Texas ninth-grade reading list, 1922
“Captains Courageous,” Rudyard Kipling: 8.0.
“Silas Marner,” George Eliot: 9.7
“The House of the Seven Gables,” Nathaniel Hawthworne: 11.0
“The Deerslayer,” James Fenimore Cooper: 11.2
“The Last of the Mohicans,” James Fenimore Cooper: 12.0
“Ivanhoe,” Walter Scott: 12.9
Now, fast forward to the present…
San Antonio ninth-grade reading list, 2015-16
“The House on Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros: 4.5
“Artemis Fowl,” Eoin Colfer: 5.0
“The Chocolate War,” Robert Cormier: 5.4
“Freak the Mighty,” Rodman Philbrick: 5.5
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee: 5.6
“Beloved,” Toni Morrison: 6.0
“Harry Potter” series, J.K. Rowling: 6.7
“Captains Courageous,” Rudyard Kipling: 8.0.
“Silas Marner,” George Eliot: 9.7
“The House of the Seven Gables,” Nathaniel Hawthworne: 11.0
“The Deerslayer,” James Fenimore Cooper: 11.2
“The Last of the Mohicans,” James Fenimore Cooper: 12.0
“Ivanhoe,” Walter Scott: 12.9
Now, fast forward to the present…
San Antonio ninth-grade reading list, 2015-16
“The House on Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros: 4.5
“Artemis Fowl,” Eoin Colfer: 5.0
“The Chocolate War,” Robert Cormier: 5.4
“Freak the Mighty,” Rodman Philbrick: 5.5
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee: 5.6
“Beloved,” Toni Morrison: 6.0
“Harry Potter” series, J.K. Rowling: 6.7