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8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
Summer Assignment: Please choose two novels to read this summer. For one of the books, please
write a reflection on what you learned and how it connects to your life. For the second one, please
create a visual representation of your connection to the book. These assignments will constitute
your first grades of the year and are due on Friday, August 27th.
Below are some books we thought you might enjoy! We encourage you to choose at least one from
this list. Happy summer reading!
Strange Birds Count Me In No Voice Too Small Finding Junie Kim
In Strange Birds: A Field Count Me In by Varsha By: Lindsay H. Metcalf, For fans of Inside Out
Guide to Ruffling Bajaj is the story of two Keila V. Dawson, and and Back Again and
Feathers by Celia C. middle schoolers, Jeanette Bradley / Amina’s Voice comes a
Pérez, a diverse group Karina and Chris. Told Illustrated by: Jeanette breathtaking own
of girls find unity in alternating voices, Bradley voices story of family,
despite their the novel follows their hope, and survival from
differences in order to unlikely friendship and This all-star anthology Ellen Oh, cofounder of
end an outdated and how an incident of covers fourteen youth We Need Diverse
problematic tradition anti-Asian violence activists calling for Books. When Junie Kim
in a local Girl Scout– involving Karina’s change and fighting for is faced with middle
type group called the grandfather rocks their justice across the school racism, she
Floras. The novel community. Karina United States. These learns of her
touches on uses social media to change-makers grandparents’
environmental justice post her feelings, represent a wide range extraordinary strength
and intersectional bringing in support of life experiences and and finds her voice.
feminism as Ofelia, from the entire causes, including racial Inspired by her
Aster, Cat, and Lane community. justice, clean water, mother’s real-life
explore ways to protest LGBTQ+ rights, mental experiences during the
that have varying levels health, and more, Korean War, Oh’s
of risk for each of them Beautifully illustrated characters are real and
due to their identities poems by #ownvoices riveting.
and relative privilege. authors, plus
secondary text, “Both unique and
spotlight the efforts universal, timely and
and achievements of time
such luminaries.
8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
Quarantine Sorry not Sorry Malcolm X
Oliver wants a girlfriend, and Janelle and Alyssa used to be As a fourteen-year-old he was
there's a girl back home who friends. Malcolm Little, the president of
might be interested in him. The Best friends. They knew each his class and a top student. At
problem is, he has to spend his other's deepest secrets and
sixteen he was hustling tips at a
spring break on a volunteer trip went through the hardest times
Boston nightclub. In Harlem he
in the Dominican Republic. together. But that was then.
Flora, on the other hand, isn't Now? Their status is was known as Detroit Red, a slick
really looking for a boyfriend. somewhere between frenemies street operator. At nineteen he
She just wants to end a and full-on rivals. Janelle is all was back in Boston, leading a
miserable spring break visiting about making a difference in gang of burglars. At twenty he
her dad and her new stepmom her community, while Alyssa was in prison. It was in prison
in the Dominican Republic The reigns over the shallowest girls that Malcolm Little started the
solution to both their in school. journey that would lead him to
problems? Get back home to Until the day Alyssa collapses
adopt the name Malcolm X, and
New York ASAP. Sadly, they and is rushed to the hospital.
won't be getting there anytime Suddenly, everyone knows there he developed his beliefs
soon. Their hopes are dashed about her declining health and about what being black means in
when Flora's impulsiveness race against time. And, in a America. From streetwise
lands them in quarantine — just stunning twist of fate, the only teenager to the militant leader of
the two of them. Now, the two person who might be able to hundreds of thousands in the
teens must come together in save Alyssa's life is Janelle. But Nation of Islam, Malcolm X was
order to survive life in a bubble will the girls' bitter past get in one of the most respected, and
for 30 days. In that time, love the way of their futures?
most feared, men in American
will bloom. But is it the real
history. Even today, years after
thing, or just a placebo effect?
his assassination, young people
still listen to his speeches and
read his autobiography.
8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
Monster Ghost Boys Out of My Mind
The recipient of multiple Follow eleven-year-old Melody,
awards, this novel follows Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot who is not like most people. She
Steve, an amateur filmmaker. by a police officer who mistakes can’t walk. She can’t talk. She
As a way of coping with the his toy gun for a real one. Now a can’t write. All because she has
horrific events that entangle ghost, Jerome watches the cerebral palsy. But she also has
him, he decides to transcribe his devastation unleashed on his a photographic memory; she
trial into a script, just like in the family and community in the can remember every detail of
movies. wake of what they see as an everything she has ever
unjust and brutal killing. Soon, experienced. She’s the smartest
Jerome meets another ghost: kid in her whole school, but NO
Emmett Till, a boy from a very ONE knows it.
different time but similar
circumstances.
8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
Skin I’m in A Long Walk to Water When Stars are Scattered
Maleeka suffers every day from A tale of two stories, told in A graphic novel about growing
the taunts of the other kids in alternating sections, about two up in a refugee camp, as told by
her class—about her eleven-year-olds in Sudan–a girl a former Somali refugee.
homemade clothes, her good in 2008 and a boy in 1985.
grades, or her dark, black skin. A
new teacher starts at their
school. Her face is blotched with
a startling white patch, but she
loves her skin. Can Maleeka
learn to do the same?
8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
Hatchet Counting by 7s Wonder
Thirteen-year-old Brian Genius Willow Chance loses Born with extraordinary
Robeson is traveling by single- both parents in a car crash, but physical deformities, Auggie
engine plane to visit his father, finally braves going to an actual
she is able to both change her
when the plane crashes and kills school. He is stared at and
the pilot. Brian is alone in the life and impact those around tormented, but he also finds
Canadian wilderness with her. friendship. Middle schoolers will
nothing but his clothing, a cheer for him and cry for him.
tattered windbreaker, and the
hatchet his mother had given
him as a present.
8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
The Wednesday Paperboy The Giver
Holling Hoodhood is attending Little Man is an amazing ball Jonas lives in a society in which
seventh grade in the late 1960s. player, but he can barely say a the government controls
While the Vietnam War word—not even his own everything: childbearing,
consumes his father’s attention, name—without stuttering. So careers, marriages. His utopia
Holling is locked into when he takes over his best has sacrificed emotions and
Wednesday lessons with a friend’s paper route for the uniqueness in favor of a safe
teacher who insists he read the month of July, Little Man’s not and predictable life. When
plays of Shakespeare. exactly looking forward to Jonas learns that life could be
interacting with the customers. different, he can never turn
back to the life he’s always
known.
8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
The Outsiders Tuck Everlasting Crossover
Ponyboy and his brothers, Darry Is eternal life really that Basketball-loving twins Josh and
and Sodapop have a tough life. wonderful? Ten-year-old Winnie Jordan find their way through
They know they can count on Foster discovers that, for the isolation and conflict in this
their friends—true friends who immortal Tuck family, the novel in verse by master poet,
will do anything for them. answer is more complicated Kwame Alexander.
Unfortunately, the Socs, a than you might expect.
vicious gang of rich kids, make
them prove their loyalties after
a night of fighting goes too far.
8th grade Suggested Summer Reading List
Scorpions Star Bridge to Terabithia
Twelve-year-old Jamal already Leo’s a normal kid in a normal Jesse Aarons knows all about
has to be the man of the house town. When Stargirl shows up hard work, but his new friend
now that his older brother is in with her rat, her ukelele, and Leslie teaches him about the
jail. Will he also take his her crazy ideas, nobody knows power of his imagination. Keep
brother’s place as leader of a quite what to make of her. a box of tissues handy.
gang?
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