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8th - 9th Grade Reading List

Summer before 3rd Year Program
(World History)

** indicates books on the MD Accelerated Reader List

The Bible (King James version):

Old Testament -- Genesis; Exodus; Job; Proverbs 1-9; Ecclesiastes
New Testament -- two of the Gospels (preferably Mark & Luke); Revelation

In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World, Virginia Hamilton, editor
Black Boy, by Richard Wright
**Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
**The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
**Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
**A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
Wise Child, by Monica Furlong
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck
**Great Expectations OR Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
**Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Daddy-Long -Legs, by Jean Webster
**A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Great Tales & Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe
A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
**The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R.Tolkein
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


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