Independent Reading
Eighth Grade 2011-2012
Ms. Hannaford
In addition to your assigned readings, you are required to read three books
on your own during the course of this year. You will select your independent
readings from the list below. Some of these books are thematically related
to the units we are exploring. I expect that as your understanding of the
unit theme is broadened by your independent reading, you will bring your
insights to class and share them in our discussions, and you will demonstrate
your understanding in an in-class written response to the novel.
The following dates are your reading deadlines. It is essential that you
bring your independent reading selection to class with you on these dates:
October 31, 2011
February 20, 2012
April 23, 2012
October 31, 2011:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
A Step from Heaven An Na
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
The Skin I’m In Sharon Flake
Come a Stranger Cynthia Voigt
Lives of Our Own Lorri Hewett
Francie Karen English
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
Alan and Naomi Myron Levoy
Nothing to Fear Jackie French Koller
Sounder Will Armstrong
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Mississippi Trial, 1955 Chris Crowe
The Misfits James Howe
February 20, 2012:
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway Robert Cormier
Slam Walter Dean Myers
The Wish Gail Carson Levine
Ophelia Lisa Klein
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Tangerine Edward Bloor
City of the Beasts Isabel Allende
The Chosen Chiam Potok
My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potak
Scorpions Walter Dean Myers
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Invisible Pete Hautman
An Acceptable Time Madeleine L’Engle
April 23, 2012
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor,England, 1544 Kathryn Lasky
Mary, Bloody Mary Carolyn Meyer
Saving Juliet Suzanne Selfors
Beware, Princess Elizabeth Carolyn Meyer
Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper
The Devil and His Boy Anthony Horowitz
Doomed Queen Anne Carolyn Meyer
Mismatch Lensey Namioka.
Beauty Robin McKinley
