Books on World Cultures: Western European

Grades 6-8

1 Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
2 D’Aulaire, Ingri D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
3 D'Aulaire, Edgar P. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
4 Fleischman, Paul Mind's Eye
5 Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small
6 Hoffman, Mary Stravaganza: City of Masks
7 Holliday, Laurel (editor) Why Do They Hate Me? Young Lives Caught in War and Conflict
8 Hooper, Mary At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
9 Llorente, Pilar Molina Apprentice
10 Maguire, Gregory Good Liar, The
11 McKay, Hilary Saffy's Angel
12 Morgenstern, Susie Secret Letters from 0 to 10
13 Pattou, Edith East
14 Rosen, Michael J. Shakespeare: His Work and His World
15 Sachs, Marilyn Pocket Full of Seeds, A
16 Stanley, Diane Leonardo da Vinci
17 Sutcliff, Rosemary Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad

Grades 9-12

1 Aristophanes Birds, The
2 Bernstein, Leonard West Side Story
3 Boll, Heinrich Clown, The
4 Brecht, Bertolt Threepenny Opera, The
5 Chabon, Michael Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel, The
6 De Luca, Erri Sea of Memory
7 de Maupassant, Guy Best Short Stories
8 de Saint-Exupery, Antoine Flight to Arras
9 Del Giudice, Daniele Takeoff: The Pilot's Lore
10 Dick, Susan (editor) Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
11 Dickens, Charles Personal History of David Copperfield, The
12 Dickens, Charles Tale of Two Cities, A
13 Doherty, Berlie Daughter of the Sea
14 Doyle, Roddy Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
15 Doyle, Roddy Woman Who Walked into Doors, The
16 Dumas, Alexandre Count of Monte Cristo, The
17 Dumas, Alexandre Three Musketeers, The
18 Eisner, Will Fagin the Jew
19 Eliot, George Adam Bede
20 Endo, Shusaku Wonderful Fool
21 Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
22 Fleischman, Paul Mind's Eye
23 Fowles, John Collector, The
24 Gaiman, Neil Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
25 Garner, Eleanor Ramrath Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany
26 Geras, Adele Troy
27 Godden, Rumer Battle of the Villa Fiorita, The
28 Grass, Gunter Dog Years
29 Grass, Gunter Novemberland: Selected Poems, 1956-1993
30 Grass, Gunter Tin Drum, The
31 Guareschi, Giovanni Little World of Don Camillo, The
32 Hamsun, Knut Hunger
33 Hamsun, Knut Pan
34 Heaney, Seamus Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
35 Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River
36 Hegi, Ursula Tearing the Silence: Being German in America
37 Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small
38 Hesse, Hermann Narcissus and Goldmund
39 Hoffman, Mary Stravaganza: City of Masks
40 Homer Iliad, The
41 Homer Odyssey, The
42 Hugo, Victor Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
43 Hugo, Victor Les Miserables (The Wretches)
44 Hunter, Mollie Sound of Chariots, A
45 Jen, Gish Who's Irish?
46 Joyce, James Dubliners
47 Joyce, James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
48 Kazantzakis, Nikos Zorba the Greek
49 Keneally, Thomas Schindler's Ark (Schindler's List)
50 Kuper, Peter Metamorphosis
51 Lenz, Siegfried German Lesson, The
52 Levi, Primo If Not Now, When?
53 Llewelyn, Morgan Ireland: A Graphic History
54 Maguire, Gregory Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
55 Malamud, Bernard Assistant, The
56 Mann, Thomas Death in Venice
57 O'Brien, Edna Country Girls Trilogy, The
58 O'Brien, Flann At Swim - Two-Birds
59 Orwell, George Down and Out in Paris and London
60 Pattou, Edith East
61 Pausewang, Gudrun Final Journey, The
62 Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
63 Renault, Mary King Must Die, The
64 Reuter, Bjarne Boys from St. Petri, The
65 Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now
66 Sagan, Francoise Bonjour Tristesse
67 Shanower, Eric Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships
68 Simenon, Georges Maigret and the Apparition
69 Simenon, Georges Maigret and the Gangsters
70 Simenon, Georges Maigret and the Toy Village
71 Smith, Betty Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A
72 Spinelli, Jerry Milkweed: A Novel
73 Stevenson, Robert Louis Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The
74 Synge, J. M. Playboy of the Western World; and, Riders to the Sea, The
75 Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Leopard, The
76 Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five
77 Woolf, Virginia Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf