Grade 8 Recommended Reading

Literature

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Ancient Ocean Blues by Jack Mitchell
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace

History

The Great Siege of Malta by Ernle Bradford
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
Dream and Your Dreams Will Fall Short by Pedro Casciaro
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome by Peter Connolly
The Roman Army by Peter Connolly
Caesar’s Gallic War by Olivia Coolidge
The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
Shiloh by Shelby Foote
The Shadow of His Wings by Gereon Karl Goldmann
1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howrath
The Spartan by Caroline Dale Snedeker
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington