Secondary Literature

Immerse students in outstanding literature while developing critical reading and writing skills

• Engaging Anthologies—captivate student interest with classic and contemporary texts including world literature, American literature, British literature, and multicultural literature.
• Literary Analysis—each of the six anthologies incorporates a literary analysis feature for every selection. The Literary Lens activities provide the focus for close reading, questions for discussion and collaboration, and prompts for written responses.
• Easy to Use—the streamlined lesson design and focused skill development enables quick lesson planning and easy classroom implementation.
• Flexible—integrate into your curriculum by unit, selection, or learning objective.
• Interactive Editions feature a range of learning tools to improve comprehension (translation, text-to-speech, reading accessibility features), close reading and text analysis (annotation and note-taking tools), discussion and collaboration (real-time Collaboration Walls), and much more.

Unit studies for critical thinking, reading, and writing

• Explore literary themes and genres, historical events and eras, and government and current events through 25 unit-based anthologies.
• Each anthology contains a cluster of related readings that explore an Essential Question using critical thinking skills such as comparing, contrasting, analyzing, defining, inferring, and synthesizing.
• Teaching support includes selection questions, activities, vocabulary, project-based assessments, discussion prompts, pacing guides, and much more.
• Digital interactive versions feature learning tools such as translation, text-to-speech, and accessibility; sophisticated annotation; note-taking tools; real-time collaboration walls; online assessment; and much more.

Develop students' critical reading, analysis, and writing skills

• Literature you love—high-interest themes and thought-provoking essential questions build engagement as students become immersed in outstanding literary and nonfiction selections.
• Easy to use—the step-by-step lesson design focuses students on a key learning objective as they read the selection; annotate the text; apply the targeted skill; and respond through discussion, writing, and collaborative activities.
• All the support you need—powerful classroom management tools including assessments, differentiation support, performance reports, PowerPoint lessons, extension activities, and integration into your existing LMS.
• Interactive Editions with writing and language eBook skills support feature a range of learning tools to improve comprehension, close reading and text analysis, discussion and collaboration, and much more.

Unlimited building access for one year

• Get digital access to over 1,300 reproducible literature guides and tests for popular novels and nonfiction.
  
• Save hours of preparation time with the wide range of activities, projects, and assessments available.

Achieve AP^® Success with AMSCO^® Coursebooks

• Interactive edition coming soon for AP Lang.
• Making college-level content accessible to high school students, which is vital to AP^® success, is at the heart of these programs.
  
• Get the benefit of decades of AP^® expertise with our team of veteran AP^® teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, and College Board Consultants.
  
• Engage your students with carefully-selected unit anchor texts that serve as models and offer opportunities for in-depth analysis.
• Assess skills and build exam confidence and competence throughout the course with carefully crafted AP^®-style multiple-choice questions, as well as essay, analysis, argument, and synthesis prompts.
• Evaluate final preparation with a complete summative test that mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP^® exam.
• Explore curated book lists that pair with AMSCO^® AP^® English coursebooks

Classroom titles curated for the AP^® Language classroom

Increase engagement around the knowledge and skills students are learning in AP^® English courses through the use of challenging and relevant book titles.

These lists were curated specifically to pair with our AMSCO^® AP^® English Language and Composition coursebook. The titles were selected from those excerpted in the coursebook, suggested by the College Board, and frequently used on the exams.

Classroom titles curated for the AP^® Literature classroom

Increase engagement around the knowledge and skills students are learning in AP^® English courses through the use of challenging and relevant book titles.

These lists were curated specifically to pair with our AMSCO^® AP^® English Literature and Composition coursebook. The titles were selected from those excerpted in the coursebook, suggested by the College Board, and frequently used on the exams.

Accessible classic literature

• Featuring the original text and a line-by-line modern translation on facing pages, each text brings classic works to life.
• Ensure comprehension while helping students appreciate the original language of Shakespeare and early British and American authors.
• Critical thinking questions and text-based activities throughout encourage discussion and analysis.
• Introductory material offers historical and cultural context.

Your digital literature collection

• Integrate these classic fiction and nonfiction titles into your curriculum or assign for independent reading.
• Available both online and offline, these collections provide convenient access to the canon of classic literature.
• Digital library—all teachers, all students—unlimited building access for one year.
• All titles are also available in print.

Adapted classics and cultural tales

• Enhance accessibility, engage students, and develop reading skills with this digital collection of over 60 titles—all teachers, all students—unlimited building access for one year. Includes online and offline access.
• Retold novels and anthologies are authentic adaptations of many widely-taught works that maintain the voice, style, and meaning of the original text.
• Timeless Classics are abridged adaptations of classic works featuring short selections, carefully-chosen vocabulary, and appealing visuals to aid comprehension. An original play in each anthology builds oral fluency.
• Instructional support includes quizzes, comprehension activities, reading and writing skill development, vocabulary, study skills, and more.
• All titles are also available in print.

Adapted cultural tales and classic literature to support your curriculum

• Designed for secondary students reading below grade level, Retold novels and anthologies align with commonly taught American, British, and world literature; novels; and myths and folktales.
• Authentic adaptations maintain the voice, style, and overall meaning of the original text.
• Comprehension support for English learners and striving readers provides the foundation for inclusive discussions of classic works.

Make your Shakespeare unit a true Shakespeare-ience!

• These unabridged versions of Shakespearean plays will help students master the Bard's language and deepen their understanding of the characters and events in a play.
• Use for a literary study with easy-to-follow side glosses, background notes, page-by-page plot summaries to aid comprehension, and play questions that focus on critical analysis.
• Use for a performance-based study with speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities; personas for each student; pre-scene improvisations; and abundant pre- and during-play suggestions.
• A Teacher Guide features flexible planning guides, a blueprint for student improvement, background information, teaching tips, and extensive blackline masters.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 6 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Jerry Spinelli, Lois Lowry, Russell Freedman, Gary Paulsen, Carl Hiaasen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Sharon Creech, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 7 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Gary Paulsen, Ally Condie, Mike Lupica, Sharon M. Draper, Rick Riordan, Avi, Laurence Yep, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Kate DiCamillo, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 8 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Jason Reyonds, Walter Dean Myers, Sharon M. Draper, Nic Stone, Veronica Roth, Jodi Picoult, Jack London, Kwame Alexander, Ray Bradbury, Maya Angelou, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 9 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
• Authors represented include Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, Kurt Vonnegut, Kwame Alexander, Gary Paulsen, Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, Wes Moore, Sue Monk Kidd, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 10 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Laurence Yep, R.L. Stine, John Steinbeck, Gary Paulsen, Julia Alvarez, Nic Stone, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 11 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
• Authors represented include Walter Dean Myers, Jason Reynolds, John Green, Toni Morrison, Gary Paulsen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Gary Soto, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 12 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
• Authors represented include Gary Soto, Gennifer Choldenko, Walter Dean Myers, Jacqueline Woodson, Khaled Hosseini, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Dessen, Mike Lupica, John Green, and many more.

Engage all your students in independent reading through these diverse, inclusive collections

• Students will see themselves in what they read, developing an understanding and appreciation of themselves as well as others around them.
  
• The titles in each grade-level Essential Voices collection feature age-appropriate stories and diverse characters representing a variety of ethnicities, religious affiliations, and gender identities.
  

Top American literature titles chosen by teachers

• The top 100 titles for the American literature classroom chosen by American literature teachers from across the country.

Top world literature titles chosen by teachers

• The top 100 titles for the world literature classroom chosen by literature teachers from across the country.

Top British literature titles chosen by teachers

• The top 75 titles for the British literature classroom chosen by literature teachers from across the country.

Immerse students in outstanding literature while developing critical reading and writing skills

• Engaging Anthologies—captivate student interest with classic and contemporary texts including world literature, American literature, British literature, and multicultural literature.
• Literary Analysis—each of the six anthologies incorporates a literary analysis feature for every selection. The Literary Lens activities provide the focus for close reading, questions for discussion and collaboration, and prompts for written responses.
• Easy to Use—the streamlined lesson design and focused skill development enables quick lesson planning and easy classroom implementation.
• Flexible—integrate into your curriculum by unit, selection, or learning objective.
• Interactive Editions feature a range of learning tools to improve comprehension (translation, text-to-speech, reading accessibility features), close reading and text analysis (annotation and note-taking tools), discussion and collaboration (real-time Collaboration Walls), and much more.

Unit studies for critical thinking, reading, and writing

• Explore literary themes and genres, historical events and eras, and government and current events through 25 unit-based anthologies.
• Each anthology contains a cluster of related readings that explore an Essential Question using critical thinking skills such as comparing, contrasting, analyzing, defining, inferring, and synthesizing.
• Teaching support includes selection questions, activities, vocabulary, project-based assessments, discussion prompts, pacing guides, and much more.
• Digital interactive versions feature learning tools such as translation, text-to-speech, and accessibility; sophisticated annotation; note-taking tools; real-time collaboration walls; online assessment; and much more.

Develop students' critical reading, analysis, and writing skills

• Literature you love—high-interest themes and thought-provoking essential questions build engagement as students become immersed in outstanding literary and nonfiction selections.
• Easy to use—the step-by-step lesson design focuses students on a key learning objective as they read the selection; annotate the text; apply the targeted skill; and respond through discussion, writing, and collaborative activities.
• All the support you need—powerful classroom management tools including assessments, differentiation support, performance reports, PowerPoint lessons, extension activities, and integration into your existing LMS.
• Interactive Editions with writing and language eBook skills support feature a range of learning tools to improve comprehension, close reading and text analysis, discussion and collaboration, and much more.

Unlimited building access for one year

• Get digital access to over 1,300 reproducible literature guides and tests for popular novels and nonfiction.
  
• Save hours of preparation time with the wide range of activities, projects, and assessments available.

Achieve AP^® Success with AMSCO^® Coursebooks

• Interactive edition coming soon for AP Lang.
• Making college-level content accessible to high school students, which is vital to AP^® success, is at the heart of these programs.
  
• Get the benefit of decades of AP^® expertise with our team of veteran AP^® teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, and College Board Consultants.
  
• Engage your students with carefully-selected unit anchor texts that serve as models and offer opportunities for in-depth analysis.
• Assess skills and build exam confidence and competence throughout the course with carefully crafted AP^®-style multiple-choice questions, as well as essay, analysis, argument, and synthesis prompts.
• Evaluate final preparation with a complete summative test that mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP^® exam.
• Explore curated book lists that pair with AMSCO^® AP^® English coursebooks

Classroom titles curated for the AP^® Language classroom

Increase engagement around the knowledge and skills students are learning in AP^® English courses through the use of challenging and relevant book titles.

These lists were curated specifically to pair with our AMSCO^® AP^® English Language and Composition coursebook. The titles were selected from those excerpted in the coursebook, suggested by the College Board, and frequently used on the exams.

Classroom titles curated for the AP^® Literature classroom

Increase engagement around the knowledge and skills students are learning in AP^® English courses through the use of challenging and relevant book titles.

These lists were curated specifically to pair with our AMSCO^® AP^® English Literature and Composition coursebook. The titles were selected from those excerpted in the coursebook, suggested by the College Board, and frequently used on the exams.

Accessible classic literature

• Featuring the original text and a line-by-line modern translation on facing pages, each text brings classic works to life.
• Ensure comprehension while helping students appreciate the original language of Shakespeare and early British and American authors.
• Critical thinking questions and text-based activities throughout encourage discussion and analysis.
• Introductory material offers historical and cultural context.

Your digital literature collection

• Integrate these classic fiction and nonfiction titles into your curriculum or assign for independent reading.
• Available both online and offline, these collections provide convenient access to the canon of classic literature.
• Digital library—all teachers, all students—unlimited building access for one year.
• All titles are also available in print.

Adapted classics and cultural tales

• Enhance accessibility, engage students, and develop reading skills with this digital collection of over 60 titles—all teachers, all students—unlimited building access for one year. Includes online and offline access.
• Retold novels and anthologies are authentic adaptations of many widely-taught works that maintain the voice, style, and meaning of the original text.
• Timeless Classics are abridged adaptations of classic works featuring short selections, carefully-chosen vocabulary, and appealing visuals to aid comprehension. An original play in each anthology builds oral fluency.
• Instructional support includes quizzes, comprehension activities, reading and writing skill development, vocabulary, study skills, and more.
• All titles are also available in print.

Adapted cultural tales and classic literature to support your curriculum

• Designed for secondary students reading below grade level, Retold novels and anthologies align with commonly taught American, British, and world literature; novels; and myths and folktales.
• Authentic adaptations maintain the voice, style, and overall meaning of the original text.
• Comprehension support for English learners and striving readers provides the foundation for inclusive discussions of classic works.

Make your Shakespeare unit a true Shakespeare-ience!

• These unabridged versions of Shakespearean plays will help students master the Bard's language and deepen their understanding of the characters and events in a play.
• Use for a literary study with easy-to-follow side glosses, background notes, page-by-page plot summaries to aid comprehension, and play questions that focus on critical analysis.
• Use for a performance-based study with speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities; personas for each student; pre-scene improvisations; and abundant pre- and during-play suggestions.
• A Teacher Guide features flexible planning guides, a blueprint for student improvement, background information, teaching tips, and extensive blackline masters.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 6 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Jerry Spinelli, Lois Lowry, Russell Freedman, Gary Paulsen, Carl Hiaasen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Sharon Creech, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 7 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Gary Paulsen, Ally Condie, Mike Lupica, Sharon M. Draper, Rick Riordan, Avi, Laurence Yep, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Kate DiCamillo, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 8 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Jason Reyonds, Walter Dean Myers, Sharon M. Draper, Nic Stone, Veronica Roth, Jodi Picoult, Jack London, Kwame Alexander, Ray Bradbury, Maya Angelou, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 9 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
• Authors represented include Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, Kurt Vonnegut, Kwame Alexander, Gary Paulsen, Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, Wes Moore, Sue Monk Kidd, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 10 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
  
• Authors represented include Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Laurence Yep, R.L. Stine, John Steinbeck, Gary Paulsen, Julia Alvarez, Nic Stone, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 11 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
• Authors represented include Walter Dean Myers, Jason Reynolds, John Green, Toni Morrison, Gary Paulsen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Gary Soto, and many more.

Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 12 classroom!

• Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
• The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
• Authors represented include Gary Soto, Gennifer Choldenko, Walter Dean Myers, Jacqueline Woodson, Khaled Hosseini, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Dessen, Mike Lupica, John Green, and many more.

Engage all your students in independent reading through these diverse, inclusive collections

• Students will see themselves in what they read, developing an understanding and appreciation of themselves as well as others around them.
  
• The titles in each grade-level Essential Voices collection feature age-appropriate stories and diverse characters representing a variety of ethnicities, religious affiliations, and gender identities.
  

Top American literature titles chosen by teachers

• The top 100 titles for the American literature classroom chosen by American literature teachers from across the country.

Top world literature titles chosen by teachers

• The top 100 titles for the world literature classroom chosen by literature teachers from across the country.

Top British literature titles chosen by teachers

• The top 75 titles for the British literature classroom chosen by literature teachers from across the country.

Classroom titles curated for the AP^® Language classroom

Increase engagement around the knowledge and skills students are learning in AP^® English courses through the use of challenging and relevant book titles.

These lists were curated specifically to pair with our AMSCO^® AP^® English Language and Composition coursebook. The titles were selected from those excerpted in the coursebook, suggested by the College Board, and frequently used on the exams.

Classroom titles curated for the AP^® Literature classroom

Increase engagement around the knowledge and skills students are learning in AP^® English courses through the use of challenging and relevant book titles.

These lists were curated specifically to pair with our AMSCO^® AP^® English Literature and Composition coursebook. The titles were selected from those excerpted in the coursebook, suggested by the College Board, and frequently used on the exams.

Unlimited building access for one year

• Get digital access to over 1,300 reproducible literature guides and tests for popular novels and nonfiction.
  
• Save hours of preparation time with the wide range of activities, projects, and assessments available.