The English Department has compiled the revised Reading List for the 2008-2009 school year.  Books and other literary genres are listed by grade level and required genres will be identified by teachers.

Grade 9

Animal Farm by George Orwell

My Darling, My Hamburger by Paul Zindel

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

Where the Red Fern Grows by Marjorie Rawlings

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Romeo and Juliet (play) by William Shakespeare

The Odyssey by Homer

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

Night by Eli Wiesel

(Selected genres from textbooks)

        Grade 10

     Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    The Blues Ain't a Mockingbird

    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    Tess of the D'uberville by Thomas Hardy

    (Selected genres from textbook)

Grade 11

   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

   The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

   A Raisin in the Sun (play) by Lorraine Hansberry

   Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Chapters 1-10)

   Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

   Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alexis Haley

  "Sweat" (short story) by Zora Hurston

  (Selected genres from textbook)

   Grade 12

    Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Chapters 11-26)

    Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

   The Chocolate War by  Robert Cormier

    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

    Othello (play) by William Shakespeare

    Night by Eli Wiesel

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston

    A Separate Peace by John Knowles

   Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

  (Selected genres from textbook)