Teaching Guide Library

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

A Wolf Called Wander

Rosanne Parry, Illustr. Mónica Armiño

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Wrinkle In Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

The War I Finally Won

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The War That Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Wednesday Wars

Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

The Whipping Boy

Sid Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

The Wife Of His Youth

Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Wild Robot

Peter Brown

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Windhover

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

The Witches

Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Witch Of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

The World According to Humphrey

Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Wait Till Helen Comes

Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1854

We Are All Made of Molecules

Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

We Are Displaced

Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018

We Are Not Free

Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

We Beat the Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success

George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, Sharon M. Draper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2005

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

We Real Cool

Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

We're Not from Here

Geoff Rodkey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014

West Side Story

Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

West with Giraffes

Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

We Were Here

Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Whale Talk

Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1852

What You Pawn I Will Redeem

Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

When I Was Puerto Rican

Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

When I Was the Greatest

Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

When My Name Was Keoko

Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

When Stars Are Scattered

Omar Mohamed, Victoria Jamieson

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

When You Trap a Tiger

Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1966

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon

Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Whirligig

Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

White Noise

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Peggy McIntosh

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1989

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1994

Winter's Bone

Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wish

Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wit

Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Witness for the Prosecution

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

Wolf Hollow

Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wonder

R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Wonderstruck

Brian Selznick

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Woods Runner

Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Works and Days

Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847