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Book Title Building Grade Level Approved by BOE
Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat SF 5 4.2022
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan SF 5 4.2022
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry SF 5 4.22.24
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson SF 5 4.2022
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World by Kathryn Lasky SF 5 4.2022
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis SF 5 4.22.24
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt SF 5 4.22.24
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle SF 6 4.22.24
El Deafo by Cece Bell SF 6 4.22.24
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick SF 6 4.22.24
Ghost by Jason Reynolds SF 6 5.22.23
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly SF 6 4.2022
Holes by Louis Sachar SF 6 5.22.23
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick SF 6 4.22.24
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper SF 6 4.22.24
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba SF 6 4.2022
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan SF 6 4.2022
Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac SF 6 4.2022
Ungifted by Gordon Korman SF 6 3.4.24
Redwall by Brian Jacques CMS 7 1.9.23
The Giver by Lois Lowry CMS 7 5.22.23
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins CMS 7 5.22.23
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton CMS 7 5.22.23
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson CMS 8 6.26.23
Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall CMS 8 11.13.23
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss NHS 9 3.4.24
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles NHS 9 11.14.22
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel NHS 9 6.26.23
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho NHS 9 6.12.23
The Odyssey by Jack McDevitt NHS 9 11.14.22
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare NHS 9 5.22.23
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston NHS 9 6.26.23
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee NHS 9 5.22.23
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare NHS 9 6.26.23
1984 by George Orwel NHS 10 1.8.24
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare NHS 10 11.14.22
Animal Farm by George Orwell NHS 10 6.12.23
Antigone by Sophocles NHS 10 11.13.23
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury NHS 10 6.12.23
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare NHS 10 11.13.23
Macbeth by William Shakespeare NHS 10 11.14.22
Monster by Walter Dean Myers NHS 10 8.28.23
Night by Elie Wiesel NHS 10 3.4.24
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck NHS 10 11.14.22
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi NHS 10 6.12.23
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls NHS 10 11.13.23
A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry NHS 11 6.12.23
Crucible by Arthur Miller NHS 11 6.12.23
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover NHS 11 11.13.23
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford NHS 11 11.13.23
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote NHS 11 6.26.23
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer NHS 11 6.12.23
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan NHS 11 6.12.23
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann NHS 11 3.4.24
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng NHS 11 11.13.23
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan NHS 11 1.8.24
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass NHS 11 6.26.23
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro NHS 11 3.4.24
The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez NHS 11 11.13.23
The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee with David John NHS 11 3.4.24
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald NHS 11 11.14.22
The Last Lecture by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch NHS 11 6.12.23
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien NHS 11 6.26.23
Anthem by Ayn Rand NHS 12 4.22.24
Beowulf (Author unknown) NHS 12 6.26.23
Danse Macabre by Stephen King NHS 12 6.26.23
Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri NHS 12 5.22.23
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson NHS 12 6.26.23
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley NHS 12 6.26.23
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey NHS 12 5.22.23
The Tempest by William Shakespeare NHS 12 8.28.23
There There by Tommy Orange NHS 12 4.22.24
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawl NHS 9-12 11.13.23
Short Stories in English for Beginners by Ollie Richards NHS 9-12 ELL 11.13.23
Short Stories in English for Intermediates by Ollie Richards NHS 9-12 ELL 11.13.23