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Required Summer Reading
BLAST OFF TO READING

Grade Eight

2011

 

Required reading selection:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

You will read THREE books this summer.

Choose one from the following:

The Life of Pi by Yann  Martel

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Fluke by Christopher Moore

 

Choose one  from the following:

Last Shot by John Feinstein

Million Dollar Throw-Mike Lupica

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman*

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Emma by Jane Austen

The Hobbit  by J.R.R. Tolkien*

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

MAUS by Art Spiegelman*

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Nation  by Terry Pratchett

Shabaru by Suzanne F. Staples

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

*Part of a series—if you have already read this title, you may read another from the same series.

 

If you would like to read more books from this list than what is required, you will have an opportunity to earn extra credit for reading additional books from the lists by writing a short summary/opinion.