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Eighth Grade Suggested Summer Reading List 2017-18 Young Adult Literature Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom An American Childhood Annie Dillard The Princess Bride William Goldman Painted House John Grisham Pay it Forward Catherine Ryan Hyde Hoops Walter Dean Myers Hatchet Gary Paulsen Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Jacob Have I Loved Kathleen Paterson Maximum Ride (series) James Patterson My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor The Homecoming Cynthia Voight Black and White Paul Volponi The Girl in the Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland The Uglies (series) Scott Westerfield Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen I Am The Cheese Robert Cormier Based in History Histories of Immigrant Teens Janet Bode Flags of Our Fathers William Broyles, Jr A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson Mississippi Trial, 1955 Chris Crowe Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglas Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Edelman, ed. Zlata’s Diary Zlata Filipovic Hiroshima John Hersey Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Witness Karen Hesse Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston The Jungle Upton Sinclair Sunflower Simon Weisenthal The Doll Maker Harriet Arnow Orphan Train Christine Baker Kline Classics Little Women Louisa May Alcott Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas Lost Horizon James Hilton A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith The Lord of the Rings (series) J.R.R. Tolkien Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain .

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Book Group Brochure 2016-2017
Visit the Reading Room at Join a Group! www.mhl.org/clubs to find the 2016-2017 books in the library catalog and to All of Memorial Hall learn more about the reading Library’s book groups selections. Book are open to new Discussion members. Groups Thinking of joining? Visit one of the upcoming sessions. Registration is not required for any of the book groups. Memorial Hall Library 2 North Main St. Andover, MA 01810 Phone: 978-623-8401, x31 or 32 Memorial Hall Library E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.mhl.org 978-623-8401, x 31 or 32 www.mhl.org Sponsored by the Friends of MHL www.mhl.org/friends [email protected] Rev. 6.16 Morning Book Group Great Books Group Nonfiction Book Group The Morning Book Discussion Group The Great Books Discussion Group The Nonfiction Book Discussion Group generally meets on the third Monday of the generally meets on the fourth Tuesday of the generally meets on the first Wednesday of month at 10:30am in the Activity Room. month at 7:30pm in the Activity Room. the month at 7pm in the Activity Room. July 18, 2016 No meeting July or August July 6, 2016 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Connor August 15, 2016 September 27, 2016 August All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu Beowulf Seamus Heaney Translation No meeting Grendel by John Gardner September 19, 2016 September 7, 2016 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante October 25, 2016 Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson October 17, 2016 October 5, 2016 November 29, 2016 Dead Wake by Erik Larson
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Orientalist Commercializations: Tibetan Buddhism in American Popular Film
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