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NOVEL RATIONALES
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The lists below include approved novels for teaching. Click on each novel title to view an individual rationale.
- 9th Grade Novels
- A Day No Pigs Would Die
- A Separate Peace
- Anthem
- Bless Me, Ultima
- Chosen
- Eleanor & Park
- Fast Food Nation
- Great Expectations
- Lord of the Flies
- Monster
- Nervous Conditions
- Odyssey
- Our Boys: a Perfect Season on the Plains
- Punch
- Romeo and Juliet
- Speak
- Stotan
- The Adventures of Ulysses
- The Hate U Give
- The House on Mango Street
- The Poet X
- Twelve Angry Men
- Whirligig
- 10th Grade Novels
- 1984
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Animal Farm
- Antigone
- Born a Crime
- Boy's Life
- Class Matters
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Ellen Foster
- Fahrenheit 451
- Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
- Hiroshima
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Into the Wild
- Joy Luck Club
- Julius Caesar
- Les Misérables
- Long Way Down
- Macbeth
- Othello
- Peace Like a River
- Tale of Two Cities
- The Bean Trees
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- The Natural
- The Once and Future King
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Things Fall Apart
- 11th Grade Novels
- A Farewell to Arms
- A Raisin in the Sun
- All the Pretty Horses
- Awakening
- Between the World and Me
- Black Boy
- Educated
- Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
- Ethan Frome
- Invisible Man
- Kindred
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Song of Solomon
- The Crucible
- The Glass Castle
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
- The Red Badge of Courage
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Things a Brother Knows
- The Things They Carried
- Unbroken
- 12th Grade Novels
- A Lesson Before Dying
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- All the Light We Cannot See
- Art of Work
- Beloved
- Brave New World
- Catch 22
- Chicken Soup
- Crime Punishment
- Cry Beloved Country
- Death of a Salesman
- Enders Game
- Ender's Shadow
- Frankenstein
- Going After Cacciato
- Hamlet
- Heart of Darkness
- Hot Zone
- Importance of Being Ernest
- In Cold Blood
- Inferno
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Jane Eyre
- King Lear
- Life of Pi
- Long Days Journey
- Lords of Discipline
- Madame Bovary
- Metamorphosis
- Mousetrap and Other Plays
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Outliers
- Parable of the Sower
- Plainsong
- Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- The Death of Ivan Illych
- The Devil in the White City
- The Road
- The Stranger
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- Where the Crawdads Sing
