So Much to Tell You. John Marsden. 1990.

Sent to a hospital by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who refuses to speak, reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.

  Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Sherman Alexie. 2007  Mature

National Book Award Winner.  Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian   Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

    Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card. 1992. 

A veteran of years of simulated war games , Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth.

English 1 Honors (Total of two books) 

The Once and Future King. T.H. White. 1958

                  Arthur becomes king of the Britons under the guidance of Merlin .  

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English 2 College Prep or Advanced College Prep (Choose one book)

  October Sky. Homer Hickam. 1999

The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite "Sputnik."

    My Sister's Keeper . Jodi Picoult. 2004  Mature

Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.

  A Northern Light. Jennifer Donnelly. 2003

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the

wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth

about the death of a guest.  Based on a true story.

English 2 Honors (Total of two books) 

  Black Like Me. John Howard Griffin. 1961

White author John Howard Griffin dramatically describes the crushing effects of racism on people's lives in the United States. Griffin temporarily transformed himself into a black man for almost two months.

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 English 3 College Prep or Advanced College Prep (Choose one book)

  Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Hadden. 2003

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. 2007  Mature

Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war torn Kabul, Afghanistan.  

  The Bean Trees. Barbara Kingsolver. 1998

Taylor Greer hits the road wanting only to get as far away from Kentucky as possible, ending up in Arizona with a 3-year-old Cherokee girl she has inherited from a woman.

English 3 Honors  (Total of two books) 

Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad. 1899

The story is told by a narrator who relates a story told him by the sailor Charlie Marlow.  Marlow relates his experiences as the captain of a steamboat, sent down the Congo River in the employ of an unnamed ivory company, to retrieve Kurtz, a company manager whose "methods" had become "unsound."

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English 4 College Prep or Advanced College Prep

    Hope in the Unseen. Ron Suskind. 2002

Follows a determined African American teenager from a violent school in Washington, D.C., to the bewildering world of the Ivy League.

  The Glass Castle: A Memoir. Jeannette Walls. 2006  Mature

The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

            Hole in My Life.  Jack Gantos.  2004.  Mature.

                        A gaping hole of misery is what popular young adult author Jack Gantos remembers

                            when he thinks back to 1972, "the bleakest year of my life."  The author relates how,

                    as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in  

                        prison, and eventually went to college and became a successful writer.

English 4 Honors or AP (Total of two books)

     A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. James Joyce. 1916

A semi-autobiographical novel about the education of a young Irishman, Stephen Dedalus, whose background has much in common with Joyce's. Stephen's education includes not only his formal schooling but also his moral, emotional, and intellectual development as he observes and reacts to the world around him.

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