Pioneer
Picks critical review of 50+ books by 9th graders.
Adams, Douglas The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Avi The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle
Beagle, Peter The Last Unicorn
Blos, Joan A Gathering of Days
Blume, Judy Are You There, God? It's Me,
Margaret.
Blume, Judy Forever
Brooks, Bruce The Moves Make the Man
Carey, Lorene Black Ice
Childress, Alice A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a
Sandwich
Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising
Cormier, Robert After the First Death
Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert Fade
Crompton, Anne Eliot The Sorcerer
Crutcher, Chris The Crazy Horse Electric Game
Crutcher, Chris Running Loose
Cushman, Karen Catherine Called Birdy
Duncan, Lois Killing Mr. Griffin
Filipovic, Zlata Zlata's Diary
Fox, Paula The Slave Dancer
George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves
Greene, Bette Summer of My German Soldier
Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders
Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils
Kerr, M.E. I'll Love You When You're More Like
Me
Keye(s?), Daniel Flowers for Algernon
Klause, Annette Curtis The Silver Kiss
L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time
LeGuin, Ursula The Wizard of Earthsea
Lipsyte, Robert The Contender
Lowry, Lois The Giver
Lowry, Lois Number the Stars
Mason, Bobbie Ann In Country
Mazer, Harry and
Norma Fox Mazer Heartbeat
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels
Myers, Walter Dean Hoops
O'Brien, Robert Z is for Zachariah
Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia
Paterson, Katherine Jacob Have I Loved
Paulsen, Gary Hatchet
Peck, Richard Are You in the House Alone?
Peck, Robert Newton A Day No Pigs Would Die
Rylant, Cynthia A Fine White Dust
Sleator, William Strange Attractors
Speare, Elizabeth George The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Stewart, Mary The Crystal Cave
Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Voigt, Cynthia Homecoming
Wangerin, Walter The Book of the Dun Cow
White, Robb Deathwatch
Yep, Laurence The Dragon of the Lost Sea
Zindel, Paul The Pigman
Compiled by:
Susan Bunch
Director of English Education
University of Southern Mississippi
smbunch@whale.st.usm.edu
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The enclosed list is from the Adolescent Literature Class taught by Dr.
Judith Mitchell, Rhode Island College.
Classics:
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Jane Austen: Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens- Our Mutual Friend; Oliver Twist
Henry James- The Turn of the Screw
Howard Pyle: Men of Iron
P.L. Stevenson: The Black Arrow; Kidnapped
Popular Fiction that Became Classics:
Richard Llewelym: How Green Was My Valler
Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
John Knowles: A Separate Peace
J.D.Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye; Frany and Zooey
Gordon Parks: THe Learning TRee
James Agee: The Morning Watch
Goldman: Lord of the Flies
Science Fiction and Fantasy:
Robin McKinley: Beauty
Ursula LeGuin: Planet of Exile; The Earth Sea Trilogy
John Christopher: The Guardians
Walter Miller: A Canticle for Leiborwitz
Madeline l"Engle: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Anne McCaffery: Dragon Song; Dragon singer; Dragon Drums
Robert O'Brien: Z is for Zachariah
Alan Garner: The Own Service
Historical Novels:
Elizabeth George speare: Calico Captive; The bronze Bow
Patricia Clapp: Constance
Roemary Stucliff: Simon; THe Outcast; THe Horse Lord
Marion Starkey: The Visionary Girls
Esther Forbes: Mirror for Witches
Bess Struter Aldrich: A Lantern in her Hand
Leon Garfield: The Sound of Coaches
Harry Behn: The Faraway Lurs
Nathaniel Benchley: Only Earth and Sky Last Forever
The Best in Contemporary Authors and Settings:
Mollie Huner: The Sound of Chariots
Mary Stoltz: The Edge of Next Year; In a Mirror; To Tell Your Love; Leap
Before you Look
Paul Zinder: The Pigman; My Darling, My Hamburger
Nat Hentoff: I'm Really Dragged But Nothing Gets Me Down
Robert Cormier: THe Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese; After the First Death
Barbars Werbsa: Run Slowly, Go Fast
Frank Bonhma: Durango Street; chief; Viva Chicano!
Isabella Holland: Of Love and Death and Other JOurneys; The Man without a
Face
Alice CHildress: A Hero AIn't NOthing But a Sandwixh
Norma Foz Hazer, Harry Hazer: Snowbound; The Solid Gold Kid
William Sleator: A house of Stairs
Madeline L'Engle: The Young Unicorns; A circle of endless light.