State College Area School District



State College Area School District

Secondary English Department

8th Grade

Revised List

2010-2011

Common/core titles or themes which will be studied by all students:

Making Choices

Titles that may be used as required reading for full-class instruction:

Prentice Hall Literature, Silver

Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None

Cooney, Caroline The Face on the Milk Carton

Collier, James Lincoln My Brother Sam Is Dead

Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol

Ellison, James Finding Forrester

Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

Lowry, Lois The Giver

Rose, Reginald Twelve Angry Men

Mikaelsen, Ben Touching Spirit Bear

Literature and Thought Series:

Perfection Learning (publ.) And Justice for All

Decisions, Decisions

Mysterious Circumstances

To Be a Hero

Voices of the Holocaust

Titles that may be used ONLY as optional/student choice selections:

Avi A Place Called Ugly

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell No Man’s Land: A Young Soldier’s Story

Bunting, Eve Blackwater

Crane, Stephen Red Badge of Courage

Doyle, Arthur Conan The Hound of the Baskervilles

Duncan, Lois I Know What You Did Last Summer

Hamilton, Virginia The House of Dies Drear

Judson, William Cold River

Klein, Gerda Weissman All But My Life

Lowry, Lois Gathering Blue

Thematic/Genre-Based Collections

Decisions, Decisions

Avi A Place Called Ugly

Ellison, James Finding Forrester

Lowry, Lois The Giver

Lowry, Lois Gathering Blue

Perfection Learning (publ.) Decisions, Decisions

Justice

Mikaelsen, Ben Touching Spirit Bear

Rose, Reginald Twelve Angry Men

Perfection Learning (publ.) And Justice for All

Mystery

Bunting, Eve Blackwater

Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None

Cooney, Caroline The Face on the Milk Carton

Doyle, Arthur Conan The Hound of the Baskervilles

Duncan, Lois I Know What You Did Last Summer

Hamilton, Virginia The House of Dies Drear

Perfection Learning (publ.) Mysterious Circumstances

Heroes and Heroines

Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol

Klein, Gerda Weissman All But My Life

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

Perfection Learning (publ.) To Be a Hero

Social Studies: Revolutionary War

Collier, James Lincoln My Brother Sam Is Dead

Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain

Social Studies: Civil War

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell No Man’s Land: A Young Soldier’s Story

Crane, Stephen Red Badge of Courage

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