Grade Eight

2009

Required reading selection:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

You must choose ONE book from EACH of the following lists. If the book listed is the first in a series (indicated by a star), and you have already read it, you may read the next installment in the same series.

THE WHITE LIST

THE GREEN LIST

• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
• Last Shot by John Feinstein
• The Crystal Shard (Part of the Icewind Dale trilogy) by R.A. Salvatore*
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Heat by Mike Lupica
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith*
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman*
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

• 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*
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• David Copperfield 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 Chosen by Chaim Potok