8th Grade Book Report Titles 2008-9

Text Box: This year 8th grade students will be required to read one extra book per trimester and complete a book report about it. Each trimester has a theme. Suggested books are listed on these pages. If the book you wish to read is not on these lists, you must get permission from Mrs. Kollars to read that book. Even books already listed must be approved for appropriate reading level. Three basic requirements for the book you select are as follows: • It must be approved by Mrs. Kollars before you begin. • It must be adolescent literature. • It must be from the appropriate category. • It must be a book you have not previously read all the way through.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Book Report Assignments 1st Trimester Historic Fiction to 1975 (Bonus Book: Realistic Fiction since 1975 2nd Trimester Fantasy/Science Fiction (Bonus Book: Non Fiction) 3rd Trimester Autobiography/Biography (Bonus Book: Classic Fiction) (You may choose to do a bonus book each trimester. You will need to have the book approved and ask Mrs. K. for the appropriate book report forms.)
Text Box: Many of the books listed are in Mrs. Kollars’s personal library, and they may be borrowed from her. If you can’t find a title that you want to read on this list, look for other books by one of the listed authors. ** Indicates no classroom copy available. ( ) indicates more than one copy available. Many appropriate books will be available through Scholastic book orders
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: 1st Trimester Continuted • Fortunes’Journey by Bruce Coville • **The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain • Search of the Moon King’s Daughter by Linda Holeman • **Little Women by Louisa May Alcott • Anthony Burns: The defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton • **Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane • Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi • The River Between Us by Richard Peck • In My Father’s House by Ann Rinaldi • Rifles for Waite by Harold Keith (3) • Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi • Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi • Dear Ellen Bee by Mary E. Lyons & Muriel M. Branch • The War Within by Carol Matas • Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen • Fires of Jubilee by Alison Hart • An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi • The Land by Milded D. Taylor • The Coffin Quilt by Ann Rinaldi • The Staircase by Ann Rinaldi • Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan • Ties That Bind: Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt • A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly • Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse • Rodzina by Karen Cushman • Witness by Karen Hesse • Hindenburg 1937 by Cameron Dokey • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor • Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse • The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Text Box: 1st Trimester Historic Fiction to 1970s Red Dot • The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare • Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett • The Book of the Lion by Michael Cadnum • Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman • Crispin the Cross of Lead by Avi • Daughter of Venice by Donna Jo Napoli • The Primrose Way by Jackie French Koller • Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer • The Lady Grade Mysteries: Deception by Grace Cavendish • The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter • Witch Child by Celiz Rees • The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (3) • A Break With Charity by Ann Rinaldi • Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (3) • Or Give Me Death by Ann Rinaldi • Freedom’s Fire by J. P. Trent • Taking Liberty by Ann Rinaldi • Just Jane by William Lavender • Amos Fortune Free Man by Elizabeth Yates • Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi • The Clock by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier • Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson • The Second Bend in the River by Ann Rinaldi • Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: 1st Trimester Continued • Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko • Horse Thief by Robert Newton Peck • Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury • Child of the Holocaust by Jack Kuper • Hidden Child of the Holocaust by Stacy Cretzmeyer • Room in the Heart by Sonia Levitin • Greater Than Angels by Carol Matas • Daniel Half Human by David Chotzewitz • My Friend the Enemy by J. B. Cheaney • Grace in the Wilderness by Aranka Siegal • A Separate Peace by John Knowles • Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi • Dangerous Skies by Suzanne Fisher Staples • Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes • Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata • Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe • **Walker’s Crossing by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor • The Watsons God to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis • Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers • A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck