GCCISD 8th GRADE READING LIST

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*Across Five Aprils*	*Old Age Sticks*

*American Voices*	*One Million Volumes*

*The Ballad of the Harp Weaver*	*The Outsiders*

*The Bet*	*Paul Revere's Ride*

*The Call of the Wild*	*The Pearl*

*A Christmas Carol*	*The Prince and the Pauper*

*The Contender*	*The River*

*The Dark is Rising*	*Roughing It*

*December Stillness*	*Rules of the Game*

*The Diary of Anne Frank*	*So Far From the Bamboo Grove*

*Farewell to Manzanar*	*Something Wicked This Way Comes*

*The Hobbit*	*Southbound on the Freeway*

*Homecoming*	*Speech to Congress*

*The House on Mango Street*	*Speech to Progress-Forward*

*I Know What You Did Last Summer*	*Speech to the Young*

*I Stepped from Plank to Plank*	*Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening*

*The Illiad*	*A Summer Life*

*Izzy, Willy-Nilly*	*Taking Sides*

*The Lady or the Tiger*	*A Teacup Full of Roses*

*The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*	*The Tell-Tale Heart*

*Maus 1 & 2*	*That Was Then, This is Now*

*The Monkey's Paw*	*Tunes for Bears to Dance To*

*Mother to Son*	*The Westing Game*

*Mythology, Part III*	*Whispers from the Dead*

*Nothing But the Truth*	*who knows if the moon's*

*O Captain, My Captain*	*The Year of the Impossible Goodbyes*