Lowry, The Giver
Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die
Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Carter, The Education of Little Tree
Conroy, The Water is Wide
Cooper, King of Shadows
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
McKinley, Hero and the Crown
Magorian, Good Night Mr. Tom
Voight, Dicey’s Song
Poetry
Lewis Carroll, Father William
Sharon Creech, Love That Dog
E.E. Cummings, in Just
Emily Dickinson, I’m Nobody
Robert Frost, The Pasture
Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
A.E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young
Langston Hughes, Mother to Son
Rudyard Kipling, Gunga Din
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Courage That My Mother
Had
Carl Sandburg, The Fog
Gary Soto, Oranges
Drama: Shakespeare, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Serling, The Monsters on Maple Street
Nonfiction
Burch, M.J., They Cage the Animals at Night
Cooper F., Coming Home: From the Life of Langston
Hughes
Facklam, Eugenie Clark and the Sleeping Sharks
Ferguson’s Career Biographies
Filipovic, Zlata’s Diary
Fritz, Homesick
Higa, The Girl With the White Flag
Jones, Ron, The Acorn People
Snow Wong, A Time of Beginnings
Stanley, Jerry, Children of the Dust Bowl
Essays/Short Non-Fiction
Isaac Asimov, Endlessness
Baker, No Gumption
James Dickey, How to Enjoy Poetry
Galarza, from Barrio Boy
Herriot, Cat on the Go
H.N. Levitt, Winslow Homer: America’s Greatest Painter
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Morning
Maxwell Nurnberg, The Mystery and Wonder of
Words
Kinnan Rawlings, Rattlesnake Hunt
Andrew A. Rooney, Letter Writing
Mari Sandoz, from These Were the Sioux
Edwin Way Teale, from Circle of the Seasons
Short Stories
Joan Aiken, “The Third Wish”
Isaac Asimov, “Hallucination”
James Baldwin, “Caleb’s Brother”
Ray Bradbury, “All Summer in a Day”
Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt”
Gwendolyn Brooks, “Home”
Pearl S. Buck, “The Old Demon”
Sandra Cisneros, “Eleven”
Guy de Maupassant, “The Necklace”
Jack Finney, “The Third Level”
John Gardner, “Dragon-Dragon”
Edward Hoch, “Zoo”
Shirley Jackson, “Charles”
Shirley Jackson, “The Sneaker Crisis”
W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw”
Jomo Kenyatte, “The Gentleman of the Jungle”
Rudyard Kipling, “Rikki-tikki-tavi”
Sean O’Faolian, “The Threat”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum”
Amy Tan, “Two Kinds”
Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County”
Louis Untemeyer, “The Dog of Pompei”
Fiction
Avi, Nothing But the Truth
London, The Call of the Wild
Steinbeck, The Pearl
Cormier, The Chocolate War
Duncan, Locked In Time
Duncan, Killing Mr. Griffin
Fleischman, Whirligig
Fleischman, Seedfolks
Hinton, S.E., The Outsiders
McCaffrey, Dragon Song
Myers, Glory Field
Pullman, Philip, Golden Compass
Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Taylor, The Cay (collaborative)
Tolkien, J.R.R., The Hobbit
Watkins, So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Poetry
Cormier, Frenchtown Summer
Walter de la Mare, Silver
Nikki Giovanni, Winter Poem
Eloise Greenfield, Reggie
Karen Hesse, Witness
Eve Merriam, Onomatopoeia
John Moffitt, To Look at Any Thing
Lillian Morrison, The Sidewalk Racer or On the
Skateboard
Dorothy Parker, The Choice
May Swenson, By Morning
Evelyn Tooley Hunt, Taught Me Purple
Lew Sarett, Four Little Foxes
John Updike, January
John Greenleaf Whittier, Barbara Frietchie
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!
Drama: Shakespeare, The Taming of the
Shrew
Gibson, The Miracle Worker
Shaw, Pygmalion
Nonfiction
Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
Callahan, Adrift
Dahl, Boy
McBride, The Color of Water
Meltzer, Starting From Home
Myers, W.D., Bad Boy: A Memoir
Myers, W.D., Muhammad Ali
Sobel, Longitude!
Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
White, Ryan, My Own Story
Essays/Short Non-Fiction
Isaac Asmiov, Dial Versus Digital
Hal Borland, Shooting Stars
Bernard DeVoto, The Indian all Around Us
J. Frank Dobie, Sancho
Ellen Goodman, The Sounds of Richard Rodgers
James Herriot, Debbie
Jean Kerr, My Wild Irish Mother
Ursula K. LeGuin, Talking About Writing
Stephen Longstreet, Hokusai: The Old Man Mad About
Dancing
Robert MacNeil, The Trouble with Television
Anaïs Nin, Forest Fire
Short Stories
Toni Cade Bambara, “Raymond’s Run”
Stephen Vincent Benét, “By the Waters of Babylon”
Ambrose Bierce, “A Horseman in the Sky”
Ray Bradbury, “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”
Anton Chekhov, “The Ninny”
Daphne du Maurier, “The Birds”
Edward Everett Hale, “The Man Without a Country”
O. Henry, “A Retrieved Reformation”
Daniel Keyes, “Flowers for Algernon”
Jack London, “To Build a Fire”
Toshio Mori, “The Six Rows of Pompons
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell Tale Heart”
Saki, “The Story-Teller”
James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Kurt Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron”
Laurence Yep, “American Dragons”
Fiction
Doyle, Hound of the Baskervilles
Knowles, A Separate Peace
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Cormier, I am the Cheese
Dickens, Great Expectations
Hunt, Across Five Aprils
Fast, April Morning
Myers, Fallen Angels
Speare, Witch of Blackbird Pond
Zindell, Pigman
Poetry
Robert Browning, Meeting At Night
T.S. Eliot, Macavity: The Mystery Cat
James Joyce, I Hear An Army
John Masefield, Sea Fever
Gordon Parks, The Funeral
Sylvia Plath, Mushrooms
Theodore Roethke, The Bat, The Meadow Mouse
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30
Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem
Sara Teasdale, There Will Come Soft Rains
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade
Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Casey At the Bat
Alice Walker, For My Sister Molly, Who In the Fifties
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
Drama: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank (play)
Hansberry, Raisin in the Sun
Miller, The Crucible
Nonfiction
Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ayers, Parallel Journeys
Bagdararian, Forgotten Fire
Codell, Educating Esme
Delaney Sisters, Having Our Say
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank (diary)
Gordon, Give Me One Wish
Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
Hersey, Hiroshima
O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Santiago, When I was Puerto Rican
Ung, First They Killed My Father
Essays/Short Non-Fiction
Rudolfo A. Anaya, A Celebration of Grandfathers
Marchette Chute, from Shakespeare of London
Joan Didion, Georgia O’Keeffe
William Least Heat Moon, Nameless, Tennessee
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream
John McPhee, The Loch Ness Monster
James C. Rettie, But a Watch in the Night
Sally Ride, Single Room, Earth View
James Thurber, The Spreading “You Know”
Short Stories
Siu Wai Anderson, “Autumn Gardening”
Morely Callaghan, “All the Years of Her Life”
Truman Capote, “A Christmas Memory”
Eugenia Collier, “Marigolds”
Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, “The Red-headed League”
Robert Connell, “The Most Dangerous Game”
Ernest Hemingway, “A Day’s Wait”
Langston Hughes, “Thank You M’am”
James Hurst, “The Scarlet Ibis”
Gabriel Garcia Márquez, “The Handsomest Drowned
Man in the World”
Yukio Mishima, “The Pearl”
Grant Moss, “Before the End of Summer”
Sylvia Plath, “Initiation”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of the Amontillado”
Tomas Rivera, “The Harvest”
Frank Stockton, “The Lady or the Tiger”
Anne Tyler, “Teenage Wasteland”
Yoshiko Uchida, “The Bracelet”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”