Reading List: Eighth Grade
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Red Badge of Courage: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartA searing tale of fear and courage, set during the Civil War, but more powerful today than ever. A young man enlists in the Union Army, but nervously wonders how he will react to the blood, violence, and death of (read more)
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28-Days: Moments in Black History: Hardcover — OUT OF PRINT
USD $18.99 Add to cartEach day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman (read more)
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Child’s Introduction to African American History: Hardcover
USD $19.99 Add to cartJabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom to reveal a fact-filled history of African American history through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more. You'll follow the road to freedom beginning with the slave trade and the (read more)
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The Baffle Book
USD $11.95 Read moreFifteen old-fashioned but wonderfully challenging “detective puzzles,” the unraveling of which requires your powers of observation and deduction. In words, charts, and diagrams, you are placed at the crime scene and presented with facts established by the police. (read more)
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Biographies for Eighth Grade: Twenty Remarkable Men and Women
USD $12.00 Add to cartSusan Cook has assembled the stories of twenty remarkable men and women from around the world including: John Harrison - 18th Century England Eli Whitney - 18th/19th Century United States Sequoyah - 19th Century North America Simon Bolivar - 19(read more)
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Civil War Stories
USD $4.00 Add to cartNewspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed "Bitter Bierce" for his vitriolic wit and biting satire, his fame rests largely on a celebrated compilation of (read more)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
USD $17.00 Add to cartHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important (read more)
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Hatchet
USD $8.99 Add to cartThis award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels (read more)
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Tales from Earthsea
USD $8.99 Add to cartThe tales of this book explore and extend the world established by the Earthsea novels--yet each stands on its own. It contains the novella "The Finder," and the short stories "The Bones of the Earth," "Darkrose and Diamond," "On the (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Autumn’s Dawn
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Finding Grace
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Found
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Standing Strong
USD $9.95 Add to cartCongratulations to Gary Robinson, 2019 winner of the Moonbeams Children's Book Gold Award for Nature Issues and voted 2019 Best Books for High School by American Indians in Children's Literature. We decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage (read more)
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Spirit of the Mountain
USD $10.00 Add to cartThe hot South-African summer is getting to Emily. She escapes to her Uncle Tim’s farm where she meets green-eyed Joey and can relax. But Emily has an eating disorder, and each day she slips further away from those around (read more)
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Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities
USD $17.95 Read moreIn 1961, Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, revolutionized the fields of city planning and city architecture. Jacobs perceived that the new structures being built to replace the aging housing of older cities were (read more)
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Catherine, Called Birdy
USD $7.95 Add to cartThe 13-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married.
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The Midwife’s Apprentice
USD $9.50 Add to cartHere's another great Medieval tale by Karen Cushman. On a frosty morning sometime early in the fourteenth century, in a village somewhere in England, a girl known only as Brat was sleeping on a dung heap. "You, girl. Are (read more)
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Will Sparrow’s Road
USD $7.95 Read moreIn his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than (read more)
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Shakespeare’s Stories for Young Readers
USD $4.99 Add to cartTwelve of Shakespeare's greatest tales come to life in this entertaining collection of short, lively stories specially adapted for young readers. Capturing the vital events and using some of the original wording, the stories serve as a perfect introduction to (read more)