Thank you to everyone who sent suggestions for pairing classics with YA
novels. Special thanks to Sandy Longmeier from
Tenino High School who sent a spread sheet full of suggestions! -Beth
Elizabeth Strauss
Media Generalist
Pelham High School
85 Marsh Road
Pelham, New Hampshire 03076-3159
bstrauss@pelhamsd.org
603-635-2115
From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges Between Young Adult Literature and
the Classics
Sarah K. Herz, With Donald R. Gallo
ISBN: 0313286361
Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Vol. 4
Joan F. Kaywell
ISBN: 1929024045
This website was also listed as an excellent resource for comparing
Shakespeare to contemporary YA authors:
www.barbarapaul.com/shake.html
Classic- YA Novel Pairings List
1984
The Chocolate War
Beyond the Chocolate War
The Kolokol Papers
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Number the Stars
Summer of my German Soldier
Animal Farm
Bless the Beasts and the Children
The Wild Children
Beowulf
Grendel (John Gardner)
Cinderella
Bound (DiNapoli)
Death of a Salesman
Ordinary People
Remembering the Good Times
Frankenstein
Monster
Grapes of Wrath
Out of the Dust (Hesse)
Esperanza Rising
A Small Civil War
Home Before Dark
Homecoming
Words by Heart
Under the Feet of Jesus
Great Expectations
Is that you, Miss Blue
Jacob Have I Loved
The Sound of Coaches
Harry and Hortense at Hormone High
Great Gatsby
Bodega Dream
Jake Reinvented
Hamlet
Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
Heart of Darkness
Lord of the Flies
Downriver
Invisible Man
Notes from the Underground (Dostoevesky)
Jane Eyre
Wide Sargoss Sea
Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe:
The Island (Paulsen)
The Goats (Cole)
Little Women
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Lord of the Flies
Chocolate Wars
The Goats
MacBeth
Third Witch
Merchant of Venice
Blue Avenger Cracks the Code
Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night's Dork
Moby Dick
John Dollar
Mythology
The Centaur (Updike)
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
The Sandman
Night (Wiesel)
Maus
The Odyssey
Dove
Of Mice and Men
All Together Now
Lizard
Old Man and the Sea
Young Man and the Sea
The Voyage of the Frog
Life of Pi
Young Man and the Sea
Prince and the Pauper
Whipping Boy
Red Badge of Courage
The Last Mission
Fallen Angels
April Morning
My Brother is Dead
The Machine Gunners
Romeo and Juliet
Romiette and Julio
Julie and Romeo
West Side Story
When We First Met (Mazer)
Scarlet Letter
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sharelle
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Kraken
To Kill a Mockingbird
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Words by Heart
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Walden
The Island (Paulsen)
Hatchet (Paulsen)
Wizard of Oz
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west (Maguire)
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