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Angelou, Maya. I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Austen, Jane. Emma

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights

Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land

Butler, Octavia E. Kindred

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales

Clark, Mary Higgins. Moonlight Becomes You

Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Guest, Judith. Ordinary People

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun

Harris, Thomas. The Silence of the Lambs

Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables

King, Stephen. The Green Mile

King, Stephen. Gerald’s Game

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams

Lamb, Wally. She’s Come Undone

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird

McMillan, Terry. Mama

Mathis, Sharon Bell. Teacup Full of Roses

Mosley, Walter. A Red Death

Mosley, Walter. Devil in a Blue Dress

Morrison, Toni. The Blues Eye

Myers, Walter Dean. Motown and Didi: A Love Story

O’Brien, Tim. The Things they Carried: A Work of Fiction

O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago

Patterson, James. Hide & Seek: A Novel

Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone

Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Sapphire. Push: A Novel

Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar

Suskind, Ron. A Hope in the Unseen: an American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Tyree, Omar. Flyy Girl

Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence

Wiesel, Elie. Night

Young, Al. Kinds of Blue: Musical Memoirs

*The Boston Public Library’s HAP (Homework Assistance Program) offers homework help to children in grades 3-8. Mentors are older high school students from many of Boston’s neighborhoods. If you are interested in becoming a mentor for Fall of 2001, contact your local library or Susan Birkett at (617) 536-5400.

List compiled by Laura Foner, Connolly Branch, Boston Public Library, 2001.

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