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Incoming Eighth Grade
Summer Reading List

Choose 2 of your favorite books that you read this summer and write a response. The response must be 1-2 typed pages (approximately 250-500 words) based on prompts distributed by the school.

How Tía Lola Came to (Visit) Stay by Julia Alvarez

Hanging On to Max by Margaret Bechard

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States, edited by Lori M. Carlson

Among the Volcanoes by Omar S. Castañeda

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Bang! by Sharon Flake

Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Inexcusable by Chris Lynch

Cut by Patricia McCormick

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

Felita by Nicholsa Mohr

Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos


Impress Me:

Not on Our Watch: the Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Pendergast

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper

 

For more information on Springfield Renaissance School summer reading, visit the Renaissance Reads website.

 

 

Call the Reference Desk at 413-263-6828 ext. 213, your branch library, or use our Askalibrarian service to reserve a book today!


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