• Nothing But the Truth by Avi
• Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Pete Nelson

Complete the worksheet that was sent home for each book, Do NOT write on the back, or attach additional papers. You must be concise! Edit your work so that you do not have spelling and grammar mistakes. This is your first 8th grade assignment - take your time!

For additional credit (a possible 10 extra points), read: Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. In the fall, you will have the opportunity to select one of Steinbeck's stops along his journey. You will describe that stop for a bulletin board about the USA. You might want to take notes on some of the more colorful places and events! If you take a road trip this summer, try to write about your adventures!

The key to success in high school and college is to read-to read well and to read constantly! Continue to challenge yourself to read more books and to read different genres. With that in mind, here is a list of some books that you might find interesting and challenging.

If you would like to earn a No-Uniform Pass, read an additional 2 books from the following list. Your selections should be from two different categories. Enjoy!

Non-fiction:

• 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo
• Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews by Ellen Levine
• Island of Hope: The Story of Ellis Island and the Journey to America by Martin Sandler
• Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong
• Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929: A Wall Street Journal Book for Children by Karen Blumenthal
• The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Greg Bishop
• The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won by Stephen Ambrose - A fabulous introduction to World War II. As you read about various battles or events, ask yourself three things: 1) what happened, 2) why did it happen, and 3) what difference did it make?
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Chicago's Great Fire of 1871 )
• The Twentieth Maine by John Pullen
• Exploring the Titanic by Robert Ballard
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
• With God in Russia by Walter Ciszek

Classics:

• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Don't rely on the movie - read this for yourself!)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
• Sounder by William Armstrong
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Fantasy:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Biographies:

• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
• The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours by Jane Goodall
• Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth, by James Cross Giblin
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Tenboom
• Mother Teresa: Helping the Poor by William Jay Jacobs
• St. Ignatius of Loyola: In God's Service by Peggy A. Sklar
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• Michelangelo by Diane Stanley
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Science Fiction:

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
• The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Fiction:

• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara ("Historical novel" about the Battle of Gettysburg)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
• The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly (15th century Poland)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
• The Gadget by Paul Zindel