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CCS Approved Reading List Books

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Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures.
Carroll, LewisFantasy31
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1/1/2004
AnthemUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.
Rand, AynFiction64
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1/1/2004
Barrio BoyUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
True story of a Mexican boy who, with his family, made the journey from his mountain village to the barrio of Sacramento and how he observed, understood and accepted the reactions and feelings of others to the events they shared.
Galarza, ErnestoAutobiography1
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1/1/2004
Black BoyUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Autobiography of a Southern Negro who yearned for intellectual and physical freedom.
Wright, RichardFiction1
9
1/1/2004
Bless the Beasts & ChildrenUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Six adolescent boys staying at a camp in Arizona run away into the desert and learn much about themselves and the world.
Swarthout, GlendonFiction1
9
1/1/2004
Darkness Before DawnUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous older man.
Draper, SharonBio Fiction32
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1/1/2004
Death Be Not Proud: A MemoirUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A biography of the author’s son, who died at seventeen after a fourteen-month illness caused by a brain tumor.
Gunther, JohnBiography20
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1/1/2004
Education of Little TreeUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The inspirational and semi-autobiographical remembrances of the author's Indian boyhood with his Eastern Cherokee Hill Country grandparents in the 1930's depression-era.
Carter, ForrestAutobiography35
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1/1/2004
Elephant Man: A Play, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A play about a horribly deformed young man in 19th century England who becomes a favorite among the aristocracy and literati.
Pomerance, BernardDrama1
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1/1/2004
Fahrenheit 451Use SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew.  He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.
Bradbury, RayScience Fiction35
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1/1/2004
Forged by FireUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An African-American teenager overcomes a home of addiction and abuse to save his sister and himself.
Draper, SharonBio Fiction46
9
1/1/2004
Great ExpectationsUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.
Dickens, CharlesFiction122
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1/1/2004
Hound of the Baskervilles, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead on the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts the moor, but Sherlock Holmes knows there must be a more rational explanation.
Doyle, Arthur ConanMystery2
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1/1/2004
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You ThisUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Woodson, JacquelineFiction1
9
1/1/2010
I Remember MamaUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An adaptation of the Kathryn Forbes Book, Mama’s Bank Account, in which Mama, a loving and capable Norwegian woman, guides her son and three daughters through childhood in early twentieth century San Francisco.
Van Druten, John and Forbes, KathrynDrama
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1/1/2004
Martian Chronicles, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
     Chronicles the early attempts by humans to colonize an inhabited Mars by transforming the red planet into a mirror image of the world they left behind.
Bradbury, RayScience Fiction26
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1/1/2004
Miracle Worker, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The play about blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan.
Gibson, WilliamBiography/ Drama36
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1/1/2004
MonsterUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Myers, Walter DeanFiction69
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1/1/2004
My AntoniaUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a simple Bohemian girl.
Cather, WillaHistorical Fiction38
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1/1/2004
MythologyUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A collection of Greek, Roman, and Norse myths retold by the author.
Hamilton, EdithMythology26
9
1/1/2004
Night to Remember, AUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The story of the unsinkable Titanic that went down with 1503 men, women, and children aboard.
Lord, WalterHistory2
9
1/1/2004
No Promises in the WindUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A young man struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s.
Hunt, IreneHistorical Fiction1
9
1/1/2004
Odyssey, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
HomerEpic Poem36
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1/1/2004
Pearl, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fisherman.
Steinbeck, JohnFiction2
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1/1/2004
Pigman, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man who has a terrible secret.
Zindel, PaulFiction1
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1/1/2004
Pigman’s Legacy, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Haunted by the memory of a dead friend, two teenagers join an old man in a series of misadventures.
Zindel, PaulFiction6
9
1/1/2004
Romeo and JulietUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Two lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their families for one another.
Shakespeare, WilliamDrama3
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1/1/2004
SeedfolksUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An ethnically diverse group of all ages unites to create a community garden in a city's vacant lot.
Fleischman, PaulFiction1
9
1/1/2004
Separate Peace, AUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.
Knowles, JohnFiction
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1/1/2004
Silas MarnerUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold.  Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
Eliot, GeorgeFiction2
9
1/1/2004
SpeakUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. Contains mature material.
Anderson, Laurie HalseFiction39
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1/1/2004
Story of My Life, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An autobiography of Helen Keller, written while she was a young woman, in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sulllivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness.
Keller, HelenAutobiography2
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1/1/2004
Tears of a TigerUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A young African-American boy has difficulty coming to terms with the death of a friend who died in a car accident that resulted from drinking and driving.
Draper, SharonBio Fiction44
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1/1/2004
Watership DownUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
Adams, RichardFantasy1
9
1/1/2004
West Side StoryUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Violent feuds separate two star-crossed lovers.
Laurents, ArthurDrama
9
1/1/2004
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