2003-04 Protected Booklist (pdf)

Protected books listed may not be taught at a lower grade level. A minimum of 3 titles must be given intensive teacher instruction; at least one of the three must be from the required genre. Books on this list do not have to be taught.

KINDERGARTEN:
Required genre--none
No protected titles

GRADE 1:
Required genre—none
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, E. Carle
Frog and Toad are Friends, A. Lobel
Little Cloud, E. Carle
Cloud Book, T. dePaola
The Four Seasons, M. Rius

GRADE 2:
Required genre—none
Miss Rumphius, B. Cooney
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express, M. Wetterer
Henry and Mudge, C. Rylant
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, J. Viorst
Fables, A. Lobel
Hill of Fire, T. Lewis

GRADE 3:
Required genre—biography/autobiography
Sarah, Plain and Tall, P. MacLachlan
Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
Meet Martin Luther King Jr. (Revised), J. T. deKay
26 Fairmount Avenue, T. dePaola

GRADE 4:
Required genre—poetry
Stone Fox, J. Gardiner
New Hampshire (From Sea to Shining Sea), T. M. Shannon
Fourth Grade Rats, J. Spinelli
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, P. Fleischman
Love That Dog, S. Creech

GRADE 5:
Required genre—historical fiction
My Side of the Mountain, J. C. George
Lyddie, K Paterson
My Brother Sam Is Dead, J. Collier and C. Collier
The Great Gilly Hopkins, K. Paterson
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, R. O’Brien
Pedro’s Journal: A Voyage With Christopher Columbus
August 3, 1492-February 14, 1493, P. Conrad

GRADE 6:
Required genre—realistic fiction
The Pushcart War, J. Merrill
The Cay, T. Taylor
Bridge to Terabithia, K. Paterson
Where the Red Fern Grows, W. Rawls
No More Dead Dogs, G. Korman

GRADE 7:
Required genre—short story
The Best Short Stories: Middle Level, R. Harris, ed.
The Giver, L. Lowry
Freak the Mighty, R. Philbrick
Izzy, Willy-Nilly, C. Voight
So Far from the Bamboo Grove, Y. K. Watkins
The Devil’s Arithmetic, J. Yolen
Number the Stars, L. Lowry

GRADE 8:
Required genre—drama
No Promises in the Wind, I. Hunt
The Man Who Was Poe, Avi
Poe’s Short Stories, A.E. Poe
The Diary of Anne Frank, (play)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, W. Shakespeare
Out of the Dust, K. Hesse (poetry)
Nothing But The Truth, Avi
Monster, W.D. Myers

GRADE 9:
Required genre—none
The Odyssey, Homer
Romeo and Juliet, W. Shakespeare
Black Boy, R. Wright
The Human Comedy, W. Saroyan
The House on Mango Street, S. Cisneros
A Separate Peace, J. Knowles
Lord of the Flies, W. Golding
The Miracle Worker, W. Gibson

GRADE 10:
Required genre—none
Twelve Angry Men, R. Rose
Oedipus the King, Sophocles
Medea, Euripides
MacBeth, W. Shakespeare
Our Town, T. Wilder
To Kill a Mockingbird, H. Lee
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men, J. Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea, E. Hemingway
Things Fall Apart, C. Achebe
Night, E. Wiesel