Summer Enrichment for 2008-2009
Carver Middle School
Eighth Graders 

Eighth  graders may also read books from the 6th and 7th grade lists that they haven’t read or ever taken a Reading Counts quiz for.  When school starts, you will be expected to take 3 Reading Counts quizzes on books you have not tested on before.

 Novels:

• 47 by Walter Mosley

• Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

• Driver’s Ed by Caroline Cooney

• The Duplicate by William Sleator

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

• Everlost by Neal Shusterman

• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

• The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian

• Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

• How I Found the Strong by Margaret McMullan

• *The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

• Rules by Cynthia Lord

• Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin

• Second Sight by Gary Blackwood

• Tangerine by Edward Bloor

• *Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

 Non-Fiction:

• American Plague by Jim Murphy

• Andrew Jackson’s America by Christopher Collier

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

• Days of Jubilee by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

• Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther

• Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary

• Good Brother, Bad Brother by James Cross Giblin

• Guinea Pig Scientists by Leslie Dendy

• Plague and Pestilence by Linda Altman

• Revenge of the Whale by Nathanile Philbrick

• Woodsong by Gary Paulsen

**Recommended Titles for College Bound Students

•  You can read any version of the four classics listed below, but try to find “The Whole Story” Series version:

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• 1984 by Orwell

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

• Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

• Dracula by Bram Stoker

• Dune by Frank Herbert

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• Night by Wiesel

• Vanity Fair by Thackeray

• Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

*First book in a series OR book has a sequel.