For+the+Love+of+Reading+First+Trimester


 * FOR THE LOVE OF READING - 1st Trimester**

For your language arts homework, I would like you to select two books from the following "2009-2010 Eighth Grade Recommendations" list. Find a book that appeals to you, and will not be too difficult to read. Your homework is to read at least 30 minutes each evening, and even more if you can!

The eighth grade list contains a wide selection of books listed by genre as well as a page of American Library Association 2007 top picks for young adults: ALA Top 10, Printz Award & Honor Books, and Alex Awards for the best adult books for teens. Many of the authors on this list have written a number of excellent books: only one or two are listed here in the interest of space. PG NOTE: Some of the books on this list contain teenage or adult issues and situations. Please respect your family's wishes about appropriate books as you would about film choices and internet sites.


 * Your goal is to finish** //**two books**// **prior to Christmas vacation. There will be blogging discussions for the books that you read, and you will have "book talks" with your literature group. I will let you know when you will need to blog and when your literature groups will be meeting.

You must purchase the book so that you can write in the book; this is called annotating text. I will discuss in class (and post on the wiki) things that you should be thinking about while you are reading in order to annotate in your book. Your first book selection choice is due by Monday, October 26, 2009. You must let me know the book that you are reading by filling out the "For the Love of Reading" book goal form, getting my signature, and placing it in your reading file in the classroom.**

Why am I assigning this? So that you will have the time to read a good book, build your vocabulary, escape into another world, look forward to reading your book, and of course simply... **FOR THE LOVE OF READING.

To find out more about a book, like what it's about, the reading level, awards it's earned, suggested age level, and how many pages - try this website - Lextile.com. Type in the name of the book and you will get some valuable information to help you decide on the book that's right for you.

[|Lextile.com]**

**2009-2010 EIGHTH GRADE RECOMMENDATIONS**

Decathlon Books: Historical Fiction 19th Century Cather, Willa. **//Death Comes for the Archbishop//** Historical Fiction Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries Yep, Lawrence. **//Dragonwings//** FANTASY * SCIENCE FICTION * HORROR Barron. **//Lost Years of Merlin//** Bray. **//A Great and Terrible Beauty//** Eddings. **//Pawn of Prophecy//** Anthony. **//Centaur Aisle//** Clement-Davies. **//Fire Bringer//** Connolly. **//The Book of Lost Things//** Constable. **//Singer of All Songs//** Cooper. **//The Dark is Rising//** Feist. **//Magician's Apprentice//** Funke. **//The Thief Lord / Inkheart//** Gaiman. **//Anansi Boys//** Hearn. **//Across the Nightingale Floor//** Hunter. **//Warriors// (series)** Jenkins. **//Repossessed// [|**('08 ALA)**]** Lanagan. **//Tender Morsels.//** ('09 Printz Honor) Landy. **//Skulduggery Pleasant// [|**('08 ALA)**]** LeGuin. **//Wizard of Earthsea//** Lewis**. //Chronicles of Narnia//** Martin. **//Storm of Swords//** McCaffrey. **//Dragonsong//** McKinley. **//Deerskin//** || Meyer. **//Twilight//** Nix. **//Sabriel//** Paolini. **//Eragon// & //Eldest//** Pattou. **//East//** Pierce. **//Trickster's Choice//** Pratchett. **//Nation//** ('09 ALA & Printz Honor) Pullman. **//The Golden Compass//** Riordan. **//Lightning Thief//** Rowling. **//Harry Potter//** Jacques. **//Mossflower//** Sage. **//Magyk//** Snicket. **//Series of Impossible Events//** Swanick. **//The Dragons of Babel//** ('09 Alex) Stewart. **//The Crystal Cave//** Stroud. **//Bartimaeus Trilogy//** Tolan. **//Welcome to the Ark//** Tolkien. **//The Hobbit//** Turner. **//The King of Attolia//** Vanderveld**. //Knight's Apprentice//** Vonnegut. **//Cat's Cradle//** Yolen. **//Dragon's Blood//** Zevin. **//Elsewhere//** || Anderson. **//Feed//** Asimov. **//Foundation//** Barlow**. //Sharp Teeth//** ('09 Alex) Bradbury. **//Fahrenheit 451//** Brunner. **//Shockwave Rider//** Card. **//Ender's Game / 7th Sun//** Chabon. **//Summerland//** Colfer**. //Artemis Fowl//** Crichton. **//Jurrasic Park//** DePrau. **//City of Ember//** Farmer. **//The House of the Scorpion//** King. **//Just After Sunset//** ('09 Alex) || Knox. **//Dreamquake// [|**('08 Printz)**]** Larbalestier. **//Magic or Madness//** LeGuin. **//Wizard of Earthsea//** L'Engle. **//A Wrinkle in Time//** Murphy. **//Night Flying//** Oppel. **//Airborn / Skybreaker//** Ruff. **//Bad Monkeys// [|**('08 ALEX)**]** Slade. **//Dust//** Sleator. **//Beasties//** Verne**. //20,000 Leagues Under the Sea//** Vizinni. **//Be More Chill//** Wells. **//The War of the Worlds//** Westerfield. **//Uglies / Peeps//** ||
 * FANTASY ||
 * Addams. **//Watership Down//**
 * SCIENCE FICTION & HORROR ||
 * Adams. **//Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy//**

HISTORICAL FICTION
 * ** EARLY HISTORY **
 * Anderson.** //The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation//
 * Anderson.** //Octavian Nothing// //Volume II// **('09 Printz Honor & Alex)**
 * Avi.** //Crispin: The Cross of Lead//
 * Achebe.** //Things Fall Apart//
 * Blackwood.** //Shakespeare Stealer//
 * Bradley.** //The Mists of Avalon//
 * Brooks**//. Year of Wonders//
 * Crichton.** //Timeline//
 * Collier.** //My Brother Sam Is Dead//
 * Cross.** //Pope Joan//
 * Gregory.** //The Other Boleyn Girl//
 * Iggulden.** //Genghis: Birth of an Empire// [|**('08 Alex)**]
 * Levitin.** //The Cure//
 * Morressy.** //The Juggler//
 * Napoli.** //Breath//
 * Rinaldi.** //A Break With Charity, Salem Witch Trials//
 * Renault.** //The King Must Die//
 * Smith.** //I Capture the Castle//
 * Tinti.** //The Good Thief// **('09 Alex)**
 * Yolen.** //Sword of the Rightful King: Arthur//

** 19TH CENTURY **
 * Alcott.** //Little Women//
 * Austen.** //Pride and Prejudice//
 * Avi.** //The Barn//
 * Brontë, C.** //Jane Eyre//
 * Brontë, E.** //Wuthering Heights//
 * Chevalier.** //Girl With a Pearl Earring//
 * Crane.** //The Red Badge of Courage//
 * Dumas.** //Three Musketeers// || ** 19TH CENTURY (continued) **
 * Frazier.** //Cold Mountain//
 * Gratz.** //Samurai Shortstop//
 * Haley.** //Roots//
 * Hesse.** //Stowaway//
 * Lester.** //Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (slavery)//
 * Meyer.** //Bloody Jack//
 * Crichton**. //The Great Train Robbery//
 * Dickens.** //Oliver Twist//
 * Doyle.** //The Hound of the Baskervilles//
 * du Maurier.** //Rebecca//
 * Farmer.** //A Girl Named Disaster//
 * Giblin.** //Good Brother - Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth//
 * Gold.** //Carter Beats the Devil//
 * Jones.** //Mister Pip// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Lockhart.** //The Disreputable History of Friankie Landau-Banks// **('09 Printz Honor)**
 * Lutz.**//The Spellman Files// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Montgomery.** //Anne of Green Gables//
 * Napoli.** //Bound// (China)
 * Napoli.** //The King of Mulberry Street//
 * Park.** //A Single Shard// (Korea)
 * Pearsall.** //Crooked River//
 * Rawlings.** //The Yearling//
 * Rothfuss.**//The Name of the Wind// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Sayers.** //Gaudy Night//
 * Shaara**. //The Killer Angels//
 * Stevenson.** //Treasure Island//
 * Stowe.** //Uncle Tom's Cabin//
 * Tan.**//The Arrival// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Twain.** //Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry Finn//
 * Wharton.** //Ethan Frome// ||
 * 20TH CENTURY LIFE & CONFLICT
 * Adichie.** //Purple Hibiscus//
 * Alvarez.** //In the Time of the Butterflies//
 * Benioff.** //City of Thieves// **('09 Alex)**
 * Cheech.** //Walk Two Moons//
 * Crowe.** //Mississippi Trial, 1955//
 * Duncan, D.** //The Brothers K//
 * Gibbons.** //Ellen Foster//
 * Gorman.** //The Stumptown Kid//
 * Hemingway.** //The Old Man and the Sea//
 * Hosseini.** //The Kite Runner//
 * Jordan.** //Mudbound// **('09 Alex)**
 * Kidd.** //Secret Life of Bees//
 * King.** //The Beekeeper's Apprentice//
 * Kingsolver.** //Poisonwood Bible//
 * McCullers.** //Member of the Wedding//
 * Mosher.** //Looking for Teddy Williams//
 * Myers.** //Fallen Angels// (Vietnam)
 * Paterson.** //Preacher's Boy//
 * Peck.** //A Day No Pigs Would Die//
 * Picoult.** //A Second Glance//
 * Potok.** //The Chosen//
 * Salinger.** //Catcher in the Rye//
 * Smith.** //A Tree Grows in Brooklyn//
 * Steinbeck.** //Grapes of Wrath / Red Pony//
 * Taylor.** //The Land// || **Thornton.** //Our Town//
 * Watkins.** //Far from the Bamboo Grove//
 * Whelan.** //Listening for Lions//
 * Wright.** //Native Son//

WORLD WAR II
 * Chambers.** //Postcards from No Man's Land//
 * Courtney.** //The Power of One//
 * Elliott.** //Under the War Torn Sky//
 * Heller.** //Catch-22//
 * Helperin.** //Soldier of the Great War//
 * Knowles.** //A Separate Peace//
 * Magorian.** //Goodnight, Mr. Tom//
 * Mazer, H..** //The Last Mission//
 * Mazer, N..** //Good Night, Maman//
 * Mishima.** //The Sound of Waves//
 * Napoli.** //Stones in the Water//
 * Park.** //When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea//
 * Nelson.** //And One For All//
 * Nolan.** //If I Should Die Before I Wake//
 * Spinelli.** //Milkweed//
 * Spiegelman.** //Maus I / Maus II//
 * Weiss.** //The Upstairs Room//
 * Pullman.** //The Ruby and the Smoke//
 * Yolen.** //The Devil's Arithmetic//
 * Zusak**. //The Book Thief// ||

**MODERN REALISTIC FICTION** Cook. //Outbreak// //**Greene.**// The Drowning of Stephan Jones //**Grisham.**// Street Lawyer / Bleachers //**Gruen.**// Water for Elephants || Sachar//.// ** //Holes// Setterfield ** //The Thirteenth Tale//
 * **Alexie.** //The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian.// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Alvarez.** //Before We Were Free//
 * Anderson, L.** //Speak / Catalyst//
 * Atkins.** //When Jeff Comes Home//
 * Blackwell.** //Noughts and Crosses//
 * Braff.** //The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green//
 * Brashares.** //The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants//
 * Brooks, K.** //Lucas: A Story of Love and Hate//
 * Brown.** //Angels & Demons / Da Vinci Code//
 * Buckhanon**. //Upstate//
 * Chbosky.** //The Perks of Being a Wallflower//
 * Choldenko.** //Al Capone Does My Shirts//
 * Christie.** //And Then There Were None//
 * Cisneros.** //House on Mango Street//
 * Clancy.** //Hunt for Red October//
 * Clarke.** //One Whole and Perfect Day// [|**('08 Printz)**]
 * Clements.** //Things Not Seen//
 * Collins.** //Hunger Games// **('09 ALA)**
 * Connor.** //Waiting for Normal// **('09 ALA)**
 * Cooney.** //Driver's Ed//
 * Cormier.** //The Rag and Bone Shop// || **Crutcher.** //Whale Talk//
 * Curtis.** //Bucking the Sarge//
 * Cussler.** //Park Watch//
 * de la Peña.** //Mexican White Boy// **('09 ALA)**
 * Dessen.** //The Lullaby//
 * Doig** //The Whistling Season//
 * Dowd.** //Bog Child// **('09 ALA)**
 * Draper.** //Forged By Fire//
 * Downham.** //Before I Die// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Duncan, D.** //The Brothers K//
 * Duncan, L.** //Stranger With My Face//
 * Ferraris.** Finding Nouf **('09 Alex)**
 * Flake.** //Beggin' for Change//
 * Fleischman.** //Breakout//
 * Flinn.** //Breathing Under Water//
 * Frost.** //Keesha's House//
 * Giles.** //Shattering Glass//
 * Going.** //Fat Kid Rules the World//
 * Golding.** //Lord of the Flies
 * Green.**// Looking for Alaska
 * **Haddix.** //Among the Hidden//
 * Haddon.** //Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time//
 * Hahn .** //The Old Willis Place//
 * Hamamura.** //Color of the Sea//
 * Hartinger**. //Geography Club//
 * Hartnett.** //Surrender//
 * Hautman.** //Godless//
 * Hiaasen, Carl.** //Hoot / Flush//
 * Hidier.** //Born Confused//
 * Hinton.** //The Outsiders//
 * Horowitz.** //Stormbreaker / Raven's Gate//
 * Hosseini.** //Kite Runner//
 * Hurwin.** //A Time for Dancing//
 * Kyle.** The God of Animals [|**('08 Alex)**]
 * Iverson.** //Only the Strong Survive//
 * Jenkins.** //Out of Order//
 * Joern.** //Floor of the Sky//
 * Johnson.** //The First Last Part//
 * Klass.** //You Don't Know Me//
 * Konigsburg.** //The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place//
 * Korman.** //Son of the Mob//
 * Lanagan.** //Black Juice//
 * Lawrence.** //B for Buster//
 * Monninger.** //Baby// **('09 ALA)** || **Lawrence.** //The Lightkeeper's Daughter//
 * Lemire.** //Tales from the Farm// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Levenkron.** //The Luckiest Girl in the World//
 * Levithan.** //Boy Meets Boy
 * Lockhart.** //The Disreputable History of Landau-Banks
 * ('09 Printz Honor)**
 * Ludlum.** //The Bourne Identity//
 * Lupica.** //Travel Team//
 * Lynch.** //The Highest Tide//
 * Marchetta.** //Jellicoe Road// **('09 Printz Winner)**
 * Martell.** //Life of Pi//
 * McCaughrean.**//The White Darkness// [|**('08 Printz Winner)**]
 * McCormick**//. Sold//
 * McDonald.** //Swallowing Stones//
 * McNeal.** //Crooked//
 * Maltman.** //The Night Birds// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Meyer.** //Twilight: A Novel//
 * Mikaelsen.** //Touching Spirit Bear//
 * Mori.** //Shizuko's Daughter//
 * Moriarty.** //Feeling Sorry for Celia//
 * Morpurgo.** //Private Peaceful//
 * Mosher.** //Zazoo//
 * Murrow.** //Twelve Days in August//
 * Myers.** //Monster / Scorpions// ||
 * Na. //A Step from Heaven//
 * Naidoo.** //The Other Side of Truth//
 * Nolan.** //If I Should Die Before I Wake//
 * Oates.** //Big Mouth and Ugly Girl//
 * Paterson.** //Same Stuff As Stars//
 * Paulsen.** //Hatchet / Tracker//
 * Peet.** //Tamar// [|**('08 ALA)**]
 * Picoult.** //My Sister's Keeper / 19 Minutes//
 * Plum-Ucci.** //Whatever Happened to Lani Garver//
 * Rapp.** //Under the Wolf, Under the Dog//
 * Rash.** //The World Made Straight//
 * Rebeck.** //Three Girls and Their Brother.// [|**('09 Alex)**]
 * Robinson.** // U.S.S. Seawolf //
 * Rosoff.** //how i live now//
 * Roth.** //Avalanche// **
 * Saenz.** //Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood//
 * Sayres.** //Anahita's Woven Riddle//
 * Sebold**. //The Lovely Bones//
 * Selznick.** //The Invention of Hugo Cabret// [|**('08 ALA)**]**
 * Shea.** //Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story// || **Smelcer** //The Trap//
 * Scoppetone.** //Trying Hard to Hear You//
 * Spinelli.** Stargirl
 * Stratton.** Chanda's Secrets
 * Tamaki.** //Slim// **('09 ALA)**
 * Thompson**. //Blankets: An Illustrated Novel//
 * Tolan.** //Me and Hank//
 * Townsend.** //Secret Diary of Adrian Mole//
 * Trueman.** //Stuck in Neutral//
 * Vaughan**. //Runaways: Volume 1//
 * Voorhees.** //Ten Cents a Dance// **('09 ALA)**
 * Weeks.** //So B It: A Novel//
 * Whelan.** //Homeless Bird//
 * White.** //Deathwatch//
 * Wilhelm.** //The Revealers//
 * Williams.** //When Kambia Elaine Flew In From Neptune//
 * Williams-Garcia.** //Every Time a Rainbow Dies//
 * Wolff.** //Make Lemonade / True Believer//
 * Wooding.** //Poison//
 * Woodson.** //Locomotion//
 * Zusak.** //I am the Messenger// ||

**NON-FICTION**
 * ** HISTORY AND SOCIAL STRUGGLES ** ||
 * **Atkin.** //Voices from the Streets//
 * Bartoletti.** //Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow//
 * Beah.** //A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier// [|**('08 ALA & Alex)**]
 * Cheng.** //Bound Feet and Western Dress//
 * Crowe.** //Getting Away with Murder: The Emmett Till Case//
 * DuBois.** //The Souls of Black Folk//
 * Frank.** //Diary of a Young Girl//
 * Griffith.** //Black Like Me//
 * Jiang.** //Red Scarf Girl//
 * Jones .** //Our America//
 * Kozol.** //Amazing Grace//
 * Lester.** //To Be A Slave// || **Mah.** //Chinese Cinderella//
 * Mathabane.** //Kaffir Boy//
 * Malcolm X.** //Autobiography of Malcolm X//
 * McCourt.** //Angela's Ashes//
 * McPherson.** //Fields of Fury: The American Civil War//
 * Mellon.** //Bullwhip Days: Slave Narratives//
 * Moody.** //Coming of Age in Mississippi//
 * Murphy.** //American Plague: Yellow Fever Epidemic//
 * Opdyke.** //In My Hands: Memories//
 * Satrapi.** //Persepolis//
 * Williams.** //Eyes on the Prize// ||
 * **NATURE & SURVIVAL** || **SPORTS** ||
 * **Bookreev.** The Climb
 * Bryson.** A Walk in the Woods
 * Carson**. Silent Spring
 * Hoose.** The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
 * Junger.** The Perfect Storm
 * Krakauer.** Into Thin Air
 * Lansing.** Endurance
 * Philbrick.** In The Heart of the Sea
 * Raskowitz.** The Long Walk
 * Simpson.** Touching the Void || **Armstrong**. //It's Not About the Bike//
 * Bissinger.** //Friday Night Lights//
 * Blais.** //In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle//
 * Colton.** //Counting Coup//
 * Lewis.** //The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game//
 * Paulsen.** //How Angel Peterson Got His Name (Stories of Extreme Sports)// ||
 * ** UNIQUE PEOPLE & CULTURES ** ||
 * **Akbar & Burton, Susan.** //Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story//
 * Bolden.** //Wake Up Our Souls: Black American Artists//
 * Bowman.** //It's Complicated: The American Teenager// **('09 ALA)**
 * Charrier.** //Papillon//
 * Copland.** //What to Listen For in Music//
 * Curie**. //Madam Curie: a Biography//
 * Feldstein.** //The Oxford Project// **('09 Alex)** || **Fleischman.** //Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science//
 * Grandin.** //Emergence from Autism / Animals in Translation//
 * Hemphill.** //Your Own Sylvia// [|**('08 ALA & Alex)**]
 * Partridge.** //John Lennon: All I Want Is The Truth, A Photographic Biography//
 * Petroski.** I//nvention by Design//
 * Polly.** //American Shaolin// [|**('08 ALA & Alex)**]
 * Runyon, Brent.** //The Burn Journals// ||