ELA Approved Books,
alphabetized

The following books have been approved by the Board of Education:
(This list was updated January 25, 2005)
 

TITLE	AUTHOR	SCHOOL	GRADE	YR. APPROVED	DAY & MO. APPROVED
A Death in the Family	James Agee	High School
A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	High School
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	High School
A Good Courage	Stephanie S. Tolan	Middle Schools	7	1996	5-Jun
A Lesson Before Dying	Earnest J. Gaines	High School		1997	6-Jun
A Man for All Seasons	Robert Bolt	High School
A Member of the Wedding	Carson McCullers	High School
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Shakespeare	High School
A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	High School
A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf	High School
A Separate Peace	John Knowles	High School
A Slipping Down Life	Anne Tyler	High School
A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	High School
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	High School
A Taste of Blackberries	Buchanan	Craig
A View From Saturday	E.L. Konisburg	Middle Schools	8
A View From the Bridge	Arthur Miller	High School
Abel's Island	Steig	Craig	4,5
Adventures of Ali Baby Bernstein	Johanna Hurwitz	Rosendale	3
Adventures of Huck Finn	Tom Sawyer	High School
Adventures of Spider	Joyce Cooper Arkhust	Rosendale	3
Aenid	Vergil	High School
Alexander & the Wind Up Mouse	Lionni	Elementary	2
Alice in Wonderland	Carrol	Craig
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	High School
Alicia: My Story	Alicia Appleman Jurman	High School
All's Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Marice Remarque	High School
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich-Maria Remarque	Middle Schools	8
Amelia Bedelia	Peggy Parrish	Elementary	2
An Anteater Named Arthur	Bernard Waber	Rosendale	2
An Enemy Among Them	Deborah Deford and Harry Stout	Middle Schools	7	1995	9-Jan
Anansi Stories	Kimmel	Rosendale	3
Animal Farm	George Orwell	High School
Anna Banana and Me	Eric Blegvad	Hillside	1
Annabelle Swift	Amy Schwartz	Hillside	Kdg	1995	22-May
Antigone	Sophocles	High School
April Morning	Howard Fast	Middle Schools	7	1995	9-Jan
Autobiography of Ben Franklin	Benjamin Franklin	High School
Baby Sitters	Ann M. Martin	Elementary	2
Back to Paul Revere	Beatrice Gormky	Elementary	4
Bears on Hemlock Mountain	Dalgliesh	Rosendale	2
Beaver City	Billie Signer	Rosendale	4
Because of Winn Dixie	Kate DiCamillio	Elementary	5
Becket	Jean Anouilh	High School
Bedtime for Frances	Russell Hoban	Hillside	2
Beloved	Toni Morrision	High School	12H	1998	14-Dec
Big Rock, The	Bruce Hiscock	Rosendale	4
Big Tree, The	Bruce Hiscock	Rosendale	4
Bigger	Patricia Calvert	Craig	5	1996	20-May
Billy Budd, Sailor	Herman Melville	High School
Black Water	Eve Bunting	Middle Schools	7	2001	11-Nov
Blueberries for Sal	Rober McCloskey	Rosendale	2
Bound for Oregon	Jean Van Leeuwen	Birchwood	5		None
Brave Little Plant	Paula Girard	Hillside	2
Breakfast at Tiffany's	Truman Capote	High School
Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson	Middle School	6
Bunnicula	Howe	Craig	4
Call of the Wild	Jack London	Middle Schools	7
Candide	Voltaire	High School
Captive, The	Joyce Hansen	Craig	5	1996	20-May
Catch 22	Joseph Heller	High School
Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	High School
Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	High School
Chalkbox Kid, The	Clyde Robert Bulla	Rosendale	3
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	Craig	4	1995	22-May
Chester’s Way	Kevin Henkes	Birchwood	1-2 Multiage	1995	8-May
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault	Birchwood	Kdg	1995	22-May
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault	Craig	1	1995	22-May
Chicken Little	S. Kellogg	Elementary	1
Chocolate Touch, The	Patrick Skene Catling	Craig	3	1995	22-May
Chronicles of a Death Foretold	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	High School
Come Back Dog, The	Jane Resh Thomas	Rosendale	3
Coming of Age	Bruce Emra, Ed.	Middle Schools	8	1997	18-Dec
Courage of Sarah Noble	Alice Dalgliesh	Elementary	4
Crash	Jerry Spinelli	Middle Schools	6	2000	19-Jun
Cry the Beloved Country	Alan Paton	High School
Cry Uncle	Auch	Craig
Daphine's Book	Mary Downing Hahn	Elementary	4,5
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	High School
Day of Ahmed's Secret, The	Florence Heide & Judith Gilliland	Rosendale	3	1995	8-May
Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail	Elvira Woodruff	Craig	5	1996	20-May
Dear Mr. Henshaw	Beverly Clearly	Elementary	4
Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	High School
Deep in the Forest	Brinton Turkle	Hillside	1
Dairy of Anne Frank	Anne Frank	High School
Diary of Anne Frank	Anne Frank	Middle Schools	8
Dogs to the Rescue		Rosendale	3
Door and the Wall	DeAngeli	Craig	5
Doorbell Rings, The	Pat Hutchins	Elementary	1
Driving Miss Daisy	Alfred Uhry	High School
Drums of Saratoga	Lisa Banim	Rosendale	4
East Side Story	Bonnie Bader	Rosendale	4
Eerie Canal	Jack Reber	Rosendale	4
Ellen Foster	Kaye Gibbons	High School	9	1998	23-Mar
Enchanted Book, The	Amy Zerner	Rosendale	3
Encyclopedia Brown Series	Donald Sobol	Craig	4	1995	4-Apr
Eragon	Christopher Paolini	Middle Schools	8
Eric Carle's Animals Animals	Laura Whipple, comp.	Glencliff	3-4 Multiage	1997	6-Jun
Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton	High School
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	High School
Farmer Boy	Laura Ingles Wilder	Elementary	4
Fences	August Wilson	High School
Fighting Ground, The	Avi	Middle School	6	1995	9-Jan
Fire Bug Connection, The	Jean Craighead George	Craig	5	1995	22-May
Five True Dog Stories	Margaret Davidson	Rosendale	3
Forgotten Door, The	Alexander Key	Middle School	5,6
Freak the Mighty	Rodman Philbreck	Middle Schools	8
Friday Night Lights	H.G. Bissinger	High School
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Konigsburg	Elementary	4,5
Gadget War, The	Betsy Duffey	Rosendale	2-3	1995	8-May
Galimoto	Karen Lynn Williams	Rosendale	3	1995	8-May
Ghost of Popcorn Hill	Betty Ren Wright	Rosendale	3
Ghost of Windy Hill, The	Betty Ren Wright	Rosendale	3
Giver, The	Lois Lowry	Middle Schools	7	1995	9-Jan
Gods, Heroes & Men	W H D Rouse	High School
Great Brain, The	Fitzgerald	Craig	4,5
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	High School
Great Gilly Hopkins, The	Katherine Paterson	Middle School	6,7
Green Book, The	Walsh	Craig	5,6
Growing Up	Russell Baker	High School
Hamlet	Shakespeare	High School
Hard Times	Charles Dickens	High School
Hare’s Choice	Dennis Hamley	Birchwood	4	1995	8-May
Haroun and the Sea of Stories	Salman Rushdie	High School
Harriet the Spy	Fitzhugh	Craig	4,5
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	J. K. Rowling	High School
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen	Rosendale	5	1995	8-May
Haunting of Grade 3	Grace Maccarone	Rosendale	3
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	High School
Hedda Gabbler	Henrik Ibsen	High School
Henry and Beezus	Beverly Clearly	Rosendale	3
Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea	Cynthis Rylant	Hillside	2	1995	22-May
Henry Huggins	Beverly Clearly	Elementary	3
Henry Mudge - The First Book	Cynthia Rylant	Birchwood	2	1995	8-May
Holes	Louis Sachar	Middle Schools	6	2000	19-Jun
House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros	High School
How to be Cool in Third Grade	Betsy Duffey	Craig	3	2001	2-Apr
How To Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World	Faith McNulty	Rosendale	4
Hundred Dresses	Eleanor Estes	Rosendale	3