| ESSENTIAL LITERATURE K-12
Grade 8 – six books will be read during the school year.
| Title |
Author |
| A Break with Charity: Story of the Salem Witch Trials |
Anne Rinaldi |
| Diary of a Young Girl |
Anne Frank (as a play in the basal) |
| Gathering Blue |
Lois Lowry |
| Three books to be taught from the choice list |
| A Day No Pigs Would Die |
Robert Newton Peck |
| A Gathering of Days |
Joan Bloss |
| As You Like It |
William Shakespeare |
| Driver’s Ed |
Caroline B. Cooney |
| Fever, 1793 |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
| The Glory Field |
Walter Dean Myers |
| Hope Was Here |
Joan Bauer |
| House of Dies Drear |
Virginia Hamilton |
| Jade Green: A Ghost Story |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| The Lottery Rose |
Irene Hunt |
| Pearl |
John Steinbeck |
| Slam |
Walter Dean Myers |
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