• Peak (Gen. Ed. ELA Only)

    by Roland Smith Year Published: 2007

    Peak is a 2007 young adult fiction novel by Roland Smith about the physical and emotional challenges that face a fourteen-year-old as he climbs Mount Everest as well as tall buildings in New York City after moving from Wyoming.

     

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  • Uglies (Gen. Ed. ELA Only)

    by Scott Westerfield Year Published: 2005

    Uglies is a 2005 science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. It is set in a future post scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is considered an "ugly," but then turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery when they reach the age of 16.

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  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Advanced ELA Only)

    by John Boyne Year Published: 2006

    Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. 

    But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

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  • I Am the Cheese (Advanced ELA Only)

    by Robert Cormier Year Published: 1977

    Adam Farmer is on a journey - he has to get to Rutterburg with a parcel for his father. But as he travels, he starts to remember the events leading up to this point, memories which are also being prised out in gruelling psychiatric interviews. What is the secret of Adam Farmer? And what will happen when he finds out?

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  • Outsiders (Advanced Class Only)

    by S.E. Hinton Year Published: 1967

    The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published.

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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Independent Study for Advanced ELA Only)

    by Lewis Carroll Year Published: 1865

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's tale by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. 

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