Suggested reading list (9-10 band)
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Alborn
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- The Dead and the Gone by Susan Pfeffer
- Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
- Jude by Kate Morgenroth
- Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konisburge
- Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
- Rocket Boys by Homer Hickman
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Anything written by Jane Austen
- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- All Creatures Great and Small by James Harriot
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (as a follow-up to The Kite Runner)
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
- 'Tis by Frank McCourt (as a follow-up to Angela's Ashes)
- A Doll's House by Ibsen
- Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzheneitsyn
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
- Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
- A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1776 by David McCullough
- Killer Angels by Michael Shaara