My mother (an English teacher) and I are sitting down together, brainstorming some reading list ideas for rising eighth graders over the summer. Here are a few we are thinking of:
Pre-Revolutionary War America
Moon of Two Dark Horses - shows the friendship between a white settler and a Native American
Revolutionary War
Johnny Tremain - great background on the Revolutionary War, specifically Lexington & Concord and the Sons of Liberty.
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Secret of Sarah Revere
Industrial Revolution
Lyddie - Catherine Patterson - about a girl who works in a cloth factory in 1840's New England
Civil War
March Toward Thunder - about a Native American boy who joins the Union army in New York
Amelia's War -
Rising 7th grade book list
-A Girl Named Disaster -
-Bloomability -
-Esperanza Rising -
-Ash Road (Australia)
-The Breadwinner - by Deboarah Ellis (Afghanistan)
-A Single Shard (set in Korea)
-When my name was Keoko (set in Korea during Japanese occupation)
-Chasing Vermeer (? plot looks interesting but need to look into)
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