State College Area School District
Secondary English Department
9th Grade
Revised Booklist with Lexile Numbers
2010-2011
Common Core Standards for Grades 9-10 :
Current Lexile Band 960L–1115L
*“Stretch” Lexile Band 1080L–1305L
Common/core titles which will be studied by all students:
Out in the World: Coming of Age and the Search for Identity
Hinton, S. E.
Hansberry, Lorraine
Knowles, John
Sophocles
The Outsiders (English 9) (750L)
A Raisin in the Sun (English 9)
A Separate Peace (Advanced English 9) (1110L)
Antigone (Advanced English 9)
Shakespeare, William
Romeo and Juliet (English 9 and Advanced
English 9)
Advanced English 9 teachers will also choose one and/or both of the following:
Dickens, Charles
Brönte, Charlotte
Great Expectations (1200L)
Jane Eyre (890L)
In addition to the texts read by Advanced English 9 students, Advanced Honors
English 9 teachers will also teach
Anonymous
Homer
Malory, Sir Thomas
Tolkien, J. R. R. (trans.)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Odyssey
Le Morte d’Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Titles that may be used as required reading for full-class instruction:
Anderson, Lauria Halse
Bach, Richard
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Emra, Bruce, ed.
Cisneros, Sandra
Fleischman, Paul
Gibbons, Kaye
Hesse, Hermann
Homer
Speak (690L)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Growing Up in Coal Country (1110L)
Coming of Age: Short Stories about Youth and
Adolescence
The House on Mango Street (870L)
Seedfolks (710L)
Ellen Foster (870L)
Siddhartha (1010L)
The Odyssey
White, T. H.
Zindel, Paul
The Sword in the Stone (1120L)
The Pigman (950L)
Titles that may be used ONLY as optional/student choice selections:
Anaya, Rudolfo
Arana, Marie
Austen, Jane
Card, Orson Scott
Cary, Lorene
Colfer, Eoin
Conway, Jill Ker
Cormier, Robert
Deuker, Carl
Gunther, John
Head, Ann
Hesse, Karen
Hickam, Jr., Homer
Hinton, S. E.
Huxley, Elspeth
Johnson, Angela
Kingsolver, Barbara
Koertge, Ron
Lowry, Lois
Lowry, Lois
Lynn, Tracy
Napoli, Donna Jo
Oates, Joyce Carol
Orr, Wendy
Potok, Chaim
Pullman, Philip
Santiago, Esmeralda
Simon, Rachel
Smith, Betty
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Swarthout, Glendon
Wolf, Tobias
Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Zindel, Paul
Bless Me, Ultima (840L)
American Chica
Sense and Sensibility (1180L)
Ender’s Game (780L)
Black Ice (880L)
Artemis Fowl (600L)
The Road from Coorain
The Chocolate War (820L)
High Heat (620L)
Death Be Not Proud (1060L)
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (890L)
Phoenix Rising (610L)
October Sky (900L)
That Was Then, This Is Now (780L)
The Flame Trees of Thika
The First Part Las (790L)
The Bean Trees (900L)
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
Gathering Blue (680L)
Messenger (720L)
Snow
Breath (620L)
Freaky Green Eyes (810L)
Peeling the Onion (790L)
The Chose (970L)
The Golden Compass (930L)
When I Was Puerto Rican (1020L)
Riding the Bus with My Sister
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (810L)
Treasure Island (1100L)
Bless the Beasts and the Children (970L)
This Boy’s Life
Make Lemonade (890L)
The Pigman’s Legacy (1010L)
*At the lowest grade in each band, students focus on reading texts within that text
complexity band. In the subsequent grade or grades within a band, students must "stretch"
to read a certain proportion of texts from the next higher text complexity band. This pattern
repeats itself throughout the grades so that students can both build on earlier literacy gains
and challenge themselves with texts at a higher complexity level. Lexile measures and the
Lexile ranges above help to determine what text is appropriate for each grade band and
what should be considered "stretch" text.