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A


  • The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian
  • Across Five Aprils 
  • Adam of The Road
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 
  • Adventures of Ulysses
  • Agentes secretos y el mural de Picasso 
  • Alice Blows A Fuse 
  • Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass 
  • All Quiet On the Western Front 
  • All the President's Men 
  • Always Running 
  • Amazing Grace-Lives of Children and the Conscience of A Nation 
  • America's Story - Book 1 & 2 
  • American Literature for Life and Work 
  • An Introduction to Poetry 
  • The Andromedia Strain
  • Angela's Ashes 
  • Animal Farm 
  • Anthem 
  • The Awakening

B


  • A Basic Course in American Sign Language, Second Edition
  • The Bean Trees 
  • Beowulf - A New Verse Translation
  • Beowulf the Warrior 
  • Beyond Belief 
  • Big Red 
  • Billy Budd and Typee
  • Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir 
  • Black Like Me 
  • Black Pearl 
  • Bless Me Ultima
  • The Book Thief
  • Boy
  • Brandon Brown quiere un perro
  • Brandon Brown versus Yucatán 
  • Brave New World 

C


  • Call It Courage 
  • The Call of the Wild 
  • Canterbury Tales 
  • Case of the Frozen Addicts, The Catch 22 
  • Catcher in the Rye 
  • Catherine, Called Birdy 
  • Cato to St. Jerome 
  • Cat's Cradle 
  • Catuilus Expanded Edition 
  • Catullus: Advanced Placement Edition 
  • The Cay 
  • Cheaper by the Dozen 
  • Child of the Owl 
  • The Chocolate War 
  • The Chosen
  • A Christmas Carol
  • College Writing Skills with Readings
  • The Color Purple
  • Coming Of Age - Short Stories About Youth & Adolescence 
  • Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister 
  • Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
  • Cold Sassy Tree
  • The Contender 
  • Courage 
  • Crime and Punishment 
  • The Crucible
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
  • Cyrano De Bergerac

D


  • Dawn 
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die
  • Daybook of Critical Reading and Writing 
  • Death of A Salesman 
  • Deathwatch 
  • Dicey's Song
  • Die Weibe Rose
  • Dime!
  • Dr. Faustus
  • Don Quixote
  • ¿Dónde está Eduardo? 
  • Dragonwings
  • Durango Street

E


  • El Bronx Remembered
  • Echoes from Mt. Olympus
  • Enrique's Journey
  • Esperanza 
  • Esperanza Rising
  • Ethan Frome
  • Everything's an Argument with Readings

F


  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Fallen Angels
  • Fallout
  • The Family from Vietnam
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • Farewell to Manzanar
  • Fast Food Nation
  • The Fault in Our Stars
  • Felipe Alou: Desde los valles a las montañas
  • The Fire Next Time
  • Flowers for Algernon 
  • Frankenstein 
  • Freak the Mighty
  • Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

G


  • Gardner's Art through the Ages: Global History 
  • The Girl Who Owned a City
  • The Giver 
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Go Ask Alice
  • Grapes of Wrath
  • Graphic Communications
  • Great American Stories
  • Great British Stories
  • Great Expectations
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Gulliver's Travels 

H


  • The Halloween Tree
  • Hamlet 
  • Hard Times 
  • Hero 
  • Hi Tar 
  • The Hiding Place
  • Hiroshima 
  • The Hobbit 
  • Holt Literature And Language 
  • Horace Workbook 
  • Horace: Selected Odes And Satire 1.9
  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
  • House of Seven Gables 
  • The House on Mango Street
  • How to Eat Fried Worms
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines 
  • Howard's End 
  • The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

I


  • I Am the Darker Brother 
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • I Lay Dying 
  • The Ides of April
  • Idylls of the King and Camelot 
  • The Illustrated Man 
  • Importance of Being Earnest
  • In Cold Blood
  • In the Morning of Time 
  • Incident at Hawk's Hill
  • Into the Wild
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins 
  • Invisible

J


  • Jacob Have I Loved 
  • Jane Eyre 
  • Johnny Tremain
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • The Josefina Story Quilt 
  • Journey to Hesperia 
  • Joy Luck Club 
  • Joyas De Lectura 
  • Jubilee Trail 
  • Julius Caesar 
  • The Jungle

K


  • Kaffir Boy 
  • Kidnapped 
  • The Killer Angels
  • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table 
  • The King James Bible
  • Knock at A Star 

L


  • La hija del Sastre
  • The Language of Literature
  • The Language of Literature 
  • The Language of Literature: American Literature 
  • The Language of Literature: British Literature
  • The Language of Literature: World Literature
  • Last of the Mohicans 
  • The Late Great Me
  • Learning to Program with Alice
  • The Learning Tree
  • Left for Dead
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Les Miserables
  • Light a Single Candle 
  • The Light in the Forest
  • The Lightning Thief
  • Listening Comprehension Skills for Intermediate and Advanced Students
  • Literature & Language - Orange Level
  • Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry & Drama, 8th Edition 
  • Little Prince 
  • The Long March
  • Long Walk to Freedom
  • Look Who's Talking 
  • Lord Jim 
  • Lord of the Flies 
  • Lyddie 

M


  • Madame Bovary 
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Mansfield Park 
  • The Martian Chronicles
  • The Master Puppeteer
  • Maus: A Survivor's Tale I, My Father Bleeds History
  • Maus: A Survivor's Tale II, and Here My Troubles Began
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge 
  • Me and Mr. Stenner
  • Measuring Up to the California Content Standards and Success Strategies for the CAHSEE
  • Memoirs of A Geisha 
  • Merchant of Venice
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Midwife's Apprentice
  • Moby Dick 
  • Moccasin Trail
  • Modern Automotive Technology
  • Monster
  • Murder at the National Gallery 
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 
  • Murders in Rue Morgue 
  • My Antonia 
  • My Enemy, My Brother 
  • My Mother's Voice
  • My Name is Aram 
  • My Side of the Mountain
  • Mythology and You

N


  • 1984
  • The Naked Sun
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  • Native Son
  • Navigating Early 
  • Never Cry Wolfe
  • Nickel and Dimed
  • Night 
  • A Night To Remember
  • No Promises In the Wind 

O


  • Of Mice and Men 
  • Of Nightingales that Weep 
  • Old Man and the Sea 
  • Oliver Twist 
  • On the Beach 
  • The Once and Future King
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
  • Ordinary Americans 
  • Ordinary People 
  • Othello 
  • The Outsiders

P


  • Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight 
  • Paul Bunyan & His Great Blue Ox 
  • The Pearl 
  • Phoebe 
  • The Pigman
  • The Pilgrim's Progress
  • The Plague
  • Planet of the Apes
  • The Power and the Glory
  • The Power of Myth
  • Prentice Hall Literature - The American Experience 
  • The Prentice Hall Reader
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • The Prince and the Pauper
  • Profiles In Courage 
  • The Pushcart War
  • Pygmalion

R


  • A Raisin In the Sun
  • Rascal
  • Readings in World Literature
  • Rebecca
  • Rebeldes te Tejas 
  • Red Badge of Courage and Selected Stories
  • Red Sky at Morning 
  • Repaso 
  • The Return of the Native
  • Revolution
  • Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Robo en la Noche
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 
  • A Room of One's Own
  • Royal Hunt of the Sun 

S


  • S Is for Space 
  • The Sandbox
  • The Sandcastle Girls
  • The Scarlet Letter 
  • The School for Scandal
  • Seize the Day
  • A Separate Peace
  • Seven Alone 
  • Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind 
  • Shane 
  • The Shining Company
  • The Short Stories 
  • The Short Story Reader
  • Siddhartha 
  • The Sign of the Beaver
  • Silas Marner 
  • A Single Light 
  • Slaughterhouse-Five 
  • The Slopes of War 
  • Small Steps 
  • Snow Bound 
  • The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou
  • Sounder 
  • Still Life With Rice
  • A Stillness at Appomattox
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Stranger
  • Summer of My German Soldier 
  • Summer Success: Reading 
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet 

T


  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Tale of Two Cities 
  • The Tempest
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God 
  • Things Fall Apart 
  • The Things They Carried 
  • Three Comedies of American Family Life 
  • Time For Kids: Exploring Non-Fiction 
  • The Time Machine
  • Titus Livius, Book I 
  • To Kill A Mockingbird 
  • Tom Sawyer
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • The Tragedy of Othello
  • The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
  • Travels With Charley 
  • Treasure Island 
  • Triangulo 
  • The Trojan War
  • True Grit 
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea 
  • Two Wheeled Thunder

U


  • Uglies

V


  • Vergil's Aeneid 
  • Vergil's Aeneid: Selections From Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12 
  • Virgil Aeneid Vi 
  • Voices In Literature - Bronze 
  • Voices In Literature - Gold 
  • Voices In Literature - Silver 
  • Voices In Literature - Bronze 

W


  • War and Peace
  • The War of the Worlds
  • Warriors Gods & Spirits - Cent/So American Mythology 
  • Watership Down
  • When the Emperor Was Divine
  • Where the Red Fern Grows 
  • White Fang 
  • A Wind In the Door
  • Witnesses to Freedom
  • A World of Ideas - Essential Readings for College Writers
  • Wrinkle In Time 
  • Wuthering Heights

Y


  • The Year Without Michael
  • The Yearling

Z


  • Zabele