HAMILTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
International Preparatory Magnet
8th Grade Summer Reading List and Homework for
2013-2014 school year
The following is your summer reading list.
Please read AT LEAST TWO (2) BOOKS before the first day of school. You need to choose ONE BOOK FROM EACH
LIST. You can expect to show that you have read the books shortly after school begins by passing two tests and by
completing a book report. DO NOT CHOOSE A BOOK YOU HAVE READ BEFORE.
LIST ONE: THE CLASSICS and NEAR-CLASSICS (unabridged, in no particular order)
Kon-Tiki:
Across the Pacific by Raft
– Thor Heyerdahl (non-fiction)
Rebecca
– Daphne DuMaurier
The Good Earth
– Pearl Buck
Watership Down
– Richard Adams
Little Women
– Louisa May Alcott
Flowers for Algernon
– Daniel Keyes
Brave New World
– Aldous Huxley
And Then There Were None
– Agatha Christie
The Hobbit
– J. R. R. Tolkien
Ender’s Game
– Orson Scott Card
To Kill a Mockingbird
– Harper Lee
Dove
– Robin Lee Graham (non-fiction)
Never Cry Wolf
– Farley Mowat (non-fiction)
LIST TWO: CONTEMPORARY (in no particular order
The Rock and the River
– Kekla Magoon
The Fault in Our Stars
– John Green
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
– Stephen Chbosky
The Circuit – Francisco
Jimenez
Breaking Through - Francisco Jimenez
Divergent
– Veronica Roth
And Still We Rise: The Trials& Triumphs of Twelve Gifted
Inner-City
Students – Miles Corwin (non-fiction)
The Chocolate War
– Robert Cormier
Rain of Gold – Victor
Villasenor
Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS
Indianapolis
– Pete Nelson (non-fiction)
Flags of Our Fathers: The Heroes of Iwo Jima
– James Bradley (non-fiction)
Skyship Academy: The Pearl Wars
– Nick James
Anna’s World
– Wim Coleman
House on Mango Street – Sandra
Cisneros
Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen
Mab
Book of a Thousand Days
– Shannon Hale
Pharaoh’s Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
– Julius Lester
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
– by the 3 doctors (non-fiction)
Trembling Earth
– Kim L Siegelson
Lonele’s Journey – Dorit Bader
Whiteman
Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
– Walter Dean Meyers (non-fiction)
Never Fall Down
– Veronica Rossi
Revenge
of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex
– Nathaniel Philbrick (non-fiction)
The Summer of My German Soldier
– Bette Greene
PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO READ ONE OF THE NOVELS ON
THIS LIST EACH QUARTER OF YOUR EIGHTH GRADE YEAR AT HAMILTON.
International Preparatory Magnet
8th Grade Summer Reading List and Homework for
2013-2014 school year
The following is your summer reading list.
Please read AT LEAST TWO (2) BOOKS before the first day of school. You need to choose ONE BOOK FROM EACH
LIST. You can expect to show that you have read the books shortly after school begins by passing two tests and by
completing a book report. DO NOT CHOOSE A BOOK YOU HAVE READ BEFORE.
LIST ONE: THE CLASSICS and NEAR-CLASSICS (unabridged, in no particular order)
Kon-Tiki:
Across the Pacific by Raft
– Thor Heyerdahl (non-fiction)
Rebecca
– Daphne DuMaurier
The Good Earth
– Pearl Buck
Watership Down
– Richard Adams
Little Women
– Louisa May Alcott
Flowers for Algernon
– Daniel Keyes
Brave New World
– Aldous Huxley
And Then There Were None
– Agatha Christie
The Hobbit
– J. R. R. Tolkien
Ender’s Game
– Orson Scott Card
To Kill a Mockingbird
– Harper Lee
Dove
– Robin Lee Graham (non-fiction)
Never Cry Wolf
– Farley Mowat (non-fiction)
LIST TWO: CONTEMPORARY (in no particular order
The Rock and the River
– Kekla Magoon
The Fault in Our Stars
– John Green
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
– Stephen Chbosky
The Circuit – Francisco
Jimenez
Breaking Through - Francisco Jimenez
Divergent
– Veronica Roth
And Still We Rise: The Trials& Triumphs of Twelve Gifted
Inner-City
Students – Miles Corwin (non-fiction)
The Chocolate War
– Robert Cormier
Rain of Gold – Victor
Villasenor
Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS
Indianapolis
– Pete Nelson (non-fiction)
Flags of Our Fathers: The Heroes of Iwo Jima
– James Bradley (non-fiction)
Skyship Academy: The Pearl Wars
– Nick James
Anna’s World
– Wim Coleman
House on Mango Street – Sandra
Cisneros
Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen
Mab
Book of a Thousand Days
– Shannon Hale
Pharaoh’s Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
– Julius Lester
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
– by the 3 doctors (non-fiction)
Trembling Earth
– Kim L Siegelson
Lonele’s Journey – Dorit Bader
Whiteman
Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
– Walter Dean Meyers (non-fiction)
Never Fall Down
– Veronica Rossi
Revenge
of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex
– Nathaniel Philbrick (non-fiction)
The Summer of My German Soldier
– Bette Greene
PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO READ ONE OF THE NOVELS ON
THIS LIST EACH QUARTER OF YOUR EIGHTH GRADE YEAR AT HAMILTON.