King Philip 8th Grade List Level 1 must read 3 books from this list. Level 2 must read 2 books. However they recommend you read as many off the list as you can, as each is wonderful and engaging. Reminder: Summer Reading books go out for 4 weeks. They can only be renewed IF NO ONE IS WAITING for them. Holiday Books: easy to read or an old favorite. It is a book that is a break from more challenging reads, but does not take the place of a "challenge" or "just right" books The Thief Lord By Funke, Cornelia Burmingham, Christian 2003/10 - Chicken House 9780439420891 Check Our Catalog Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, Italy, where they meet a mysterious 13-year-old boy who calls himself "the Thief Lord." ...More   Stuck in Neutral By Trueman, Terry 2001/10 - Harper Teen 9780064472135 Check Our Catalog Shawn McDaniel is an enigma and a miracle, except no one knows it, least of all his father. In this powerful first novel, the reader learns to look beyond the obvious and finds a character whose spirit is rich beyond imagining. ...More   Al Capone Does My Shirts By Choldenko, Gennifer 2004/03 - Putnam Publishing Group 0399238611 Check Our Catalog California Young Reader Medal Winner - 2007 Beatty Award Winner - 2005 Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families, Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life. ...More   Sold By McCormick, Patricia 2008/04 - Hyperion Books for Children 9780786851720 Check Our Catalog Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small village in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells Lakshmi she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to help, Lakshmi journeys to India, only to learn the unthinkable truth; she has been sold into prostitution. An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt--then cheats Lakshmi of her meager ...More   Just Right Books: Books that help you practice your reading skills and gives you valuable experience in reading. These books may contain some words you don't know but for the most part you are enjoying the book and you can read it fluently.   The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents By Pratchett, Terry 2003/05 - HarperTrophy 9780060012359 Check Our Catalog It's time for the rats to tell their side of the Pied Piper story. Think rats can't talk? These rats can, and not only that, they also read, disarm mousetraps, and concoct schemes with a genius cat known as the Amazing Maurice. ...More   Life as We Knew It By Pfeffer, Susan Beth 2008/05 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780152061548 Check Our Catalog When a meteor hits the Moon, Miranda must learn to survive the unimaginable. Told in journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. ...More   Never Give Up: My Stroke, My Recovery, and My Return to the NFL By Bruschi, Tedy Holley, Michael 2007/08 - John Wiley & Sons 9780470108697 Check Our Catalog "Tedy gives you something to believe in. Whether we're winning or losing, he holds his head high, and he knows himself and handles himself so well, others can't help but follow him. The way he practices and plays forces you to become a better teammate; the way he demands hustle and toughness forces you to become a better leader; and the way he carries himself inspires you to become a better person. This made his return to playing on October 30 against Buffalo all the more electrifying. The stadium was louder that night than the nights we had raised our Super Bowl banners. Our captain, our leader, our inspiration was back on the field doing what he loved to do. Tedy had spent months rehabbing, had countless doctor visits, and had undergone hundreds of tests trying to play again. Just eight months after our victory in Super Bowl XXXIX, here ...More   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Adams, Douglas 1995/09 - Ballantine Books 0345391802 Check Our Catalog "IRRESISTIBLE!" --The Boston Globe Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically d ...More     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time By Haddon, Mark 2004/05 - Vintage Books USA 1400032717 Check Our Catalog Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years. ...More   The Land By Taylor, Mildred D. 2003/11 - Puffin Books 0142501468 Check Our Catalog The 14-year-old son of a prosperous white landowner and a former slave in Georgia strikes out on his own after face discrimination from both races and within his own family. ...More   Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson By Albom, Mitch Albom, Mitch 2004/06 - Random House Audible 9780739311110 Check Our Catalog ...More   Challenge Books: You may find these book challenging because there are many words you don't know or the text is very dense. The Book Thief By Zusak, Markus 2007/09 - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 9780375842207 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Set during World War II in Germany, Zusak's groundbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing, encounters something she cant resist: books. ...More   Life of Pi By Martel, Yann 2002/06 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 0151008116 Check Our Catalog Winner - 2002 Booker Award This brilliant fabulist novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale," as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger. ...More

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