• Related nonfiction and information texts, as well as historical and background information, build cross-curricular connections.

• Close reading support ensures engagement and understanding.

• Thought-provoking questions and activities extend the text and invite students to connect their lives to those of the characters.

• To download the entire Extended Reading Collection list with levels and lexiles click here.

Middle School

• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

• Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen

• High Elk's Treasure, by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

• Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes

• The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor

• Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli

• Stealing Freedom, by Elisa Carbone

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi

• Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls

• A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle

 High School

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

• All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque

• Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton

• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

• Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

• A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare

• My Antonia, by Willa Cather

• Nectar in a Sieve, by Kamal Markandaya

• Night, by Elie Wiesel

• Othello, The Moor of Venice, by William Shakespeare

• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser

• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

• The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe