Summer Reading List for 2008
Dickerson Middle School
Grade 8

Language Arts - Required for all students:      
Be prepared for a test covering this book on the second week of school.

Strasser, Todd                The Wave

Social Studies – Choose one from Social Studies and one from Science

Prepare a “book card” to be turned in on the second week of school

Fiction:
 Kadonata, Cynthia                 Kira-Kira           (Newbery Winner 2005)  
*Lester, Julius                       Day of Tears (Coretta Scott King Award)
 Mitchell, Margaret               Gone With the Wind
 Wells, Rosemary                  Red Moon at Sharpsburg

^Or

Non Fiction:
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell      Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow
Hopkinson, Deborah                Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
Ray, Janisse                              Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
^{*Some selections above use authentic language of the time period. Some words or phrases may be offensive/objectionable when taken out of context.}

Science – Choose one from below
Prepare a “book card” to be turned in on the second week of school

Adams Douglas                       Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy
Frayn, Michael                        Copenhagen
Isdell, Wendy                           Chemy Called Al
Sleator, William                        The Last Universe
Taylor, Theodore                      The Bomb

Or

Non-Fiction Suggested Titles:
Bodanis, David                         E=MC²
Bryson, Bill                             A Short History of Nearly Everything 
Hickam, Homer                      October Sky / Rocket Boys
Krull, Kathleen                       Isaac Newton
Roberts, Royston M               Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science
Tucker, Tom                            Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors

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