Colbert County Schools Approved Reading List
*All texts listed in the McGraw-Hill Thematic Units per grade level*
3rd grade
Stone Fox
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Charlotte’s Web
4th grade
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Alabama Moon
James and the Giant Peach
I Survived the Joplin Tornado
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The City of Ember
The Whipping Boy
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Shiloh Series
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Bridge to Terabithia
Upside Down Magic
Who Was Helen Keller?
The Lemonade War
George Washington’s Socks
Flora and Ulysses
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Lawn Boy
Where the Red Fern Grows
5th grade
The Incredible Adventures of Rush Revere
Where the Red Fern Grows
Bud, Not Buddy
Among the Hidden
The Phantom Tollbooth
Because of Winn Dixie
Socks
My Side of the Mountain
A Boy Called Christmas
Al Capone Does My Shirts
6th grade
The Lightning Thief
Tuck Everlasting
The Borrowers
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Hoot
A Wrinkle in Time
Warriors Don’t Cry
Number the Stars
The Witches
A Long Walk to Water
Brave Like That
Where the Mountains
The Miracle Worker
Hatchet
7th grade
The Giver
Holes
Out of the Dust
Wonder
Stargirl
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
A Christmas Carol
Hunger Games
The Julian Chapter, A Wonder Story
Sea of Monsters
Around The World in 80 Days
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Across Five Aprils
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffery
8th grade
The Diary of Anne Frank
Refugee
All Thirteen
The Pigman
The Cay
The Call of the Wild
Ender’s Game
The Looking Glass Wars
The Outsiders
Tom Sawyer
Freak the Mighty
The Princess Bride
Artemis Fowl
9th grade
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey
The Hiding Place
Salt to the Sea
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Unbroken (Young Adult Adaptation)
The Hobbit
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451 (9th Advanced Only)
10th grade
Fahrenheit 451
As You Like It
Macbeth
Night
Julius Caesar
Heart of Darkness
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
The Book Thief
11th grade
Speak
The Great Gatsby
Othello
Grace Will Lead Us Home
A Farewell to Arms
As I Lay Dying
A Separate Peace
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Into the Wild
12th grade
Brave New World
Monster
Hamlet
Richard III
Just Mercy
And Then There Were None
A Tale of Two Cities
Frankenstein
Catch 22
Midsummer Night’s Dream