Roosevelt High School

 

LIST OF LITERATURE SETS and lit circle sets AVAILABLE AT ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL

10/20/2011

*= THERE ARE FEWER THAN 20 COPIES, SO MAY BE SUITABLE FOR A LITERATURE CIRCLE SET, BUT NOT A CLASS SET

 

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

 

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain, Mark *

 

The Alchemist,  Coelho, Paulo

 

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA

 

Animal dreams,  Kingsolver Barbara

 

Animal farm, Orwell, George *

 

ANNIE JOHN, KINCAID, JAMAICA

 

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress,  Sijie, Dai

 

Beloved,  Morrison, Toni

 

Black Boy, (American hunger) : A Record of Childhood and Youth, Wright, Richard

 

Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya, A. Rudolfo

 

brave new  world, huxley, aldous

 

breaking through, jimenez, franciso

 

Bronx Masquerade, Grimes, Nikki

 

California Blue,,  Klass, David

 

The catcher in the rye, Salinger, J. D.

 

Children of the River,  Crew, Linda

 

The Chosen, Potok, Chaim

 

The Circuit,  Francisco Jiminez

 

Coffee will make you black,  Sinclair, April

 

The color purple, Walker, Alice

 

Counting Coup : a true story of basketball and honor on the Little Big Horn, Colton, Larry*

 

Cry, the beloved country, Paton, Alan

 

Death in the family,  Agee, James

 

DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, FRANK, ANNE

 

Einstein’s Dreams, Lightman, Alan

 

Entertaining an Elephant, McBride, Bill

 

Esperanza Rising, Ryan, Pam Munoz

 

Eva,  Dickinson, Peter

 

Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Ray

 

Farewell to manzanar,  Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

 

Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff,  Myers, Walter Dean

 

THE FIFTH BOOK OF PEACE, MAXINE HONG KINGSTON

 

The first part last, Johnson, Angela.

 

THE FLOATING WORLD, KADOHATA, CYNTHIA

 

The Gangster We are All Looking For, Thuy, Le Thi Diem

 

THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, DURROW, HEIDI

 

The Giver, Lowry, Lois

 

Go tell it on the mountain,  Baldwin, James

 

GOODBYE, VIETNAM, WHELAN, GLORIA

 

The grapes of wrath, Steinbeck, John

 

The great Gatsy, Fitzgerald, F. Scott

 

The Hobbit : or There and Back Again,  Tolkien, H.R.*

 

Homeless Bird, Whelan, Gloria.

 

House on Mango Street,  Cisneros, Sandra.

 

hunger games, collins, suzanne

 

I know why the caged bird sings,  Angelou, Maya

 

In the time of the butterflies, Alvarez, Julia

 

Into thin Air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster, Krakauer, Jon

 

Invisible man, Ellison, Ralph

 

Iqbal, D'Adamo, Francesco

 

A Jar of dreams, Uchida, Yoshiko

 

Jesse, Soto, Gary

 

Join In : multiethnic short stories, outstanding writers for young adults*

 

The Joy Luck Club, Tan, Amy

 

Kindred, Butler, Octavia

 

 Krik? Krak!,  Danticat, Edwidge

 

The legacy of Luna, the story of a tree, a woman, and the struggle to save the redwoods,  Hill, Julia Butterfly

           

A lesson before dying, Gaines, Ernest J.

 

Letters from Rifka, Hesse, Karen

 

Life of Pi, Martel, Yann

 

 Little too much is enough, Tyau, Kathleen

 

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Alexie, Sherman

 

 A Long Way Gone, Beah, Ismael

 

Lord of the flies,  Golding, William

 

Lost and Found, Scraff, Anne*

 

Lupita Manana, Beatty, Patricia

 

Mama Day, Naylor, Gloria

 

The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury, Ray

 

 Martyr’s Crossing, Wilentz, Amy

 

 The merchant of Venice,  Shakespeare, William

 

 Middle Passage, Johnson, Charles

 

  Moby Dick, Melville, Herman

 

Monster, Myers, Walter Dean

 

 Mules and men, Hurston, Zora Neale

 

 Murder on the Orient Express, Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

 

 Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,

Douglass, Frederick

 

Native son, Wright, Richard

 

Nectar in a sieve, Markandaya, Kamala

 

new kids in town:  oral histories of immigrant teens, Bode,  Janet

 

Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting, in America, Ehrenreich, Barbara

 

 Night, Wiesel, Elie

 

 Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

 

 The Odyssey of Homer, Christ, Henry I.

 

 Odyssey : trans., E.V. Rieu, Homer

 

 Of Beetles and Angles : a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard,

Asgedom, Mawi

 

OF MICE AND MEN, Steinbeck, John,

 

Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway, Ernest

 

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Kesey, Ken.

 

The other side of truth,  Naidoo, Beverley*

 

The outsiders, Hinton, S.E.

 

Parrot in the Oven : mi vida, Martinez, Victor

 

Pearl, Steinbeck, John

 

Persepolis, Satrapi, Marjane

 

Pigman, Zindel, Paul

 

Place to Stand : the making of a poet, Baca, Jimmy Santiago

 

poetry like bread, espada, martin*

 

Pride and prejudice, Austen, Jane*

 

The Red Pony, Steinbeck, John

 

Ricochet river, Cody, Robin.

 

 Rifle, Paulsen, Gary

 

 River runs through it, and other stories, Maclean, Norman

 

 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Coerr, Eleanor*

 

SCARLETT LETTER, HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL

 

sci fi factors, perfection learning

 

 The secret life of bees  Kidd, Sue Monk*

 

 Seedfolks, Fleischman, Paul*

 

 A separate peace, Knowles, John

 

 Siddhartha, Hesse, Hermann

 

 The Skin I'm In, Flake, Sharon G.

 

 SLAM!,  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

 

 Smoke signals,  Alexie, Sherman

 

 Speak, Anderson, Laurie Halse

 

Speak: teacher's guide, Anderson, Laurie Halse

 

A STEP FROM HEAVEN, AN NA:

 

STREET LOVE, MYERS, WALTER DEAN*

 

Stones from the river, Hegi, Ursula

 

 The stranger, Camus, Albert

 

 A Taste of Salt, Temple, Frances*

 

Tale of Two Cities, Dickens, Charles

 

Their eyes were watching God, Hurston, Zora Neale

 

Things fall apart, Achebe, Chinua (Albert Chinua Lumogu)

 

 The things they carried, O'Brien, Tim

 

 Thousand pieces of gold, McCunn, Ruthanne Lum.

 

To kill a mockingbird, Lee, Harper

 

TO WALK THE SKY PATH, NAYLOR, PHYLLIS REYNOLDS

 

Warriors don't cry, : A searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High, Beals, Melba Pattillo

 

WE WERE HERE, PENA, MATT DE LA

 

when heaven and earth changed places: a vietnamese woman’s journey from war to peace, hayslip, le ly

 

When I was Puerto Rican, Santiago, Esmeralda

 

Whirligig, Fleischman, Paul

 

Woman hollering creek, and other stories, Cisneros, Sandra 

 

Woman warrior, Kingston, Maxine Hong

 

Women of the silk, Tsukiyama, Gail

 

 Working,People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do,

Terkel, Studs,

 

 A yellow raft in blue water, Dorris, Michael Anthony

 

PLAYS

 

Crucible,  Miller, Arthur

 

The comedy of errors, Shakespeare, William

 

Death of a salesman,  Miller, Arthur

 

Fences, Wilson, August

 

fiddler on the roof, Stein, Joseph

 

Hamlet : Prince of Denmark,  Shakespeare, William

 

Julius Caesar,  Shakespeare, William

 

Macbeth (The tragedy of), Shakespeare, William

 

Midsummer night's dream,  Shakespeare, William

 

Nine muses, coleman

 

Othello, Shakespeare, William

 

 Piano Lesson, Wilson, August

 

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, William

 

scenes for young actors*

 

The taming of the shrew, Shakespeare, William

 

Theban plays, sophocles

 

Three Plays, Kopit, Arthur