Teen Summer Reading Program
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Required Reading
7th Grade Honors
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
8th Grade Honors
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Choose one book from the appropriate year to read this summer. The first project for Social Studies in the fall will be a book summary, along with visuals.
Grade 7
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (American Revolution)
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines (pre-Civil War)
Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulson (Civil War)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Slavery)
Forty Acres and a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet (Reconstruction)
Sacagawea: The Story of Bird Woman by Joseph Bruchac (Louisiana Purchase)
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Brindell Fradin (Slavery)
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier (Civil War)
Grade 8
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (meat-packing industry)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Great Depression)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Holocaust)
Freidrich by Richter (Holocaust)
Flames of the Tiger by John Wilson (WWII)
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (Vietnam)
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata (WWII)
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 by Susan D. Bachrach (WWII)
From Where the Sun Now Stands by Will Henry
