Independent Book Choices
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Montgomery
1984
George Orwell
The Hobbit
J. R. Tolkien
Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry
Tex
S. E. Hinton
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Call of the Wild
Jack London
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
Little Women
Louisa M. Alcott
Bleachers
John Grisham
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Hope was Here
Joan Bauer
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
Laura Hillman
Night
Elie Wiesel
Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Dicey’s Song
Cynthia Voigt
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Someone Like You
Sarah Dessen
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
Somewhere in the Darkness
Walter Dean Myers
Killing Mr. Griffin
Lois Duncan
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd