Grades 10–12, 2020–21

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy instantly loathe one another when they first meet. Can they overcome their first impressions?

Set in China in the early twentieth story, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of a struggling farmer and his family.

A classic of Russian literature, this novel explores the psyche of a poor young man who plots to murder and rob a wealthy pawnbroker.

While in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne Frank kept a diary of her experiences. Published after Anne's death in a Nazi concentration camp, the diary remains a powerful testament to the everyday horrors of the Holocaust.

Santiago is a luckless Cuban fisherman who struggles to land a giant marlin. In spare, searing prose, Hemingway transforms the story of one man's battle with nature into a heroic ordeal. Scribner 2003 edition.

Kingsolver's first novel tells the story of Taylor Greer, who leaves Kentucky and tries to make a life for herself and an orphaned Native American girl in Tucson, Arizona.

After escaping a Soviet military camp, U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph "Mack" Makatozi navigates the Siberian wilderness as a native tracker is on his trail.

Two children, both named Wes Moore, grew up in similar circumstances in Baltimore, but one ended up in prison while the other won a Rhodes Scholarship and became a respected business leader. In this book, author Wes Moore explores the challenges and choices that led him and the other Wes Moore to have two radically different fates.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the four turbulent days of the Battle of Gettysburg, a decisive moment in the American Civil War.

Board the Nautilus and travel under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo as you learn these words from the science fiction novel by Jules Verne. Read the full text, translated from the original French by F.P. Walter, here.

When five people are killed after a bridge collapses, a friar attempts to find meaning in the tragedy. Read the full text here.

In 1941, composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote a symphony in response to the relentless Siege of Leningrad. M.T. Anderson explores both the siege and Shostakovich's work in this award-winning nonfiction account.

This nonfiction account explores the lives and ideas of six "Founding Fathers" of the United States: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison.