Level 3: Grades 9-12

Level 3 titles include the best in young adult literature by award-winning, critically acclaimed authors. These titles are appropriate for students in grades 9 through 12.With a wide range of subjects and difficulty, there’s something here to excite every Plugged-in to Reading student! In addition, Level 3 includes a Classic Connection for each title, which links the book to a classic author, work of literature, or theme. Level 3 Core Novels include SAT test-preparation strategy lessons.

Teacher-Directed Instruction

• Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
• Dating Hamlet: Ophelia’s Story by Lisa Fiedler

• Finn: A Novel by Matthew Olshan
• Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy

Peer-Supported Learning

• The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

• Ironman by Chris Crutcher
• Jake, Reinvented by Gordan Korman
• Their EyesWere Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Self-Directed Learning

• Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
• Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Celine by Brock Cole
• A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer
• Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
• Dragon Keeper by CaroleWilkinson
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
• Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
• The Hoopster by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
• I Am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer
• Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
• Loch by Paul Zindel
• The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
• The Luckiest Girl in theWorld by Steven Levenkron
• The Man Who Was Poe by Avi

• No Easy Answers edited by Donald R. Gallo
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison
• The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins,and Rameck Hunt
• Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
• The Raft by Robert Trumbull
• The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
• The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
• Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
• Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper
• Shabanu: Daughter of theWind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
• Stranger with My Face by Lois Duncan
• A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
• Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• Wrestling Sturbridge by RichWallace