Skip To Main Content
Newton Public Schools N logo

Novels

Book Title Building Grade Level Type Approved by BOE
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle SF 6 Whole Class 4.22.24
Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat SF 5 Whole Class 4.2022
El Deafo by Cece Bell SF 6 Whole Class 4.22.24
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan SF 5 Whole Class 4.2022
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick SF 6 Choice 4.22.24
Ghost by Jason Reynolds SF 6 Whole Class 5.22.23
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly SF 6 Whole Class 4.2022
Holes by Louis Sachar SF 6 Whole Class 5.22.23
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick SF 6 Choice 4.22.24
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry SF 5 Whole Class 4.22.24
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper SF 6 Choice 4.22.24
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson SF 5 Whole Class 4.2022
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba SF 6 Whole Class 4.2022
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan SF 6 Whole Class 4.2022
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World by Kathryn Lasky SF 5 Whole Class 4.2022
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis SF 5 Whole Class 4.22.24
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt SF 5 Whole Class 4.22.24
Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac SF 6 Whole Class 4.2022
Ungifted by Gordon Korman SF 6 Choice 3.4.24
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson CMS 8 Whole Class 6.26.23
Redwall by Brian Jacques CMS 7 Whole Class 1.9.23
Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall CMS 8 Whole Class 11.13.23
The Giver by Lois Lowry CMS 7 Choice 5.22.23
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins CMS 7 Choice 5.22.23
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton CMS 7 Whole Class 5.22.23
1984 by George Orwel NHS 10 Alt. Read for Honors 1.8.24
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare NHS 10 Whole Class 11.14.22
A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry NHS 11 Whole class 6.12.23
Animal Farm by George Orwell NHS 10 Whole Class 6.12.23
Anthem by Ayn Rand NHS 12 Whole Class 4.22.24
Antigone by Sophocles NHS 10 Whole Class 11.13.23
Beowulf (Author unknown) NHS 12 Whole Class 6.26.23
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley NHS 11-12 Choice 12.9.24
Coraline by Neil Gaiman NHS 9 Whole Class 12.9.24
Crucible by Arthur Miller NHS 11 Whole class 6.12.23
Danse Macabre by Stephen King NHS 12 Whole Class 6.26.23
Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri NHS 12 Whole Class 5.22.23
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson NHS 12 Whole Class 6.26.23
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss NHS 9 Whole Class 3.4.24
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover NHS 11 Choice 11.13.23
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury NHS 10 Whole Class 6.12.23
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley NHS 12 Whole Class 6.26.23
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford NHS 11 Choice 11.13.23
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote NHS 11 Whole Class 6.26.23
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer NHS 11 Whole class 6.12.23
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan NHS 11 Whole Class 6.12.23
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare NHS 10 Whole Class 11.13.23
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann NHS 11 Whole Class 3.4.24
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng NHS 11 Choice 11.13.23
Macbeth by William Shakespeare NHS 10 Whole Class 11.14.22
Monster by Walter Dean Myers NHS 10 Whole Class 8.28.23
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan NHS 11 Whole Class 1.8.24
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass NHS 11 Whole Class 6.26.23
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro NHS 11 Choice 3.4.24
Night by Elie Wiesel NHS 10 Whole Class 3.4.24
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles NHS 9 Whole Class 11.14.22
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck NHS 10 Whole Class 11.14.22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey NHS 12 Whole Class 5.22.23
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi NHS 10 Whole Class 6.12.23
Short Stories in English for Beginners by Ollie Richards NHS 9-12 ELL Whole Class 11.13.23
Short Stories in English for Intermediates by Ollie Richards NHS 9-12 ELL Whole Class 11.13.23
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel NHS 9 Whole Class 6.26.23
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho NHS 9 Choice 6.12.23
The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez NHS 11 Choice 11.13.23
The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee with David John NHS 11 Choice 3.4.24
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls NHS 10 Whole Class 11.13.23
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald NHS 11 Whole Class 11.14.22
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood NHS 11 Choice 12.9.24
The Last Lecture by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch NHS 11 Choice 6.12.23
The Odyssey by Jack McDevitt NHS 9 Whole Class 11.14.22
The Tempest by William Shakespeare NHS 12 Whole Class 8.28.23
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien NHS 11 Whole Class 6.26.23
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare NHS 9 Whole Class 5.22.23
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston NHS 9 Whole Class 6.26.23
There There by Tommy Orange NHS 12 Choice 4.22.24
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee NHS 9 Whole Class 5.22.23
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare NHS 9 Whole Class 6.26.23
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawl NHS 9-12 Whole Class 11.13.23