LOGIC 2 (8th Grade)
Required: Read one book per quarter, selecting each book from a different category on the list. As you complete a book, ask your teacher
for a Literature Response to complete. You may not select books you have previously read. Each book and response completed earns House
Points!
Optional “Distinguished Reader” Goal: Read an additional four books (from any categories you choose on the list) and complete a
Literature Response assignment. You may not select books you have previously read. Students reading and responding to both the
Required four and to the additional four books for the goal of “Distinguished Reader” receive recognition and an honor pin for their
House Medal sash on Honors Day in May.
Note: “Any in series” means any volume in the series is permissible; “Or” means choose one or the other title listed as they are
comparable; “And” means the two titles listed together are worthy but brief, so both must be read to count due to the brevity
CLASSICS/MYTH-LEGEND-FOLKLORE
NON-FICTION
Robinson Crusoe (DeFoe)
Hard Times (Dickens)
Kidnapped (Stevenson)
Heidi (Spyri)
Black Beauty (Sewell)
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
The Yearling (Rawlings)
Little Women or Little Men (Alcott)
The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy)
Christy (Marshall)
All Things Bright and
Beautiful (Herriot) – any in series
Streams to the River, River to the Sea (O’Dell)
Man of the Family or Home Ranch (Moody)
All Set Sail (Sperry)
Kon Tiki (Heyerdahl)
HISTORICAL FICTION
FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION
Rifles for Watie (Keith)
Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliff) – any by author
God King (Williamson)
Mara of the Nile (McGraw)
The Second Mrs. Giaconda (Konigsburg)
Adam of the Road (Gray)
Under the Blood Red Sun (Salisbury)
Stowaway (Hesse)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Kerr)
Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis)
The Tombs of Atuan (LeGuin) – any in series
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) – any in series
The Princess and Curdie (MacDonald)
The Giver (Lowry)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne)
The High King (Alexander) – any in series
Gathering Blue (Lowry)
MYSTERY/ADVENTURE/HUMOR
NEWBERY OR AWARD WINNER
Incident at Hawk’s Hill (Eckert)
Summer of the Monkeys (Rawls)
Shadow Spinner (Fletcher)
Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan)
And Then There Were None (Christie)
My Friend Flicka (O’Hara)
A Day No Pigs Would Die (Peck)
Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle)
Indian Captive (Lenski)
I, Juan de Pareja (de Trevino)
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Taylor)
Wednesday Wars (Schmidt)
Jacob Have I Loved (Paterson)
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Taylor) - series
The Great Gilly Hopkins (Paterson)
Johnny Tremain (Forbes)