Grade+8+Language+Arts+and+Socials+Studies+Literature

=__**Reading Suggestions for Grade 8 students in Language Arts and Social Studies**__=

=__Pippa Davies Suggestions__= 1. The Bronze Bow: Elizabeth George Speare#$ 2. Oryus: Craig Gordon #$ 3. The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway. $ 4. The Bully Boys. Eric Walters * $ 5. God's Smuggler: Brother Andrew. #$ 6. The Hobbit: J.R.R Tolkien #$ 7. Catherine Called Birdy: Karen Cushman# 8. The Seeing Stone: Kevin Crossley Holland #$ 9. Crispin the Cross of Lead: Avi $ 10. Hatchet: Gary Paulsen $
 * 1) __**Note that * means Canadian content # means good for girls and $ good for boys**__

=__Eric Vanee Suggestions__= 1. The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien#$ 2. The Outsiders: S.E. Hinton$ 3. Midsummer Nights Dream: William Shakespeare# 4. Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare# 5. The Hiding Place: Corrie ten Boom#$ 6. The Giver: Lois Lowry#$ 7. In the Heat of the Night: by John Ball#$ 8. The Chrysalids: John Wyndham#$ 9. SS8 is all about the Fall of Rome to the End of the Reformation

=__Natalie Sing Suggestions:__= 1. The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder 2. Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle 3. The Boy Knight by G.A. Henty (and many other titles) 4. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray 5. The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood 6. Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard (and many other titles) 7. Stowaway by Karen Hesse 8. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 9. The Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 10. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 11. Master Cornhill by E. McGraw 12. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly 13. I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino 14. Master Skylark by John Bennett 15. Men of Iron by Howard Pyle 16. A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg