8th ELA: Students will constantly have a book to read or annotate. We will have two book studies, but continual self-selected reading will supplement the class.
Through the district approval system, the following books have been deemed appropriate for potential whole-class lessons for 8th grade ELA. (Students may, by choice, select other books from our school library.)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (1110)
ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (740)
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (1100)
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (870)
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1080)
April Morning by Howard Fast (1050)
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi (610)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (820)
Daniel's Story by Carol Matas (720) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (780)
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (790)
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston and James D. Houston (1040)
Green Angel by Alice Hoffman (910)
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (760)
I Am David by Anne Holm (910)
I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott by Shelia P. Moses
In My Father's House by Corrie ten Boom (640)
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes (840)
Maximum Ride by James Patterson (700)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (800)
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (640)
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier (770)
Night by Elie Wiesel (590)
Rifles for Waite by Harold Keith (no lexile)
Shadow of the Dragon by Sherry Garland (840)
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (820)
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper (700- district training required before whole class use)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (730)
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (730)
The Fruit Bowl Project: Fifty Ways to Tell a Story by Sarah Durkee (860)
The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson (660)
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers (800)
The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1010)
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (970)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (850)
Tunes for Bears to Dance to by Robert Cormier (840)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (NP = non prose)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (880) Witness by Karen Hesse (NP = non prose)
Witness by Karen Hesse (NP = nonprose)
Information about available classroom library available on request.
District-issued books for 8th grade, school library books, as well as books for 6th and 7th grade readers are available on our classroom shelves.