Complete list of selections/authors/genres
All grade levels
Grade 6
Walter Lord, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Susan Cooper, John Steinbeck, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Anne Frank, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Norton Juster, Richard Wright, Midred D. Taylor, Carl Sandburg, Jules Verne, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth George Speare, Chief Joseph, Esther Hautzig, and more.
Grade 7
Anne Frank, Rosemary Sutcliff, Walt Whitman, Ann Petry, Rosa Parks, Walter Dean Myers, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Petroski, L. Frank Baum, Jules Verne, Julia Alvarez, Mary E. Wilkins, Ernest Hemingway, Anna Sewell, Lewis Carroll, and more.
Grade 8
Chief Seattle, Jack London, John Muir, Robert Frost, John Adams, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Defoe, Carl Sandburg, Louise Erdrich, Maya Angelou, Yoshiko Uchida, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy, Ian Frazier, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, Countee Cullen, Thomas J. Dygaard, and more.
Grade 9
Emily Dickinson, Helen Keller, Phoebe Eng, Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jack London, O. Henry, Bret Harte, James Thurber, Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, Dee Brown, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Crane, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rachel Carson, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Alice Walker, and more.
Grade 10
Ovid, W.H. Auden & Anne Sexton, John Muir, Chinua Achebe, Isak Dinesen, Joseph Conrad, Nelson Mandela, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Richard Wilbur, Amy Tan, James Weldon Johnson, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, and more.
Grade 11
Phillis Wheatley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, G.K. Chesterton, Willa Cather, Thomas Hardy, Rabindranath Tagore, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Butler, Toni Morrison, Zora Neal Hurston, John Donne, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more.
Grade 12
Doris Lessing, Alan Paton, Madeleine L'Engle, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare, Washington Irving, Samuel Pepys, Virginia Woolf, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pablo Neruda, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, and more.