* Recommended Outside Reading *

Recommended Reading

·         The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

·         Animal Farm – George Orwell

·         The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck

·         Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

·         Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

·         The Color Purple – Alice Walker

·         Nothing but the Truth - Avi

·         The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

·         In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - by Nat Philbrick

**(based on historical events. The Wessex tragedy inspired Moby Dick.)

·         The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemingway

·         A Separate Peace – John Knowles

·         The Giver – Lois Lowry

·         A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

·         A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - by Betty Smith

·         The Watsons Go to Birmingham - by Christopher Paul Curtis

·         Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod - by Gary Paulsen

·         Call of the Wild – Jack London

·         The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas

·         Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

·         Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

·         The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle

·         Heidi – Johanna Spyri

·         The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

·         The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

·         Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery

·         Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

·         My Antonia – Willa Cather

·         A Yellow Raft in Blue Water – Michael Dorris

·         Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Thurston

·         Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

·         War of the Worlds - by H.G. Wells 

·        Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie - Jordan Sonnenblick

·         A Girl Named Disaster – Nancy Farmer

·         Chosen – Chaim Potok

·         Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

·         The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

·         20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

·         The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin

·         Skellig – David Almond

·         The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

·         Winter Girls – Laurie Halse Anderson

·         Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson

·         Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

·         Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

·         The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

·         I Am the Cheese – Robert Cormier

·         Whirligig – Paul Fleischman

·         A Single Shard – Linda Sue Park

·         Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan

·         Moon Over Manifest – Clare Vanderpool

·         The Lions of Little Rock – Kristin Levine

·         Hoot – Carl Hiaasen

·         A Time for Dancing – Davida Hurwin

·         The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

·         Sold – Patricia McCormick

·         Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers

·         Step from Heaven – An Na

·         Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)

·         Shabanu: Daughter of the wind – Suzanne Fisher Staples

·         The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

·         Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin

·         Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

·         Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

·         Watership Down – Richard Adams

·         Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

·         The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

·         Moby Dick – Herman Melville

·         Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

·         Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

·         The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss

·         The Little Prince – Antione Saint Exupery

·         Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

·         All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

·         Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko

·         The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt

Non-Fiction

·         The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

·         Indian Chiefs - Russell Freedman

·         100 Most Awesome Things on the Planet - Anna Claybourne

·         Technology - Peter Kent

·         Internet Inventors - Nel Yomtov

·         Video Games - Kevin Cunnigham

·         Guts - Gary Paulsen

·         Jackie's Nine (Tribute to Jackie Robinson) - Sharon Robinson

·         Within Reach: My Everest Story - Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin

·         How They Croaked - Kevin O'Malley

·         My Thirteenth Winter - Samantha Abeel

·         Drawing from Memory - Allen Say

·         Years of Dust - Albert Marrin

·         Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution - Ji-Li Jiang

·         Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World - Jennifer Armstrong

·         Migrant Mother - Don Nardo

·         I know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

·         Growing Up – Russell Baker

·         Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown

·         Having our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years – Sara and Elizabeth Delany

·         Hiroshima – John Hersey

·         Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy

·         Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa – Mark Mathabane

Drama

·         Monster -– Walter Dean Myers

·         Our Town – Thornton Wilder