RL: Reading Level IL: Interest Level
All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot RL6, IL 6+
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie RL 9. IL 7+
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy RL 12, IL 11 +
Awakening Kate Chopin RL 9. IL 9+
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver RL 8. IL 9+
Black Elk Speaks Black Elk RL 7, IL 7-12
Cannery Row John Steinbeck RL 9, IL 9+
Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk RL 9, IL9+
Charms for the Easy Life Kaye Gibbons RL 7. IL 7+
Childhood's End Arthur C Clarke RL 9. IL 7-12
Chosen Chaim Potok RL 8, IL 10+
Chronicle ot a Death Foretold Garcia Marquez RL 9. IL 9+
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns RL 9. IL 9+
The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas RL 6, IL 7-12
Deathwatch Robb White RL 5. IL 7
Dove Robin Lee Graham RL 9, IL 9+
East of Eden John Steinbeck RL 8, IL 10+
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton RL 9, IL 10+
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway RL 10. IL 10+
Giants in the Earth O.K. Rolvaag RL 10, IL 11+
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell RL 8, IL 9+
Greek Gods & Heroes Robert Graves RL 6. IL 6+
Invisble Man Ralph Ellison RL 7, IL 7-12
Ivanhoe Walter Scott RL8, IL 8+
The Jungle Upton Sinclair RL 8, IL 9+
Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper RL 9. IL 9+
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry RL 9. IL 9+
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad RL 9, IL 10+
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert RL 10. IL 1 1 +
Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy RL 9, IL 10+
My Antonia Willa Cather RL 7. IL10
My Left Foot Christy Brown RL 8. IL 7+
Moby Dick Herman Melville RL 9, IL 9+
The Once and Future King TH White RL8, IL7+
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard RL 9. IL 9+
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene RL 9, IL 10+
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen RL 8. IL 7+
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C Clarke RL8, IL9+
Roots Alex Haley RL 8, IL 9+
The Sea Wolf Jack London RL 6. IL 6+
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen RL 9. IL 10+
Shane Jack Schaefer RL 6, IL 6-9
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser RL 9, IL 9+
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner RL 9, IL 1 1 +
The Sound of Waves Yukio Mishima RL 9. IL 10+
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse RL 10, IL 10+
Tess of the D'Urberville Thomas Hardy RL9 IL10+
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas RL 9, IL 9+
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe RL 9, IL 9+
Travels with Charlie John Steinbeck RL 9 IL 9+
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevensen RL 6, IL 5+
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbit RL 61L 7+
Underdogs Mariano Azuela RL 11, IL 10+
White Fang Jack London RL 6, IL 6 +
BIOGRAPHIES
Abraham Lincoln: The Prarie Years Carl Sandburg RL 10- 12
Ake: The Years of Childhood Wole Soyinka RL 10-12
America Is ln the Heart: A Personal History Carlos Bulosan RL 10-12
An American Childhood Annie Dillard RL 10-12
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin RL 10-12
Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X RL 10- 12
Barbara Jordan: A Selt Portrait Barbara Jordan RL 9-11
Barrio Boy Emesto Galarza RL 9-11
Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America Jeff and James Motlow Gillenkirk RL 9-12
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth Richard Wright RL 10- 12
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Lite Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux John G. Nelhardt RL 9-12
Bound For Glory Woody Guthrie RL 10-12
Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody RL 10-12
Cross Creek Marjorie K. Rawlings RL 10-12
A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman Ning L. T'ai-t'ai and Ida Pruitt RL 10-12
Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir John Gunther RL 9-11
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography Zora Neale Hurston RL 10-12
Eat a Bowl of Tea Louis Chu RS 10-12
Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia Esther Hautzig RL 9-11
Falling Through Space: The Journals ot Ellen Gilchrist Ellen Gilchrist RL 10-12
Farewell to Arms J. W. Houston & J. D. Houston RL 9-11
Fifth Chinese Daughter Jade Snow Wong RL 9-11
Gandhi: Fighter Without a Gun Jeanette Eaton RL 9-12
Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place Angie Debo RL 10-12
Go Up tor Glory Bill Russel RL 9-12
Growing Up Russel Baker RL9-12
Harriet Truman: Conductor on the Upground Railroad Ann Petry RL 9-11
Home Betore Dark Susan Cheever RL 10- 12
Hunger of Memory: An Autoblography Richard Rodriquez RL 10-12
I Always Wanted to be Somebody Althea Gibson RL 9-12
If You Could See What I Hear Tom Sullivan and Derek L. Gill RL 9-11
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou RL 10- 12
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh Linda Atkinson RL 9-11
Ishl, Last of His Trlbe Theodora Kroeber RL 9-12
I Will Fight No More Forever: Chiet Joseph and the Nez Perce War Merrill D. Beal RL 9-12
A Ute In Architecture Minoru Yamasaki RL 9-12
Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman RL 9-11
Living Up the Street Gary Soto RL 9-11
Manchild In the Promised Land Claude Brown RL 10-12
In the New World: The Making of a Korean American Peter Hyun RL 9- 12
Musahl Eiji Yoshikawa RL 10-12
My Flrst Summer In the Sierra John Muir RL 10-12
My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography Marian Anderson RL 9-11
My Several Worlds: A Personal Record Pearl S. Buck RL 9-12
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Frederick Douglass RL 9-11
One Writer's Beginning Eudora Welty RL 10-12
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen RL 10-12
Protiles In Courage John F. Kennedy RL 9-11
Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir Cyra McFadden RL 9-11
Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost Natalie S. Bober RL 9-12
Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl David Kherdian RL 9-11
Sojourner Truth Victoria Ortiz RL 9-11
The Spirit of St. Louis Charles A. Lindbergh RL 9-11
The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood Molyda Szymusiak RL 9-11
Story of My Lite Helen Keller RL 9-11
To Be Young, Gitted and Black Lorraine Hansberg RL 10-12
This I Remember Eleanor Roosevelt RL 9-11
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time Lillian Hellman RL 10-12
Through Harsh Winters: The Life of a Japanese Immigrant Woman Akemi Kikumura RL 9-12
Two Years Before the Mast Richard H. Dana, Jr. RL 10-12
Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington RL 10-12
Warrior for a Lost Nation: A Biography of Sitting Bull Dorothy M. Johnson RL 10-12
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography Virginia Hamilton RL 9- 11
West With The Night Beryl Markham RL 10-12
What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. RL 9-11
William Shakespeare: A Biography Alfred L. Rowse Ed. RL 9-12
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston RL 10-12
NON - FICTION
And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Internment Camps John Tateishi RL 9-12
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown RL 10-12
Coming Into the Country John McPhee RL 9-12
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto Vine Deloria, Jr. RL 10-12
A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present Margo Culley, Ed RL 10-12
Everything We Had: An Oral Hisotry of the Vietnam War Al Santoli RL 9- 12
Exile of a Race Ann R. Fisher RL9-12
Exodus Indochina Keith Cartmail, Sr. RL 9- 12
Fifty Years of Our Whole Voice Jeffrey Chan and Others RL 10-12
Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives Eve Merriam RL 9- 12
In Cold Blood Truman Capote RL 10- 12
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-- 1940 Judy Yung and Others RL 9-12
Journal of a Solitude May Sarton RL 10- 12
Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor RL 9-12
Literature of the American Indian Thomas E. Sanders and Walter W. Peek RL 10-12
Male and Female Under Eighteen Eve Merriam and Nancy Larrick RL 9-12
Many Smokes and Many Moons Jamake Highwater RL 9-12
Never To Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust Milton Meltzer RL 9- 12
On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kubler-Ross RL 9-12
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould RL 10- 12
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number Jacobo Timeman RL 9-12
Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery Bradd Shore RL 10- 12
Samoa: A Photographic Essay Frederick Sutter RL 9- 12
Science and Human Values Jacob Bronowski RL 10-12
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson RL 9-12
Silent Spring Rachel Carson RL 9-11
Truth and Litfe of Myth Robert Duncan RL 10-12
To Be a Slave Julius Lester RL 9-11
Voices of South Africa: Growing up in a Troubled Land Carolyn Meyer RL 9-12
Walden Henry David Thoreau RL 9-12
We the Vietnamese: Voices from Vietnam Francois Sully RL 9- 12
Working Studs Terkel RL 10-12
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Robert Pirsig RL 10-12
NOVELS
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll RL 9-11
All l Asking for Is My Body Milton Murayama RL 9-12
And the Earth Did Not Part Tomas Rivera RL 9-12
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Mario Vargas-Llosa RL - 9-12
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gaines RL 9-12
Babbit Sinclair Lewis RL 10- 12
Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope RL 11-12
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath RL 10-12
Beloved Toni Morrison RL 10-12
Billy Budd Jukio Mishima RL 10-12
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo A. Anaya RL 10-12
Catch Twenty-Two Joseph Heller . RL 10-12
Cat's Cradel Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. RL 10-12
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel RL 10-12
Centaur John Updike RL 10-12
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko RL 10-12
Cheyenne Autumn Marl Sandoz RL 9- 12
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke RL 10-12
The Chocolate War Robert Cormier RL 9-12
Chosen Chaim Potok RL 9- 12
Clay Walls Kim Ronyoung RL 11-12
Crlme and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky RL 10-12
Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton RL 9- 12
A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Newton Peck RL 9-11
Dear Rate Rolando Hinojosa RL 9-12
Death in the Family James Agee RL 10- 12
The Death of Jim Loney James Welch RL 10-12
The Dollmaker Harriet Amow RL 10-12
Excellent Women Barbara Pyn RL 10-12
The Family Fei-Kan Li RL 10-12
The Good Earth Pearl Buck RL 9-11
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin RL 10-12
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift RL 10-12
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven RL 9-11
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers RL 9-11
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad RL 10-12
Home to Harlem Claude McKay RL 10-12
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien RL 9-12
House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday RL 10-12
The Human Comedy William Sarpyan RL 9-11
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Hannah Green RL 9-11
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison RL 10-12
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott RL 9-11
Johnnie Tremain Esther Forbes RL 9-10
Laughing Boy Oliver LaFarge RL 9-12
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. LeGuin RL 9-11
Les Miserables Victor Hugo RL 10-12
Lelters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen Fay Weldon RL 10-12
Light In The Forest Conrad Richter RL 9-11
The Lime Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery RL 9-11
Look at Me Anita Brookner RL 10-12
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marguez RL 11 - 12
Love Machine Louise Endrich RL 10-12
Lucky Come Hawaii Jon Shirota RL 10-12
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett RL 9- 12
Martyred Richard E. Kim RL 11-12
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy RL 10-12
Memories of Alhambra Nash Candelaria RL 9-12
Miss Giardino Dorothy Bryant RL 10- 12
Miss Peabody's Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley RL10-12
The Mosquito Coast PaulTheroux RL 10-12
The Moves Make the Man Brooks Booth RL 9-12
Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff & James N. Hall RL 10-12
Native Son Richard Wright RL 10-12
Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya RL 9-12
No Hope for the Kaiser Rudolf Frank RL 9-11
No-No Boy John Okada RL 10-12
Of Human Bondage W Somerset Maugham RL 10-12
One Day in the Lite of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn RL 10-12
Ordinary People Judith Guest RL 9-12
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton RL 9-12
The Owl's Song Janet Campbell Hale RL 9-12
Ox-Bow Incident Walter V. Clark RL 9-11
Passage to India E.M. Forster RL 10-12
Picture Bride Joshiko Uchida RL 9-12
The Pigman Paul Zindel RL 9-11
Pocho Jose A. Villarreal RL 10-12
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce RL 10- 12
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen RL 9-12
Pumpkin Coach Louis Paul RL9-10
The Rain God Arturo Islas RL 9-12
Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson RL 9-12
Remembering the Good Times Richard Peck RL 9-10
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Kuan-Chung Lo RL 10-12
Rumors of Peace Ella Leffland RL 10-11
Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella RL 10-12
Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata TL 11-12
Sing Down the Moon Scott O'Dell RL 10-12
So Far From the Bamboo Grove Yoko K. Watkins RL 9-12
Some Preter Nenles Junichiro Tanizaki RL 10- 12
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence RL 10-12
Sour Sweer Timothy Mo RL 10- 12
Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr RL 10-12
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson RL 9-11
The Stranger Albert Camus RL 10- 12
Stranger In A Strange Land Rpbert A. Heinlein RL 10-12
Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene RL 9-11
Sundown John Joseph Mathews RL 9-12
Thelr Eyes Were Watching Zora Neale Hurston RL 10-12
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe RL 10- 12
Thousand Pleces of Gold Ruthanne L. McCunn EL9-12
The Tin Can Tree Anne Tyler RL 10- 12
The Turn of the Screw Henry James RL 10- 12
The Underdogs Mariano Azuela RL 9-12
War of the Worlds H.G. Wells RL 9-12
Water Margin Shih Nai-An RL 10-12
When the Legends Die Hal Borland RL 9-11
Wutherlng Heights Emily Bronte RL 9-12
The Yearling Marjorie K. Rawlings RL 9-11
FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY, AND
EPICS
Acts of King Authur and His Noble Knights John Steinbeck RL 9-12
The Aeneld Virgil RL 9-12
Aesop Fables RL 9-12
American Indian Mythology Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin EL 9-12
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story ot Beauty and the Beast Robin McKinley RL 9-12
The Beggar in the Blanket Gail B. Graham RL 9-12
Beyond the East Wind: Legends and Folktales of Vietnam J. R. Coburn & Quyen Van Duong RL 9-12
The Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales Lynette D. Vuong RL 9- 12
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch RL 9- 12
Cambodian Folk Stories from the Gatiloke Muriel Carrison RL 9- 10
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies Moss Roberts RL 9- 12
Chinese Folktales Yuan Hsi Kuo and Louise Hsi Kuo RL 9-12
Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folklores Alison Lurie RL 9- 12
Cuentos: Tales trom the Hispanic Southwest Jose Griego RL 9- 12
The Dancing Keme Yoshiko Uchida RL 9-12
Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales Kathleen Seros RL 9- 12
English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs RL 9- 12
Fagogo Richard Moyle RL 10-12
Favorite Folktales from Around the World Jane Yolen RL 9- 12
Greek Gods and Heroes Robert Graves Rl 9-12
Grendel John C. Garner RL 11-12
Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian Mythology Elizabeth Warmer RL 9- 12
Hungry Tigress and Other Traditional Asian Tales Rafe Martin RL 9-12
The Hungry Woman: Myths and Legends of the Azlecs John Bierhorst RL 9- 12
The Iliad Homer RL 9-12
The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends Theodora Kroeber RL 9-12
The Jumper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm K. Grimm RL 9-12
King of the Mountains: A Treasury of Latin-American
Folk Stories Moritz A. Jagendorf and R.S. Boggs RL 9-12
The Knee-High Man and Other Tales Julius Lester RL 9-12
The Magic Orange Tree: And Other Haitian Folktales Diane Wolkstein RL 9- 12
Metamorphoses Ovid RL 9- 12
Mythology Edith Hamilton RL9-12
Myths and Legends of China and Japan Donald A. Mackenzie RL 9- 12
Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero David Adams Teeming RL 9-12
North American Legends Virginia Haviland RL 9-12
Norwegian Folktales Peter C. Asbjornsen RL 9-12
The People Could Fly Virginia Hamilton RL 9-12
Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales Charles Perrault RL 9-12
Seasons of Splendor: Tales, Myths, and Legends from India Madbur Jaffrey RL 9-12
The Spring of Butterflies: And Other Chinese Folktales He Liyi RL 9- 12
Sun and Moon: Fairy Tales from Korea Kathleen Seros RL 9-12
Sweet and Sour: Tales from China Carol Kendall and Li Yao-wen RL 9-12
Tales and Storles by Hans Chrlstlan Andersen Hans Christian Andersen RL 9-12
Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk and Fairy Storles Edna O'Brien RL 9-12
Tales from the Root of the World: Folktales of Tibet Gioi Timpanelli RL 9-12
Vietnamese Legends George Schultz RL 9-12
Ware of the Birds and the Beasts and Other Russian Tales Arthur Ransome RL 9-12
When Shlemlel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer RL 9-12
The Woman in the Moon: And Other Tales of Forgonen Heroines James Riodan RL 9-12
World Mythology Donna Rosenberg RL9-12
DRAMA
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand RL 10-12
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen RL 10- 12
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Paul Zindel RL 9 -11
The Elephant Man Bernard Pomerance RL 10-12
A Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt RL 10- 12
Pygmalion George Bernard Straw RL 10- 12
Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry RL 9 -12
Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose RL 10-12