Summer Reading 2008
Grade 8
Required Reading
All required summer reading books will be available from www.varsitybooks.com after June 1, 2008. If you have any difficulty obtaining these titles, call Sue Clayton in the Business Office at (410) 263-9231, ext. 1262.
You must read THREE of the books from the following list of ten titles and answer the Guiding Questions for each one. Click here for the Guiding Questions.
To help you organize your thoughts, the Learning Department has created Pre-Writing Organizers (click here) that you can use to help answer each of the guiding questions.
| The Bread Winner | Deborah Ellis |
| Breaking Through | Franciso Jiménez |
| Habibi | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros |
| The Kalahari Typing School for Men | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Maus: A Survivor's Tale | Art Spiegelman |
| Nobody's Child | Marsha Forchuck Skrypuch |
| Red Scarf Girl |
Ji-li Jiang |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| When My Name Was Keoko | Linda Sue Park |
Recommendations for Supplemental Reading
In addition to reading the required titles listed above, all students are encouraged to read several previously unread titles from the following list.
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Click here to view stories from around the world book list
FANTASY
Click here to view fantasy book list
ADVENTURES and JOURNEYS
Click here to view adventures and journeys book list