Middle School

LITTLE WOMEN
by Louisa May Alcott
The story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.

WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
by Frank Baum
Dorothy and her dog Toto are swept away in a huge twister and wake up in a strange and magical land. All Dorothy wants is to go home.

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
by Lewis Carroll
A girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

JOHNNY TREMAIN
by Esther Forbes
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

THE CALL OF THE WILD
by Jack London
This is the story of Buck, a dog abducted from his home and thrust into the merciless world of an Arctic north consumed by a quest for gold.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
by L.M. Montgomery
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

THE YEARLING
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.

THE LITTLE PRINCE
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.

BLACK BEAUTY
by Anna Sewell
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

TREASURE ISLAND
by Robert Louis Stevenson
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.

ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
by Mark Twain
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

High School

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
by Jane Austen
A delightful novel about "how girls catch husbands." What will happen to sister Lydia, will the arrogant Lady Catherine de Burgh's intrigues be foiled, will sister Jane marry Mr. Bingley and especially, will Elizabeth, cured of her prejudice, and Mr. Darcy, cured of his pride, fall into each other's arms?

JANE EYRE
by Charlotte Brontë
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

MY ÁNTONIA
by Willa Cather
Antonia Shimerda, mystical and mythical, suffers the agony of her father's suicide and her husband's desertion but never loses her passion for life and the land.

SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Short stories revolving around the world’s most popular and influential fictional detective—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson step into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction.

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
by Alexandre Dumas
Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well liked by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is framed by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for 14 years. A tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge.

THE GREAT GATSBY
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.

THE MALTESE FALCON
by Dashiell Hammett
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Hammett's gem of detective fiction.

THE ODYSSEY
by Homer
Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War–a journey of many years and countless adventures.

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
by Zora Neale Hurston
Fair, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person–no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

BRAVE NEW WORLD
by Aldous Huxley
Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.

ANIMAL FARM
by George Orwell
A group of farm animals successfully revolt against their cruel human owner, only to be enslaved anew by the unscrupulous pig Napoleon, whose slogan is "all animals are equal but some animals more equal than others."

THE REPUBLIC
by Plato
Containing crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy, it is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for ordinary readers, who are carried along by the wit and intensity of the dialogue and by Plato's unforgettable images of the human condition.

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
by Erich Maria Remarque
Paul Bäumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. Paul watches his Second Company --150 men strong-- reduced in a single battle to 32 weary survivors.

FRANKENSTEIN
by Mary Shelley
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
by Betty Smith
The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan–and her erratic, eccentric family–in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn.

THE HOBBIT, OR, THERE AND BACK AGAIN
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.

NATIVE SON
by Richard Wright
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.

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