English Texts
Although students are required to purchase English texts, the library offers alternative formats, such as audio or ebooks, to supplement for different reading preferences. When possible, the library offers texts that match the ISBN of the required texts.
Qualified students may also access the following texts in Bookshare.
Students should come to the library with any questions about accessing these texts!
Freshman Grade 9:
English 1 Semester 1
Rite of Passage by Richard Wright ISBN: 978-0064471114
Student-made recording, no audiobook available.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding ISBN: 9780399537424
English 2 Semester 2
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 9781451673319
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry ISBN: 9780679755333
Sophomore Grade 10:
English 3 Semester 1
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah ISBN: 9780399588198
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 9780743273565
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ISBN: 9780385474542
English 4 Semester 2
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 9780385333849
Hamlet Ignatius Critical Edition, Edited By Joseph Pearce ISBN: 9781586172619** must order this version
Select 1 of the following 3 texts:
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ISBN: 9780143038092
OR Ordinary People by Judith Guest ISBN: 0140065172
OR How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez ISBN: 9781565129757
Junior & Senior, Grades 11 & 12:
British Literature Semester 1 or 2
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 9780393320978
Sora ebook
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ISBN: 9780553212471
Victorian Era Choice Novel - Choice list to be provided by teacher
Modern Thought in Literature Semester 1 or 2
Select 1 of the following 2 texts:
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ISBN: 9781557427663
OR Passing by Nella Larson, any edition
Grendel by John Gardner ISBN: 9780679723110
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer ISBN: 9780618711659
Select 1 of the following 3 texts:
1984 by George Orwell ISBN: 9780451524935
OR Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 9780060850524
OR The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ISBN: 9780385490818
American Literature Semester 1 or 2
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0553210092
The Crucible by Arthur Miller ISBN: 9780142437339
World Literature Semester 1 or 2
Gilgamesh by Herbert Mason ISBN: 0618275649
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ISBN: 9780451531049
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga ISBN: 9781416562603
Sora ebook
Select 1 of the following 2 texts:
Blindness by Jose Saramago ISBN: 9780156007757
OR The Road by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 9780307387899
Journalistic Composition Semester 1 or 2
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah ISBN: 9780374531263
Sora ebook
AP Language and Composition
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Constance Garnett translation) ISBN: 978-1-59308-081-5
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ISBN: 978-0679745587
AP Literature and Composition
Beloved by Toni Morrison ISBN: 9781400033416
King Lear (Folger Library Edition) by William Shakespeare ISBN: 9780743482769
Sora audiobook
Greek Drama (Bantam Classics) Edited by Moses Hadas ISBN: 9780553212211
Wit by Margaret Edson ISBN: 9780571198771
Sora ebook