The following list was compiled by a large number of DUSD teachers. In order to avoid students reading the same novel in successive grades, you are asked to stick to your grade level for novel choices. If, upon checking within your school, you find that students have not read a novel at a LOWER grade level, you may teach that novel. However, you are asked to NEVER choose from a grade above that which you are teaching. *Key: M = Levels of Meaning S = Structure L = Language Conventions and Clarity K = Knowledge Demands: Life Experiences, Cultural & Literary Knowledge, Content & Discipline Knowledge CC = Common Core 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade CC Lexile Range 6-8 CC Lexile Range 9-10 CC Lexile Range 11-12 955-1155 1080-1305 1215-1355 And Then There Were Across Five Aprils LEX None LEX 850 1100 RL 6.5 Because of Romek Animal Farm LEX 1170 Adventures of Huck Finn 1984 LEX 1090 By Christie, Agatha By Irene Hunt By David Faber By George Orwell By Mark Twain By George Orwell Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (7th Grade, CC) LEX 1080 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Book Thief LEX 730 Antigone LEX 940 As I Lay Dying LEX MSK* Antony and Cleopatra By Frank, Anne By Mark Twain By Marcus Zusak By Sophocles By William Faulkner Canterbury Tales, The Brian's Song LEX 791 Around the World in 80 Days Book of Virtues, The Brave New World LEX Beloved LEX - AP classes By William Blinn By Jules Verne Fahreheit 451 By Aldous Husley By Toni Morrison Call of the Wild, The LEX 790 By Jack London Children of the River LEX 700 RL 5.6 By Linda Crew Cyrano de Bergerac (7th Grade, CC) By Rostand, Edmond Bean Trees, The LEX 900 RL 6.5 By Barbara Kingsolver By Geoffrey Chaucer Crime and Punishment By Ray Bradbury Chosen, The Billy Budd, Sailor By Fyodor Dostoevsky Ghosts in Love and Other Plays Doll s House, A By Herman Melville Cry The Beloved Country LEX 860 MSK* Body in the Library, The Good Earth By Ibsen, Henrik Black Boy By Alan Paton Catcher in the Rye, The (8th Grade, CC) LEX 790 House on Mango Street LEX MSK* Glass Menagerie, The By Salinger, J.D. By Sandra Cisneros By Tennessee Williams Curse of the Mummy, The I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Grapes of Wrath, The LEX 680 MSK* By Richard Wright Bluest Eye, The MSK* - AP classes By Toni Morrison Death and the King's Horsman: A Play Wole Soyinka Gulliver s Travels (8th Grade CC) LEX 1330 Danger in the Desert LEX Flowers for Algernon LEX By Maya Angelou By Steinbeck, John Catch 22 By Swift, Jonathan Dysart 780 Unified School District 910 #89 RL 5.9 9/18/2013 Page 1
By Fields, Terri By Daniel Keyes Master Novel List - Dysart Unified School District Lesson Before Dying, A LEX 750 MSK* Heart of Darkness LEX 1050 By Joseph Heller Don Quixote The Dark Is Rising Hobbit, The By Ernest Gaines By Joseph Conrad Color Purple, The LEX 670 By Miguel Cervantes Mousetrap and Other By Susan Cooper By Tolkien, J.R.R. Hiroshima LEX 1190 By Alice Walker Dracula Plays, The The Devil's Arithmetic Joy Luck Club, The Homecoming Odyssey, The Crucible, The By Bram Stoker LEX 730 LEX 930 By Jan Yolen By Ray Bradbury By Homer By Tan, Amy By Arthur Miller Emma LEX 1070 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Strange Case of (7th Grade CC) Killing Mr. Griffin Pearl, The LEX 1010 RL 6.5 Julius Caesar Death of a Salesman By Jane Austen By Stevenson, R.L. By Lois Duncan By John Steinbeck Life of Pi LEX 830 By Arthur Miller Dragonwings Last of the Mohicans, The (8th Grade CC) LEX 1350 By Laurence Yep By Cooper, James F. Dune Lord of the Flies (8th Grade CC) LEX 770 Romeo & Juliet / West Side Story Time Machine/Invisible Man By Yann Martel Fallen Angels Fountainhead, The LEX 780 By Ayn Rand Metamorphoses Farewell to Arms, A Frankenstein LEX 1170 By H.G. Wells By Ovid Great Gatsby, The By Mary Shelley By Frank Herbert By Golding, William To Kill a Mockingbird LEX Invisible Man, The LEX 980 French Lieutenant's The Metamorphosis MSK* Woman, The Eagle Strike LEX 690 Monster By Harper Lee By Franz Kafka By H.G. Wells By John Fowles By Anthony Horowitz Night (7th Grade, CC) Walkabout Midsummer Night s Dream, A Jungle, The LEX 1170 Grendl Egypt Game, The RL 6.6 Of Mice and Men (8th Grade CC) LEX 630 By James Marshall Much Ado About Nothing By Upton Sinclair Hamlet By Zilpha Snyder By John Steinbeck War of the Worlds By William Shakespeare Moby Dick Importance of Being Earnest, The Ender's Game LEX 780 Old Man and the Sea, The LEX 940 RL 8.1 By H.G. Wells Oedipus Rex By Herman Melville by Oscar Wilde By Orson Scott Card By Ernest Hemingway Winesburg, Ohio LEX 1050 A Prayer for Owen Meany LEX 1050 My Antonia MSK* Jane Eyre LEX 890 Dysart Unified School District #89 9/18/2013 Page 2
Giver, The LEX 760 RL6 Out of the Silent Planet LEX 1020 By S. Anderson By John Irving Our Town By Charlotte Bronte By Lois Lowry By C.S. Lewis Zlata's Diary Rhinoceros Raisin in the Sun, A Les Miserables Holes LEX 660 RL 5.1 Outsiders, The (8th Grade, CC) By Zlata Filipovic By Eugene Ionesco By Lorraine Hansberry By Victor Hugo By Louis Sachar By S.E. Hinton Freshman Honors (all of the above plus) Separate Peace, A LEX 1110 Scarlet Letter, The LEX 1420 The Tragedy of Macbeth Home of the Brave Perelandra Edith Hamilton s Mythology By John Knowles By Nathaniel Hawthorne Madame Bovary LEX 1030 By Katherine Applegate By C.S. Lewis Count of Monte Cristo, The Sound and the Fury LEX Sophocles By Gustave Flaubert LEX 930 Homecoming Pigman LEX 950 RL 5.9 By Alexander Dumas Souls of Black Folk, The LEX 1280 By William Faulkner Medea House of the Scorpion By Paul Zindel Fahrenheit 451 LEX 890 By W.E.B. DuBois Sun Also Rises, The The Namesake By Nancy Farmer Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry LEX 920 RL 6.9 I, Robot By Mildred Taylor Great Expectations By Laurie H. Anderson By Ray Bradbury Speak LEX 690 MK* By Ernest Hemingway By Jhumpa Lahiri Their Eyes Were Watching God LEX 1080 Once and Future King, The 1080 By Isaac Asimov Sorry, Wrong Number By Charles Dickens That Hideous Strength LEX 960 By Z.N. Hurston By T.H. White Jacob, Have I Loved LEX 880 RL 5.8 By K. Patterson By Louise Fletcher These Is My Words LEX 1110 RL 9 Midsummer Night's Dream, A Red Badge of Courage LEX 900 By C.S. Lewis Transell Saga Poisonwood Bible LEX 960 The Tragedy of Macbeth Twelve Angry Men Barbara Kingsolver Lizzie Bright and the Buckmaster Boy LEX 1000 To Be a Slave LEX 1080 By Stephen Crane Things Fall Apart LEX 930 By Reginald Rose Pride and Prejudice LEX 1090 By Gary D. Schmidt By Julius Lester Tangerine LEX 680 By Ode Ogede Welcome to the Monkey House LEX 810 By Jane Austen Maniac Magee LEX 820 When Legends Die By Edward Bloor By Kurt Vonnegut Pygmalion RL 5.0 Sophmore Honors By Jerry Spinelli By George Bernard Shaw (all of the above plus) Martian Chronicles LEX Tale of Two Cities, A LEX Anthem 740 1130 Dysart Unified School District #89 9/18/2013 Page 3
By Ray Bradbury Dante s Inferno By Charles Dickens Messenger LEX 720 RL 5.3 Native Son Taming of the Shrew By Lois Lowry Oedipus Tartuffle Milkweed LEX 510 RL 5.2 Stranger, The By Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere By Jerry Spinelli Tess of the d'ubervilles Miracle Worker (7th Grade, CC) The Tragedy of Hamlet Nerd Landia RL 6.8 Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, The By Gary Soto Works of Euripedes, The Nothing But the Truth By Avi Prince and the Pauper, The (7th Grade, CC) By Mark Twain Shadows on the Sea LEX 670 RL 6.6 By Joan H. Harlow Shelter Dogs LEX 940 RL6.4 Wuthering Heights LEX 880 By Emily Bronte Summer of My German Soldier LEX 800 RL 7.4 Swiss Family Robinson, The LEX 1260 RL 8.9 Treasure Island (7th Grade, CC) LEX 1010 Where the Red Fern Grows LEX 700 RL 6.5 White Fang LEX 970 RL 7.1 A Wrinkle in Time Dysart By Madeleine Unified L'Engle School District #89 9/18/2013 Page 4
Other District Approved Novels/Collections 21 Great American Stories Latino Literature White Fang (adapted) 24 One Act Plays Lottery Winner, The Wild West, the 4 Great Plays : A Doll's House Mex./ Amer. Literature Witness Acorn People, The Multi-cultural Voices Woman Hollaring Creek All the Pretty Horses New Yorkers Amazon Rally On the Edge: Stories on the Brink America Street (short stories) One Way Ticket American Reader, An Othello Made Easy American Short Stories Paint Me Like I Am (poems) Blue Diamond, The (Sherlock Holmes) Piano, The Braided Lives Point of View Door Near Here, A Downriver Edgar Allen Poe Short Stories Retold American Classics Retold British Classics River of Ice Dysart Unified School District #89 9/18/2013 Page 5