Communication Arts II & Honors - Sophomores

Click a book title to read a parent-written review of the book with regard to profanity, sex, violence and/or other adult content. Click a column heading to sort the list. All of the books on this list have been used by Blue Valley Communication Arts (English) teachers.

Each teacher typically chooses around 6 novels to teach in any given year which are supposed to pass through a textbook selection policy filter BEFORE they are assigned as compulsory reading. But many teachers assign "pet" novels that have NOT been properly filtered, or which were retroactively added to the "approved" list in June of 2004 or August 2005.

The district's "approved booklist" was made available online in June 2004. Although a book may appear on this official "approved" list, it may NOT be age appropriate and may contain graphic content. For example, please click below on our review for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Time-tested and world-renowned classics NOT used in the Blue Valley curriculum.

Click a book title link to read a parent-written review. Click a column heading to sort the list.

P	S	O	None	A few times	Several times	Many times or explicit	NYR
Profanity (f-word, other obscenities)	Sexually explicit material	Other Adult content (drugs, occult, suicide, extreme violence, or other adult issues that parents should know about before their children are immersed in them.					Not Yet Rated

	Title	Author	Date "Approved" by district	Class	P	S	O
	1984	Orwell, George	9/2000	10H	NYR
	All Quiet on the Western Front	Remarque, Erich	9/2000	10, 10H	NYR
	Antigone	Sophocles	Retroactively approved 6/2004	10H	NYR
	Bean Trees	Kingsolver, Barbara PETITION BOOK	9/2000	10
	Boy's Life	McCammon, Robert PETITION BOOK CHALLENGED BOOK	Retroactively approved 6/2004	10
	Catcher in the Rye	Salinger, JD	9/2000	10, 10H
	Cyrano de Bergerac	Rostand, Edmond	Retroactively approved 6/2004	10, 10H	NYR
	Ellen Foster	Gibbons, Kaye	9/2000	10, 10H
	Hiroshima	Hersey, John	9/2000	10, 10H	NYR
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Angelou, Maya PETITION BOOK	9/2000	10H
	Joy Luck Club	Tan, Amy	9/2000	10H
	Julius Caesar	Shakespeare	9/2000	10	Note
	Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	9/2000	10H	NYR
	Macbeth	Shakespeare	9/2000	10, 10H	Note
	Midsummer Night's Dream	Shakespeare	9/2000	10, 10H	Note
	Natural	Malamud, Bernard	9/2000	10
	Once & Future King	White, Terence	9/2000	10, 10H	NYR
	Othello	Shakespeare	9/2000	10H	Note
	Peace Like a River	Enger, Leif	2005 Summer Reading Retroactively approved 8/2005	10,10H	NYR
	Secret Life of Bees	Kidd, Sue Monk	2005 Summer Reading Retroactively approved 8/2005	10, 10H
	Tale of Two Cities	Dickens, Charles	9/2000	10H	NYR
	Things Fall Apart	Achebe, Chinua	Retroactively approved 6/2004	10H

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