Firefly & Fern

The madman of Piney Woods

Christopher Paul Curtis

Ages 10–14friendshipprejudice

The gate in the wall

Ellen Howard

Ages 9–14orphansresilience

Mending horses

M. P. Barker

Ages 10–14prejudiceresilience

The whispering road

Livi Michael

Ages 12–16siblingsresilience

Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition

X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Jorge Luis Borges, Chinua Achebe, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennessee Williams

Ages 14–18human natureidentity

Fiction

R. S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Gabriel García Márquez, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Doris Lessing, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Bobbie Ann Mason, Denise Chávez, Louise Erdrich

Ages 13–18coming of ageidentity

The shadow children

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Ages 10–14identityfreedom

On Fortune's Wheel (Tales of the Kingdom #2)

Cynthia Voigt

Ages 12–18resiliencefreedom

Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition

Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, William Shakespeare, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, 村上春樹, Arthur Miller, Herman Melville, Shirley Jackson, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, George Orwell, Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath, Chinua Achebe, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain

Ages 14–18identityhuman nature

Lille pige med svovlstikkerne

Hans Christian Andersen, Bill Bowler

Ages 6–12povertyhope

Midnight is a place

Joan Aiken

Ages 10–15resiliencejustice

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with Connections

Mark Twain, Langston Hughes, Alfred Uhry, Bobbie Ann Mason, David Bradley, Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Ages 12–18friendshipfreedom

Fiction

R. S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Gabriel García Márquez, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Doris Lessing, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Bobbie Ann Mason, Denise Chávez, Louise Erdrich

Ages 14–18human natureloss and grief

Out of darkness

Ashley Hope Pérez

Ages 14–18race relationsidentity

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Ages 10–18resilienceorphans and belonging

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Billy Budd / Red Badge of Courage / Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville

Ages 14–18freedommorality

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition

Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright

Ages 14–18human naturemorality

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Ages 13–18sacrificeredemption

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Ages 11–18resiliencesocial injustice

Red Queen Book Box SetFirefly & Fern

Red Queen Book Box Set

Victoria Aveyard

Ages 13–18revolutionpower and corruption