Kent Center School - Summer Reading Suggestions 2004

Students Entering Eighth Grade

 

 

Fiction

 

  • Alcott, Louisa May                       Little Women
  • Alexander, Lloyd                         The High King
  • Avi                                            The Man Who Was Poe
  • Avi                                            Nothing But the Truth
  • Avi                                            True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

 

  • Bradbury, Ray                            Fahrenheit 451
  • Brooks, Bruce                             Midnight Hour Encore
  • Burnford, Sheila                          The Incredible Journey

 

  • Colfer, Eoin                                Artemis Fowl
  • Collier, Sam                                My Brother Sam Is Dead
  • Creech, Sharon                           The Wanderer
  • Crew, Linda                                Children of the River
  • Crutcher, Chris                            Crazy Horse Electric Game

 

  • Fast, Howard                              April Morning
  • Fleischman, Paul                         Seedfolks
  • Forbes, Esther                             Johnny Tremain
  • Fox, Paula                                  Slave Dancers

 

  • Gilbreth, Frank B.                        Cheaper by the Dozen
  • Goldman, William                        The Princess Bride
  • Greene, Bette                             Summer of My German Soldier

 

  • Haddix, Margaret Peterson            Among the Hidden
  • Hesse, Karen                              Letters from Rifka
  • Hinton, S. E.                               Tex
  • Horowitz, Anthony                       Stormbreaker
  • Hunt, Irene                                Across Five Aprils

 

  • Kerr, M.E.                                  Gentlehands
  • Kesselring, Joseph                       Arsenic and Old Lace

 

  • Lester, Julius                               To Be a Slave
  • Lipsyte, Robert                            One Fat Summer
  • London, Jack                              Call of the Wild
  • Lowry, Lois                                 The Giver

 

  • Mazer, Harry                              Snowbound
  • Mazer, Harry                              The Island Keeper
  • Miklowitz, Gloria D.                      After the Bomb
  • Mowat, Farley                             Lost in the Barrens

 

  • Paterson, Katherine                     Jacob I Have Loved
  • Paulsen, Gary                             The Winter Room
  • Peck, Richard                             Remembering the Good Times
  • Peck, Robert Newton                   A Day No Pigs Would Die
  • Peck, Robert Newton                   Millie’s Boy
  • Poe, Edgar Allan                          Any of his poems and tales

 

  • Raskin, Ellen                               The Westing Game
  • Rawlings, Marjorie                       The Yearling

 

  • Sachar, Louis                              Holes
  • Sleator, William                           Interstellar Pig
  • Speare, Elizabeth George              The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • Steinbeck, John                           The Pearl

 

  • Tarkington, Booth                        Penrod
  • Taylor, Mildred                            Let the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Twain, Mark                               The Prince and the Pauper
  • Twain, Mark                               Tom Sawyer

 

  • Wiesel, Elie                                 Night
  • Williams, Laura E.                        Behind the Bedroom
  • Woodruff, Elvira                          Dear Levi

 

Short Stories

 
  • Irving
  • Jacobs
  • O’Henry
  • Poe

 

Magazines and Newspapers

 

  • Weekly news magazines [Time, Newsweek, etc…]
  • Daily newspapers [Republican-American, Hartford Courant, etc…]

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Look for your summer reading fun at

Kent Memorial Library

32 North Main Street – Kent, CT 06757 – 860.927.3761

 

Monday-Friday 10 AM – 5:30 PM     Saturday 10 AM – 4:00 PM