Major Works, A Literary Inventory: Grade 10
Title / Author
NOVELS:
Laieikawai [moolelo kaao] / S.N. Haleole
Potiki / Patricia Grace
To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
Excerpts from Don Quixote / Cervantes
Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
Lord of the Flies / William Golding
The Hound of the Baskervilles / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
PLAYS:
The Last Virgin in Paradise / Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa
Macbeth / Shakespeare
Antigone / Sophocles
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar / Shakespeare
The Case of the Crushed Petunias / Tennessee Wiilliams
The Wooing of Ariadne / Harry Mark Petrakis
SELECTED NON-FICTION:
“Aupuni” (from Dismembering Lahui) / Jon Osorio
“A Changing Economy” (from the Rise and Fall of the Hawaiian Kingdom) / Richard Wisniewski
“Endangered Peoples” (excerpts) / Rigoberta Menchu and Art Davidson
“Images of Paradise” / Robert Nicole
Reviving Ophelia (excerpts) / Mary Pipher
“Pacific Clowning” / Vilsoni Hereniko

“Ka Poe Kahiko, The People of Old”

/ S. M. Kamakau
“Kihaaapiilani” / S.M. Kamakau
Song Analysis of “Ka Manu” / Kihei de Silva
“Wedding-Music Police” / Kahikina de Silva (aka “Kipi Brown”)
Kaluaikoolau / Piilani Koolau (with Sheldon/Frazier)
“Mele Killers” / Kahikina de Silva (aka “Moanauili”)
Short Stories (other than those in the 10th grade Elements of Literature):
“The Mirage” / Kapalaiula and Kihei de Silva (aka “Kalei Clark”)
“The Tower of Babel” / Epeli Hauofa
“The Shimmering” / Keola Beamer
“The Piece of String” / Guy de Maupassant
“He-y, Come On Ou-t!” / Shinichi Hoshi
“A Siberian Shepherd’s Report of the Atom Bomb” / Dino Buzzati
“The Train from Rhodesia” / Nadine Gordimer
“Mr. Jones” / Truman Capote
“Lamp in a Window” / Truman Capote
“Hospitality” / Truman Capote
“Koolau the Leper” / Jack London
“Blue Skin of the Sea” / Graham Salisbury
“Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet at Sea” / Mark Twain
“Pele’s Own” / Charles M. Kong
“Intermediate School Hapai” / Wini Terada
“The Man to Send Rainclouds” / Leslie Marmon Silko
“Daybreak Over Haleakala” / Rodney Morales
“Sunrise on the Veld” / Doris Lessing
“Fear” / Rhys Davis
“Silent Snow, Secret Snow” / Conrad Aiken
“The Butterfly” / James Hanley
“The Lottery” / Shirley Jackson
“The Masque of the Red Death” / Edgar Allen Poe
“The Rockinghorse Winner” / D.H. Lawrence
“The Wish” / Roald DahI
“Young Goodman Brown” / Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Sea Devil” / Arthur Gordon
“The Tiger’s Heart” / Jim Kjelgaard
“Hit and Run” / John D. MacDonald
“The Parsley Garden” / William Saroyan
“Girls, Are They Worth It?” / Jonathan Kim
“The Surfer” / Asa Baber
“Pele’s Children” / Alissa Fukushima
“Nanane, the Shark Man” / Emma M. Nakuina

From When the Shark Bites

/ Rodney Morales
“Kamalo” / Reverend AD. Forbes
“Kahalaopuna: / Emma Nakuina
“The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Adventure of the Three Students” / Conan Doyle
“Four and Twenty Blackbirds” / Agatha Christie
“The Invisible Man” / G.K. Chesterton
“Miss Hinch” / Henry Harrison
“Gwilan’s Harp” / LeGuin
“The Brothers” / Bjornstern Bjomsen
“Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing lt in the Sandwich Island” / Mark Twain
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
Excerpts from Hulili No. 3, 2007 / Jon Osorio, Monica Kaimipono Kaiwi, et al
From American Dragons / Lawerence Yep
Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (various chapters) / S.M. Kamakau
SUMMER READING:
The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman
Nahienaena, Sacred Daughter of Hawaii / Majorie Sinclair
Middle Son / Deborah lida
My Name is Loa / Dee Buckingham
Sarah T Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic / Robin Wagner
Warriors Don’t Cry / Melba Beals
Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
Cold Sassy Tree / Olive Ann Burns
The Plague / Albert Camus
Sula / Toni Morrison
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
Night / Elie Wiesel
Far Tortuga / Peter Mathiessen
School for Hawaiian Girls / Georgia Kaapuni McMilIen
Kaahumanu, Moulder of Change / Jane L. Silverman
Pouliuli / Albert Wendt
Dogside Story / Patrica Grace
How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001 / Joy Harjo
Melal, a Novel of the Pacific / Robert Barclay
The Watcher of Waipuna / Gary Pak
The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X with Alex Haley