Reading Lists

Seventh Grade

*New Kid by Jerry Craft

*Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

*Schooled by Paul Langan

Eighth Grade

*All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

*The Crossover by Kwame Reynolds

*The Bully by Paul Langan

*A Separate Peace by John Knowles

*Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Ninth Grade

*Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

*To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

*Dear Martin by Nic Stone

*A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

*The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

*Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

Tenth Grade

*Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

*The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

*In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

*The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

*Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena 

*Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Eleventh Grade

*Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

*A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

*Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns 

*Lord of the Flies by William Golding

*I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

*Black Boy by Richard Wright

Twelfth Grade

*Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

*Stamped by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

*Lord of the Flies by William Golding

*The Color Purple by Alice Walker

U.S. History (Eleventh Grade)

*The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

*Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe