Recommended reading books for elementary, middle & high school students
A range of exciting and thought-provoking books for 10th Grade readers to suit all abilities, including less challenging leisure readers and more difficult texts. Authors include Herman Melville, John Green, Maya Angelou, and Elizabeth Wein.
A list of exciting and thought-provoking books to suit all abilities in the 12th Grade, aged 17-18, including easy readers and more difficult texts. Authors include Salman Rushdie, Margaret Mitchell, Cormac Mcarthy, and Elizabeth Bishop.
Recommended books for high school students in the 11th Grade, aged 16-17. Over the course of a year, these stories should provide inspirational reading material, and also challenge pupils to think independently. Authors include James Agee, Saul Bellow, Alice Seebold, and Alice Walker.
A list of recommended books for grade 9, hand-picked and compiled by teachers and librarians for final year middle school and freshman high school students in the 9th Grade, aged 14-15. Authors include Liz Kessler, William Golding, Rick Yancey, and Marjorie Rawlings.
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