Academic Merit

• Kaye Gibbons — Ellen Foster
  
• George Orwell
    Animal Farm
    1984
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne — The Scarlet Letter
  
• Ray Bradbury — Fahrenheit 451
  
• Harper Lee — To Kill a Mockingbird
  
• Aldous Huxley — Brave New World
  
• Charles Dickens — A Tale of Two Cities
  
• Sophocles
    Antigone
    Oedipus
  
• Shakespeare
    Macbeth
    Julius Caesar
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby
  
• John Steinbeck
    Of Mice and Men
    The Pearl
  
• Sharon Creech — Walk Two Moons
  
• Ishmael Beah — A Long Way Gone
  
• Carol Plum-ucci — The Body of Christopher Creed
  
• Anne Frank — The Diary of Anne Frank
  
• Mildred D. Taylor — Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  
• J.D. Salinger — The Catcher in the Rye
  
• Arthur Miller — Death of a Salesman
  
• Sandra Cisneros — The House on Mango Street
  
• William Golding — Lord of the Flies
  
• Ernest Hemingway — The Old Man and the Sea
  
• Stephen Crane — The Red Badge of Courage
  
• John Knowles — A Separate Peace
  
• Zora Neale Hurston — Their Eyes Were Watching God
  
• Chinua Achebe — Things Fall Apart