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Summitview, Principal, Eva Lust
Wide Hollow, Principal, Rick Ferguson
MS Principal, Nick Clark
JH Principal, Amber Stiles-Gill
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HS Principal, Ben McMurry
Asst. Superintendent, Stacey Drake
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| Grade | Course | Materials/Book | Publisher |
| Grade 6-8 | ELA | Into Literature | HMH |
| JH/HS | German | German is Fun (Levels 1,2) | Perfection Learning |
| HS | AP Spanish Literature | Azulejo, 2nd Edition | Wayside |
| JH/HS | Spanish | Autentico, Volumes 1-3 | Savvas |
| Grade 9 | Book Club Choice | Under the Mesquite | Lee & Low Books |
| Grade 9 | Book Club Choice | Grenade | Scholastic Press |
| Grade 9 | Honors English | Murder on the Orient Express | Collins |
| Grade 10 | Book Club Choice | Solo |
Blink |
| Grade 10 | Book Club Choice | Notes from the Midnight Driver | Scholastic |
| Grade 10 | Honors English | Scythe | Simon & Schuster |
| Grade 10 | ELA | Artemis | Crown -Penguin Group |
| Grades 11 | ELA | Long Way Down | Faber&Faber |
| Grades 11-12 | College in the HS 170 | Tomb Sweeper | Ecco Press |
| Grades 11-12 | College in the HS 170 | And Still I Rise | Random House |
| Grades 11-12 | World Mythology | Norse Mythology | W.W. Norton & Co |
| Grades 11-12 | College in the HS 101 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Gallery Books |
| Grades 11-12 | College in the HS 101 | Everyone's an Author with Readings 4th Edition | W.W. Norton & Co |
| Grades 11-12 | College in the HS 101 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts | Crown New York |
| Grades 11-12 | College in the HS 101 | The Gifts of Imperfection | Random House |
| Grades 11-12 | College in the HS 201 | Unbroken | Delacorte Press |
| Grades 11-12 | AP Language Comp | A First Time for Everything | First Second |
| Grades 11-12 | AP Language Comp | Mexikid | Dial Books |
| Grades 11-12 | AP Language Comp | Dancing at the Pity Party | Rocky Pond Books |
| IC | ELA | Maze Runner, Vol. 2, The Scorch Trials | Delacorte Press |
| IC | ELA | Maze Runner, Vol. 3, The Death Cure | Delacorte Press |
Cycle Year 2024-2025
Grades 6-12 English Language Arts
A Boy at War
A Boy No More
A Changing America, 1865-1900
A Christmas Carol
A Wrinkle in Time
After the Dancing Days
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Anastasia
Ancient Greece, 2000-300 BC
Ancient Rome, 200 BC-AD 350
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne of Green Gables
Around the World in 80 Days
Bearstone
Beethoven in Paradise
Belle Prater's Boy
Black Beauty
Blubber
Brian's Winter
Bridge to Terabithia
Bud, Not Buddy
Call it Courage
Canyons
Castle in the Attic
Catherine Called Birdy
Children of the Dust Bowl
Children of the River
City of the Beasts
Civil Rights: The African-American Struggle for Equality
Code Talker
Colibri
Crash
Criss Cross
Elements of Literature: First Course
Elements of Literature: Introductory Course
Esperanza Rising
Famous Stories for Performance
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Guts
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Holes
How I Survived Middle School
How to Eat Fried Worms
Incident at Hawk's Hill
Jaguar
Jason's Gold
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the River Sea
Julie of the Wolves
Kidnapped
Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Kids on Strike
Last Book in the Universe
Lawn Boy
Letters to Mrs. Roosevelt
Lily's Crossing
Listening for Lions
Lupita Manana
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
My Brother Sam is Dead
My Life in Dog Years
My Side of the Mountain
No Promises in the Wind
North by Night
Novio Boy
Number the Stars
Old Yeller
Our Only May Amelia
Out of the Dust
Petey
Phantom Tollbooth
Sasquatch
Scorpions
Seedfolks
Sees Behind the Trees
Shane
Shiloh
Sing Down the Moon
Skeleton Man
Slavery in America
Snow Treasure
Soldier's Heart
Sounder
Sparrow Hawk Red
Star in the Storm
Stargirl
Stealing Freedom
Sylvia and Aki
Terror at the Zoo
The American West
The Black Stallion
The Cay
The Civil War
The Clay Marble
The Color of My Words
The Cricket in Times Square
The Devil's Arithmetic
The Face on the Milk Carton
The Fighting Ground
The Giver
The Golden Goblet
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Holocaust
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Immigrants
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Jungle Book
The Juvie Three
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Little Prince
The London Eye Mystery
The Magician's Nephew
The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo
The Moffat Museum
The Moves Make the Man
The Mysterious Matter of I.M.Fine
The Pale Assassin
The River
The Shakespeare Stealer
The Struggle for Civil Rights, 1940s-1970s
The Time Machine
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Watsons Go To Birmingham
The Westing Game
The Whipping Boy
The Wish Giver
The Yearling
When You Reach Me
White Fang
Winter People
Women's Voices
Woodsong
Wringer
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Zeely
Among the Hidden
Cheaper by the Dozen
Christmas with Ida Early
Elements of Literature: First Course
Elements of Literature: Second Course
Ender's Game
Ghost Boys
Henry V
I am Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die
Jip His Story
Journey to Jo'burg
Maze Runner
Missing May
Shoebag
Tangerine
The Book Thief
The Call of the Wild
The Door in the Wall
The Hobbit
The Pigman
The Summer of the Swans
Treasure Island
Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa
Wind in the Willows
A Girl Named Disaster
All Summer in a Day
Bridge to Terabithia-Sped
Caddie Woodlawn-Sped
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Cyrano de Bergiac
Daily Language Workouts (Grade 8)
Elements of Literature: Second Course
Farewell to Manzanar
Fifty American Heroes That Every Kid Should Meet
Freak the Mighty
Harriet the Spy-Sped
House of Scorpion (Honors)
Language Program
Leaving Home
Luke Baldwin's Vow
New American Webster Handy College Dictionary (8-12)
Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem in Robert Frost's Poems)
Out of the Dust
Pheasant Hunter
Red Kyak-Sped
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (video)
Romiette and Julio
Runner
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
Telepathy (poem)
The Good Earth (Honors)
The Help (Honors)
The Help (video-Honors)
The Jacket (short story)
The Outsiders
Things Fall Apart-Honors
Touching Spirit Bear
Write Source 2000
Write Traits Classroom Kit
Uncharted Territory (9-12)
A Lesson Before Dying
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Anthem
Black Elk Speaks (Honors)
Breathing Underwater
Cold Sassy Tree
Creatures Fantastic: The Underworld (video)
Daily Language Workouts
Echoes from Mt. Olympus
Elements of Literature: Fourth Course (Honors)
Elements of Literature: Third Course (honors)
Elements of Literature: Third Course
Fences (Honors)
Frankenstein (Honors)
Great Expectations (Honors)
Hiroshima (Honors)
Language Program
Life of Pi (Honors)
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Honors)
Mike
Monster
My Losing Season (Honors)
Night
Of Mice and Men
Petty Crimes
Rats Saw God
Rite of Passage
Romeo and Juliet (video, G)
Romeo and Juliet (video, PG-13)
Speak
Tears of a Tiger
The Contender
The Count of Monte Cristo (Honors)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Honors)
The Illustrated Man
The Pearl
The Story Teller Series: Daedalus and Icarus (video)
The Story Teller Series: Orpheus and Eurydice (video)
The Story Teller Series: Perseus and the Gorgon (video)
The Story Teller Series: Theseus and the Minotaur (video)
This House of Sky (Honors)
Write Source 2000
12 Angry Men (video)
12 Angry Men in Literature and Language, Blue Level Book
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol (video-PG)
A Day No Pigs Would Die
AGS Basic English Composition
Animal Farm
Birthmarked
Bless Me Ultima (Honors)
Catch-22 (Honors)
Compound
Daily Language Workouts
Divergent
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 (video)
Feed
Incarceron
Jane Eyre (Honors)
Julius Caesar in Literature and Language, Blue Level Book
Lord of the Flies
MacBeth
My Side of the Mountain
My Side of the Mountain (video-G)
My Side of the Mountain: A Teaching Guide
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men (video PG-13)
Othello
Raisin in the Sun
Raisin in the Sun (video-PG-13)
Romeo and Juliet
Ship Breaker
Smoke Signals (video PG-13)
Stotan
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Alchemist
The Awakening (Honors)
The Bean Trees
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
The Eleventh Plague
The House on Mango Street
The Hunger Games
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The River
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The River
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (video)
Uglies
Unwind
When Legends Die
Writers INC
8 1/2 (video)
1408 (DVD PG-13)
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (video G)
A Christmas Story (video G)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (DVD-NR)
A Portrait of the Artist
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Separate Peace
AGS American Literature
AGS Exploring Literature
AGS Exploring Literature, Teacher's Edition
All the King's Men
American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Movie Making (DVD- NR)
Antigone
As Simple as Snow
Barefoot in the Park (video-NR)
Believe in Me (video-PG)
Big Fish (movie-PG)
Billy Boy
Biography (student choice from library selection)
Brian's Song (video-G)
Camelot (video-NR)
Candide
Cannery Row
Cannery Row (video-PG)
Citizen Cane (video)
Coach Carter (video-PG-13)
Counting Coup
Cyrano de Bergiac (video-NR)
Deadline
Death of a Salesman
E.T. (video-PG)
Edge of America (video-NR)
Eight Great Comedies
Fault in Our Stars
Field of Dreams (video-PG)
Fifteen American One-Act Plays
Finding Forrestor (video-PG-13)
Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights (video-PG-13)
Goal! (video-PG-13)
Greatest Movie Ever Sold (video-PG-13)
Gym Candy
Hamilton's Mythology
Hamlet
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Heart of Darkness
Heart of the Game (video-PG-13)
Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own (DVD-NR)
Home of the Braves
Hoop Dreams (video-PG-13)
Hoosiers (videos-PG-13)
How to Read Literature like a Professor
Huckleberry Finn
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am the Messenger
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I, Robot
I, Robot (video-PG-13)
In Country
Inherit the Wind
Into the Wild
Into Thin Air
Invincible (video-PG-13)
Invisible Man
King Lear
King of the Mild Frontier
Knights of the Hill Country
Learning to Die in Miami
Leaves of Grass, 1855
Life at These Speeds
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies (video-NR)
Mayor of Casterbridge
Million Dollar Baby (DVD-PG-13)
Miracle (video-PG)
Nine Stories
No Exit
No Exit and three other plays
Oedipus Rex
On the Devil's Court
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Oral Interpretation: Bringing Literature to Life through Performance
Our Town
Outsiders
Outsiders (video-PG-13)
Painting the Black
Paycheck (video-PG-13)
Peaceful Warrior (video-PG-13)
Pride and Prejudice
Real Steel (DVD-PG-13)
Rear Window (video-PG-13)
Remember the Titans (video-PG-13)
Resurrecting the Champ (video-PG-13)
Rosencrantz and Guildonstern Are Dead
Roxanne (video-PG-13)
Rudy (video-PG-13)
Running Brave (video-PG)
Samurai Shortstop
Scarlet Letter
Searching for Bobby Fisher (video-PG)
Secondhand Lions (movie-PG)
Shoeless Joe
Shooter
Siddhartha
Side by Side (Documentary-video-NR)
Sold
Something Wicked This Way Comes (movie-PG)
Sound and Sense
Speed Reading for Better Grades
Star Wars (video PG)
Stranger than Fiction (video-PG-13)
Super Size Me (video- PG-13)
Sweeny Todd (video-NR)
Taming of the Shrew (video-NR)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Adjustment Bureau (video-PG-13)
The Catcher in the Rye
The Comedy of Errors
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Crucible
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
The Glass Menagerie
The Great Gatsby
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Iliad
The Illusionist (video-PG-13)
The Importance of Being Earnest
The King Must Die
The Kite Runner
The Legend of Bagger Vance (video-PG-13)
The Minority Report (video-PG-13)
The Natural (video-PG-13)
The Notebook
The Notebook (video-PG-13)
The Odyssey
The Red Sneakers (video-NR)
The Secret Life of Bees
The Stranger
The Sun Also Rises
The Taming of the Shrew
The Things They Carried
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Thirteen Reasons Why
Three Plays
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (video-G)
Tucker
Understanding Movies
Waiting for Godot
We Should Hangout Sometime
When I was Puerto Rican
Winterkill
Without Limits
Women and Fiction
World Mythology, 3rd edition
Writers INC
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A River Runs Through It
A Separate Peace
Acts of Inquiry
Adventures in American Literature
AGS American Literature
AGS Exploring Literature
Anthem
Armegeddon Summer
Briar Rose
Cold Sassy Tree
Dance Hall of the Dead
Dracula
Dracula (video-unrated)
Flowers for Algernon
Focus on Literature: America
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (video-PG)
I Heard the Owl Call my Name
Into the West (video-PG)
It Happened One Night (video-PG-13)
King Solomon's Mine
Last of the Mohicans
Literature & Language
Literature and Its Writers
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing (video-PG-13)
No, But I Saw the Movie
Of Mice and Men
Pearl Harbor (video-PG-13)
Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera (video-unrated)
Phantom of the Opera (video-PG-13)
Rear Window (video-PG-13)
Shadow Spinner
Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (video-G)
Sound and Sense 8th ed
StageCoach (video-UR)
Stotan
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The American Anthology
The Catcher in the Rye
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Giver
The Invisible Man
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (video-PG-13)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride (video-PG)
The Red Badge of Courage
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The View from Saturday
To Kill A Mockingbird
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Ways of Reading
When the Legends Die
Writers INC
Writers Inc
Grades 8-12 World Languages
Middle Level and High School, Realidades
Cycle Year 2025-2026
Materials will be adopted in Spring 2026
Materials will be adopted in Spring 2026
Materials will be adopted in Spring 2026
Elementary, Character Counts
Elementary, Second Step
Elementary and Middle Level, Mind Up
Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, KNOW/FLASH (Growing Up Awareness)
Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, Puberty Education Always Changing Boys and Girls
Middle Level, LifeSkills Training
Middle Level, Riding the Waves - Youth Suicide Prevention
Middle Level and High School, Character Strong
High School, Health: Making Life Choices
High School, Circles
High School, Bully
High School, Freedom Writers
High School, Mom at Sixteen
High School, The Pregnancy Project
Cycle Year 2026-2027
Elementary and Middle Level, Ready Math
Middle Level and High School, Holt Algebra, Holt Geometry, Holt Algebra 11 Elementary and Middle Level, STAMS: Strategies to Achieve Mathematics Success High School, Games People Play: Game Theory
High School, ABC News Primetime Special on Game Theory High School, The Joy of Mathematics
High School, Freakonomics: The Movie
Cycle Year 2027-2028
Elementary, Character Counts
Elementary, Second Step
Elementary and Middle Level, Mind Up
Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, KNOW/FLASH (Growing Up Awareness)
Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, Puberty Education Always Changing Boys and Girls
Middle Level, LifeSkills Training
Middle Level, Riding the Waves - Youth Suicide Prevention
Middle Level and High School, Character Strong
High School, Health: Making Life Choices
High School, Circles
High School, Bully
High School, Freedom Writers
High School, Mom at Sixteen
High School, The Pregnancy Project
Middle Level, National Middle School Cadet Corps
High School, Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child
High School, Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Education High School, The Art of Awareness
High School, Air Rifle Training and Competition
High School, Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting High School, Mental Training in Shooting
High School, Rifle Steps to Success High School, With Winning in Mind High School, Horse Soldiers
High School, The Founders' Constitution High School, American Military History
High School, Core Plus, Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee High School, Precision Machining Technology
High School, Focus on Photography
Cycle Year 2028-2029
Elementary, Building Blocks of Science
Elementary, Science for the Classroom
Mid-Level Campus Science and Technology for Children, Secondary
Mid-Level Campus Open Science Education
Mid-Level Campus Populations and Ecosystems
High School, Biology by Miller and Levine
High School, Biology for High School
High School, Campbell Biology, 12th Edition
High School, College Physics, 9th Edition
High School, Conceptual Physics
High School, Pearson Chemistry
High School, Zumdahl Chemistry, 4th Edition
High School, Chemistry: The Central Science
High School, Physical Science: Concept in Action
High School, Living in the Environment , AP Edition
High School, Forensic Science: Fundamentals and Investigations by Bertino
High School, Principles of Athletic Training: A Competency-Based Approach, 14th Edition
High School, Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology by Marieb
High School, Animal Science: Biology and Technology
High School, Pearson Environmental Science
High School, Introduction to Horticulture, 4th Edition
Elementary, Making Music
Cycle Year 2029-2030
Grade 4, Washington: Past and Present, Directed Media
Grade 5, History Alive! America's Past, TCI
Grade 5, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Level 1, Center for Civic Education
Mid-Level, World Geography, Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt
Mid-Level, The Washington Journey, Gibbs Smith
Mid-Level, History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism, TCI
Mid-Level, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Level 2, Center for Civic Education
High School, Ancient World History: Patterns of Interaction, Holt McDougal
High School, The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century, Holt McDougal
High School, The Founders' Constitution (Volumes 1-5), Liberty Fund
High School, Horse Soldiers, Simon & Schuster
High School, American Military History (Volumes 1 & 2), Center for Military History
High School, For the Common Defense: A Military History, Free Press
High School, Army JROTC: Leadership Education and Training, AdvancED
High School, The Enduring Vision, Cengage
High School, Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968, Rowman & Littlefield
High School, American Government and Politics Today, Wadsworth Cengage
High School, Civics: Government and Economics in Action, Prentice Hall
High School, Psychology: A Discovery Experience, South-Western Cengage
High School, CHS Psychology: Essentials of Psychology Concepts and Applications, Cengage
High School, Contemporary Economics, Routledge
High School, Film, Words on the Bathroom Walls, Roadside Attractions
High School, Film, Inside Out, Pixar
Cycle Year 2030-2031
K-5 English Language Arts
K-5 Into Reading, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
K-1 Scholastic Children's Thesaurus
K-1 Scholastic First Dictionary
K My Word Book
K Sound Partners
Abby Takes a Stand
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
Freedom Train
Glory Be
How to Eat Fried Worms
I Am Rosa Parks
Jake Drake, Bully Buster
Julian's Glorious Summer
Maniac Magee
Martin Luther King Jr.
Marvin Redpost #2 - Why Pick on Me
My Librarian is a Camel
Nasreen's Secret School
Poppy
Rain School
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Pioneer
Thank You, Mr. Falker
That Book Woman
The Boy Who Loved Words
The Incredible Book-Eating Boy
The Librarian of Basra
The War With Grandpa
Waiting for the Biblioburro
Aurore of the Yukon
Because of Winn-Dixie
Castle in the Attic
Children of the Gold Rush
Dragon Slayers
Going Along with Lewis and Clark
How to Steal a Dog
Into the Land of the Unicorns
Riding Freedom
Shiloh
Shoeshine Girl
Streams to the River, River to the Sea
The Kids Book of Canada's Rail Way
The Lemonade War
The Weeping Werewolf
The World According to Humphrey
The Year of Miss Agnes
A Million Shades of Gray
American Revolution
Because of Mr. Terupt
Because of Winn-Dixie
Chains
Counting on Grace
Earthquake Terror
Escaping the Giant Wave
Forge
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Goodbye Vietnam
Hatchet
Holes
Honus and Me
I Survived Hurricane Katrina
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake
Iqbal
Island of Blue Dolphins
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kids at Work
Lyddie
Maniac Magee
Miracles on Maple Hill
On My Honor
Pedro's Journal
Rules
Running Out of Time
Shooting the Moon
Sign of the Beaver
Summer of Monkeys
The Accidental Hero
The Best School Year Ever
The City of Ember
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Janitor’s Boy
The Kid Who Ran for President
The Roar
The Secret Garden
The Time Hackers
The Volcano Disaster
There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
Tuck Everlasting
Vietnam #5: Walking Wounded
Walk Two Moons
When You Reach Me
Where the Red Fern Grows