SCSD Secondary English Language Arts Booklist
Grade
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12
Titles
The Watsons go to Birmingham (Curtis)
Heroes of the Environment (Rohmer)
Lightning Thief (Riordan)
Dragonwings (Yep)
Miracle’s Boys (Woodson)
Baseball in April (Soto)
A Long Walk to Water (Park)
United States Bill of Rights and the Emancipation Proclamation
Code Talker (Bruchac)
Chains (Anderson)
Mississippi Trial: 1955 (Crowe)
Red Scarf Girl (Jiang)
House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
Flesh and Blood So Cheap (Marrin)
Monster (Myers)
Night (Wiesel)
Maus (Spiegelman)
Stuck in Neutral (Trueman
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence (Dane)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
No Choirboy (Kuklin)
Fences (Wilson)
Kindred (Butler)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Excerpts from The Odyssey (Homer)
Excerpts from Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Krik? Krak! (Danticat)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Beah)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
The Kite Runner (Housseini )
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
The Crucible (Miller)
Short stories, essays and poems from Twain, Emerson,
Thoreau, Baldwin, Sexton, Whitman
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs)
Native Son (Wright)
The Harlem Stomp (as a classroom resource)
“The Yellow Wallpaper” (Gillman)
The Color Purple (Walker)
Drown (Diaz)
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in LA (Rodriguez)
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)
Othello (Shakespeare)
Excerpts from Beowulf (Anonymous)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
White Teeth (Smith)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
Brave New World (Huxley)
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