PS HS LIBRARY SUGGESTED LIST 9-12

 Books are available at the PSHS Library for “regular” circulation (3-weeks)

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Child Called It –Pelzer, David

The Lost Boy—Pelzer, David

The Privilege of Youth—Pelzer, David

A Man Named Dave—Pelzer, David

Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel—Hoffman, Banesh

All Creatures Great and Small—Herriot, James

Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.—Rodriguez, Luis

Angela’s Ashes—McCourt, Frank

‘Tis: a memoir—McCourt, Frank

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin—Franklin, Benjamin

The Autobiography of Malcom X—Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place—Ralston, Aron

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth—Wright, Richard

The Color of Water : a Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother—McBride, James

Dear America: Letter Home from Vietnam—Edelman, Bernard (ed)

East to the Dawn: the life of Amelia Earhart—Butler, Susan

Eleanor Roosevelt—McAuley, Karen

Hiding Place, The—Ten Boom, Cory

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories—Angelou, Maya

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—Angelou, Maya

It’s Not About the Bike—Armstrong, Lance

Singin’ and Singin’ and Getting’ Merry Like Christman—Angelou, Maya

Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South   Africa—Mathabane, Mark

Liberace, an autobiography—Liberace

Life is so Good—Watson, George

Beethoven—Ludwig, Emil

Napolean—Ludwig, Emil

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself—Douglas, Frederick

Nicholas and Alexandria—Massie, Robert K.

Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend—Daniels, Jonathon

Harry S. Truman—Leavell, J. Perry

Undaunted Courage:Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West—Ambrose, Stephen E.

FICTION

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea—Verne, Jules

A Lesson Before Dying—Gaines, Ernest

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn—Smith, Betty

Alas, Babylon—Frank, Pat

And Then There Were None—Christie, Agatha

Andromeda Strain, The—Crichton, Michael

Animal Farm—Orwell, George

Anne of Green Gables—Montgomery, Lucy

April Morning—Fast, Howard

As I Lay Dying—Faulkner, William

Atlas Shrugged—Rand, Ayn

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The—Gaines, Ernest J.

Babbitt—Lewis, Sinclair

Brave New World—Huxley, Aldous

Caves of Steel—Azimov, Isaac

Chosen, The—Potok, Chaim

Client, The—Grisham, John

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The—Twain, Mark

Cross Creek—Rawlings, Marjorie K.

Death Comes for the Archbishop—Cather, Willa

Divine Comedy—Alighierl, Dante

Fifth Chinese Daughter—Wong, Jade Snow

Flowers for Algernon—Keyes, Daniel

Gulag Archipelago, The—Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander

Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad—Petry, Ann Lane

Harry Potter Series—Rowlings, J.K.

History of Tom Jones, The—Fielding, Henry

Hobbit, The—Tolkien

Holes—Sachar, Louis

I Am the Cheese—Cormier, Robert

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden—Green, Hannah

Intruder in the Dust—Faulkner, William

Jesse—Soto, Gary

Jonathon Livingston Seagull—Bach, Richard

Jurassic Park—Crichton, Michael

Killer Angels—Shaara, Michael

Last of the Mohicans, The—Cooper, James Fenmore

Lonesome Dove—McMurtry, Larry

Lost World, The—Crichton, Michael

Man and Superman—Shaw, George Bernard

Man in the Iron Mask, The—Dumas, Alexandre

Oliver Twist—Dickens, Charles

On Golden Pond—Thompson, Ernest

Petey—Ben Mikaelsen

Picture of Dorian Gray, The—Wilde, Oscar

Ragtime—Doctorow, E.L.

Rebecca—Du Maurier, Daphne

Red Storm Rising—Clancy, Tom

Schinler’s List—Keneally, Thomas

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Tale of Two Cities, A—Dickens, Charles

Time Machine, The—Wells, HG

Touching Spirit Bear—Ben Mikaelsen

Treasure Island—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Tree Girl—Ben Mikaelsen

U.S.A. (trilogy)—Dos Passos, John

Walk to Remember—Sparks, Nicholas

Where the Heart Is—Letts, Billie

NON-FICTION

A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Hole—Hawkins, Stephen

All the Presidents Men—Woodward, Bob

Black Like Me—Griffin, John Howard

Born Free, a Lioness of Two Worlds—Adamson, Joy

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—Brown, Dee

Chicken Soup for the Soul Series—Canfield, Jack

Cosmos—Sagan, Carl

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The—Gibbon, Edward

Democracy in America—de Tocqueville, Alex

Desert Solitare—Abbey Edward

In Cold Blood—Capote, Trumna

Into Thin Air—Krakauer, Jon

Living Planet, The—Attenborough, David

Night to Remember, A—Lord, Walter

No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court—Humes, Ed

There are no Children Here—Kotlowitz, Alex

Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, The—Junger, Sebastian

Prince, The—Machiavelli, Niccolo

Profiles in Courage—Kennedy, John

Search for King Arthur, The—Day, David

Summer of ’49—Halberstam, David

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom—Alvarez, Walter

Tuesdays with Morrie—Albom, Mitch

Two Years before the Mast—Dana, Richard Henry

RELUCTANT READERS

Burning Up—Cooney, Caroline

Gathering Blue—Lowry, Lois

Giver, The—Lowry, Lois

Hatchet—Paulsen, Gary  (All other Paulsen books)

I Know What You Did Last Summer—Duncan, Lois

Touching Spirit Bear—Ben Mikaelsen

Westing, Game, The—Raskin, Ellen

Authors for reluctant readers:

            Paulsen

            Mikaelsen

            Cooney