Grade 7-9
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Reading to Challenge and Change You

Books designed to target every interest and push your thinking further

Novels

WHITE FANG

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The wild tames the heart through loyalty and hardship

ANIMAL FARM

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Revolution devours ideals as power corrupts every voice

FAHRENHEIT 451

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Censorship burns thought; books ignite freedom and memory

KING SOLOMON’S MINES
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An empire’s treasure exposes its myths and moral compromises

LORD OF THE FLIES

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When civilisation collapses, innocence surrenders to savagery

OF MICE AND
MEN
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Friendship and hope falter under the weight of broken dreams

THE LITTLE
PRINCE
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Childlike wonder reveals truths adults forget to see

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
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Beauty without conscience corrupts the soul beyond recognition

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
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Empathy gives wisdom to the powerful leader

OLD MAN AND THE SEA
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Endurance dignifies defeat; struggle reveals meaning in loss

THE TIME
MACHINE
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Class complacency breeds futures that quietly devour their makers

THE GREAT
DIVORCE
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Heaven is chosen wherever pride surrenders to joy

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
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Humanity’s power rests precariously on its ignorance

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
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Faith, courage, and imagination reveal a world where moral choices shape destiny

TREASURE ISLAND

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Adventures test one’s ingenuity, heart and loyalty

PETER PAN

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The wonder of childhood and the cost of clinging to it forever

THE BOOK THIEF

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Words shelter love and spark resistance against darkness

THE BRONZE BOW

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Vengeance hardens; forgiving love unstrings the heart’s bow

THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES
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Fear magnifies falsehoods; patient reason reveals the truth

THE OUTSIDERS

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Real courage is tenderness in a world demanding toughness.

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HIS DARK MATERIALS

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Curiosity threatens dogma providing new oppurtunities

WATERSHIP DOWN

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Communities are built from shared stories and practices

TUCK EVERLASTING

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Mortality makes each moment precious if we can notice it

TWENTY THOUSE LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
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Awe without empathy hardens genius into isolating obsession

THE SPACE TRILOGY

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Pride distorts paradise into conquest

MONKEY KING

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Discipline and true friendship tempers abuses of power

THE CALL OF THE WILD
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Instincts are central to identity and freedom

TOM SAWYER

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Playful cunning matures into conscience

THE GIVER

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Comfort without memory erases freedom

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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Seeing through others’ eyes unmasks prejudice

Short Stories & Novellas

THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
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In the country of the blind, seeing becomes heresy

THE HAPPY PRINCE

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Gilded beauty becomes love when given to the poor

I, ROBOT
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Humans have a responsibility for machine morality

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
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Attention, empathy, and reason make justice surprisingly humane

THE LEGND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
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Fear manufactures its own ghosts  when Superstition trumps reason

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN
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Living tattoos foretell futures shaped by wonder and ruin

THE LOTTERY
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Tradition legitimises evil and strengthens its own power

THE GARDEN PARTY

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Delicate epiphanies expose class distance

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
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Charity is the antedote to hatred and selfishness

DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
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Repressed desire consumes the whole self

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Scripts

THE TEMPEST

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Forgivenes restores rightful rule and freedom

12 ANGRY MEN

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Justice begins with listening and looking past prejudices

THE MIRACLE WORKER
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Lanugage has the power to create new life

OUR TOWN

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Recognise the holiness of ordinary moments

THE WINTER’S
TALE
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Love resurrects what was wrongfully murdered

AN INSPECTOR
CALLS
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Denying shared responsibility multiplies harm

THE IMPORTANCE OFBEING EARNEST
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Wit unmasks hypocrisy and class folly

MACBETH

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Seductive prophecies unleash ambition that poisons tomorrow

PYGMALION

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Appearance opens doors but character keeps them open

THE BIRDS

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Satire and parody dsimantles our utopian fantasies

Poetry

THE SELECTED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
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“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind”

THE SELECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST
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Quiet roads reveal duty, desire, and the cost of choosing

THE SELECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES
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Guard your dreams they carry dignity hope and resilience

LEAVES OF GRASS B WALT WHITMAN

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Every self contains multitudes celebrate common sacred life

THE SELECTED POEMS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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Faith and memory steady wandering hearts

AND STILL
I RISE BY
MAYA ANGELOU
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Defiant grace transforms oppression into song

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
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Innocence and experience collide revealing visionary moral perception

THE BEST POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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A chorus of centuries shows language shaping human truth

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
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Beauty and death entwine haunting reason with dread

THE SELECTED POEMS OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
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Devotion wrestles desire and renunciation makes love more luminous

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