Review |
| Boot Camp | Todd Strasser | Book Review |
| Bottled Up | Jaye Murray | Book Review |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Book Review |
| Breadcrumbs | Anne Ursu | Book Review |
| Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi | Book Review |
| Breaking Point | Alex Flinn | Book Review |
| Bronx Masquerade | Nikki Grimes | Book Review |
| Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | Book Review |
| Can't Get There from Here | Todd Strasser | Book Review |
| Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | Book Review |
| Catherine, Called Birdy | Karen Cushman | Book Review |
| Chanda's Secrets | Allan Stratton | Book Review |
| Chinese Cinderella | Adeline Yen Mah | Book Review |
| Choosing Up Sides | John H. Ritter | Book Review |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Book Review |
| Code of Honor | Alan Gratz | Book Review |
| Copper Sun | Sharon Draper | Book Review |
| Coraline | Neil Gaiman | Book Review |
| Counting By 7s | Holly Goldberg Sloan | Book Review |
| Crack In The Line | Michael Lawrence | Book Review |
| Crash | Jerry Spinelli | Book Review |
| Crystal | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Cut | Patricia McCormick | Book Review |
| Dangerous Skies | Suzanne Staples | Book Review |
| Darius the Great is Not Okay | Adib Khorram | Book Review |
| David and Goliath | Malcolm Gladwell | Book Review |
| Dead End in Norvelt 2 | Jack Gantos | Book Review |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | Book Review |
| Divergent | Veronica Roth | Book Review |
| Don't Scream | Joan Lowery Nixon | Book Review |
| Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Book Review |
| Dope Sick | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Downriver | Will Hobbs | Book Review |
| Downsiders | Neal Shusterman | Book Review |
| Dragonwings | Lawrence Yep | Book Review |
| Drowned City Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Don Brown | Book Review |
| Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie | Jordan Sonnenblick | Book Review |
| Dry | Shusterman | Book Review |
| Echo Mountain | Lauren Wolk | Book Review |
| Eight Plus One | Robert Cormier | Book Review |
| Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | Book Review |
| Elsewhere | Gabrielle Zevin | Book Review |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | Book Review |
| Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | Book Review |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Book Review |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Book Review |
| Fallen Angels | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Farewell to Manzanar | Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston | Book Review |
| Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser | Book Review |
| Fire From Rock | Sharon Draper | Book Review |
| Flip | David Lubar | Book Review |
| Flush | Carl Hiaasen | Book Review |
| Flying Solo | Ralph Fletcher | Book Review |
| Freak the Mighty | Sharon Creech | Book Review |
| Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | Book Review |
| Game | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Give a Boy a Gun | Todd Strasser | Book Review |
| Give a Boy a Gun | Todd Strasser | Book Review |
| Go Set A Watchman | Harper Lee | Book Review |
| Going After Cacciato | Tim O'Brien - OOHS Review | Book Review |
| Goodbye Vietnam | Gloria Whelan | Book Review |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Book Review |
| Green Glass Sea | Ellen Kleges | Book Review |
| Greenglass House | Kate Milford | Book Review |
| Gym Candy | Carl Deuker | Book Review |
| Half Upon A Time | James Riley | Book Review |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | Book Review |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad (for AP courses) | Book Review |
| Hero | S.L. Rottman | Book Review |
| Hero | S.L. Rottman | Book Review |
| Heroes | Robert Cormier | Book Review |
| Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Book Review |
| Hidden Figures Young Reader | Margot Lee Shetterly | Book Review |
| Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | Book Review |
| Hope was Here | Joan Bauer | Book Review |
| How to Read Novels Like a Professor | Thomas C. Foster | Book Review |
| I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai | Book Review |
| I Know What You Did Last Summer | Lois Duncan | Book Review |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | Book Review |
| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (OLMS) | Maya Angelou | Book Review |
| If I Grow Up | Todd Strasser | Book Review |
| If I Should Die Before I Wake | Han Nolan | Book Review |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | Book Review |
| Inside the Walls of Troy | Clemence McLaren | Book Review |
| Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer | Book Review |
| Invisible | Pete Hautman | Book Review |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | Book Review |
| Jesse | Gary Soto | Book Review |
| Journey to Jo'Burg | Beverly Naidoo | Book Review |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | Book Review |
| Just Ella | Margaret Petterson Haddix | Book Review |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | Book Review |
| Just Mercy Adapted For Young Adults (OOMS) | Bryan Stevenson | Book Review |
| Kindred | Octavia Butler | Book Review |
| Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | Book Review |
| Letters from Rifka | Karen Hesse | Book Review |
| Life as We Knew It | Susan Beth Pfeffer | Book Review |
| Lion - A Long Way Home: A Memoir | Saroo Brierley | Book Review |
| Lions of Little Rock | Kirsten Levine | Book Review |
| Lockdown | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| London Eye Mystery | Siobhan Dowd | Book Review |
| Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Book Review |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Book Review |
| Love That Dog | Sharon Creech | Book Review |
| Lupita Manana | Patricia Beatty | Book Review |
| March Book 1 | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell | Book Review |
| Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell Block 25 | Richard Paul Evans | Book Review |
| Missing Since Monday | Ann M. Martin | Book Review |
| Mississippi Trial 1955 | Chris Crowe | Book Review |
| Mississippi Trial 1955 | Chris Crowe - OLMS review | Book Review |
| Monkey Island | Paula Fox | Book Review |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | Book Review |
| My Brother Sam is Dead | James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier | Book Review |
| Naughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman | Book Review |
| Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge | Erica Armstrong Dunbar & Kathleen Van Cleve | Book Review |
| Night | Elie Wiesel | Book Review |
| Nightjohn | Gary Paulsen | Book Review |
| No Summit Out of Sight | Jordan Romero | Book Review |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Book Review |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Book Review |
| On My Honor | Marion Dane Bauer | Book Review |
| On the Fringe Various; edited | Don Gallo | Book Review |
| On Writing | Stephen King | Book Review |
| On Writing the College Application Essay | Harry Bauld | Book Review |
| One Crazy Summer | Rita William-Garcia | Book Review |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | Book Review |
| One Of Us Is Lying | Karen M. McManus | Book Review |
| Out Of My Mind | Sharon Draper | Book Review |
| Outliers: a story of success | Malcolm Gladwell | Book Review |
| Passing | John Chirico | Book Review |
| Pay It Forward | Catherine Ryan Hyde | Book Review |
| Payback Time | Carl Deuker | Book Review |
| Penny from Heaven | Jennifer L. Holm | Book Review |
| Petey | Ben Mikaelsen | Book Review |
| Petey | Ben Mikaelsen | Book Review |
| Please Stop Laughing at Me | Jodee Blanco | Book Review |
| Pretties | Scott Westerfeld | Book Review |
| Pride | Ibi Zoboi | Book Review |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Book Review |
| Punching the Air | Ibi Zoboi | Book Review |
| Rain Reign | Ann M. Martin | Book Review |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Book Review |
| Red Scarf Girl | Ji-Li Jiang | Book Review |
| Refugee | Alan Gratz | Book Review |
| Rocket Boys | Homer Hickam | Book Review |
| Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | Book Review |
| Romiette and Julio | Sharon Draper | Book Review |
| Scorpions | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Scorpions | Walter Dean Myers- reviewed for middle schools | Book Review |
| Scythe | Neil Shusterman | Book Review |
| Secrets in the Fire | Henning Mankell | Book Review |
| Seedfolks | Paul Fleischman | Book Review |
| Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi | Book Review |
| Shiver | Maggie Stiefvater | Book Review |
| Silent to the Bone | E. L. Konigsburg | Book Review |
| Simone Breaks All the Rules |
Debbie Rigaud |
Book Review |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | J.R.R. Tolkien | Book Review |
| Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie | David Lubar | Book Review |
| So Far from the Bamboo Grove | Yoko Kawashima Watkins | Book Review |
| Somewhere in the Darkness | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson - OHS review | Book Review |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson - OLHS review | Book Review |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson - reviewed for middle schools | Book Review |
| Stamped | Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi | Book Review |
| Stormbreaker | Anthony Horowitz | Book Review |
| Street Love | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Stuck in Neutral | Terry Trueman | Book Review |
| Stuck In Neutral | Terry Trueman | Book Review |
| Success Express for Teens | Sean Covey | Book Review |
| Sunrise Over Fallujah | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| Taking Flight | Micahaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince | Book Review |
| The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make | Sean Covey | Book Review |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens | Sean Covey | Book Review |
| The 57 Bus | Dashka Slater | Book Review |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Book Review |
| The Adoration of Jenna Fox | Mary Pearson | Book Review |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coehlo | Book Review |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | Book Review |
| The Bar Code Tattoo | Susan Weyn | Book Review |
| The Battle of Jericho | Sharon Draper | Book Review |
| The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | Book Review |
| The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver - OOHS Review | Book Review |
| The Beast | Walter Dean Myers | Book Review |
| The Beasties | William Sleator | Book Review |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison - OOHS Review | Book Review |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Book Review |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Book Review |
| The Boy In Striped Pajamas | John Boyne | Book Review |
| The Brimstone Journals | Ron Koertge | Book Review |
| The Chosen | Chaim Potok | Book Review |
| The Creek | Jennifer L. Holm | Book Review |
| The Dead and the Gone | Susan Beth Pfeffer | Book Review |
| The Eyes of Kid Midas | Neal Shusterman | Book Review |
| The Frog Princess | ED Baker | Book Review |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | Book Review |
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Wells | Book Review |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Book Review |
| The Grimm Legacy | Shulman | Book Review |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Book Review |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Book Review |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | Book Review |
| The House Of The Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | Book Review |
| The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros - OHS review | Book Review |
| The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros - OLHS review | Book Review |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Book Review |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins - OLMS review | Book Review |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot - OLHS review | Book Review |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot - OOHS review | Book Review |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells | Book Review |
| The Jacket | Andrew Clements | Book Review |
| The Johnstown Flood | David McCullough | Book Review |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | Book Review |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | Book Review |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini - OHS review | Book Review |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini - OLHS review | Book Review |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini - OOHS review | Book Review |
| The Laramie Project | Moises Kaufman | Book Review |
| The Light in the Forest | Conrad Richter | Book Review |
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Sherman Alexie | Book Review |
| The Lottery Rose | Irene Hunt | Book Review |
| The Marrow Thieves | Cherie Dimaline | Book Review |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | Book Review |
| The Maze Runner | James Dashner | Book Review |
| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead - OHS/CDL Review | Book Review |
| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead - OLHS Review | Book Review |
| The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | Book Review |
| The Omnivore’s Dilemma Young Readers Edition | Michael Pollan | Book Review |
| The Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline | Book Review |
| The Other Wes Moore | Wes Moore | Book Review |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | Book Review |
| The Parable Of The Sower | Harry N. Abrams | Book Review |
| The Pigman | Paul Zindel | Book Review |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | Book Review |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Book Review |
| The Running Dream | Wendelin Van Draanen | Book Review |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Book Review |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Book Review |
| The Shadow Club | Neal Shusterman | Book Review |
| The Sisters Grimm:The Fairy Tale Detectives | Buckley | Book Review |
| The Sledding Hill | Chris Crutcher | Book Review |
| The Soloist | Steve Lopez | Book Review |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | Book Review |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | Book Review |
| The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | Book Review |
| The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | Book Review |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | Book Review |
| The True Meaning of Smekday | Adam Rex | Book Review |
| The Unwinding | George Packer | Book Review |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Christopher Paul Curtis | Book Review |
| The Wave | Todd Strasser | Book Review |
| The Wednesday Wars | Gary Schmidt | Book Review |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | Book Review |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | Book Review |
| They Call Me Hero | Daniel Hernandez | Book Review |
| They Called Us Enemy | George Takei | Book Review |
| This Side of Paradise | Steve Layne | Book Review |
| This Train is Being Held | Ismee Williams | Book Review |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortensen and Greg Oliver Relin | Book Review |
| Tiger Lily | Jodi Lynn Anderson | Book Review |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Book Review |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee - OLMS | Book Review |
| Touching Spirit Bear | Ben Mikaelsen | Book Review |
| Trapped | Michael Northrop | Book Review |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | Book Review |
| Twerp | Mark Goldblatt | Book Review |
| Twisted Summer | Willo Davis Roberts | Book Review |
| Two Miserable Presidents | Steve Sheinkin | Book Review |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand | Book Review |
| Ungifted | Gordon Korman | Book Review |
| Unwind | Neal Shusterman | Book Review |
| Uprising | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Book Review |
| Warcross | Marie Lu | |
| Warriors Don't Cry | Melba Patillo Beals | Book Review |
| Water Buffalo Days | Huynh Quang Nhuong | Book Review |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | Book Review |
|
We Cast a Shadow |
John Chirico | Book Review |
| We Were Liars | E. Lockhart | Book Review |
| Whale Talk | Chris Crutcher | Book Review |
| When My Name Was Keoko | Linda Sue Park | Book Review |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Veronica Asbury | Book Review |
| Woodsong | Gary Paulsen | Book Review |
| World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | Book Review |
| Zap | Paul Fleischman | Book Review |
| Zeitoun | David Eggers | Book Review |