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Theme: Motivation
Theme: Motivation
We encourage you to read at least one book from the list below,
However you can also choose to do the Huntington Public Library's Summer Reading program or use Newsela as an alternative. Newsela is accessible through Clever.
Use the same login through Clever as during the school year and when you are on the Newsela site,
select a topic of interest from any subject, fiction or non-fiction, and choose a preferred text set.
All students who complete the following summer assignment will earn extra credit in quarter one.
8th Grade Summer Reading Assignment
*All book titles are available in the Destiny app accessible through Clever on Chromebooks, and available at Huntington Public LIbrary.
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Fiction, Lexile: 700L
It is 1906 and Mattie Gokey is trying to learn how to stand up like a man — even though she’s a sixteen-year-old girl. At her summer job at a resort on Big Moose Lake in the Adirondack mountains, she will earn enough money to make something of her life.That money could be a dowry to wed the handsome but dull Royal Loomis. It could save her father’s broke back farm. Or it might buy her a train ticket to New York City and college and a life that she can barely allow herself to imagine.
*All book titles are available in the Destiny app accessible through Clever on Chromebooks, and available at Huntington Public Library.
*Click on book cover to see book trailer
The Summer of Letting Go by Gae Polisner
Realistic Fiction, Lexile: HL700L
Four years after her brother Simon drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.
*All book titles are available in the Destiny app accessible through Clever on Chromebooks, and available at Huntington Public Library.
*Click on book cover to see book trailer
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Memoir, Lexile: 990L
The author examines eight years in the lives of both Wes Moores to explore the factors and choices that led one to a Rhodes scholarship, military service, and a White House fellowship, and the other to drug dealing, prison, and eventual conversion to the Muslim faith, with both sharing a gritty sense of realism about their pasts. The author himself is one of these two men who share the same name.
*All book titles are available in the Destiny app accessible through Clever on Chromebooks, and available at Huntington Public Library.
*Click on book cover to see book trailer
The Boys in the Boat:Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
NonFiction, Lexile 1260L (1000L For Young Readers Adaptation)
How the working-class lads on the University of Washington's eight-oar crew beat out elite teams to win 1936 Olympic gold.
**Young Readers Adaptation recommended
*All book titles are available in the Destiny app accessible through Clever on Chromebooks, and available at Huntington Public Library.
*Click on book cover to see book trailer
I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed the World. (Young Reader's Edition by Malala Yousafzai
NonFiction, Lexile: 830L
I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes.
*All book titles are available in the Destiny app accessible through Clever on Chromebooks, and available at Huntington Public Library.
*Click on book cover to see book trailer
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