Eighth grade Summer Reading Assignment
Over the summer you are responsible for reading a book for eighth grade Language Arts. Fill in
the compare/contrast graphic organizer for the novel you have chosen to read. You can find
copies of the graphic organizer on the 8th grade LA webpage. Come back to school ready to
discuss your book. Our first writing assignment will be based on these graphic organizers.
Book One
Read a biography or autobiography about a person that interests you.
Use the graphic organizer to compare your life to the author’s life. (This will be the basis for the
first essay we write).
Interesting Titles. To learn more about them, google the title to find a summary of the story.
Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
A Young Dancer by Valerie Gladstone
Guinea Pig Scientists by Mel Boring
Mr. Williams by Karen Barbour
Boy on the Lion Throne by Elizabeth Cody
Kimmel
Kampug Boy by Lat
Town Boy by Lat
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli
Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq
by Thura Al-Windawi
Louisa by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
by Ying Chang Compestine
Lincoln Shot by Barry Derenberg
Stiches by David Small
Go for the Gold: A Champion’s Guide to
Winning in Soccer and Life by Mia Hamm
Houdini: Master of Illusion by Clinton Cox
I Touch the Future by Robert T. Hohler
Crocodile Hunter by Steve Irwin
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an
Obsessive Mind by Jennifer Traig
Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith More
The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Something Out of Nothing
by Carla Killough McClafferty
Boy by Roald Dahl
A Dangerous Engine by Joan Dash