Common+Core+Appendix+B+Text+Exemplars

=Common Core Appendix B Text Exemplars= Additional Books to Use (Listed in red)

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RL=Reading level
= **__ Grades 6–8 Text Exemplars __** =

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (L 790, 1300) Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. (L 950) L’Engle, Madeleine. //A Wrinkle in Time.// (L 740) Cooper, Susan. //The Dark Is Rising.// (L 920) Yep, Laurence. //Dragonwings////.// (L 870) Taylor, Mildred D. //Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry////.// (L 920) Hamilton, Virginia. //The People Could Fly//. (L 680) Paterson, Katherine. //The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks////.// (L 930) Cisneros, Sandra. “ Eleven .” Sutcliff, Rosemary. //Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad////.// (L 1300)
 * __ Stories __**

Books for Grades 6-8: Fiction

Abdel-Fattah, Randa. [|**Where the Streets Had a Name**]. U.S. edition: Scholastic Press, 2010. 320 pages. Ages 12 and older

Boyce, Frank Cottrell. [|**Cosmic**]. U.S. edition: Walden Pond Press / HarperCollins, 2010. 313 pages. Ages 9-13

Bruchac, Joseph. [|**March Toward the Thunder**]. Dial, 2008. 298 pages. Ages 12 and older

Curtis, Christopher Paul. [|**Elijah of Buxton**]. Scholastic Press, 2007. 341 pages. Ages 10-14

Dowd, Siobhan. [|**The London Eye Mystery**]. U.S. edition: David Fickling Books / Random House, 2008. 322 pages. Ages 10-14

Frost, Helen. [|**Hidden**]. Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. 147 pages. Ages 11-14

Parker Rhodes, Jewell. [|**Ninth Ward**]. Little, Brown, 2010. 224 pages. Ages 9 - 13

Resau, Laura. [|**Red Glass**]. Delacorte, 2007. 275 pages. Ages 11-15

Roy, Jennifer. [|**Yellow Star**]. Marshall Cavendish, 2006. 227 pages. Ages 10-13

Schmidt, Gary D.. [|**Trouble**]. Clarion, 2008. 297 pages. Age 13 and older

Stead, Rebecca. [|**When You Reach Me**]. Wendy Lamb Books / Random House, 2009. 208 pages. Ages 10 - 13

Yang, Gene Luen. [|**Prime Baby**]. Illustrated by Derek Kirk Kim. Roaring Brook Press, 2010. 64 pages. Age 9 and older

**Books for Grades 6-8: Short Stories/Wordless Book**

Flake, Sharon G.. [|**Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives**]. Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2004. 168 pages. Ages 11-14

Naidoo, Beverley. [|**Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope**]. U.S. edition: HarperCollins, 2003. 175 pages. Ages 12 - 18

Salisbury, Graham. [|**Island Boyz: Short Stories**]. Wendy Lamb Books / Random House, 2002. 260 pages. Age 13 and older

Singer, editor, Marilyn. [|**I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion**]. HarperCollins, 2000. 280 pages. Ages 11 - 15

Tan, Shaun. [|**Tales from Outer Suburbia**]. U.S. edition: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2009. 92 pages. Ages 12 and older

Tan, Shaun. [|**The Arrival**]. Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2007. 128 pages. Age 11 and older

Fletcher, Louise. //Sorry, Wrong Number////.// Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett. //The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play////.//
 * __ Drama __**

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “ Paul Revere’s Ride .” Whitman, Walt. “ O Captain! My Captain! ” Carroll, Lewis. “ Jabberwocky .” Navajo tradition. “ Twelfth Song of Thunder .” Dickinson, Emily. “ The Railway Train .” Yeats, William Butler. “ The Song of Wandering Aengus .” Frost, Robert. “ The Road Not Taken .” Sandburg, Carl. “ Chicago .” Hughes, Langston. “ I, Too, Sing America .” Neruda, Pablo. “ The Book of Questions. ” Soto, Gary. “ Oranges .” Giovanni, Nikki. “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.” (available in EBSCO, Pioneer Library)
 * __ Poetry __**

**Books for Grades 6-8: Poetry**

Ernest L., Thayer. [|**Casey at the Bat**]. Illustrated by Joe Morse. KCP Poetry / Kids Can Press, 2006. 48 pages. Ages 9-16

Park, Linda Sue. [|**Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems)**]. Illustrated by Istvan Banyai. Clarion, 2007. 40 pages. Ages 8-11

Schlitz, Laura Amy. [|**Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village**]. Illustrated by Robert Byrd. Candlewick Press, 2007. 85 pages. Ages 8-12

Shange, Ntozake. [|**ellington was not a street**]. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Simon & Schuster, 2004. 32 pages. Ages 6-18

Sidman, Joyce. [|**Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors**]. Illustrated by Beckie Prange. Houghton Mifflin / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 32 pages. Ages 9-13

Sidman, Joyce. [|**This Is Just To Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness**]. Illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 47 pages. Ages 8-11

Smith, Hope Anita. [|**The Way a Door Closes**]. Illustrated by Shane W. Evans. Henry Holt, 2003. 52 pages. Ages 10 - 14

Weatherford, Carole Boston. [|**Birmingham, 1963**]. Wordsong / Boyds Mills Press, 2007. 39 pages. Age 10 and older

Woodson, Jacqueline. [|**Locomotion**]. Putnam, 2003. 128 pages. Ages 9 - 12

Adams, John. “Letter on Thomas Jefferson.” Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself Churchill, Winston. “ Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940 .” Petry, Ann. //Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.// Steinbeck, John. //Travels with Charley: In Search of America////.//
 * __ Informational Texts: English Language Arts __**

United States. Preamble and First Amendment to the United States Constitution. (1787, 1791). Lord, Walter. //A Night to Remember////.// Isaacson, Phillip. //A Short Walk through the Pyramids and through the World of Art.// Murphy, Jim. //The Great Fire////.// Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. //Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist////.// Partridge, Elizabeth. //This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of// // Woody Guthrie. // Monk, Linda R. //Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution////.// Freedman, Russell. //Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott////.//
 * __ Informational Texts: History/Social Studies __**

Macaulay, David. //Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction.// (L 1120) Mackay, Donald. //The Building of Manhattan////.// Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. //The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure.// (L 580) Peterson, Ivars and Nancy Henderson. //Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone.// Katz, John. //Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho.// (L 1070) Petroski, Henry. “ The Evolution of the Grocery Bag .”(complete article available in EBSCO, Pioneer Library) “Geology.” //U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science.// “Space Probe.” //Astronomy & Space: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch.// “Elementary Particles.” //New Book of Popular Science.// California Invasive Plant Council. // Invasive Plant Inventory .//
 * __ Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Subjects __**

**Books for Grades 6-8: Non-Fiction**

Allen, Tomas B.. [|**George Washington, Spymaster : How America Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War**]. Illustrated by Cheryl Harness. National Geographic, 2004. 184 pages. Ages 8-13

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. [|**How To Survive in Antarctica**]. Holiday House, 2006. 101 pages. Ages 9-14

Bolden, Tonya. [|**M.L.K.: Journey of a King**]. Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 128 pages. Ages 10-15

Crowe, Chris. [|**Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case**]. Phyllis Fogelman Books / Penguin, 2003. 128 pages. 12 and older

Fleming, Candace. [|**Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart**]. Schwartz & Wade, 2011. 118 pages. Ages 10-14

Krensky, Stephen. [|**Comic Book Century: The History of American Comic Books**]. (People's History) Twenty-First Century Books, 2008. 112 pages. Age 10 and older

Nelson, Kadir. [|**We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball**]. Jump at the Sun/ Hyperion, 2008. 88 pages. Ages 10 and older

Sís, Peter. [|**The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain**]. Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 48 pages. Age 9 and older

Stone, Tanya Lee. [|**Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream**]. Candlewick Press, 2009. 133 pages. Ages 12 and older

Telgemeier, Raina. [|**Smile**]. Scholastic, 2010. 213 pages. Ages 10-14

Thimmesh, Catherine. [|**Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon**]. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 80 pages. Ages 10-15

Turner, Pamela S.. [|**The Frog Scientist**]. Photographed by Andy Comins. Houghton Mifflin / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. 58 pages. Ages 10-15

= __ Grades 9–10 Text Exemplars __ =

Homer. // The Odyssey .// Ovid. // Metamorphoses .// Gogol, Nikolai. “ The Nose .” De Voltaire, F. A. M. // Candide, Or The Optimist .// Turgenev, Ivan. // Fathers and Sons .// Henry, O. “ The Gift of the Magi .” Kafka, Franz. // The Metamorphosis .// Steinbeck, John. //The Grapes of Wrath.// Bradbury, Ray. //Fahrenheit 451.// Olsen, Tillie. “ I Stand Here Ironing. ” Achebe, Chinua. //Things Fall Apart.// Lee, Harper. //To Kill A Mockingbird.// Shaara, Michael. //The Killer Angels.// Tan, Amy. //The Joy Luck Club.// Álvarez, Julia. //In the Time of the Butterflies.// Zusak, Marcus. //The Book Thief.// (L 730)
 * __ Stories __**

**Books for Grades 9-10: Fiction**

Alexie, Sherman. [|**The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian**]. Illustrated by Ellen Fourney. Litte, Brown, 2007. 240 pages. Ages 13-16

Donnelly, Jennifer. [|**A Northern Light**]. Harcourt, 2003. 400 pages. Age 13 -18

Hautman, Pete. [|**Rash**]. Simon & Schuster, 2006. 249 pages. Age 12 and older

Larbalestier, Justine. [|**Liar**]. U.S. edition: Bloomsbury, 2009. 376 pages. Ages 14 and older

McCaughrean, Geraldine. [|**The White Darkness**]. HarperTempest / HarperCollins, 2007. 373 pages. Age 14 and older

McNeal, Laura. [|**Dark Water**]. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 287 pages. Age 14 and older

Na, An. [|**A Step From Heaven**]. Front Street, 2001. 156 pages. Age 13 and older

Rosoff, Meg. [|**how i live now**]. Wendy Lamb Books / Random House, 2004. 194 pages. Ages 14-18

Shusterman, Neal. [|**Bruiser**]. HarperCollins, 2010. 328 pages. Age 14 and older

St. James, James. [|**Freak Show**]. Dutton, 2007. 298 pages. Age 13 and older

Woodson, Jacqueline. [|**Beneath a Meth Moon**]. Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin, 2012. 192 pages. Age 12 and older

Yang, Gene Luen. [|**American Born Chinese**]. First Second, 2006. 233 pages. Age 13 and older

Zusak, Markus. [|**The Book Thief**]. U.S. edition: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 552 pages. Age 15 and older

**Books for Grades 9-10: Short Stories**

. [|**Up All Night: A Short Story Collection**]. Laura Geringer Books / HarperTeen / HarperCollins, 2008. 227 pages. Age 13 and older

Ellis, Deborah. [|**Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories**]. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2008. 169 pages. Age 13 and older

Hautman (editor), Pete. [|**Full House: 10 Stories about Poker**]. Putnam, 2007. 161 pages. Ages 12-16

Lang, Gene Yuen. [|**The Eternal Smile**]. Illustrated by Derek Kirk Kim. First Second, 2009. 170 pages. Ages 13 and older

Lester, Julius. [|**This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History**]. Dial, 2007. 193 pages. Age 14 and older

Levithan, David. [|**How They Met and Other Stories**]. Knopf, 2008. 244 pages. Age 13 and older

Nye, Naomi Shihab. [|**Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose**]. Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins, 2008. 164 pages. Age 13 and older

Sophocles//. Oedipus Rex .// Shakespeare, William. // The Tragedy of Macbeth .// Ibsen, Henrik. // A Doll’s House .// Williams, Tennessee. //The Glass Menagerie.// Ionesco, Eugene. //Rhinoceros.// Fugard, Athol. //“Master Harold”…and the boys.”//
 * __ Drama __**

Shakespeare, William. “ Sonnet 73 .” Donne, John. “ Song .” Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “ Ozymandias .” Poe, Edgar Allan. “ The Raven .” Dickinson, Emily. “ We Grow Accustomed to the Dark .” Houseman, A. E. “ Loveliest of Trees .” Johnson, James Weldon. “ Lift Every Voice and Sing. ” Cullen, Countee. “ Yet Do I Marvel .” Auden, Wystan Hugh. ” Musée des Beaux Arts .” Walker, Alice. “Women.” Baca, Jimmy Santiago. “ I Am Offering This Poem to You .” **Books for Grades 9-10: Poetry**
 * __ Poetry __**

Engle, Margarita. [|**The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano**]. Illustrated by Sean Qualls. Henry Holt, 2006. 183 pages. Age 12 and older

Frost, Helen. [|**Crossing Stones**]. Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009. 184 pages. Ages 13 and older

Greenberg, Jan. [|**Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World**]. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2008. 88 pages. Age 12 and older

Myers, Walter Dean. [|**Jazz**]. Illustrated by Christopher Myers. Holiday House, 2006. 44 pages. Age 10 and older

Nye, Naomi Shihab, selector. [|**What Have You Lost?**]. Photographed by Michael Nye. Greenwillow, 1999. 205 pages. Age 12 and older

Poe, Edgar Allan. [|**The Raven**]. Illustrated by Ryan Price. KCP Poetry / Kids Can Press, 2006. 48 pages. Age 11 and older

Shange, Ntozake. [|**We Troubled the Waters**]. Illustrated by Rod Brown. Amistad / Collins / HarperCollins, 2009. 32 pages. Age 13 and older

Soto, Gary. [|**Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing**]. Harcourt / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. 100 pages. Age 13 and older

Henry, Patrick. “ Speech to the Second Virginia Convention .” Washington, George. “ Farewell Address .” Lincoln, Abraham. “ Gettysburg Address .” Lincoln, Abraham. “ Second Inaugural Address .” Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “ State of the Union Address .” Hand, Learned. “I Am an American Day Address.” Smith, Margaret Chase. “Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience.” King, Jr., Martin Luther. “ Letter from Birmingham Jail .” King, Jr., Martin Luther. “I Have a Dream: Address Delivered at the March on Washington, D.C., for Civil Rights on August 28, 1963. ” Angelou, Maya. // I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // //.// Wiesel, Elie. “ Hope, Despair and Memory .” Reagan, Ronald. “ Address to Students at Moscow State University .” Quindlen, Anna. “ A Quilt of a Country .”
 * __ Informational Texts: English Language Arts __**

Brown, Dee. //Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American// // West. // Connell, Evan S. //Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn.// Gombrich, E. H. //The Story of Art, 16th Edition.// Kurlansky, Mark. //Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.// Haskins, Jim. //Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War.// Dash, Joan. //The Longitude Prize.// Thompson, Wendy. //The Illustrated Book of Great Composers.// Mann, Charles C. //Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491.//
 * __ Informational Texts: History/Social Studies __**

Euclid. // Elements .// Cannon, Annie J. “Classifying the Stars.” Walker, Jearl. “Amusement Park Physics.” Preston, Richard. //The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story.// Devlin, Keith. //Life by the Numbers.// Hoose, Phillip. //The Race to Save Lord God Bird.// Hakim, Joy. //The Story of Science: Newton at the Center.// Nicastro, Nicholas. //Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to// // Measure the Globe. // U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/U.S. Department of Energy. //Recommended// // Levels of Insulation. //
 * __ Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Subjects __**

**Books for Grades 9-10: Non-Fiction**

Alsenas, Linas. [|**Gay America: Struggle for Equality**]. Amulet, 2008. 160 pages. Age 12 and older

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. [|**Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow**]. Scholastic, 2005. 176 pages. Ages 13-18

Bausum, Ann. [|**Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration**]. National Geographic, 2009. 111 pages. Ages 12 and older

Freedman, Russell. [|**Who Was First? Discovering the Americas**]. Clarion, 2007. 88 pages. Ages 11-15

Giblin, James Cross. [|**Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth**]. Clarion, 2005. 256 pages. Ages 12-17

Hoose, Phillip. [|**Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice**]. Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009. 133 pages. Ages 13 and older

Madden, Kerry. [|**Up Close: Harper Lee**]. Viking, 2009. 223 pages. Ages 13 and older

Marrin, Albert. [|**Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy**]. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 182 pages. Age 12 and older

Martin, Russell and Lydia Nibley. [|**The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair**]. Charlesbridge, 2009. 120 pages. Ages 12 and older

Nelson, Scott Reynolds and Marc Aronson. [|**Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry**]. National Geographic, 2008. 64 pages. Age 10 and older

Stone, Tanya Lee. [|**The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll’s History and Her Impact on Us**]. Viking, 2010. 130 pages. Age 11 and older

= __ Grades 11–CCR Text Exemplars __ =

Chaucer, Geoffrey. // The Canterbury Tales .// de Cervantes, Miguel. // Don Quixote .// Austen, Jane. // Pride and Prejudice .// Poe, Edgar Allan. “ The Cask of Amontillado .” Brontë, Charlotte. // Jane Eyre .// Hawthorne, Nathaniel. // The Scarlet Letter .// Dostoevsky, Fyodor. // Crime and Punishment .// Jewett, Sarah Orne. “ A White Heron .” Melville, Herman. // Billy Budd, Sailor .// Chekhov, Anton. “ Home .” Fitzgerald, F. Scott. // The Great Gatsby .// Faulkner, William. //As I Lay Dying.// Hemingway, Ernest. //A Farewell to Arms.// Hurston, Zora Neale. //Their Eyes Were Watching God.// Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Bellow, Saul. //The Adventures of Augie March.// Morrison, Toni. //The Bluest Eye.// Garcia, Cristina. //Dreaming in Cuban.// Lahiri, Jhumpa. //The Namesake.// Anderson, M.T.. [|**The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party**]. Candlewick Press, 2006. 351 pages. Age 15 and older
 * __ Stories __**

Chambers, Aidan. [|**Postcards from No Man's Land**]. U.S edition: Dutton, 2002. 312 pages. Ages 16 and older

Hartnett, Sonya. [|**Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf**]. Candlewick, 2005. 208 pages. Ages 14 and older

Hidier, Tanuja Desai. [|**Born Confused**]. Scholastic Press, 2002. 413 pages. Ages 15 and older

Stassen, Jean-Philippe. [|**Déogratias: A Tale of Rwanda**]. U.S. First Second, 2006. 79 pages. Age 14 and older

Stork, Francisco X.. [|**Marcelo in the Real World**]. Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2009. 312 pages. Ages 14 and older

Stork, Francisco X.. [|**The Last Summer of the Death Warriors**]. Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, Inc., 2010. 344 pages. Ages 14 and older

Whaley, John Corey. [|**Where Things Come Back**]. Atheneum, 2011. 228 pages. Age 14 and older

White, Tracy. [|**How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story**]. Roaring Brook Press, 2010. 151 pages. Ages 14 and older

Wolf, Allan. [|**The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic**]. Candlewick Press, 2011. 466 pages. Age 13 and older

Zusak, Markus. [|**I am the Messenger**]. U.S. edition: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 368 pages. Ages 14 and older

**Books for Grades 11-12: Short Stories/Wordless Book**

Lanagan, Margo. [|**Red Spikes**]. U.S. edition: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 167 pages. Age 15 and older

Lanagan, Margo. [|**Black Juice**]. U.S. edition: Eos / HarperCollins, 2005. 208 pages. Ages 14 - 17

Lanagan, Margo. [|**White Time**]. HarperCollins, 2006. 216 pages. Age 14 and older

Myers, Walter Dean. [|**What They Found: Love on 145th Street**]. Wendy Lamb Books, 2007. 243 pages. Ages 13-16

Myers, Walter Dean. [|**145th Street: Short Stories**]. Delacorte Press, 200. 151 pages. Age 13 and older

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Tartuffe. Wilde, Oscar. // The Importance of Being Earnest .// Wilder, Thornton. //Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.// Miller, Arthur. //Death of a Salesman.// Hansberry, Lorraine. //A Raisin in the Sun.// Soyinka, Wole. //Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play.//
 * __ Drama __**

Li Po. “A Poem of Changgan.” Donne, John. “ A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. ” Wheatley, Phyllis. “ On Being Brought From Africa to America .” Keats, John. “ Ode on a Grecian Urn. ” Whitman, Walt. “ Song of Myself .” Dickinson, Emily. “ Because I Could Not Stop for Death .” Tagore, Rabindranath. “Song VII.” Eliot, T. S. “ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock .” Pound, Ezra. “ The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter .” Frost, Robert. “ Mending Wall .” Neruda, Pablo. “Ode to My Suit. Ortiz Cofer, Judith. “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.”
 * __ Poetry __**

Hemphill, Stephanie. [|**Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath**]. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 261 pages. Age 15 and older

Nelson, Marilyn. [|**A Wreath for Emmett Till**]. Illustrated by Philippe Lardy. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 40 pages. Age 14 and older

Nye, Naomi Shihab, selector. [|**Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25**]. Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins, 2010. 236 pages. Age 14 and older

Vecchione, Patrice. [|**Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems**]. Henry Holt, 2007. 138 pages. Age 12 and older

Paine, Thomas. // Common Sense .// Jefferson, Thomas. // The Declaration of Independence .// United States. **The Bill of Rights** (Amendments One through Ten of the United States Constitution). Thoreau, Henry David. // Walden .// Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Society and Solitude.” Porter, Horace. “Lee Surrenders to Grant, April 9th, 1865.” Chesterton, G. K. “The Fallacy of Success.” Mencken, H. L. //The American Language, 4th Edition.// Wright, Richard. //Black Boy.// Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language.” Hofstadter, Richard. “Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.” Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.” Anaya, Rudolfo. “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”
 * __ Informational Texts: English Language Arts __**

Tocqueville, Alexis de. //Democracy in America////.// // Declaration of Sentiments // by the Seneca Falls Conference. Douglass, Frederick. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852.” // An American Primer ////. // Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe. “Education.” McPherson, James M. //What They Fought For 1861–1865.// // The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation, 2nd Edition. // Amar, Akhil Reed. //America’s Constitution: A Biography////.// McCullough, David. //1776.// Bell, Julian. //Mirror of the World: A New History of Art////.// // FedViews // by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
 * __ Informational Texts: History/Social Studies __**

Paulos, John Allen. //Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences////.// Gladwell, Malcolm. //The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big// // Difference. // Tyson, Neil deGrasse. “Gravity in Reverse: The Tale of Albert Einstein’s ‘Greatest Blunder.’” Calishain, Tara, and Rael Dornfest. //Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter// // Searching, 2nd Edition. // Kane, Gordon. “The Mysteries of Mass.” Fischetti, Mark. “Working Knowledge: Electronic Stability Control.” U.S. General Services Administration. //Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management.// Kurzweil, Ray. “The Coming Merger of Mind and Machine.” Gibbs, W. Wayt. “Untangling the Roots of Cancer.” Gawande, Atul. “The Cost Conundrum: Health Care Costs in McAllen, Texas.”
 * __ Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Subjects __**

> **Books for Grades 11-12: Non-Fiction**

> Angel, Ann. [|**Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing**]. Amulet Books, 2010. 120 pages. Age 14 and older

> Aronson, Marc. [|**Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde**]. Clarion, 1998. 192 pages. Age 13 and older

> Barakat, Ibtisam. [|**Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood**]. Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 176 pages. Age 13 and older

> Giblin, James Cross. [|**The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy**]. Clarion / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. 304 pages. Ages 14 and older

> Heiligman, Deborah. [|**Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith**]. Henry Holt, 2009. 268 pages. Ages 14 and older

> Kuklin, Susan. [|**No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row**]. Henry Holt, 2008. 212 pages. Age 14 and older

> Partridge, Elizabeth. [|**John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth**]. Viking, 2005. 256 pages. Ages 13-17

>