Suggested Reading List for Grade 8 - Wethersfield Public Schools

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Other Worlds, Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Classics OTHER WORLDS/FANTASY SCIENCE FICTION

AUTHOR

Epic (and sequel)

Kostic

Found: The Missing (series)

Haddix

Goblinwood Gone (The Gone series) His Majesty’s Dragon-Bk. 1 The Temeraire series Hush, Hush (series) Inkheart (and Inkspell) Kane Chronicles (series) Keys to the Kingdom (series) The Last Dragon Leviathan (and sequel) Matched (and sequels) Maximum Ride (series) Redwall (series)

Bell Grant Novic

Rot and Ruin (and sequels) Supernaturalist Unwind (and sequel)

Fitzgerald Funke Riordan Nix deMari Westerfeld Condie Patterson Jacques Maberry Colfer Shusterman

Classics, Teen Nutmeg Nominees & Useful Weblinks GRAPHIC NOVELS

AUTHOR

Accidental Genius of Weasel High

Detorie

Bone Great Expectations Marvel 1602

Smith Green Gaiman

Maus or Maus II

Spiegelman

The Story of Roberto Clemente

Santiago

Wiliam Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Wonderland

Petit

2014 TEEN NUTMEG

Author

NOMINEES City of Orphans

Avi

Divergent (and series)

Roth

I’ll Be There

Sloan

The Lions of Little Rock

Levine

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25

Vey

Mindblind

Roy

Silas Deane Middle School Summer 2013

Summer Reading Ideas for students entering eighth grade

Kovac

♦ Set a reading goal ♦ Visit the library and swap books with friends ♦ Participate in the “Beneath the Surface” WPL Teen Summer Reading Program

CLASSICS

AUTHOR

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) The Outsiders

Tolkien

Hinton

Now is the Time for Running

Williams

Rebecca

Du Maurier

Okay for Now

Schmidt

That was Then, This is Now

Hinton

Paige by Paige

Gulledge

Treasure Island

Stevenson

Scorpio Races

Steifvater

AUTHORS TO LOOK FOR: FOR: Isabel Allende, Avi, Tom Clancy, Suzanne Collins, Caroline Cooney, Chris Crutcher, Karen Cushman, James Dashner, Cynthia DeFelice, Sarah Dessen, Carl Deuker, Sharon Draper, Lois Duncan, Katherine Fisher, Paul Fleischman, Sharon Flake, Paula Fox, Tim Green, John Grisham, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Karen Hesse, Will Hobbs, Sue Monk Kidd, Stephen King, Robert Lipsyte, Chris Lynch, Mike Lupica, Walter Dean Myers, Linda Sue Park, Katherine Paterson, Rodman Philbrick, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Philip Reeve, Ann Rinaldi, Rick Riordan, Lois Sacher, Neal Shusterman, Gary Soto, Nicholas Sparks, Elizabeth George Speare, Gary Spinelli, Todd Strasser, Theodore Taylor, Jane Yolen, Lawrence Yep, Paul Zindel

♦ Select and read at least 33-4 books of your

All summer reading materials can be accessed online:

choice from two different genres

♦ Explore digital downloads of eBooks and audiobooks with Overdrive Media Console

♦ Keep track of the books and write reviews online through WPL online reading program

♦ Turn in your summer reading log to your teacher in September; you can print a list from the online program or hand write it

http://www.wethersfield.k12.ct.us/page.cfm?p=2473 Downloadable audiobooks and eBooks are available through Overdrive Media Console WPS Overdrive Media Console: Console http://wps.lib.overdrive.com Username:

Student ID #

Password/PIN:

Birthday (in 6 digits )

Wethersfield Public Library : http://www.wethersfieldlibrary.org Requires public library card number for sign in

Entering Level 1 Language Arts

Entering Level 2 Language Arts

Must read at least 4 books of their choice from two different genres and turn in a reading log

Must read at least 3 books of their choice (preferably from 2 different genres ) and turn in a reading log

Some ideas… Teen Stuff There are too many wonderful books to menon. In this brochure, you will find a lisng of books by genre that middle school students have enjoyed in the past. In addion, you will find a list of well- known young adult authors. TEEN STUFF

AUTHOR

Accidental Love

Soto

Ask Me No Questions

Budhos

Blackwater

Bunting

Bruiser Cuba 15 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pies (and sequel) Elsewhere Emako Blue

Shusterman Osa Lockhart

Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature Hush I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil (and I want to be your Class President) Ostrich Boys Out of My Mind

R. Brande

Sonnenblick Zevin Woods

Short Stories, True Stories & Sports SHORT STORIES Athletic Shorts Darkness Creeping Guys Read Salsa Stories Santa Claus in Baghdad...

AUTHOR Crutcher Shusterman Scieszka Delacre Marston

Taste Berries for Teens

Youngs

TRUE STORIES/NON FICTION A Girl’s Life Online: Katie.com

AUTHOR Tarbox

A Long Walk to Water All of the Above Between a Rock and Hard Place

Park Pearsall Ralston

Bomb: The Race to Build -and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

Sheinkin

Ryan White: My Story She Said Yes Soul Surfer Swimming to Antarctica Warriors Don’t Cry We Beat the Street

White Bernall Hamilton Cox Beals Davis et al. Schanzer

Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

Historical Fiction, Mystery/ Suspense, & Survival/Adventure HISTORICAL FICTION

AUTHOR

An Unlikely Friendship: Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

Rinaldi

Alphabet of Dreams Code Talker Day of Tears Eyes of the Emperor Fever (1793) Fire from the Rock Mississippi Trial On the Wings of Heroes Princess of the Midnight Ball The River Between Us The Rock and the River Chains (or Forged)

Fletcher Bruchac Lester Salisbury Anderson Draper Crowe Peck George Peck Magoon Anderson

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Acceleration Ark Angel (Alex Rider series) Code Orange Double Identity Down the Rabbit Hole (series)

AUTHOR McNamee Horowitz Cooney Haddix Abrahams

Full Tilt

Shusterman

The Missing Girl Scat Skulduggery Pleasant (series)

Mazur Hiassen Landy Mulligan Dowd

SPORTS

AUTHOR

The Big Field

Lupica

Breathing Soccer

Spring

Center Field

Lipsyte

Trash The London Eye Mystery

Gray Draper

Crackback Dairy Queen (and sequels)

Coy Murdock

SURVIVAL/ADVENTURE

AUTHOR

Pieces of Georgia

Bryant

Green

The Compound

Bodeen

The Running Dream Scorpions

Van Draanen Myers

Eleventh Plague

Hirsch

Voigt Draper

Viola in Reel Life

Trigiani

Pfeffer

Connor

The Wednesday Wars

Schmidt

Peet Korman Deuker Myers FitzGerald Feinstein

Life as We Knew it (trilogy)

Waiting for Normal

Keeper Pop Runner Slam Soccer Chick Rules The Rivalry

Far North (or Down River) The Hunger Games (trilogy) Incarceron (and sequel)

Hobbs

Solitary Blue Tears of a Tiger (trilogy)

Football Champ (or others by author) Gym Candy Heat (or any title by Lupica) High Heat

The Maze Runner (trilogy) Peak Touching Spirit Bear (and sequel)

Dashner Smith

Trapped

Northrup

Woodson Lieb

Deuker Lupica Deuker

Collins Fisher

Mikaelsen