Language Arts All Rationales

Courses and Book Rationales

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All Rationales for Literary Courses
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Title
Author
All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Remarque

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

Call of the Wild

Jack London

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Farewell To Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston

Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Heart Of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Lord Of The Flies

William Golding

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

Night

Elie Wiesel

Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck

Phineas Gage

John Fleischman

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Updated 9/3/08
Title
Author
Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred Taylor

Shipwreck At The Bottom Of The World

Jennifer Armstrong

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

The Giver

Lois Lowry

The House On Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

The Miracle Worker

William Gibson

The Narrative of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

The Things They Carried

Tim O’Brien

To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Touching Spirit Bear

Ben Mikaelsen

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

Tuesdays With Morrey

Mitch Albom

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

Where The Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

Z Is For Zachariah

Robert C. O’Brien











Works summarized for use with the Coeur d'Alene Schools Language Arts Curriculum.  Thanks to Blue Valley Schools for use of their materials. No part or section may be published or distributed without permission.