All students are required to read Holes by Louis Sachar. Reading at least one other book from the list below is recommended. |
Among the Hidden | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg |
Holes | Louis Sachar (Required) |
I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Margaret Craven |
Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Matilda | Roald Dahl |
Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls |
A Separate Piece | John Knowles |
A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle (Required) |
Absolutely Normal Chaos | Sharon Creech |
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse | Joseph Marshall |
Feed | Matthew Tobin Anderson |
The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier |
The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula LeGuin |
As Brave as You | Jason Reynolds |
Booked | Kwame Alexander |
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury (Required) |
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary | Gail Jarrow |
I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) | Malala Yousafzai |
Samurai Rising | Pamela S. Turner |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill |
The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood | Trevor Noah |
East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
Harry Potter Series | JK Rowling |
Little Brother | Cory Doctorow |
Lunar Chronicles Series | Marissa Meyer |
Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series | Michael Scott |
The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
The Kane Chronicles Series | Rick Riordan |
The Omnivore's Dilemma (Young Readers Edition) | Michael Pollan |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut (Required) |
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life | Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Required) |
Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
Flowers of Algernon | Daniel Keys |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin |
The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien |
Tuesday with Morrie | Mitch Albom |
All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
Beloved | Toni Morrison |
Ceremony | Leslie Marmon Silko |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville |
Educated | Tara Westover |
Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
Light in August | William Faulkner |
Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
Moonwalking with Einstein | Joshua Foer |
Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
Slouching Toward Bethlehem | Joan Didion |
Speak, Memory | Vladimir Nabokov |