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| Grade | Strand | Title | Author | ISBN | Best for students to have by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | ADV/GT | March: Book One | John Lewis | 9781603093002 | September |
| 9 | ADV/GT | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 9780380778553 | October |
| 9 | GL | March: Book One | John Lewis | 9781603093002 | September |
| 9 | GL | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | 9781481438261 | October |
| 10 | ADV/GT | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 9780449213940 | October |
| 10 | ADV/GT | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 9780743477109 | January |
| 10 | ADV/GT | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 9780140177398 | February |
| 10 | GL | Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | 9780812984965 | October |
| 10 | GL | Of Mice & Men | John Steinbeck | 9780140177398 | February |
| 11 | GL | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9780743273565 | February |
| 11 | GL | The Pearl | John Steinbeck | 9780140177374 | October |
| 11 | APLAC | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9780743273565 | February |
| 11 | APLAC | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 9781594483851 | February |
| 11 | DC | The Stranger | Camus, Albert, translated by Matthew Ward | 9780679720201 | October |
| 12 | GL | N/A (individual copies of titles provided by AHHS) | N/A | N/A | |
| 12 | APLIT | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 9780679732242 | October |
| 12 | APLIT | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 9781400033416 | October |
| 12 | APLIT | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 9780141439518 | October |
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Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .
The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material.
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
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The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
The Great Gatsby, F.
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.
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