9th Grade Book List


 

# Audio tape in library

 

NOVELS

Required of all students:

  • # To Kill a Mockingbird
  • # The Pearl
  • Miracle Worker
  • Oedipus Rex
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Antigone

Honors will also read:

  • Yellow Raft in Blue Water
  • # Great Expectations
  • # Treasure Island
  • # Watership Down

Optional:

  • # The Christmas Carol
  • Day No Pigs Would Die
  • Farewell to Manzanar
  • Go Ask Alice
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name
  • Ironman
  • Joy in the Morning
  • My Life, The Story of Helen Keller
  • # Never Cry Wolf
  • Pigman
  • Princess Bride
  • Ryan White: My Story
  • Seed Folk
  • Silas Marner
  • West Side Story
  • Rumble Fish
  • Razzle

 

TEXTS

  • Patterns in Literature
  • Prentice-Hall Literature – Gold
  • Warriners English Composition & Grammar
  • Elements in Writing
  • MLA Guide to Documentation
  • Vocabulary Workship
  • Process Writing – Level 1

 

In addition to the aforementioned works, selections of poetry are covered including, but not limited to, the following authors:

  • Qwendolyn Brooks
  • E.E. Cummings
  • Netphtalf De Leon
  • Emily Dickinson
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Robert Frost
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Edna St. Vincent Milay
  • Ogden Nash
  • Gorden Parks
  • Carl Sandburg
  • William Shakespeare
  • Sara Teasdale
  • Elinor Wylies