Your learner will need their own copy of the books below.  Please feel free to use the library or digital editions of the books. While there are many wonderful audiobooks available here, I do not recommend audiobooks for this class simply because we are building reading fluency and speed. SEEING the words really helps with solidifying the words in the memory.  

I include the Amazon link to each book to make it easy to find them.  Sometimes, seeing the cover is helpful. (These are NOT affiliation links...just a quick search on my part.)

The Hunger Games - https://a.co/d/2ZLnKCN

The Golden Rhino - https://a.co/d/iBlGjQV

The Great Turkey Walk - https://a.co/d/4hdEZ7Z

To Kill a Mockingbird - https://a.co/d/g6g3HKS

Each of the books in this class was chosen to provide an excellent example of a genre of books.  They were also chosen for children from approximately 5th-8th grade, so 10-15 year-olds.  

That said there are a few things to consider in these books.  I've used Common Sense Media, Good Reads, and other online reviews to give you some "Things Parents need to Know" where available.

The Hunger Games - The story is intriguing and well thought out, the violence is fairly bloody but not overly gory, swearing and sexy stuff are kept to a minimum, and the alcoholic character sobers as the movie goes on. There are great messages and lessons we can learn from this book.

The Golden Rhino - One thing I especially appreciated about The Golden Rhino was that the "bad guys" spoke and acted with a great deal of menace, but there was not any actual death or gory violence. I appreciated that and I believe it kept the book appropriate to the Young Adult age range.  There is light talk about HIV but no explanation.  This might be something that your family might want to address.

The Great Turkey Walk - Very young children might be upset or confused by the fact that the lead villain is the lead hero's father. The violence is done in a cartoon-y way with no one actually getting hurt (again possibly not a good choice for very young children though). What is sweet about the story is it's a bunch of seeming losers/misfits (a teenage boy considered stupid by most of his hometown, a man who became an alcoholic when his family died, and a runaway slave) who make it big, and their best prize of all is the family that they form in the process.

To Kill a Mockingbird - Parents need to know that Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird addresses the terrible impact of racism in America through a little girl’s point of view.  The story takes place in Depression-era Alabama, in the fictional town of Maycomb, which Lee patterned after her own hometown of Monroeville.  The narrator, 6-year-old Scout Finch, her brother Jem and their friend Dill play children’s games, but they also have a clear view of the adults in their world.  Their youth and innocence contrast with the prejudice, cruelty, and poverty they often observe.  There is some threatened and real violence in the Pulitzer Prize winner: A man breaks a child’s arm; a rabid dog is shot and killed; there is a stabbing death; the children and their father, Atticus Finch, confront a lynch mob; and the court case at the center of the novel involves a Black man who has been accused of raping and beating a white woman some of this violence is whiskey-fueled, as well.  Profanity includes d*mn, b*st*rd, son of a b*tch, and the N-word.  These words are used as if it's commonplace language.  The children in the novel learn powerful lessons about the impact of poverty and prejudice and the importance of empathy.  It would be wise for the parent to be available.