8th Grade Recommended Summer Reading List NOVEL AUTHOR 100 Selected Stories O. Henry 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Newton Peck A Gathering of Days Joan W. Blos A Gathering of Flowers: Stories About Being Young in America Joyce Thomas, Editor A Photohistory of American Women in Sports Sue Macy All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Marie Remarque America Street Anne Mazer, Editor American Sports Poems Roy Cook, Editor Among the Volcanoes Omar Castenda April Morning Howard Fast Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions Margaret Musgrove Behind the Blue & Gray: The Soldier's Life in Civil War Big men, Big Country: A Collection of American Tall Tales Paul Walker, Editor Canyons Gary Paulsen Children of the River Linda Crew Dicey's Song Cynthia Voight Dogsong Gary Paulsen Eagle Song Joseph Bruchac El Bronx Remembered Nicholas Mohr Face on a Milk Carton (Series) James W. Houston and Farewell to Manzanar James D. Houston From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore Amy Cohn, Editor Growing Up in the South Suzanne Jones, Editor I Remember Mama John Van Druten Immigrant Voices Ed. Gordon Hutner Invasion of the Body Snatchers Invitation to the Game Monica Hughes Ishi, Last of His Tribe Theodora Kroebler It's A Wonderful Life Frances Goodrich Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes Let Me Hear You Whisper Paul Zindel Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman Little Women Louisa May Alcott Lupita Manana Patricia Beatty Lyddie Katherine Paterson M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton James Lincoln Collier and my brother Sam is dead Christopher Collier Now is Your Time! Walter Dean Myers 8th Grade Recommended Summer Reading List NOVEL AUTHOR Outsiders S.E. Hinton Park's Quest Katherine Paterson Picture Bride Yoshiko Uchida Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston Robert Frost Prairie Songs Pamela Conrad Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers Gary Paulsen George Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion & My Fair Lady Lerner & Lowe Compiled by Stephen Dunning, Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle: and Other Modern Verse Edward Lueders, & Hugh Smith Robot Dreams Isaac Asimov Rules of the Road Joan Bauer Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Series) Ann Brashure Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Young Adult Writers Donald Gallo, Editor Tales From Shakespeare Charles and Mary Lamb The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: An Adapted Classic Mark Twain The Call of the Wild Jack London The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Thomas Johnson, Editor The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien The Man Who Was Poe Avi The Miracle Worker William Gibson The Road to Memphis Mildred Taylor The Slave Dancer Paula Fox The Time Machine H.C. Wells The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry Ed. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne When the Legends Die Hal Borland Where the Lilies Bloom Vera and Bill Cleaver Why We Can't Wait Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Woodsong Gary Paulsen Additional book lists can be found at Borders and Waldenbooks stores as well as online at www.ala.org and www.booadventures,org.