Grade 9:  All Honors level students read two books;
all CP1 levels read one book.
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Most titles are also available as a sound recording and/or downloadable audio book.


Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Set sail to the heart of adventure with cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, aboard the ship with the legendary
scoundrel, Captain Long John Silver.  A secret treasure map becomes the key to heart-pounding thrills,
danger and swashbuckling action as a boy faces the high seas and the grandest pirate of all in the
adventure of a life time.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs
Published in 1861, this was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman.  Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner.  She made several attempts to escape before successfully making her way North, though it took years of hiding and slow progress.  Eventually, she was reunited with her children.


Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan
Hugo and O'Henry Awards winner Stephen King teams up with another diehard Red sox fan to chronicle the 2004 Red Sox season.


Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Set in the future, imperiled humankind has survived two invasions by the alien Formics. In preparation for a third invasion, Ender Wiggin and others of the world's most talented children are sent to the Battle School to learn the arts of war and train to be future fleet commanders.  As Ender and his group learn the arts of war through increasingly difficult games, his genius as a tactician is revealed. This book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1985 and its expanded version won them in 1986.


* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
2004 Alex Award Winner, 2004 ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Christopher Boone is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism.  He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings.  When he finds his neighbors' dog murdered, he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down.


* Sold by Patricia McCormick
2006 National Book Award Finalist, 2007 ALA Best Books for Young Adults
As this heartbreaking story opens, 13-year-old Lakshmi lives an ordinary life in Nepal, going to school and thinking of the boy she is to marry. Then her gambling-addicted stepfather sells her into prostitution in India.  Refusing "to be with men" she is beaten and starved until she gives in.

* This book contains mature subject matter.