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1 Title Author Book Level Watership Down Adams, Richard 7.6 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Adams,Douglas 8.3 Born Free Adamson, Joy 7.8 Little Men Alcott Louisa May 8.6 Flight Alexie, Sherman Indian Killer Alexie, Sherman Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven Alexie, Sherman 5.4 Reservation Blues Alexie, Sherman 4.6 Ten Little Indians Alexie, Sherman 5.7 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya Beowulf Anonymous 11.1 Go Ask Alice Anonymous Cat's Eye Atwood, Margaret Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane National Velvet Bagnold, Enid 7.1 Go Tell It On the Mountain Baldwin, James 9.0 All The President's Men Bernstein/Woodward 7.8 Brian's Song Blinn, William 5.5 When Legends Die Borland, Hal 8.3 Dandelion Wine Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray 9.8 Illustrated Man, The Bradbury, Ray 4.4 To Sir, With Love Braithwaite, E.R. 7.2 Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily 9.9 Angels and Demons Brown, Dan DaVinci Code, The Brown, Dan 6.4 Deception Point Brown, Dan 6.5 Bruy My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown, Dee 9.7 Good Earth, The Buck, Pearl S. 8.2 Cold Sassy Tree Burns, Olive 9.8 Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, Edgar Rice 8.6 Possession Byatt, A.S Stranger, The Camus, Albert 8.5 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Carro;ll, Lewis 8.3 Education of Little Tree Carter, Forest 7.2 Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather, Willa 9.8 My Antonia Cather, Willa O Pioneers! Cather, Willa Don Quixote Cervantes 9.2 All Around the Town Clark, Mary Higgins 7.8 Ox-Bow Incident, The Clark, Walker : A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur 9.0 Lord Jim Conrad Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 10.8 Deerslayer Cooper, James 9.5 Last of the Mohicans, The Cooper, James Red Badge of Courage, The Crane, Stephen 7.6 David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 9.8 Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 9.5 Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles

2 Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 8.9 Tale of Two Cities, A Dickens, Charles 9.2 Eva Dickinson, Peter 8.1 Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Hound of the Baskervilles, The Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 8.4 American Tragedy, An Dreiser Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 8.3 Three Musketeers, The Dumas, Alexandre 7.7 Brothers K, The Duncan, David James 12.9 Silas Marner Eliot, George Great Gatsby, The Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9.1 Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fried green Tomatoes Flagg, Fannie 7.7 Diary of a Young Girl, The Frank, Anne 9.2 Alas, Babylon Frank, Pat 7.2 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Gaines, Ernest J. Miracle Worker, The Gibson, William Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings Gilman, Charlotte 9.3 Lord of the Flies Golding, William Autobiography of a Face Grealy, Luce 9.5 I Never Promised You A Rose Garden Greenberg, Joanne 9.6 Power and the Glory, The Greene, Graham 8.4 Black Like Me Griffin, John Howard 9.0 Ordinary People Guest, Judith Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John Snow Falling on Cedars Gutterson, John Roots Haley, Alex 9.3 Maltese Falcon, The Hammett, Dashiell Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas Mayor of Casterbridge, The Hardy, Thomas 9.4 Return of the Native, The Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 11.5 Scarlet Letter, The Hawthorne, Nathaniel Catch-22 Heller, Joseph 9.4 Farewell To Arms, A Hemingway, Ernest Old Man and the Sea, The Hemingway, Ernest 8.9 Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest 4.4 Dune Herbert, Frank 7.4 All Creatures Great and Small Herriot, James 8.9 All Things Bright and Beautiful Herriot, James Hiroshima Hersey, John 7.9 Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann 9.8 Kon-Tiki Heyerdahl, Thor 8.5 Lost Horizon Hilton, James 7.1 Iliad, The Homer 11.5 Odyssey, The Homer 9.9 Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The (Unabridged) Hugo, Victor 8.9 Les Miserables (unabridged) Hugo, Victor 8.8 Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 11.1 Brave New World Revisited Huxley, Aldous 9.5 Doll's House, A Ibsen, Henrik 7.9

3 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Irving, Washington 9.2 Remains of the Day, The Ishiguro, Kazuo 8.3 Ramona Jackson, Helen Hunt 8.5 Turn of the Screw, The James, Henry Metamorphosis, The Kafka/Corngold 10.5 Up the Down Staircase Kaufman, Bel 7.4 Schindler's List Keneallyh, Thomas 10.8 Profiles in Courage Kennedy, John F. 8.4 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken 6.9 Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey, Ken 9.0 Flowers For Algeron Keyes, Daniel 7.8 Animal Dreams Kingslover, Barbara 5.3 Bean Trees, The Kingslover, Barbara 7.8 Pigs in Heaven Kingslover, Barbara Poisonwood Bible, The Kingslover, Barbara 6.6 Prodigal Summer Kingslover, Barbara 5.7 Small Wonder Kingsolver, Barbara 8.4 Captians Courageous Kipling, Rudyard 9.8 Separate Peace, A Knowles, John 9.5 Into The Wild Krakauer, Jon 9.0 Into Thin Air Krakauer, Jon 9.4 Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Lawrence/Lee 9.1 To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper 7.4 Farthest Shore, The LeGuin, Ursula K. 7.1 Phantom of the Opera, The Leroux, Gaston Othello Lester, Julius 5.6 To Be a Slave Lester, Julius 8.1 Screwtape Letters, The Lewis, C.S. 9.9 Main Street Lewis, Sinclair Contender, The Lipsyte, Robert Call of the Wild, The London, Jack 7.3 Sea Wolf, The London, Jack White Fang London, Jack 7.4 River Runs Through It, A Maclean, Norman 7.3 Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Malcolm/Haley 8.4 Kaffir Boy Mathabane, Mark 9.5 Of Human Bondage Maugham, Somerset 11.4 Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The McCullers, Carson Member of the Wedding, The McCullers, Carson 8.2 Thornbirds, The McCullough, Colleen 7.2 Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? McKissack, Patricia C. 6.3 Comanche Moon McMutry, Larry 6.7 Lonesome Dove McMutry, Larry 6.5 Moby Dick Melville, Herman Crucible, The Miller, Arthur 9.0 Death of a Salesman Miller, Arthur Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret 6.2 Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M. 7.6 Beloved Morrison, Toni 7.3 Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary Myers, Walter Dean Black Elk Speaks Neihardt, John G. 5.7 Mutiny on the Bounty Nordhoff, Charles 9.5

4 Scarlet Pimpernel, The Orczy, B. Emma 1984 Orwell, George 8.2 Animal Farm Orwell, George 8.8 Rose Parks, My Story Parks, Haskins Dr.Zhivago Pasternak, Boris 8.8 Beet Fields: A Sixteenth Summer, The Paulsen, Gary 5.5 Bell Jar, The Plath,Sylvia 7.9 Chosen, The Potok, Chaim 9.4 Promise, The Potok, Chaim Yearling, The Rawlings, Marjorie 7.3 All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand, Edmond 9.6 Catcher in the Rye Salinger 8.4 Ivanhoe Scott, Sir Walter 8.8 Hamlet Shakespeare, William 9.0 Henry V Shakespeare, William 9.7 Henry VIII Shakespeare, William 8.9 Julius Ceaser Shakespeare, William King Lear Shakespeare, William 8.8 Macbeth Shakespeare, William 9.6 Merchant of Venice, The Shakespeare, William 9.4 Midsummer Night's Dream, A Shakespeare, William 9.2 Much Ado Shakespeare, William 9.0 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William 8.6 Taming of the Shrew, The Shakespeare, William 8.8 Tempest, The Shakespeare, William 9.0 Twelfth Night Shakespeare, William 8.6 Two Gentlement of Verona Shakespeare, William 7.6 Pygmalion Shaw, George 10.1 Frankenstein Shelley, Mary 9.8 Jungle, The Sinclair, Upton 9.3 Thousand Acres Smiley, Jane 7.7 Fiddler on the Roof Stein, Joseph 8.7 East of Eden Steinbeck, John 5.3 Grapes of Wrath, The Steinbeck, John Cannery Row Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John Pearl, The Steinbeck, John Travels With Charley Steinbeck, John Red Pony, The Steinbeck, John Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 7.2 Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis Dracula Stoker, Bram 8.2 Bless the Beasts and Children Swarthout, Glendon Joy Luck Club, The Tan, Amy 8.9 Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Walden Thoreau, Henry David Future Shock Toffler, Alvin 10.6 Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo 11.5 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Unabridged) Twain, Mark Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Unabridged) Twain, Mark 8.3

5 Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court, A Twain, Mark 6.9 Life on the Mississippi Twain, Mark 10.1 Exodus Uris, Leon 10.2 Journey to the Center of the Earth Verne, Jules 9.8 Come a Stanger Voigt, Cynthia David and Jonathan Voigt, Cynthia 7.4 The Runner Voigt, Cynthia 6.8 Slaughter House Five Vonnegut, Kurt 8.8 Color Purple, The Walker, Alice 6.9 Up From Slavery Washington, Booker T. 9.2 Invisible Man, The Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds, The Wells, H.G. 7.9 Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith 7.2 Once and Future King White, T.H. 8.8 Picture of Dorian Gray, The Wilde, Oscar 9.1 Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Wilder, Thornton 7.9 Our Town Wilder, Thornton 8.3 Glass Menagerie, The Williams, Tennessee 9.9 Virginian, The Wister, Owen 9.0 Caine Mutiny, The Wouk, Herman War and Remembrance Wouk, Herman 8.8 Winds of War, The Wouk, Herman 8.4 Native Son Wright, Richard

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