District Approved Novel List

Novels on this list have been vetted for use in secondary curriculum.

Only novels on this list may be used in the classroom with students. Novels are not interchangeable by grade level without prior approval.

Marietta 6th Grade Academy

Title	Author
Because of Mr. Terupt	Buyea, Rob
Brown Girl Dreaming	Woodson, Jacqueline
Bud Not Buddy	Curtis, Christopher Paul
Code Talkers	Bruchac, Joseph
Crossover, The	Alexander, Kwame
Crossover, The (Graphic Novel version)	Alexander, Kwame
Dragonwings	Yep, Lawrence
Esperanza Rising	Munoz Ryan, Pam
Eyewitness: Natural Disasters	Watts, Claire
Fish in a Tree	Mullaly Hunt, Linda
Greeking Out: Epic Retellings of Classic Greek Myths	Curtis, Kenny Hughes, Jillian
Hidden Figures, Young Readers Edition	Shetterly, Margot Lee
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus	Bowling, Dusti
Journey To Topaz	Uchida, Yoshiko
Lightning Thief, The	Riordan, Rick
Lightning Thief, The (Graphic Novel) (ESOL)	Riordan, Rick Adapted: Venditti, Robert
Million Shades of Gray, A	Kadohata, Cynthia
Navigating Early	Vanderpool, Clare
Out of My Mind	Draper, Sharon
Race to the Bottom of the Earth	Barone, Rebecca
Starfish	Fipps, Lisa
Taking Sides	Soto, Gary
Touching Spirit Bear	Mikaelsen, Ben
Voices of the Titanic	Montero, Mary

Title	Author
Amal Unbound	Saeed, Aisha
Boy In Striped Pajamas	Boyne, John
Breadwinner, The	Ellis, Deborah
Breadwinner, The (Graphic Novel)	Ellis, Deborah
Coraline	Gaiman, Neil
Enola Holmes: The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets	Springer, Nancy
Farewell To Manzanar	Houston, Jeanne Houston, James
Graveyard Book, The	Gaiman, Neil
Greenglass House	Milford, Kate
Hello Universe	Kelly, Erin Entrada
Hobbit, The (Full Text)	Tolkien, J.R.R.
Hobbit, The (Graphic Novel)	Tolkien, J.R.R Dixon, Charles
I Am Malala	Yousafzai, Malala
Inside Out and Back Again	Lai, Thanha
Julie of the Wolves	George, Jean Craighead
Lion: A Long Way Home	Brierley, Saroo
Listening for Lions	Whelan, Gloria
Long Walk To Water, A	Park, Linda Sue
Lyddie	Paterson, Katherine
Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma, The	Stewart, Trenton Lee
One and Only Ivan, The	Applegate, Karen
Outsiders, The	Hinton, S. E.
Prisoner B-3087	Gratz, Alan
Refugee	Gratz, Alan
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The	Stevenson, Robert Louis

Title	Author
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea	Verne, Jules
Among The Hidden *Enhanced Lit. Comp. I	Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Animal Farm *Enhanced Lit. Comp. I	Orwell, George
Anne of Green Gables	Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Black Beauty	Sewell, Anna
Call of The Wild	London, Jack
Charlotte’s Web	White, E. B.
Coraline	Gaiman, Nail
Devil’s Arithmetic	Yolen, Jane
Diary of Anne Frank, The	Frank, Anne
Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary
Freak The Mighty	Philbrick, Rodman
Hunger Games, The *Enhanced Lit. Comp. I	Collins, Suzanne
Inside Out and Back Again	Lai, Thanhha
Journey To The Center of The Earth	Verne, Jules
Jungle Book	Kipling, Rudyard
Land of Stories, The: The Wishing Spell	Colfer, Chris
Lord of the Flies *Enhanced Lit. Comp. I	Golding, William
Mockingbird	Erskine, Kathryn
My Side of the Mountain	George, Jean Craighead
Odyssey, The *Enhanced Lit. Comp. I	Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Omnivore’s Dilemma	Pollan, Michael
Pax	Pennypacker, Sara
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II	Gratz, Alan
Red Pony, The	Steinbeck, John
Secret Garden, The	Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Song for a Whale	Kelly, Lynne
Thing About Jellyfish, The	Benjamin, Ali
Time Machine	Wells, H.G.
To Kill A Mockingbird	Lee, Harper
Twelve Angry Men (play)	Rose, Reginald
Us, in Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos	Delacre, Lulu
Wednesday Wars, The	Schmidt, Gary D.

Title	Author
Anthem	Rand, Ayn
Animal Farm	Orwell, George
Fahrenheit 451	Bradbury, Ray
Gulliver’s Travels	Swift, Jonathan
My Ántonia	Cather, Willa
Odyssey, The	Homer, translated by Robert Fitgerald & Emily Wilson
Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare, William
Stargirl	Spinelli, Jerry
Treasure Island	Stevenson, Robert Louis
Wuthering Heights	Brontë, Emily

Title	Author
Alchemist, The	Coelho, Paulo
Born A Crime: Young Reader’s Edition	Noah, Trevor
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines	Fleischman, Paul
Hamlet	Shakespeare, William
Hobbit, The	Tolkien, J.R.R.
Invisible Man, The	Wells, H. G.
Metamorphosis, The	Kafka, Franz
Metamorphosis, The - Graphic Novel	Kuper, Peter & Kafka
Night	Wiesel, Elie
Old Man and the Sea, The	Hemingway, Ernest
Scarlet Letter, The	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Bradbury, Ray
Things Fall Apart	Achebe, Chinua

Title	Author
Common Sense	Paine, Thomas
Declaration of Independence, The	Jefferson, Thomas et al.
Earth on Turtle’s Back	Caduto & Bruchac
Great Gatsby, The	Fitzgerald, F. Scott
I Have a Dream	King Jr., Martin Luther
Raisin In The Sun, A	Hansberry, Lorraine
When Grizzlies Walked Upright	Erdoes & Ortiz

Title	Author
Great Gatsby, The	Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Into the Wild	Krakauer, Jon
Passing	Larsen, Nella
Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion	Heinrichs, Jay

Title	Author
1984	Orwell, George
Awakening, The	Chopin, Kate
Antigone	Sophocles
As I Lay Dying	Faulkner, William
Fences	Wilson, August
Importance of Being Earnest, The	Wilde, Oscar
Jane Eyre	Bronte, Charlotte
King Lear	Shakespeare, William
Moby Dick	Melville, Herman
Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane
Unmarriageable	Kamal, Soniah

Title	Author
Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier	Beah, Ishmael
Rising Troublemaker	Jones, Luvvie Ajayi
Shoe Dog: A Memoir	Knight, Phil
Undecided, 2nd Edition: Navigating Life and Learning after High School	Morgan, Genevieve
Where I Belong	Mickelson, Marcia Argueta
Why Didn’t They Teach Me This in School	Siegel, Cary

Title	Author
A Room of One’s Own	Woolf, Virginia
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner
All the Pretty Horses	McCarthy, Cormac
Boxers and Saints	Yang, Gene Luen
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead	Tokarczuk, Olga
Hedda Gabler	Ibsen, Henrick
King Lear	Shakespeare, William
MacBeth	Shakespeare, William
Master Harold … and the boys	Fugard, Athol
Awakening, The	Kate Chopin
Metamorphosis, The	Kafka, Franz
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck, John
Remains of the Day, The	Ishiguro, Kazuo
Streetcar Named Desire, A	Williams, Tennessee

Title	Author
The Internet is District - OH LOOK A KITTEN (Full Screenplay)	McWethy, Ian
Toy Story 3 (Full Director’s Script)	Arndt, Michael
Aliens vs. Cheerleaders (Full Screenplay)	Nguyen, Qui

Title	Author
Twelve Angry Men (read for the purpose of exploring specific TOK questions and not as a literary analysis text)	Rose, Reginald