Jackson Creek Middle School

Blue Team's Reading Lists

 

A room without books is a body without soul.

Cicero

 


Seventh Grade

ALPS

Required readings:

The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White (suggested)or other King Arthur Book

1984 by George Orwell  

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or Student Selected Banned Book

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

We Are All the Same

Two Classics (choice)

 

Regular Language Arts

Fantasy (Choice)

The Giver or Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, optional

The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon

One Young Hoosier Book Award Book

The Acorn People by Ron Jones

Freak the Mighty

One Classic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


   

Eighth Grade

   

 

Books related to the Holocaust:

    *Night by Elie Wiesel   B &L

    Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Watsuki Houston U

    The Chosen by Chaim Potok   

    Dawn by Elie Wiesel

    Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

    Survival in Auschwitz  by Primo Levi  

  

Books related to the American experience:

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, all classes

    Finishing Becca by Ann Rinaldi, all classes

    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown L Class

    The Education of Little Tree L Class

    When the Legend Dies Hal Borland, all classes

    The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara L Class

    Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe L Class

    The Call of the Wild by Jack London  U

       No Promises in the Wind Irene Hunt U

 

Other selections:    

    The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier L

    A Separate Peace by John Knowles L

    Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury L

Nothing But the Truth U

Monster U

The Pearl by John Steinbeck   U

Stargirl all classes

 

Choice outside readings: historical novel, autobiography/biography, science fiction, mystery

Independent Study

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