bookwormRoslyn Middle School

English Department

 

Summer Reading 

2010

For students entering

Grade 8

 

Dear Student,

 

Reading is both enjoyable and important, and the summer months often provide a more relaxed opportunity to pursue some worthwhile titles.

As a student about to enter the English 8 class in September, in addition to reading the school-wide assignment "Three Cups of Tea," you are required to read one selection from the following list. Of course, given the many wonderful selections in this booklet, we encourage you to read as many additional titles as you wish.

During the month of September, you will be asked to respond to an in-class assignment based on your book. You will receive a grade which will be part of your first-quarter average.

 

                                                                                                Sincerely,

 

                                                                                                Eighth Grade English Teachers

 

* Please note: Some books on this list may not be available in paperback.

 

KEY:

G = General Fiction               A = Adventure                                    *C* = Classic

H = Historical Fiction            M/S = Mystery/Suspense        *M* = Mature Themes

F = Fantasy                             S = Sports                               NF = Non-Fiction

SF = Science Fiction              

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Abeel, Samantha

My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir

NF

Abrahams, Peter

Down the Rabbit Hole

F

Alexie, Sherman

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

G, *M*

Albom, Mitch

For One More Day

G, *M*

Barakat, Ibtisam

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood

NF

Boukreev, Anatoli

Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

NF

Bradbury, Ray

Fahrenheit 451

SF

Bradbury, Ray

Something Wicked This Way Comes

M/S, F

Bray, Libba

A Great & Terrible Beauty

H

Brooks, Martha

Mistik Lake

G, *M*

Bruchac, Joseph

Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo

Marines of World War Two

H

Christie, Agatha

And Then There Were None

M/S

Crane, Stephen

The Red Badge of Courage

H, *C*

Donnelly, Jennifer

Northern Light

H, M/S

Fusco, Kimberley

Tending to Grace

G

Grisham, John

Playing for Pizza

S

Jacques, Brian

Redwall

F

Kipling, Rudyard

Captains Courageous

A, *C*

King, Stephen

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

M/S, *M*

Lockhart, E.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

G

Lupica, Mike

Miracle on 49th St.

S

McKernan, Victoria

Shackleton’s Stowaway

H

Philbrick, Nathaniel

Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the

Whaleship Essex

NF

Potok, Chaim

The Chosen

G

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Treasure Island

A,*C*

Swanson, James L.

Chasing Lincoln's Killer

NF

 

 

 

"The more that you read, the more things you will know.

 

The more you learn, the more places you'll go."

 

— Dr. Seuss