PERSHING'S BOOKLIST FOR STUDENTS
Grade 9

1984, Geprge Prwe
Alison Who Went Away, Vivian Vanda Belde
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest Gaines
Black Folktales, Julius Lester
Cool Salsa*
Friendship Ring (series), Rachel Vail
Go Ask Alice
Hoops, Walter Dean Myers
If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson
Interstellar Pig, William Sleator
Like Sisters on the Homefront, Rita Williams-Garcia
Lord of the Files, William Golding
Ludell and Willie, Brenda Wilkinson
Outsiders, S.E Hinton
Nothing But the Truth, Avi
River Cross My Heart, Breena Clarke
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
Time Machine, H.G. Wells
Venola in Love, Cheryl Ware
Whirligig, Paul Fleischman

Grade 10

Arabian Nights
Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Robert Cormier
Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Rita Williams Garcia
Every Tongue Got to Confess, Zora Neale  Hurston
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Fresh Girl, Jaira Placide
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, Julia Alvarez
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg
My Angelica, Carol Williams
Of Mice and Ment, John Steinbeck
Nat Turner and the Virginia Slave Revolt, Rivvy Neshama
Shakespeare Stealer, Gary Blackwood
Teacup Full of Roses, Sharon Mathis
Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbirh, Harper Lee
Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
Warriors Don't Cry, Melba Albom
What are You?: Voices of Mixed Race Young People, Pearl Gaskins
Your Brain is a Muscle Too, Vince Fudzie

Grade 11

Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Arther Conan Doyle*
Big Girls Don't Cry, Connie Briscoe
Billy, Albert French
Black Eyed Susan, Jennifer Armstrong
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Call of the Wild, Jack London
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Cezanne Pinto, Mary Stolz
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Hispanic, Female and Young
Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos
Hoop Dreams, Ben Joravsky
Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
Martin Luther King Jr.: To The Mountain Top, William Witherspoon
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
Parrot in the Oven, Victor Martinez
Princess, Sonya Hartnett
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Singing in the Come Back Choir, Bebe Moore Campbell
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
Unafraid of the Dark, Rosemary Bray
Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks

Grade 12


Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden
Chasing Redbird, Sharon Creech
Clover, Dori Sanders
Dawn, Octavia Butler
Emma, Jane Austen
Farewll to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Flying Home and Other Stories, Ralph Ellison
Get Tell It On The MOuntain, James Baldwin

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