Beyond the Core
Here is a helpful list of interesting literature to broaden your core class curriculum. If you'd like to contribute information about works that you've taught, please follow the format used below. If you'd like to submit an entry, click here.
Junior High or Middle School
High School
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton PeckHey, Dummy by Kin PlattThe Glory Field by Walter Dean MyersGo Ask Alice by AnonymousIt Happened to Nancy by AnonymousPassanger, Hobby, and Merlin by Jane YolenRedwall and The Outlaws of Sherwood by Brian Jacques and Robin McKinley The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul CurtisThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Awakening by Kate Chopin Brian's Song by William BlinnChildhood's End by Arthur C. ClarkeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Grendel by John GardnerHighland Laddie Gone by Sharyn McCrumbI Am One of You Forever by FredMiss Cynthie by Rudolph Fisher, Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston, High Yaller by Rudolph Fisher, and Nexus--The Harlem Renaissance, published by Jesse Bryant WilderMontana, 1948 by Larry WatsonNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick DouglassNight by Elie WieselRain of Gold by Jose VillasenorSarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlanThe Assistant by Bernard MalamudThe Chosen by Chiam PotokThe Storyteller by Mario Vargas LlosaThe Tall Woman by Wilma DykemanThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
