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- Prep for College Reading I
- Prep for College Reading II
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- Prep for College Reading I
- Prep for College Reading II
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Suggested Reading List
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Suggested Reading for PCR I and II Students

Author

Title

Reading Level

XXXX

A Taste of Salt

 

XXXX

The Night of Wishes

 

Abbott, Jennie

Good-bye and Hello

 

Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart

 

Alireza, Marianne

At the Drop of a Veil

 

Armstrong, William

Sounder

5

Ba, Mariama

So Long a Letter

 

Babbitt, Natalie

Tuck Everlasting

5.7

Baker, Elizabeth

This Stranger, My Son

4.7

Ballard, Robert

The Lost Wreck of the Isis

6

Beattie, Owen and John Geiger

Buried in Ice

4.7

Betancourt, Jeanne

My Name is Brian

5

Bosley, Judith

Don’t Sell Me Short

2.5

Bradbury, Ray

Fahrenheit 451

 

Byers, Betsy

The Summer of the Swans

5.4

Canfield, Jack

Chickensoup for the Baseball Fan’s Soul

 

Cather, Willa

My Antonia

8

Connolly, Miles

Mr. Blue

7

Cole, Sheila

The Dragon in the Cliff

6.9

Cooper, J.

Family

7

Cooper, Susan

Dawn of Fear

5.8

Coret, Harriete

Love Letters

3.5

Cormier, Robert

The Chocoloate War

 

Couch, Dick

The Warrier Elite

 

Cowan, Philip

Family, Self and Society

 

Cisneros, Sandra

The House on Mango Street

 

Craven, Margaret

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

8

Crutcher, Chris

Ironman

 

Cushman, Karen

The Midwife’s Apprentice

5.9

Dailey, Janet

The Healing Touch

4.4

Danticat, Edwidge

Krik! Krik!

 

Danticat, Edwidge

Breath, Eyes, Memory

 

Dickens, Charles

David Copperfield

 

Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist

 

Donahure, John

An Islang Far from Home

4

Donahure, John

Till Tomorrow

4

Donnelly, Judy

Who Shot the President: The Death of JFK

4.9

Durant, Michael

In the Company of Heroes

 

Ende, Michael

The Night of the Wished

 

Evans, Nicholas

The Horse Whisperer

 

Frank, Anne

Diary of Anne Frank

 

George, Jean Craighead

My Side of the Mountain

5

Gibbons, Kaye

A Virtuous Woman

7

Gibson, William

Miracle Worker

 

Glancy, Diane

Flutie

6

Greene, Graham

Our Man in Havana

 

Grisham, John

The Runaway Jury

 

Hagen, Agnes

Justice on Horseback

3.5

Hersey, John

A Single Pebble

 

Holm, Jennifer

Our Only May Amelia

5.6

Hurston, Zora Neale

Their Eyes Were Watching God

7

Jacobs, Harriet

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
Written by Herself

6.7

Juster, Norton

The Phanton Tollbooth

 

Knight, Michael

In Chains to Louisiana:
Solomon Northrup’s Story

5

Lardner, Ring

You Know Me Al: Bush’s Letters

7

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

LeGuin, Ursula

Tombs of Atuan

8

Lessing, Doris

The Grass is Singing

 

London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

8

Lowry, Lois

Gathering Blue

5

Lowry, Lois

The Giver

 

MacDonald, Michael Patrick

All Souls

 

Markandaya, Kamala

Nector in a Sieve

 

Marsden, John

Letters from Inside

4.7

Martin, Ann

The Babysitter’s Club

 

Menchu, Rogoberta

I. Rigobera Menchu, an Indian Woman
in Guatemala

 

Merriwether, Louise

Daddy was a Number Runner

7

Morrison, Toni

Sula

8

Murphy, Jim

My Face to the Wind:
The Diary of Sarah Jane Price

4

Myers, Walter Dean

The Journal of Biddy Owen:
The Negro Leagues

5.9

Narayan, R.K.

A Tiger for Malgudi

 

O’Dell, Scott

Island of the Blue Dolphins

9.8

Orwell, George

Animal Farm

 

Paulsen, Gary

Night John

 

Pelzer, Dave

A Child Called It

 

Pelzer, Dave

A Man Named Dave

 

Pelzer, Dave

The Lost Boy

 

Potok, Chaim

The Chosen

 

Preston, Richard

The Hot Zone

 

Rawls, Wilson

Where the Red Fern Grows

 

Rodman, Dennis

Bad As I Wanna Be

 

Rosemary, Harris

Zed

 

Salinger, J.D.

Catcher in the Rye

 

Santiago, Esmeralda

When I was Puerto Rican

 

Shafton, Anthony

Dream-Singers

 

Shakespeare, William

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet

 

Shakespeare, William

Othello

 

Silvia, Matilda

Once Upon an Island

 

Souljah, Sister

The Coldest Winter Ever

 

Steele, Danielle

Five Days in Paris

 

Steele, Danielle

The Ring

 

Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men

 

Steinbeck, John

The Pearl

 

Steinbeck, John

The Short Reigh of Pippin IV: A Fabrication

 

Strasser, Todd

The Wave

 

Tolkein, J.R.

The Hobbit

 

Wartski, Maureen

A Boat to Nowhere

 

Waters, Frank

The Man Who Killed the Deer

 

Weisel, Elie

Night

 

Wibberly, Leonard

The Mouse that Roared

 

Wilde, Stuart

Miracles

 

Wilder, Thorton

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

 

Wisler, G. Clifton

Red Cap

5.5

Woods, Teri

True to the Game

 

Yep, Laurence

The Serpent’s Children

 

Zane

Sham On It All

 

Zane

True to the Game

 

Zemser, Amy Bronwen

Beyond the Mango Tree

5.6

Zindel, Paul

Pig-Man

 

Zongren, Liu

Ten Years in the Melting Pot

 

Zumwalt, Elmo

My Father, My Son

 

 

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