Taylor Schools Book Titles


1	School	Course	Teacher	Novel/Play	Brief Description
2	THS	All literature books at each level are Carnegie Learning.
3		English and Social Studies departments utilize Newsela for non-fiction articles to support reading/writing/support
4		English 9	Richey/McCleary	The Odyssey	The Odyssey is Homer's epic of Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stave off suitors vying for Penelope's hand and Ithaca's throne long enough for Odysseus to return.
5			Richey/McCleary	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo and Juliet Summary. An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father's choice, the County Paris.
6			Richey/McCleary	Monster	In the 1999 Walter Dean Myers' novel Monster, Steve Harmon, a Black, 16-year-old growing up in Harlem, tells his story of being put on trial for robbery and murder. The novel is written in a multimodal format, in both third-person as a film screenplay and a first-person view via Steve's personal diary entries.
7			Richey/McCleary	To Kill a Mockingbird (sp)	Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.
8			Olson	Harry Potter	It is a story about Harry Potter, an orphan brought up by his aunt and uncle because his parents were killed when he was a baby. Harry is unloved by his uncle and aunt but everything changes when he is invited to join Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and he finds out he's a wizard.
9		English 10	Richey/McCleary	Julius Ceasar	Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Mark Antony drives the conspirators out of Rome and fights them in a battle.- Shakespeare
10			Richey/McCleary	Oedipus	Oedipus, in Greek mythology, the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Homer related that Oedipus's wife and mother hanged herself when the truth of their relationship became known, though Oedipus apparently continued to rule at Thebes until his death.- Greek play
11			Richey/McCleary	Animal Farm	When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control.- Allegorical
12			Richey/McCleary	Lord of the Flies	William Golding's 1954 novel "Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of young boys who find themselves alone on a deserted island. They develop rules and a system of organization, but without any adults to serve as a civilizing impulse, the children eventually become violent and brutal.
13			Richey/McCleary	Fahrenheit 451	Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel. Montag lives in an oppressive society that attempts to eliminate all sources of complexity, contradiction, and confusion to ensure uncomplicated happiness for all its citizens.
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15		English 11	Weicht/McCleary	The Crucible	Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A small group of girls 'cry out' against other people in the town, accusing them of witchcraft, in an attempt to cover up their own dabblings in the occult. Led by Abigail Williams, the girls' accusations cause a court to be formed to investigate the alleged crimes.- play
16			Weicht/McCleary	The Great Gatsby	The Great Gatsby, third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
17			Weicht/McCleary	My Antonia	The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century.
18			Weicht/McCleary	Into the Wild	Into the Wild tells the true story of the journey of 24-year-old Christopher McCandless into Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, where he starved to death in an abandoned bus after spending four months foraging and hunting game.
19			Weicht	The Canterbury Tales	In The Canterbury Tales, a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury Cathedral compete in a storytelling contest. This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the pilgrims to tell their stories, which reflect the concerns sparked by the social upheavals of late medieval England.
20			Weicht	Norse Mythology	Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok.
21			Weicht	The Tempest	Shakespeare's comedy about a major act of betrayal, ill treatment, the development of magic arts and a plot of revenge. Twelve years ago, Prospero was Duke of Milan. Being of a bookish disposition, she withdrew more and more into her studies, leaving the management of her state to her brother Antonio.
22		English 12	Weicht/Richey	Midsummer Night's Dream	Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry.- Shakespeare
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25		ACP IU	Weicht	When the Emperor was Divine	Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination "both physical and emotional" of a generation of Japanese Americans.
26			Weicht	Norton Anthology	Collection of English Literature
27			Weicht	Maus	Maus is a two-part graphic survival story of World War II in Auschwitz. It is a true story of Art Spiegelman's father, who was a Polish Jew and was put into Auschwitz, one of the biggest concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
28			Weicht	Macbeth	Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king, and kills more people out of paranoia. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.
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1	School	Course	Teacher	Novel/Play	Brief Description
2	TMS	5th Grade - ELA Class Novel		Frindle	When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.
3		5th Grade - ELA Literature Circles/Author Study		(Andrew Clements) Lunch Money The Report Card No Talking The School Story Room One The Janitor's Boy	These are all novels with limited copies that can be used during literature circles for an Andrew Clements author study.
4		5th Grade - ELA Class Novel		Tuck Everlasting	Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older. Winnie must then decide whether to keep the Tucks' secret and join them on their never-ending journey.
5		5th Grade - ELA Class Novel		The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.
6		5th Grade - ELA Book/Magazine/ Informational Text		The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind / Winds of Hope (HMH)	When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library . . . and figured out how to bring electricity to his village. Persevering against the odds, William built a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero who harnessed the wind.
7		5th Grade - ELA Book/Short Story		The Secret Garden (HMH)	When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. With the help of two unexpected companions, Mary discovers a way in—and becomes determined to bring the garden back to life.
8		5th Grade - ELA Book/Short Story		The Inventor's Secret (HMH)	Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors--with very different results. As Edison invented hit after commercial hit, gaining fame and fortune, Henry struggled to make a single invention (an affordable car) work. Witnessing Thomas's glorious career from afar, a frustrated Henry wondered about the secret to his success.
9		5th Grade - Class Novel (ELA/SS Unit)		I Survived the American Revolution	Nathaniel is an 11-year old who finds himself in the middle of New York City in the middle of the American Revolution, and joins a friend's army regiment as a camp helper.
10				English and Social Studies departments utilize Newsela and CommonLit for non-fiction articles to support reading/writing/support
11		6th Grade	McKinney	Coraline	The story revolves around Coraline and the strange experiences she has after she and her parents move into an apartment in an old house. Coraline must save herself and her parents from the evil forces that threaten them. Coraline by Neil Gaiman is recommended for ages 8-12.
12		6th Grade	McKinney	Alex Rider: Stormbreaker	In Stormbreaker, 14-year-old Alex Rider, after the death of his uncle, is recruited by MI6 and thrust into a world of espionage. He is tasked with uncovering the truth behind a new computer system, "Stormbreaker," being gifted to schools across Britain by a seemingly philanthropic businessman, Herod Sayle. Alex discovers that Sayle is actually hiding a sinister plot to distribute a biological weapon disguised within the computers, intending to cause widespread harm.
13		6th Grade	Ritenhour	A Wrinkle in Time	A Wrinkle in Time is the story of Meg Murry, a high-school-aged girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet. At the beginning of the book, Meg is a homely, awkward, but loving girl, troubled by personal insecurities and her concern for her father, who has been missing for over a year. The plot begins with the arrival of Mrs. Whatsit at the Murry house on a dark and stormy evening. Although she looks like an eccentric tramp, she is actually a celestial creature with the ability to read Meg's thoughts. She startles Meg's mother by reassuring her of the existence of a tesseract--a sort of "wrinkle" in space and time. It is through this wrinkle that Meg and her companions will travel through the fifth dimension in search of Mr. Murry.
14		6th Grade		Bridge to Terabithia	The D-Day comes only for Jesse – and all the other boys – to be defeated by a girl named Leslie who lives a few blocks away from his house. Despite hating Leslie for stealing his dream, Jesse can’t help but admire the freedom with which Leslie ran – so he gets close and becomes her friend. He and Leslie would then create Terabithia, a magical country, that allows them to live their dreams and fantasies, but one day as Jesse returns from out of town, he is told that the unthinkable has happened to Leslie, and despite the shock from the news, Jesse is presented with the tasks of defeating his guilt and sadness to step up and fix things as a leader.
15		6th Grade		Behind the Rebel Lines (HMH)	In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman, and fop, Emma became a cunning master of disguise, risking discovery and death at every turn behind Confederate lines.
16		6th Grade		Black Beauty (HMH)	This is the story of a handsom well-bred horse of the era before automobiles, who is narrator of this book. Initially owned by kind people and later cruel ones, Black Beauty collapses fom this overworked, ill treatment. By the end of this tale, the horse is sold to yet another family whose kindness allows the horse to recover.
17		6th Grade		Hatchet	Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly desolate and alone. Exhausted, terrified, and hungry, Brian struggles to find food and make a shelter for himself. He has no special knowledge of the woods, and he must find a new kind of awareness and patience as he meets each day's challenges. Is the water safe to drink? Are the berries he finds poisonous? Slowly, Brian learns to turn adversity to his advantage--an invading porcupine unexpectedly shows him how to make fire, a devastating tornado shows him how to retrieve supplies from the submerged airplane. Most of all, Brian leaves behind the self-pity he has felt about his predicament as he summons the courage to stay alive. A story of survival and of transformation, this riveting book has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild.
18		6th Grade	(This is Gr. 8 TCSC due to the theme	The Giver (HMH)	At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
19		6th Grade		The Outsiders (HMH)	The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.
20		6th Grade		The Jungle Book (HMH)	Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling's fables remain as popular today as they ever were.
21		6th Grade		Maniac Mc Gee	This Newberry Medal award winning book shares the story of a boy who does not have a normal life after a trolley accident that made him an orphan. Living eight years with his unhappy aunt and uncle, the myth of Maniac McGee begins, as he flees and then changes the lives of a racially divided small town. He is amazing and legendary!
22		6th Grade		Soul Surfer	This is the story of Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer girl who lost her arm in a shark attack. She never loses faith, making adjustments to her surfing style. This moving account is about a recovery and return to competitve surfing.
23		6th Grade	McKinney	Among the Hidden	Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family’s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl’s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he’s met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows–
24		6th Grade	McKinney	Holes	Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.
25		6th grade	Stickles	True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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27		6th grade	Stickles	Red Wall
28		7th Grade	van Hoose	The Wizard of Oz	Dorothy Gale takes a magical journey from the American Hearland into the wonderful land of Oz to meet the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. With dog, Toto, by her side she learns the lessons of life are not always what we think they should be or could have ever imagined what they might mean, through such representation of her three nowfound friends. Ultimately, this young girl learns the meaning of family love and why there is "no place like home".
29		7th Grade	van Hoose	Alice in Wonderland	It tells the story of the young Alice as she follows the White Rabbit into the fantasy world of Wonderland. There, Alice meets other strange creatures like the Hatter and the Hare, the Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts.
30		7th Grade	van Hoose	The Lightning Thief	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a story about a troubled young boy who finds out his father is a Greek god, making him a demigod. He and his friends are given the task of finding and returning Zeus's lightning bolt as monsters from the Underworld attempt to stop them.
31		7th Grade	van Hoose	The Outsiders	The Outsiders is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is part of a gang called the Greasers, who are known for the trouble they cause. The novel follows Ponyboy as his life gets thrown off course after a rival gang, the Socs, beat him and one of his friends up.
32		7th Grade		The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with the "witch" is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!
33		7th Grade		Peak	When fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello's long lost father presents the opportunity for them to summit Everest together, Peak does not even consider saying no. Despite the suspician that there are a few trings attached, he wants to be at the top before his birthday. This would make him the youngest person to even stand above twenty-nine thousand feet. This climb changed everything, for a guys who had been stuck in NYC with onoly skyscrapers to scale.
34		7th Grade		A Wrinkle in Time	This is the story of Meg Murray, a high school aged girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother, Charles Wallace and her friend, Calven O'Keefe. Their mission is to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him on another planet.
35		7th Grade		Slam!	It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it is how you play the game. This is the theme of the story of Greg AKA "Slam" Harris. He can do it all on the basketball court. His grades are not so hot and his temper is on the verge of exploding, though. Slam has a future he cannot afford to lose, going "one on one".
36		7th Grade		Bud, Not Buddy	It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him--not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
37		7th Grade	van Hoose	A Christmas Carol	To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.
38		7th Grade	van Hoose	Hatchet	Sitting next to the pilot in a single-engine plane headed for the Candian wilderness, where he will visit his father for the first time, Brian Robeson is haunted by thoughts of divorce, and his knowledge of the secret that caused it. This thirteen year old has not seen his father since their divorce. When the plane crashes, Brian is the sole survivor. With only the clothes on his back and a hatchet (given by his mom) in his hand, he must face the truth.
39		7th Grade	Paula Ritenour	Walk Two Moons	Sal, short for Salamanca, travels the US west to get answers about her missing mother and to reunite. This thirteen year old, spends time with her grandparents in a car ride telling them stories (funny and sad) about her friend Phoebe.
40		8th Grade		Singularity	A twin sixteen year old boys arrive at their recently deceased great uncle's house in rural Illinois to house sit until their parents have time to take care his affairs. The book is narrated by Harry, the less popular twin who is less outgoing and less athletic.
41				Dracula	When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.
42				Seedfolks	A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads.
43				The Glory Field	This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles that held some of its members captive -- even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of the land that holds them together throughout it all.
44				Reaching Out	This memoir of a childhood and adolescence as the son of a Mexican immigrant is within a series of three books. The young boy/man carries many years of poverty and prejudice. Using his struggles to see his way forward, he types other papers of students in exchange for clothing. This tale is honest and inspiring and true.
45		8th Grade	Paula Ritenour	Number the Stars	Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.
46		8th Grade	Stickles van Hoose	Strays Lke Us	Molly Moberly knows she doesn't belong in this small Missouri town with her great-aunt Fay. It's just a temporary arrangement--until her mother gets out of the hospital. But then Molly meets Will, a fellow stray, and begins to realize she's not the only one on the outside. In fact, it seems like the town's full of strays--only some end up where they belong sooner than others.
47		8th Grade	This is Gr. 6 TCSC	Number the Stars	This is the story of a ten year old girl living in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Nazi invasion. Her ( Annemarie Johansen's) life is altered drastically between rations on food, Nazi's at every corner, and disappearing neighbors.
48		8th Grade	Stickles van Hoose	Diary of Anne Frank (play)	This stage adaptation of the book denotes the memoirs of a young Jewish girl who is forced to hide nearly two years to escape Nazi persecution.
49		8th Grade	van Hoose	The Boy in Striped Pajamas	The plot concerns a German boy named Bruno whose father is the commandant of Auschwitz and Bruno's friendship with a Jewish detainee named Shmuel.
50		8th Grade	Ritenour	The Book Thief	The story of the harsh times of Nazi occupation within Swedish borders, told through the eyes of a little girl. Death narrates the unfortunate events through color. Leisel tells the story of her family's bravery and love for one another as the bear witness to both kindness of people yet the reality of death in hard times of Hitler's rein.
51		8th Grade	van Hoose	Z for Zachariah	The survival of only two human beings after a nuclear devistation. Neither of them know the other exists, at first. This is a story of how each survive on the same planet, in the same region, until the story unites them on some unsettling terms and circumstances.
52		8th Grade	Stickles	Westing Game	The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin, is an award winning mystery in which the 16 heirs to Sam Westing's fortune assemble at the Sunset Towers apartment building where they're organized into pairs and charged with solving a puzzle. The heirs are hoping to gain control of his business and win millions of dollars.
53		8th grade	Stickles	5 People You Meet in Heaven	The book tells the story of Eddie, an elderly amusement park mechanic who dies in a tragic accident. In the afterlife, which resembles a personalized heaven, Eddie meets five people from his life, each playing a crucial role in helping him understand his own life and find peace
54		8th grade	Stickles	41 Stories
55		8th grade	Stickles	The River Between Us	The story tells about the struggle of a young leader, Waiyaki, to unite the two villages of Kameno and Makuyu through sacrifice and pain. The novel is set during the colonial period, when white settlers arrived in Kenya's "White Highlands", and has a mountain setting.
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59	Graphic Novel Class	6th grade	McKinney	Wings of Fire	Pyrrhia is a fictional land occupied by seven dragon tribes and their well-defined kingdoms. The nation is at war, divided into factions based on loyalty to three SandWing sisters who are fighting over who should be queen. A prophecy from the NightWings suggests five dragonets born on the brightest night will end the war in Pyrrhia. The war will have been going on for 20 years by the time the dragonets are predicted to step forward into their roles.
60		6th grade	McKinney	Nimona	“Nimona” is a young adult graphic novel by Noelle Stevenson which follows the adventures of Nimona as she serves as sidekick to the villainous Lord Ballister Blackheart, determined to overthrow the Institute of Law Enforcement and Heroics, believing them to be corrupt. Ballister agrees to take on Nimona upon learning she is a shapeshifter.
61		6th grade	McKinney	Miles Morales	Miles Morales is a normal kid who happens to juggle school at Brooklyn Visions Academy while swinging through the streets of Brooklyn as Spider-Man. After a disastrous earthquake strikes his mother’s birthplace of Puerto Rico, Miles springs into action to help set up a fundraiser for the devastated island. But when a new student’s father goes missing, Miles begins to make connections between the disappearance and a giant corporation sponsoring Miles’ fundraiser.
62		6th grade	McKinney	Awkard	Awkward is the first book in the Berrybrook Middle School series. It follows Penelope “Peppi” Torres as she attempts to make amends for shoving the quiet Jaime away from her in the hall. The graphic novel features a diverse cast and deals with issues such as teasing, opposite-sex friendships, the struggles of balancing community and competition, and how to be responsible for the mistakes we make in adolescence.


1	School	Course	Teacher	Novel/Play	Brief Description
2	TES	Kindergarten		HMH Into Reading	Discover a proven path to reading and writing success for students in Grades K–6, with our literacy programs in Spanish and English. HMH Into Reading, and our Spanish program ¡Arriba la Lectura!™, were built from the ground up using the latest in literacy research to ensure every student learns to read and write with confidence.
3		1st Grade		Flat Stanley	Stanley Lambchop has had his share of unusual adventures. But being flat was one thing he thought he was through with forever. Then one morning, he discovers he was wrong. Still, there is so much that a boy who is only one inch thick can do that a round person can’t. Maybe this time, all it will take is one amazing event for everything to finally make sense.
4		2nd Grade		Junie B. Jones	Junie B. Jones is a children's book series written by Barbara Park and illustrated by Denise Brunkus. Published by Random House from 1992 to 2013, the story centers on "almost six-year-old" Junie B. Jones and her adventures in kindergarten and first grade.
5		2nd Grade		Magic Tree House	Meet Jack and Annie! Jack and his younger sister, Annie, are just regular kids. But when they discover a tree house in the woods, something magical happens. Jack and Annie are whisked back in time to the Age of Dinosaurs, a medieval castle, ancient pyramids, and treasure-seeking pirates. The Magic Tree House series has been a beloved favorite for over 25 years and is sure to inspire a love of reading—and adventure—in every child who joins Jack and Annie!
6		3rd Grade		Third Grade Angels	George, aka "Suds," has just entered third grade, and he's heard the rhyme about "first grade babies/second grade cats/third grade angels/fourth grade rats," but what does this mean for his school year? It means that his teacher, Mrs. Simms, will hold a competition every month to see which student deserves to be awarded "the halo" - which student is best-behaved, kindest to others, and, in short, perfect. Suds is determined to be the first to earn the halo, but he's finding the challenge of always being good to be more stressful than he had anticipated. Does he have to be good even outside of school? (Does he have to be nice to his annoying little sister?) And if Mrs. Simms doesn't actually see him doing a good deed, does it even count?
7		3rd Grade		Because of Winn-Dixie	One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries—and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
8		3rd Grade		The Lemonade War	For a full hour, he poured lemonade. The world is a thirsty place, he thought as he nearly emptied his fourth pitcher of the day. And I am the Lemonade King. Evan Treski is people-smart. He’s good at talking with people, even grownups. His younger sister Jessie, on the other hand, is math-smart—but not especially good at understanding people. She knows that feelings are her weakest subject. With just five days left of summer vacation, Evan and Jessie launch an all-out war to see who can sell the most lemonade before school starts. As the battleground heats up, there really is no telling who will win—and even more important, if their fight will ever end.
9		3rd Grade		Charlotte's Web	Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books.
10		3rd Grade		The One and Only Ivan	Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.
11		3rd Grade		Molly's Story	Molly knows that her purpose is to take care of her girl, C.J., but it won’t be easy. Neglected by her mother, Gloria, who won’t allow her to have a dog, C.J. is going through some tough times. Molly’s job is to stay hidden in C.J.’s room, cuddle up to her at night, and protect her from bad people. And no matter what Gloria does to separate them, nothing will keep Molly away from the girl that she loves.
12		3rd Grade		Bailey's Story	Every dog has work to do. Every dog has a purpose.When Bailey meets eight-year-old Ethan, he quickly figures out his purpose: to play with the boy, to explore the Farm during summers with the boy, and to tidy the boy's dishes by licking them clean (only when Mom isn't watching). But Bailey soon learns that life isn't always so simple―that sometimes bad things happen―and that there can be no greater purpose than to protect the boy he loves. Bailey's Story is a moving tale about a dog and his boy for young animal lovers by W. Bruce Cameron, bestselling author of the acclaimed novel A Dog's Purpose. Adorable black-and-white illustrations by Richard Cowdrey bring Bailey and his world to life. A discussion and activity guide at the end of the book will help promote family and classroom discussions about Bailey's Story and the insights it provides about humankind's best friends.
13		3rd Grade		Ellie's Story	Every dog has work to do. Every dog has a purpose. Ellie is a very special dog with a very important purpose. From puppyhood, Ellie has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog. She can track down a lost child in a forest or an injured victim under a fallen building. She finds people. She saves them. It's what she was meant to do. But Ellie must do more. Her handlers―widowed Jakob, lonely Maya―need her too. People can be lost in many ways, and to do the job she was born to do, Ellie needs to find a way to save the people she loves best. Adorable black-and-white illustrations by Richard Cowdrey bring Ellie and her world to life. A discussion and activity guide at the end of the book will help promote family and classroom discussions about Ellie's Story and the insights it provides about humankind's best friends.
14		3rd Grade		Geroge's Marvelous Medicine	George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life—and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!
15		3rd Grade		Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, our hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!
16		3rd Grade		Little House on the Prairie	The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is hard, but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy in their new little house.
17		4th Grade		The BFG	The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants - rather than the BFG - she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
18		4th Grade		Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing	Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or scribbling all over Peter's homework, he's never far from trouble. He's a two-year-old terror who gets away with everything, and Peter's had enough. When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw. Peter has put up with Fudge for too long. How can he get his parents to pay attention to him for a change?