Class Information & Book Lists

Powerful Openings Unit Independent Reading Selections

Mentor Text: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Alexie, Sherman The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak

Blum, Jenna Those Who Save Us

Bray, Libba A Great and Terrible Beauty

Burns, Olive-Ann Cold Sassy Tree

Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game

Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cheva, Cherry She's So Money

Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street

Cleave, Chris Little Bee

Condie, Ally Matched

Danticat, Edwidge Behind the Mountains

DiCamillo, Kate The Tiger Rising

Draper, Sharon Tears of a Tiger

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

Erdrich, Louise Tracks

Forman, Gail If I Stay

Gibbons, Kaye Ellen Foster

Green, John The Fault in Our Stars

Green, John Looking for Alaska

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders

Hornby, Nick Fever Pitch

Ihimaera, Witi Whale Rider

Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees

Kluger, Steve Last Days of Summer

Knowles, John A Separate Peace

Kogawa, Joy Obasan

Martel, Yann The Life of Pi

Ness, Patrick A Monster Calls

Picoult, Jodi My Sister's Keeper

Reynolds, Jason The Boy in the Black Suit

Ryan, Pam Munoz Esperanza Rising

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Sanchez, Erica L. I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Stockett, Kathryn The Help

Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Viramontes, Helena Maria Under the Feet of Jesus

Watson, Renee Piecing Me Together

White, T.H. The Once and Future King