• Students should be prepared for an assessment on their assigned text(s) during the first week of school.
• Please note that Honors and AP students will read TWO books.
• If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Melissa Andrews, English Department Chair, at click to email.
All 8th Grade Students
Crossover by Kwame Alexander
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
CP:
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
CP1:
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Honors:
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of WWII by Joseph Bruchac
CP:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
CP1:
There There by Tommy Orange
Honors:
There There by Tommy Orange
Dig by A.S. King
CP:
Maus: Vol. 1, My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
CP1:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Honors:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
AP:
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
CP:
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
CP1:
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
Honors:
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
AP:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster