Below you will find a list of required reading materials from different area schools. This information has been provided to us by the schools; any questions regarding the content of the material may be directed to them.

Brother Rice
Evergreen Park High School
Mother McAuley
   
Brother Rice
Grade 9, All Freshmen
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Grade 10, All Sophomores
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Grade 10, Sophomore Honors
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Grade 11, All Other Juniors
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Grade 11, Junior AP Englash Language
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Grade 11, Honors
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
   
Grade 12, All Other Seniors
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Grade 12, Senior AP English Literature
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
The Stranger Albert Camus
Grade 12, Senior Honors
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Othello by William Shakespeare
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
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Evergreen Park High School
Grade 9
The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olymians: Book 1 by Rick Riordan
Grade Choice, 10-12
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Talisman by Stephen King
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Mother McAuley
Grade 9, 141 and 144
• The Lightening Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1 by Rick Riordan
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Grade 9, 140
• Aesop's Fables by any edition
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• An Inconvenient Truth by Film
• The Miracle Worker by Film - 1962 Version
Grade 10, 130 ,131, 136
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Grade 10, 134
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
Grade 11, 120, 121, 122
• To Kill a Mockingbird byHarper Lee
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Grade 11, 123, 124
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Grade 11, AP English Lang and Comp 125: Be prepared for an in-class assessment
of these works the first week of class.
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Grade 12, AP Lit and Comp 102: Be prepared for an in-class assessment
of these works the first week of class.
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Grade 12, 111, 112
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Grade 12, 110
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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