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California school reading list

Books referenced by the CA Common Core + state add-ons. Source: www.cde.ca.gov.

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13 books referenced

Beloved
Toni Morrison · 870L
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White · 680L
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen · 1020L
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 630L
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 790L
The Giver
Lois Lowry · 760L
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 870L
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 810L
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 840L
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton · 750L
The Pearl
John Steinbeck · 1010L
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 870L

State-level reading references are sourced from published state departments of education. National references (Common Core exemplars, AP, IB) apply on top of state standards and appear on each book’s detail page.

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Data sourced from state departments of education, Common Core exemplar lists, AP Central, IB Organization, Cambridge International, and Open Library. Last verified per page.