Welcome to the webpage of the Hempstead Public School District’s English Language Arts Department.  This page is linked for your information regarding the NYS ELA curriculum and assessments. 

English Language Arts Department
Director- Antoinette Campbell
185 Peninsula Boulevard, Hempstead, New York 11550
516-292-7111 ext. 1417

High School Reading Book List

 1.  Things Fall Apart: By Chinua Achebe

 2.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: By Maya Angelou

 3.  Days of Grace:  By Arthur Ashe

 4.  Pride and Prejudice:  By Jane Austen

 5.  Growing Up: By Russell Baker

 6.  Forbidden City:  By William Bell

 7.  Wuthering Heights: By Charlotte Bronte

 8.  My Antonia: By Willa Cather

 9.  Shogun: By James Clavell

 10.  Heart of Darkness: By Joseph Conrad

 11.  Prince of Tides: By Pat Conroy

 12.  After the First Death: By Robert Cormier

 13. Maggie: Girl of the Streets:  By Stephen Crane

 14.  The Red Badge of Courage: By Stephen Crane

 15.  Tale of Two Cities: By Charles Dickens

 16.  Crime and Punishment: By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 17.  The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: By Frederick Douglass

 18.  Silas Marner: By George Elliot

 19.  The Invisible Man:  By Ralph Ellison

 20.  The Portable Emerson: By Ralph Wardo Emerson

 21.  Jane Eyre: By Charlotte Bronte

 22. The Canterbury Tales: By Geoffrey Chaucer

 23. Their Eyes Were Watching God: By Zora Neale Hurston

 24.  To Kill a Mockingbird: By Lee Harper

 25. The Sun Also Rises: Ernest Hemingway