Yeshiva Reading List

Young Adult (7th 8th Grade)

Richard Adams, Watership Down
Joy Adamson, Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr, The High King
Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
William Armstrong, Sounder
Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage
Avi, Nothing But the Truth, Blue Heron
Enid Bagnold, National Velvet
William Barrett, The Lilies of the Field
Marion Dane Bauer, On My Honor
L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Patricia Beatty, Turn Homeward, Hannalee
Tamar Bergman, Along the Tracks
John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days
Braithwaite, To Sir With Love
Pearl Buck, Letter from Peking, Imperial Woman, The Living Reed,
My Several Worlds, The Big Wave
Frances H. Burnett, The Secret Garden
Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
Betsy Byars, The Summer of the Swans
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Sook Nyui Choi, Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
Patricia Clapp, The Tamarack Tree
Vera Cleaver, Where the Lilies Bloom
Jane Leslie Conly, Rasco and the Rats of NIMH
Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone
Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles
William Dubois, The Twenty-One Balloons
Howard Fast, April Morning
Candace Fleming, Ben Franklins Almanac Being a True Account of the good Gentlemans Life
Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Kathryn Forbes, Mamas Bank Account
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Benedict and Nancy Freedman, Mrs. Mike
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
George Jean, My Side of the Mountain
Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered
Gilbreth and Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle
Frederick Gipson, Old Yeller
Libby Hathorn, Thunderwith
Esther Hautzig, Endless Steppe
James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful
John Hersey, A Bell for Adano, The Wall, A Single Pebble, Too Far to Walk, Hiroshima
Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust, Letters from Rifka
Thor Heyerdahl, Aku-Aku
James Hilton, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon
W. Hudson, Green Mansions
Irene Hunt, The Lottery Rose, Across Five Aprils
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Norma Johnston, The Delphic Choice

John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
E. L. Konigsburg, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver,
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Gordon Korman, The Twinkie Squad
Gaston Leroux, Phantom of the Opera
Julius Lester, Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
Myron Levoy, Alan and Naomi
Maud Lovelace, Early Candlelight
Lois Lowery, Number the Stars
Alistair MacLean, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Gather, Guns of Navarone
Harry Mazer, When the Phone Rang
Anne McCaffrey, Dragondrums, Dragonsinger, Dragonsong
Eloise J. McGraw, Moccasin Trail
James Michener, Bridges at Toko-Ri
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Nordhoff and Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty
Robert C. OBrien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Scott ODell, Sing Down the Moon, Island of the Blue Dolphins,
Thunder Rolling in the Mountain, Sarah Bishop
Mary OHara, My Friend Flicka
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Robert Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die
Marjorie Rawlings, The Yearling
Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
Hans Richter, Friedrich
Ann Rinaldi, In My Fathers House and others
C. Sandburg, Abe Lincoln Grows Up, Abe Lincoln: Prairie Years
William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, My Name is Aram
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
William Sleator, Interstellar Pig, House of Stairs
Elizabeth Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Sign of the Beaver
Armstrong Sperry, Call it Courage
Antoine St. Exupery, The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars
Robert Lewis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker, Count Dracula
Ian Strachan, The Flawed Glass
Todd Strasser, The Wave
Theodore Taylor, The Cay
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Series
Yoshiko Uchida, Journey to Topaz, Journey Home, The Happiest Ending, The Invisible Thread
James Ullman, Banner in the Sky
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days, Journeys to the Center of the Earth
Yoko K. Watkins, So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Jean Webster, Daddy Long-Legs
H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds, Time Machine, The Invisible Man
Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull

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American Literature (9th 10th Grade) Literature that is written by authors of American descent or
citizenry or that focuses on significant people or events of American history or experience.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Bess Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
J. Bishop, The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha
Christy Brown, My Left Foot
D. Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock, Death Comes for the Archbishop,
My ntonia, Pioneers
B. Catton, A Stillness at Appomatox
Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street
James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder
Walter Van Clark, The Ox Bow Incident
Clarence Day, Life with Father
Henry Denker, To Marcy With Love
Allen Drury, Advise and Consent
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Edna Ferber, Ice Palace, Show Boat, So Big
Rachel Field, All This and Heaven, Too, And Now Tomorrow
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
F. Graham, Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero
John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raison in the Sun
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter
Lillian Hellman, Pentimento
Laura Hobson, Gentlemens Agreement
William Dean Howell, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Henry James, Washington Square
M. Kantor, Andersonville
Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, Main Street
Jack London, Call of the Wild, White Fang
Walter Lord, Night to Remember, Day of Infamy
William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Member of the Wedding
Ruth McKenney, My Sister Eileen
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
William Nolen, The Making of a Surgeon
Eugene ONeill, The Emperor Jones
Charles Portis, True Grit
O. E. Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth
Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men
William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, My Name is Aram
Jack Schaeffer, Shane
Dore Schary, Sunrise at Campobello
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
Anya Seton, Dragonwyck
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Skinner and Kimbrough, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Vern Sneider, The Teahouse of the August Moon

John Steinbeck, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath,

The Red Pony, Travels with Charley
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Toms Cabin
Edward Streeter, Father of the Bride
J. Stuart, Thread that Runs so True
Theodore Sturgeon, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Booth Tarkington, Seventeen, Penrod
Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
M. Werner, Barnum
Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town

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World Literature (11th 12th Grade) Literature that is written by authors who are not of American or
English descent or citizenry, that deals with people who are not of American or English descent, or that
focuses on events that are global, rather than strictly American or English, in nature.
Balzac, Eugenie Grandet
Larry Bograd, The Kolokol Papers
Pierre Boulle, Bridge Over the River Kwai
Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters
Paul Coelho, The Alchemist
Lucy Davidowitz, The War Against the Jews
Fyodor Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov
Alexamdre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
Victor Frankl, Man in Search of Meaning
Ben Hecht, Perfidy
Homer, The Iliad
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Henrik Ibsen, Enemy of the People, A Doll House, Hedda Gabler
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Arthur D. Morse, While Six Million Died
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Eric M. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Every Spy a Prince
Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Barbara Tuchman, Guns of August
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Law Wallace, Ben Hur
British Literature (11th 12th Grade) Literature that is written by authors of English descent or citizenry
or that focuses on significant people or events of English history or experience.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma
J. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer, Lord Jim, Victory, N-gg-r of the Narcissus
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Hard Times
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda
C. S. Forester, The African Queen
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth the Great
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Terence Rattigan, The Winslow Boy
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion
Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse that Roared
William Thackeray, Vanity Fair