8th Grade Summer Reading List

Student is required to read two (2) books from his/her assigned list.

Student should be prepared to be assessed on books when he/she returns in August.

Regular

House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

Journey Home by Yoshiko Uchida

A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Balos

Charlie Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Enriched

Slam! by Walter Dean Myers

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Born Free by Joy Adamson

Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke

APEX

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

The Outsiders byS.E. Hinton

No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt

The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth Speare

The Devil’s Arithmeticby Jane Yolen

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Maximum Ride (Series Listed Below) by James Patterson

Saving the World

School’s Out--Forever

The Angel Experiment