Grades 6-8
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur
Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
Watson investigate the
legend of a supernatural
hound, a beast that may be
stalking a young heir on the
fog-shrouded moorland that
makes up his estate.
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas
Edmond Dantès, a handsome,
promising young sailor, skillfully
docks the three-masted French
ship, the Pharaon, in Marseilles
after its captain died en route
home. As a reward, Dantès is
promised a captainship, but
before he can claim his new post
and be married to his fiancée,
Mercédès, a conspiracy of four
jealous and unsavory men
arrange for him to be seized and
secretly imprisoned in solitary confinement.
Grades 9-12
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds was
one of the first and greatest
works of science fiction ever to
be written. Even long before
man had learned to fly, H.G.
Wells wrote this story of the
Martian attack on England.
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Encounter of three social
classes of England at the
beginning of the twentieth
century: the Victorian
capitalists (the Wilcoxes)
considering themselves as
aristocrats, whose only god
is money; the enlightened
bourgeois (the Schlegels),
humanistic and philanthropic;
and the workers (the Basts), fighting to survive. The
Schlegel sisters’ humanism will be torn apart as they try
both to softly knock down the Wilcox’s prejudices and
to help the Basts.