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Mrs. HASH AVID*American Literature*English Language Arts

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To be an AVID student, you should always stay informed about current events. the Reuters and CNN weblink on this page will help you stay up to date with some interesting world events.

AVID students are REQUIRED to read 5 books this year. You can choose from this list; however, if you have a book in mind, you must clear it with the teacher befor expecting it to be counted toward your book read count.

Title	Author
Ain’t I a Woman?	Sojourner Truth
Killers of the Dream	Lillian Smith
Strange Fruit	Lillian Smith
The Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver
The Lovely Bones	Alice Seabold
The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
A Lesson Before Dying	Ernest Gaines
How to Read a Book	Charles Van Doren
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School /Students	Miles Corwin
A Walk to Remember	Nicholas Sparks
The Last Angry Man	Gerald Green
The Blackboard Jungle	Evan Hunter
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair
The Chosen	Chaim Potok
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
Burry My Heart At Wounded Knee	Dee Brown
Into Thin Air	John Krakauer
Into the Wild	John Krakauer
Nine Stories	J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey	J.D. Salinger
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
The Gangster We Are All Looking For	Le Thi Diem Thuy
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents	Julia Alvarez
The Salt Eaters	Toni Cade Bambara
Catch 22	Joseph Heller
Song of Myself (Complete)	Walt Whitman
A Walk in the Woods	Bill Bryson
In Cuba I was a German Shepherd	Ana Menendez
Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin
Gorillas in the Mist	Dian Fossey
Ragtime	E. L. Doctorow
She’s Come Undone	Lamb
Ashes of Roses	Mary Jane Auch
An American Tragedy	Theodore Dreiser
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
Holler if You Hear Me: Search for Tupac Shakur	Michael Eric Dyson
The Perfect Storm	Sebastian Junger
Profiles in Courage	John F. Kennedy
Stoner & Spaz	Ron Koertge
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell
God Don’t Like Ugly	Mary Monroe
Bad Boy	Walter Dean Myers
Cuba 15	Violet Paz
Nothing is Impossible: Reflection on a New Life	Christopher Reeve
Almost a Woman	Esmeralda Santiago
Lucky	Alice Sebold
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
Black Elk Speaks	Black Elk
Cannery Row	John Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway
The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot
Walden	Henry David Thoreau
Nature (selections)	Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner
Moby Dick; Billy Budd	Herman Melville
Poor Richard’s Almanack	Benjamin Franklin
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Edgar Allan Poe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
On the Road	Jack Keroac
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave, Written by Himself	Frederick Douglas
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X
Caramelo	Sandra Cisneros
The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Mark Haddon
Novio Boy: A Play	Gary Soto
A Place to Stand	Jimmy Santiago Baca
Last Days of Summer	Steve Kugler
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
Breakfast of Champions	Kurt Vonnegut
Fences	August Wilson
Selected Poetry	Nikki Giovanni
How to be a Chicana Role Model	Michele Serros
Caucasia	Danzy Senna
Monkey King	Patricia Chao (Dark side of society
When I Was Puerto Rican	Esmeralda Santiago
The Woman Warrior	Maxine Hong Kingston
Waiting	Ha Jin
In My Father’s House	Ernest Gaines
The Scarlett Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rule of the Bone	Russell Banks
My Antonia	Willa Cather