Supplemental Novels by Grade Level
Ninth Grade   Eleventh Grade
Pigman by Paul Zindel - Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man with a terrible secret.   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.

House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

   A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry - A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
Animal Farm by George Orwell - A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.   The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.
When the Legends Die by Hal Borland - An orphaned Ute Indian boy wins stardom on the rodeo circuit but, disillusioned by his success, returns to the ways of his ancestors.   The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - In seventeenth century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she has committed.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles - Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.   1984 by George Orwell - A worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.   Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - After meeting his mysterious aunt Pilate, whom his father warns is a bad influence, a young African-American man named Macon "Milkman" Dead III leaves his rich, cold home in 1950s Michigan in search of his roots.
    Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Tenth Grade   Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped black slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi River on a raft.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding - After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.    
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.   Twelfth Grade
Night by Elie Wiesel - A true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp.   Bless Me Ultima by Anaya Rudolfo - Six-year-old Antonio embarks upon a spiritual journey under the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that leads him to question his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns - Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by this act but becomes the newlyweds' conspirator and confidant; meanwhile he does some growing up on his own.    
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - Two drifters, George and Lennie, see their dreams of buying their own farm come to a tragic end when Lennie, a simple-minded man, accidentally commits a crime.    
Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare- Story of the romance in which the whims of sprites and fairies direct the fates of four young lovers and a crew of amateur actors.    
Animal Farm by George Orwell - A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.    
Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's tragedy in which a Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost.