Before High School
5 books every rising 9th grader should read
These books don't ease you in — they ask you to think harder, feel more precisely, and read between the lines. By the end of this list your child will walk into 9th grade already thinking like a literary analyst.
- 1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
- 2.
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
- 3.
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
- 4.
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
- 5.
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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