Literature Suggestions for World Geography
2nd Quarter
•Alistair Cooke’s America by Alistair Cooke
•Alive by Piers Paul Read
•The American Dream by Edward Albee
•A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
•Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
•Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
•Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
•Call of the Wild by Jack London
•Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
•Dog Who Wouldn’t Be by Farley Mowat
•The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
•The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
•Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by W.H. Hudson
•Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan Eckert
•Kon Tiki: Across the Pacific By Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
•Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
•The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
•Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan by Benedict Freedman
•The Poetical Works of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
•Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
•Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol
•Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
•Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne
•Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
•Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty
•The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings by Jan
Harold Brunvand
•Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
•Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
*If there are any pieces of literature not on this list you would like to
read, please approve it with Ms. Green. Literature for this quarter must
relate to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South
America.
DUE DATE: JANUARY 7TH!
