Hello to all my new 8th Graders! Many of these books have been taken from a list of supplementary reading material associated with the Pathways Reading program for the 8th grade.Others are books that I think you may enjoy.Have fun reading this summer!
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia - Esther Hautzig
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom, with John & Elizabeth Sherrill (Bantam Books)
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story - Ben Carson & Cecil Murphy
My Brain won't Float Away - Annette Perez
The Nervous System - Darlene R. Stille
Stories of My Grandmother - Ella M. Robinson(about Ellen G. White)
Four Boys in the White House - Paul B. Ricchiuti
It's a Jungle Out There! Book One of the Rani Adventures - Ron Snell
Marco Polo for Kids: His Marvelous Journey to China, 21 Activities - Janis Herbert
Twice Yours: A Parable of God's Gift - Nan Gurley
Belly-Busting Worm Invasions! Parasites that Love Your Insides! - Thomasine E. Lewis Tilden
Symbiosis - Alvin Silverstein, Vierginia Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
Up, Up and Away: A Book about Adverbs - Ruth Heller
Learning about Responsibility from the Life of Colin Powell - Jeanne M. Strazzabosco
Summer Shepherd - Bonnie Highsmith Taylor
Any Sacrifice but Conscience - Walter Utt
Jesus: The Greatest Life of All (Great Lives from God's Word Series) - Charles Swindoll
The Cay - Theodore Taylor
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Brian's Winter - Gary Paulsen
Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Other books that might interest you from the 7th grade list:
You Wouldn't Want to be Sick in the 16th Century!Diseases You'd Rather not Catch - Kathryn Senior
Learning about Forgiveness from the Life of Nelson Mandela - Jeanne M. Strazzabosco
Eyewitness: Eagles and Birds of Prey - Emma Parry-Jones
How to Draw Animals: Famous Artists School Step-by-Step Method - Walt Reed
Just Plane Crazy - Melanie Bockman(Review & Herald)
Jungle Heroes - Eric B. Hare (Pacific Press)
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis(Random House)
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective?- Brian P. Cleary(Lerner Publishing)
Hate that Cat - Sharon Creech
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms - Paul B. Janeczko(Candlewick Press)
How to Survive in Antarctica - Lucy Jane Bledsoe(Holiday House)
Bee-bim Bop - Linda Sue Park(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won - Stephen E. Ambrose
Growing Up in World War II: 1941 to 1945 - Judith Pinkerton Josephson (Lerner Pub)
A Thousand Shall Fall - Susi Hasel Mundy, Maylan Schurch (Review & Herald)
The Upstairs Room - Johanna Reiss(HarperCollins Pub)
Deaf Like Me - Thomas S. Spradley & James P. Spradley
Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing - Leonard G. Lane
Juliette Low (History Makers Biographies Series - Susan Bivin Aller
Other books that might interest you from the 6th grade list:
Escape from the Slave Traders - Dave& Neta Jackson (Bethany House)
Nature Projects for Young Scientists - Kenneth G Rainis(Scholastic Library)
Knights and Castles: 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience the Middle Ages -
Avery Hart & Paul Mantell
My Name is Brain Brian - Jeanne Betancourt (Scholastic)
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller(Simon & Schuster)
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure - Cindy Neuschwander
The Best Amazing True Mission Stories from Around the World - J.H. Zachary
Mission Pilot: The David Gates Story - Eileen E. Lantry (Pacific Press)
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Escape - Sandy Zaugg (Pacific Press)
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry(Random House)
Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial -
Peter W. Schroeder & Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand (Kar-Ben Publishing)
Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigration in the Dust Bowl Years - Susan Martins Miller
