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__**New Additions to the List**__ (click on each cover for more information)
 * [[image:bravestory.jpg align="center" link="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123557.Brave_Story"]]

|| ||  ||  ||  ||  || by Miyuki Miyabe || //The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil// by George Saunders || //Blow-Up & other stories// by Julio Cortazar || //Cronopios and Famas// by Julio Cortazar || //I Am Scout// by Charles J. Shields || //Noisy Outlaws//... by various authors ||
 * //Brave Story//

of Electric Sheep?// by Philip K. Dick || //Watchmen// by Alan Moore || //Fahrenheit 451// by Ray Bradbury || //Summerland// by Michael Chabon || //Armored Hearts// by David Bottoms || //47// by Walter Mosley ||
 * [[image:7082-m-1165606383.jpg align="center" link="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7082.Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep_"]] || [[image:watchmenn.jpg link="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen"]] || [[image:119787-m-1176400211.jpg width="94" height="152" align="center" link="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119787.Fahrenheit_451"]] || [[image:16705-m-1166740696.jpg align="center" link="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16705.Summerland"]] || [[image:bottoms.jpg link="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588907.Armored_Hearts_Selected_New_Poems"]] || [[image:64380-m-1170622607.jpg align="center" link="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64380.47"]] ||
 * //Do Androids Dream

__**AWARD WINNING BOOKS**__
 * **A Wreath for Emmett Till,** by Marilyn Nelson
 * **Airborn**, by Kenneth Oppel
 * **Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy**, by Gary D. Schmidt
 * **The First Part Last**, by Angela Johnson
 * **A Northern Light**, by Jennifer Donnelly
 * **The House of the Scorpion**, by Nancy Farmer
 * **Hole in My Life**, by Jack Gantos
 * **The Ropemaker**, by Peter Dickinson
 * **Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson**, by Louise Rennison
 * **Monster**, by Walter Dean Myers
 * **Speak**, by Laurie Halse Anderson
 * **The Book Thief,** by Markus Zusak
 * **The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor the State, Vol. 1: The Pox Party** by M.T. Anderson
 * **Geek Love** by Katherine Dunn

__**GENERAL FICTION**__
 * **Watership Down** by Richard Adams
 * **Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian** by Sherman Alexie
 * **Before We Were Free** by Julia Alvarez
 * **The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles** by Ray Bradbury
 * **The Tequila Worm** by Viola Canales
 * **Murder on the Orient Express** by Agatha Christie
 * **The House on Mango Street** by Sandra Cisneros
 * **The Black Canary** by Jane Louise Curry
 * **Any Sherlock Holmes** by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * **The Conch Bearer** by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 * **The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming** by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 * **The Battle of Jericho** by Sharon Draper
 * **Copper Sun** by Sharon Draper
 * **El Lector** by William Durbin
 * **Of Sound Mind** by Jean Ferris
 * **Money Hungry** by Sharon Flake
 * **Begging for Change** by Sharon Flake
 * **Inkheart, Inkspell, The Thief Lord** by Cornelia Funke
 * **Princess Academy** by Shannon Hale
 * **Quest for a Maid** by Frances Mary Hendry
 * **Dune** by Frank Herbert
 * **All Creatures Great and Small** by James Herriot
 * **Redwall series** by Brian Jacques
 * **Breaking Through** by Francisco Jimenez
 * **The Phantom Tollbooth**by Norton Juster
 * **Kira-Kira** by Cynthia Kadohata
 * **Kiss the Dust** by Elizabeth Laird
 * **A Wrinkle in Time or any of the Austin series** by Madeleine L’Engle
 * **Narnia series** by C.S. Lewis
 * **The Kite Rider**: A Novel by Geraldine McCaughrean
 * **Spirits of the High Mesa** by Floyd Martinez
 * **Parrot in the Oven** by Victor Martinez
 * **The Tree Girl** by Ben Mikaelsen
 * **Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller** by Sarah Elizabeth Miller
 * **Harlem Summer** by Walter Dean Myers
 * **The Meaning of Consuelo** by Judith Ortiz Cofer
 * **His Dark Materials trilogy** by Philip Pullman
 * **Singing Hands** by Delia Ray
 * **What the Moon Saw**: A Novel by Laura Resau
 * **Esperanza Rising,** by Pamela Munoz Ryan
 * **Shiva’s Fire** by Suzanne Fisher Staples
 * **Uncle Tom’s Cabin** by Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * **Let the Circle Be Unbroken** by Mildred Taylor
 * **Lord of the Rings trilogy** by J.R.R. Tolkien
 * **The Time Machine** by H.G. Wells
 * **The Once and Future King** by T.H. White
 * **Seeing Emily** by Joyce Lee Wong


 * __LITERARY CLASSICS / HIGH SCHOOL REQUIRED READING__**
 * **//1//984** by George Orwell
 * **Animal Farm** by George Orwell
 * **The Call of the Wild** by Jack London
 * **Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde** by Robert Louis Stevenson
 * **Treasure Island** by Robert Louis Stevenson
 * **Frankenstein** by Mary Shelley
 * **Great Expectations** by Charles Dickens
 * **Oliver Twist** by Charles Dickens
 * **Lord of the Flies** by William Golding
 * **Night** by Elie Weisel
 * **Romeo and Juliet** by William Shakespeare
 * **Julius Caesa**, by William Shakespeare
 * **Macbeth** by William Shakespeare
 * **Hamlet** by William Shakespeare
 * **A Midsummer Night’s Dream** by William Shakespeare
 * **Siddhartha** by Herman Hesse
 * **Of Mice and Men** by John Steinbeck
 * **The Red Pony** by John Steinbeck
 * **Where the Red Fern Grows** by Wilson Rawls
 * **White Fang** by Jack London
 * **Jane Eyre** by Charlotte Bronte
 * **Wuthering Heights** by Emily Bronte
 * **The Hound of the Baskervilles** by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 * **The Three Musketeers** by Alexandre Dumas
 * **The Great Gatsby** by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * **The Scarlet Letter** by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * **The Iliad** by Homer
 * **The Odyssey** by Homer
 * **The Hunchback of Notre Dame** by Victor Hugo
 * **Black Beauty** by Anna Sewell
 * **Dracula** by Bram Stoker
 * **Gulliver’s Travels** by Jonathan Swift
 * **The Age of Innocence** by Edith Wharton
 * **Ethan Frome** by Edith Wharton
 * **The Picture of Dorian Gray** by Oscar Wilde
 * **Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer** by Mark Twain
 * **20,000 Leagues under the Sea or Around the World in Eighty Days** by Jules Verne
 * **The Catcher in the Rye** by J.D. Salinger
 * **To Kill a Mockingbird** by Harper Lee
 * **Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility** by Jane Austen
 * **Peter Pan** by J.M. Barrie
 * **Little Women** by Louisa May Alcott
 * **Anything** by Charles Dickens
 * **Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass** by Lewis Carroll

__**GRAPHIC NOVELS**__
 * **Sticks and Stones** by Peter Kuper
 * **Persepolis I** & **Persepolis II** by Marjane Satrapi
 * **Maus I** & **Maus II** by Art Spiegelman

__**NONFICTION**__ //Social Science and Language//
 * **Witchhunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials,** by Marc Aronson
 * **5000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery,** by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Fradin
 * **Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott,** by Russell Freedman
 * **Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground,** by Joyce Hansen & Gary McGowan
 * **War, Women, and the News: How Female Journalists won the Battle to Cover World War II**, by Catherine Gourley
 * **The Story of King Arthur,** by Howard Pyle
 * **Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States,** by Zora Neale Hurston
 * **Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,** by Lynn Truss

//Science and Technology//
 * **Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions** by Edwin A. Abbott
 * **A Short History of Nearly Everything** by Bill Bryson
 * **Six Easy Pieces** by Richard P. Feynman
 * **Little People and a Lost World: An Anthropological Mystery** by Linda Goldenberg
 * **Silent Spring** by Rachel Carson
 * **Never Cry Wolf** by Farley Mowat
 * **Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics** by Sy Montgomery
 * **An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Blizzard, or The Great Fire** by Jim Murphy
 * **Guinea Pig Scientists** by Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring
 * **The Hot Zone** by
 * **Young Men and Fire** by Norman Maclean
 * **First on the Moon** by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
 * **Skyscraper** by Lynn Curlee

//Arts and Recreation//
 * **Art Against the Odds: From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintings** by Susan Goldman Rubin
 * **Into Thin Air** by Jon Krakauer
 * **Seabiscuit** by Laura Hillenbrand

//Literature//
 * **What Have You Lost?, 19 Varieties of Gazelle, or This Same Sky** by Naomi Shihab Nye
 * **I Am the Darker Brother** edited by Arnold Adoff
 * **City of One : Young Writers Speak to The World** edited by Collete deDonato
 * **In the Mecca** by Gwendolyn Brooks
 * **Harlem Stomp: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance,** by Laba Carrick Hill
 * **Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing UP Latino in the United States,** edited by Lori M. Carlson
 * **Tai Chi Morning: Snapshots of China** by Nikki Grimes
 * **A Thousand Peaks: Poems from China** by Siyu Liu
 * **Red Hot Salsa : Bilingual Poems On Being Young And Latino In The United States**
 * **The Miracle Worker** by William Gibson
 * **The Crucible** by Arthur Miller
 * **My Life and Hard Times** by James Thurber

//History and Geography//
 * **Mysteries of History** by Robert Stewart
 * **Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places** edited by Jill Davis
 * **Curse of the Pharaohs: My Adventures with Mummies** by Zahi Hawass
 * **Kingdom of the Dead: Voyages through Time** by Peter Ackroyd
 * **Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii** by James M. Deem
 * **Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and the Librarian Who Made a Difference** by Joanne Oppenheim
 * **Farewell to Manzanar** by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
 * **Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis** by Pete Nelson
 * **Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 or Hitler Youth** by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
 * **Chinese Cinderella** by Adeline Yen Mah
 * **Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution** by Ji-Li Jiang
 * **Secrets of a Civil War Submarine** by Sally M. Walker
 * **Days of Jubilee** by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
 * **Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond** by Joseph Medicine Crow
 * **Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian history of the American West** by Dee Alexander Brown
 * **Ecology of a Cracker Childhood** by Janisse Ray

//Biographies//
 * **E.E. Cummings: A Poet’s Life** by Catherine Reef
 * **Sigmund Freud** by Kathleen Krull
 * **Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders against Child Slavery** by Susan Kuklin
 * **Our Elanor: A Scarpbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Life** by Candace Fleming