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Individuality - Adolescence Is A Time For Decision Making: Entering 8th Grade - Summer Reading List 2015

This document provides a summer reading list for students entering 8th grade. It includes 15 books across various genres that touch on themes of individuality, friendship, knowledge, and courage. The books range from fiction like The Boy Who Saved Baseball and Uglies to non-fiction like The Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon and I Am Malala. The reading list offers a diverse selection of titles to keep students engaged over the summer break.

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Individuality - Adolescence Is A Time For Decision Making: Entering 8th Grade - Summer Reading List 2015

This document provides a summer reading list for students entering 8th grade. It includes 15 books across various genres that touch on themes of individuality, friendship, knowledge, and courage. The books range from fiction like The Boy Who Saved Baseball and Uglies to non-fiction like The Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon and I Am Malala. The reading list offers a diverse selection of titles to keep students engaged over the summer break.

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Entering 8th Grade - Summer Reading List 2015

Individuality Adolescence is a time for decision making


The Boy Who Saved
Baseball by Thomas
Ritter

The fate of a small California town


rests on the outcome of one
baseball game, and Tom Gallagher
hopes to lead his team to victory
with the secrets of the now
disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.

Ten Things I Hate


About Me
by Randa AbdelFattah

Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known


in school as Jamie, hides her
heritage from her classmates and
tries to pass by dyeing her hair
blonde and wearing blue-tinted
contact lenses, until her conflicted
feelings become too much for her
to bear.

The Total Tragedy of


a Girl Named Hamlet
by Erin Dionne

Hamlet's attempts to be a "normal"


eighth grader become increasingly
difficult when her genius sevenyear-old sister and her eccentric
Shakespeare scholar parents both
begin to attend her school.

Just before their sixteenth


Uglies
by
Scott
birthdays, when they will be
Westerfeld
(and/or Pretties, Book transformed into beauties whose
only job is to have a great time,
2 in the series)
Tally's best friend runs away and
Tally must find her and turn her in,
or never become pretty at all.

Entering 8th Grade - Summer Reading List 2015


Friendship Friendship goes both ways
Beastly by Alex Flinn

A modern retelling of "Beauty and


the Beast" from the point of view of
the Beast, a vain Manhattan private
school student who is turned into a
monster and must find true love
before he can return to his human
form.

Maximum Ride: The


Angel Experiment
by James Patterson

After the mutant Erasers abduct the


youngest member of their group,
the "bird kids," who are the result of
genetic experimentation, take off in
pursuit and find themselves
struggling to understand their own
origins and purpose.

Perfect by Natasha
Friend

Following the death of her father, a


thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a
way to avoid her mother's and tenyear-old sister's grief, as well as her
own.

The Truth About


Forever by Sarah
Dessen

The summer following her father's


death, Macy plans to work at the
library and wait for her brainy
boyfriend to return from camp, but
instead she goes to work at a
catering business where she makes
new friends and finally faces her
grief.

Knowledge is power

Entering 8th Grade - Summer Reading List 2015

The Bomb: The Race


to Build and Steal
the Worlds Most
Dangerous Weapon
by Steve Sheinkin

Examines the history of the atomic


bomb, discussing the discovery of
the behavior of uranium when
placed next to radioactive material,
the race to build a bomb, and the
impact of the weapon on societies
around the world.

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale


The Testing by Joelle
is chosen to participate in The
Charbonneau
Testing to attend the University;
however, Cia is fearful when she
figures out that her friends who do
not pass The Testing are
disappearing.

Hitler Youth by
Susan Campbell
Bartoletti

Lincolns Grave
Robbers by Steve
Sheinkin

A photo-illustrated look at the youth


organizations Adolf Hitler founded
and used to meet his sociopolitical
and military ends; includes profiles
of individual Hitler Youth members
as well as young people who
opposed the Nazis, such as Hans
and Sophie Scholl. Newbery Honor.
An account of how counterfeiter
Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the
body of Abraham Lincoln and
demanded Boyd's release from jail
and two hundred thousand dollars
as ransom and the efforts of the
Secret Service to recover the
remains.

Courage Courage provides opportunities for personal growth

Entering 8th Grade - Summer Reading List 2015


Code Talker: a novel
about the Navajo
Marines of World
War Two by Joseph
Bruchac

After being taught in a boarding


school run by whites that Navajo is a
useless language, Ned Begay and
other Navajo men are recruited by
the Marines to become Code Talkers,
sending messages during World War
II in their native tongue.

The Boy Who Dared In October 1942, seventeen-yearby


Susan
Campbell old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned
Bartoletti
for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets,
recalls his past life and how he
came to dedicate himself to bring
the truth about Hitler and the war to
the German people. This novel is
based on the true story of a Hitler
Youth.
The Scorch Trials,
The Death Cure, or
The Kill Order by
James Dashner

Any of these other sequels to the


Maze Runner series: The Scorch
Trials, The Death Cure or The Kill
Order. These other books in the
series continue the action-packed
story that was begun in the Maze
Runner of Thomas and the Gladers.

I Am Malala: How
One Girl Stood Up
for Education and
Changed the World
by Malala Yousafzai
(Young Readers
Edition, with Patricia
McCormick)

Malala Yousafzai's describes her


fight for education for girls under
Taliban rule, the support she
received from her parents to pursue
an education, and how the Taliban
retaliated against her by trying to
kill her.

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