Grade 8 Recommended Reading

Grade 8 Recommended Reading

Literature

  • The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • The Ancient Ocean Blues by Jack Mitchell
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  • Ben Hur by Lew Wallace

History

  • The Great Siege of Malta by Ernle Bradford
  • The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
  • Dream and Your Dreams Will Fall Short by Pedro Casciaro
  • A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
  • Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome by Peter Connolly
  • The Roman Army by Peter Connolly
  • Caesar’s Gallic War by Olivia Coolidge
  • The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
  • Shiloh by Shelby Foote
  • The Shadow of His Wings by Gereon Karl Goldmann
  • 1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howrath
  • The Spartan by Caroline Dale Snedeker
  • Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington