Book List for 6th - 12th Grade English Classes

As you know, the textbook list was mailed to parents in June and posted on the blog.  The book list for middle school and high school English classes is posted below, and will also be mailed to you for your convenience.

Books for English Classes

6^th Grade

Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth                                                   

Ryan, Esperanza Rising                                                     

O’Dell ,The Black Pearl                                                      

O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH                          

Cleaver, Where the Lilies Bloom                                         

Kherdian, The Road From Home                                        

Konigsburg, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler  

Van Draanen, Flipped                                                                 

7^th and 8^th Grades

Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Wibberley, John Treegate's Musket

Bruchac, Sacajawea

Fox, The Slave Dancer

Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg

Conrad, My Daniel

Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham

9^th Grade

Strunk and White, Elements of Style, 4^th Ed.

Lewis, Word Power Made Easy

Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

10^th Grade

Fiction: A Pocket Anthology, 7^th Ed., ed. R.S. Gwynn

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle, trans. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald

Miller, Death of a Salesman

Shakespeare, Macbeth

Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Aykbourn, A Woman in Mind

11^th and 12^th Grades

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans. Neville Coghill (or another modern translation)

Shakespeare, Hamlet (Signet, Folger, or Norton edition)

Defoe, Moll Flanders

Swift, Gulliver's Travels

Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Dickens, Great Expectations

Carroll, The Annotated Alice, ed. Martin Gardner

Joyce, Dubliners