8th
Grade Summer Reading Assignment 2009
Required
reading: To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee
Choose
one other book from the list below.
For
each book, you will write a book report (2-page minimum, typed or written in
ink, front side only): discuss setting, characters, plot, conflict, and your
opinion of the book.
You
will discuss one of the books you read in a short presentation.
Realistic
Fiction
Dicey’s
Song Cynthia Voigt
Historical
Johnny
Tremain Esther
Forbes
Night
Elie Wiesel
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
The
Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
Gathering
Blue Lois Lowry