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Rising 8th Grade | Summer 2019 The Last Voyage of Poe The List Blythe by Patricia Forde by Allyson Condie Letta, charged with collecting and A teen captain of her Outpost's last saving words, uncovers a sinister plan mining ship targets a band of to suppress language, robbing the thieving river raiders before the people of Ark of the power of speech, activities of an unknown traitor make and realizes she must also save the her question how far she is willing to culture, itself. go for revenge. Listen to Your Heart Darius the Great Is Not by Kasie West Okay When Kate Bailey let her best friend, by Adib Khorram Alana, talk her into joining their high A Persian-American youth who school's podcast she did not expect prefers pop culture to the traditions to find herself as the host, or ot enjoy of his mixed family struggles with answering calls and giving advice on clinical depression and the the air, but she is actually pretty good misunderstandings of older relatives at it. When she gets an anonymous while bonding with a boy who helps call from a boy about his secret him embrace his Iranian heritage. feelings for a girl, she is faced with a problem. Ebb & Flow Resistance by Heather Smith by Jennifer A. Nielsen After a horrible year in a new town, After a smuggling mission to an Jett returns to the coast to spend the isolated Jewish ghetto goes wrong summer with his grandmother. He re- and her colleagues are arrested, Chaya examines his actions of the past year Lindner, a Jewish girl living in Nazi- that led him to the betrayal of a friend occupied Poland, decides to go to and a shameful secret he hasn't Warsaw, where an uprising is in the forgiven himself for. works. Field Notes on Love After the Shot Drops by Jennifer E. Smith by Randy Ribay Embarking on what was supposed to Bunny takes a basketball scholarship be a romantic cross-country train to an elite private school to help his journey with his girlfriend, a dumped family, leaving behind Nasir, his best boy sells his spare ticket to a girl friend, in their tough Philadelphia devastated by a rejection from her neighborhood. college of choice, an arrangement that opens up new perspectives about their futures. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 8th Grade Page 1 of 3 Rising 8th Grade | Summer 2019 Live in Infamy The Owls Have Come to by Caroline Tung Richmond Take Us Away It has been eighty years since the Axis by Ronald L. Smith won World War II, and America was After something strange happens divided between the victors: the Nazis during a camping trip, twelve-year- in the East and Imperial Japan in the old alien-obsessed Simon suspects West. Now resistance is growing in the he has been abducted, but was it Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old real or just his overactive Chinese American Ren Cabot, who imagination? has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance Meet the Sky group and confronted with choices that could lead to by McCall Hoyle freedom--or death. A prospective veterinary student determined to support her mother Alice: From Dream to and sister in the aftermath of a Dream disabling accident is separated from by Giulio Macaione her family during a hurricane When her family moves back to Ohio, evacuation and trapped on the Outer Alice, who can enter other people's Banks with a reckless boy who once dreams, tries to get to the bottom of broke her heart. the secrets in her small hometown. This is an otherworldly trek into a The Prince and the spectacular world of dreams, Dressmaker nightmares, and being a teenager. Graphic Novel by Jen Wang When Prince Sebastian confides in The Last Girl on Earth his dressmaker friend Frances that by Alexandra Blogier he loves to masquerade at night as An only surviving human on a near- the fashionable Lady Crystallia, future Earth taken over by Frances must decide if Sebastian's supernatural aliens struggles to pass secret is worth a lifetime of living in herself off as an alien and reconcile the shadows. Graphic Novel herself to life with her adoptive alien family before falling in love in The Unteachables potentially disastrous ways. by Gordon Korman A notorious class of misfits, The Scorpio Races delinquents and academic by Maggie Stiefvater underachievers, isolated away from Returning champion Sean Kendrick the rest of their school, embark on a competes against Puck Connolly, the year of unexpected changes with a first girl ve er to ride in the annual burned-out teacher who has been Scorpio Races, both trying to keep shattered by a cheating scandal. By hold of their dangerous water horses the author of Restart. long enough to make it to the finish line. Published 2011. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 8th Grade Summer 2019 Page 2 of 3 Rising 8th Grade | Summer 2019 Five Feet Apart Love from A to Z by Rachael Lippincott by S. K. Ali A teen on the waiting list for a lung Suspended for standing up against transplant faces an impossible a teacher's hate speech, a Muslim choice when her infection risks teen visits her aunt in Qatar, where prevent her from getting within five she bonds with a motherless young feet of the boy she loves, a fellow man who is attempting to hide his patient who is determined to multiple sclerosis diagnosis from his experience life outside the hospital. grieving father. Movie tie-in. Swing by Kwame Alexander Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters. Braced by Alyson Gerber When Rachel learns that she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is afraid that she will not be able to play soccer and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 8th Grade Page 3 of 3 Rising 7/8 Nonfiction | Summer 2019 Chocolate: Sweet Science & Shoe Dog: a Memoir by the Dark Secrets of the World's Creator of Nike Favorite Treat by Philip H. Knight by Kay Frydenborg The founder and CEO of Nike shares Fans of The Omnivore's Dilemma will the story of the company's early days savor this decadent exposé. Enjoy an in- as an intrepid startup and its evolution depth journey through chocolate's to one of the world's most iconic and earliest uses in Mesoamerica, its meteoric rise in profitable brands, offering insights into Western society, the slave labor practices that have how he envisioned a company that historically enabled (and continue to enable) the would be run in atypical ways. chocolate industry to thrive, and the modern science used to help sustain our chocolate habit. The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: a Doll's History and The Elephant Whisperer: My Her Impact on Us Life with the Herd in the by Tanya Lee Stone African Wild Examines how the Barbie doll by Lawrence Anthony became the icon that she is and the Adapted for middle-grade readers, an impact she has had on our culture account of an acclaimed conservationist's through passionate anecdotes and efforts to save a rogue herd of elephants memories from a range of girls and women. in spite of his limited experience describes how he gave them a home in his South Africa reserve and Boots on the Ground: endeavored to provide what was required for their America's War in Vietnam survival. by Elizabeth Partridge An exploration of the Vietnam War Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, from many different perspectives and Getting It Done including those of an American by Andrea Gonzales soldier, a nurse, and a Vietnamese The two teens behind the video game refugee. "Tampon Run" share the story of their experience with the organization Girls Spooked!: How a Radio Who Code and their rise to fame, sharing Broadcast and "The War of insider perspectives into today's startups, the influence the Worlds" Sparked the of women in technology, and the power of coding. 1938 Invasion of America Americanized: Rebel without by Gail Jarrow Describes the panic induced when a Green Card listeners believed Orson Welles' radio by Sara Saedi broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an Learning as a teenager that her Iranian alien invasion, discussing the context in which the family is undocumented, 13-year-old, broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing. straight-A student Sara Saedi juggles the challenges of trying to obtain a green card with the stressful realities of being an everyday American teen. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted.