Need to find some good reading material for my high schooler

Animal Farm Don Quixote The House On Mango Street All three Maximum Ride books Has he read the Lord of the Rings trilogy yet? As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Lord of the Flies by William Golding Ivanhoe Of Mice and Men Here's a whole list of book ideas for ya! ;) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27487-2004Sep16.html

I never fail to recommend this book..."The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. You might also want to consider, "A Christmas Carol" and "Oliver Twist", both by Charles Dickens. Also, "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. Hope I was able to help you. :)

Our ninth grade class read a book called "The Outsiders". A few years after that a movie came out. The book was far better, because it left a lot more to your own imagination!

You have already received some excellent reccommendations. I would add Old Man and the Sea, and Travels with Charley. Definitely The Outsiders!!

Oh, I loved the Great Gatsby! I'd also suggest "The Sun Also Rises", it's great to read in conjunction with Gatsby. When I was in ninth grade, the best book we read in class was Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. It's a great book, that leads on to a great series of books -- they're Sci Fi but they engage quite intelligently and passionately with texts that have come before them (which, in my mind, is the primary criterion for 'literature'). Also, if he's reccommended to read Tom Sawyer, he should try to follow it up immediately with Huckleberry Finn -- Huck Finn is the adult to Tom Sawyer's petulant, immature child and he corrects a lot of the problems with Tom Sawyer; and Huck is absolutely one of the loveliest characters in American Lit. to date.