Professional Language Arts Teaching
READING LISTS
High School Reading List – Recommended for Grades 8 – 12
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Animal Farm
Beowulf
The Call of the Wild
A Christmas Carol
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness
The Hobbit
The Hunger Games
Jane Eyre
Julius Caesar
The Last of the Mohicans
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
The Old Man and the Sea
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
Pride and Prejudice
The Red Badge of Courage
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare Stories, Vol. 1 & 2
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Screwtape Letters
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Tale of Two Cities
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Yearling
Animal Farm
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Good Earth
Oliver Twist
Middle School Reading List – Recommended for Grades 5 – 8
Across Five Aprils
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Anne of Green Gables
Bridge to Terabithia
The Bronze Bow
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
The Cay
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
The Eagle of the Ninth
The Giver
The Golden Goblet
The Hiding Place
Holes
The Horse and His Boy
The Indian in the Cupboard
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Johnny Tremain
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Magician’s Nephew
Maniac Magee
Number the Stars
Out of the Dust
Prince Caspian
Redwall
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Secret Garden
Shadow Spinner
Shiloh*
Sign of the Beaver
Swiss Family Robinson
Treasure Island
Tuck Everlasting
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Wrinkle in Time
The Door in the Wall
The Incredible Journey
Julie of the Wolves
King of the Wind
The Light in the Forest
The Phantom Tollbooth
Rifles for Watie
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Upper Elementary Reading List - Recommended for Grades 3 - 5
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Big Wave
The Bridge
Charlotte's Web
Cricket in Times Square
Crown and Jewel
The Door in the Wall
Farmer Boy
The Hall of Doors
In the Year of the Boar
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Stone Fox
The Sword in the Tree
The Two Collars
The Whipping Boy
Lower Elementary Reading List - Recommended for Grades K - 3
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Frog and Toad Together
The Long Way to a New Land
A New Coat for Anna
Uncle Jed's Barbershop
The Courage of Sarah Noble
The Josefina Story Quilt
The Long Way Westward
Ox-Cart Man
Wagon Wheels
The Drinking Gourd
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Miss Rumphius
Sam the Minuteman
Henry & Mudge (series)
Oscar Otter
Minstrel in the Tower
Mr. Putter & Tabby (series)
Caps for Sale
Blueberries for Sal
Madeline
The Story About Ping