English I

Choose one of the following:

• The Crossing by Gary Paulsen
• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Autobiography of Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Meyers
• Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
• Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange
• The Crossing by Gary Paulsen
• Monster by Walter Dean Meyers
• True Believer by Virginia Wolff
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
• Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dumphrie by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez

AS English I & English ICAP

Required Reading:

• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  

• The Kalahari Typing School for Men: More from the No. 1 Ladie’s Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
• Haunoun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

English II

Choose one of the following:

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Forbidden City by William Bell
• Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
• Chinese Cinderella by Yen Mah Adeline
• Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
• Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
• Death Watch by Robb White
• The Hobbit (or a choice from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• Seed Folks by Paul Fleishman
• Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
• Republic of East L. A. by Luis Rodriguez

AS English II & English II ICAP

Required Reading:

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  

• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
• The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
• Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
• My Name is Asher Lev by Potok
• House of Spirits by Allende

English III

Choose one of the following:

• East Side Dreams by Art Rodriguez
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voight
• Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne W. Houston
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Roots by Alex Haley
• A Summer Life by Gary Soto
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

AP Language / IB Y 1

Required Reading:

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

English IV

Choose one of the following:

• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voight
• Living Up the Street by Gary Soto
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
• The Eight by Katherine Neville
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

IB Y2/AP Literature

Required Reading:

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Dust Tracks on the Road by Zora Neale Hurston