Book+List

=The following list is a general list you can use for your students. Recommended grade levels are also included. Remember to check with your school for any restrictions.=

You can also use Library Thing in conjunction with this list to have your students keep track of their reading. http://librarything.com. You can also use the step-by-step instructions provided below.

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Step-by-step instructions: The next thing you will want to do is add to your library. To do so you must click on the “Add Books” tab in the top center of the page. You have the option of adding from a collection, Searching, adding from the Library of Congress, manually adding books, or importing them. From here you will want to set up/create a group for your students to participate. You will need to click the "Start a Group" tab in the upper right hand corner. This will bring you to the next page where you will put in all your information for your group and select create. The screen shot below is my example. This is a great option because it allows you to set privacy settings so that only the members of your group, in this case your students, will be able to see and post comments in the post section. This option is great for assigning students to literacy circles. It will give them the opportunity to enhance their collaboration skills as well as their technology skills. You could even create groups and assign students to particular groups as part of the assignment.
 * 1) Log on to [] and click the “Join Now” button in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
 * 1) Create your name and password and submit the information.
 * 2) Once you sign in you will be brought to another page where you have the option of creating your profile.
 * 3) Click the “About You” tab to have the option of reviewing what is in your library. Don’t worry you will be adding stuff to your account soon.

Set you location by clicking the "Local" Tab. This will allow the website to personalize information for you. For example in the picture I took, of the Local tab, you can see that the website gave me information to multiple libraries and bookstores, as well as giving me information about upcoming events. This is great in the event that you want to schedule a field trip to meet an author that is coming into the area or go to your local library. This site also has an option that allows you to connect your account with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Be sure to check with your local school board to request prior approval, if needed. You can start exploring your new library and start adding to your collection.

=Book List=

7th Grade
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight From Slavery (Judith Bloom Fradin) An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Jim Murphy) The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War (Jim Murphy) George Washington, Frontier Colonel (Sterling North) Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Susan Campbell Bartoletti) Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters (Andrea Davis Pinkney) Graves in the Wilderness (J. R. Gordon) Al Capone Does My Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko) The King of Mulberry Street (Donna Jo Napoli) Pagan's Crusade (Catherine Jinks) The Red Necklace (Sally Gardner) Tangerine (Edward Bloor) Heat (Mike Lupica) Reaching for Sun (Tracie Vaughn Zimmer) Among the Hidden (Margaret Peterson Haddix) Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff (Jennifer Holm)

8th Grade
The Monstrumologist (Rick Yancey) The Maze Runner (James Dashner) The Hunger Games and Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) The Last Thing I Remember Rash (Pete Hautman) Runner (Carl Deuker) Crackback (John Coy) Gym Candy (Carl Deuker) Soldier X (Don Wulffson) Soldier Boys (Dean Hughes) Lightning Thief Series (Rick Riordan) All's Fair in Love, War, and High School (Janette Rallison) Flavor of the Week (Tucker Shaw) Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Dyan Sheldon) Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo (Greg Leitich Smith) Sister to the Wolf (Maxine Trottier) Flipped (Wendelin Van Draanen) Memory Boy (Will Weaver) Uglies (Scott Westerfeld)

9th Grade
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) The Odyssey (Homer) The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) Catching Fire (Hunger Games, #2) (Suzanne Collins) Mockingjay (Hunger Games, #3) (Suzanne Collins) Night (Elie Wiesel) Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Marjane Satrapi) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson) Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher) The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) (Rick Riordan) In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Nathaniel Philbrick) Be More Chill (Ned Vizzini) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky) Twilight (Twilight, #1) (Stephanie Meyer) The Catcher In the Rye (J. D. Salinger)

Animal Farm (George Orwell) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Lord of the Flies (William Golding) Antigone (Sophocles) Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) (Elie Wiesel) The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende) A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah) The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) (Suzanne Collins) Go Ask Alice (Beatrice Sparks) The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) Macbeth (William Shakespeare) The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Snow Falling On Cedars (Frances Russell-Matthews) A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Michael Dorris)
 * 10th Grade**

11th Grade
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Crucible (Arthur Miller) In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman) The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien) Hiroshima (John Hersey) The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult) A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry) The Minister's Black Veil (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

12th Grade
Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Hard Times (Charles Dickens) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll) Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris) The Stranger (Albert Camus) The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) Dracula (Bram Stoker) 1984 (George Orwell) The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston) Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) (Chinua Achebe) As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

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