Academics Pages:

ENGLISH 8, READING LIST, 2004 – 2005

You are required to read and do a report on a total of 8 books.  Only one title per author is permitted.  The starred (*) books are recommended.

 

A             Aiken, Joan                           Go Bridle the Wind

                                                                Go Saddle the Sea

                                                                Teeth of the Gale

                Alexander, Lloyd                  Westmark (or any of the series)

                Alcott, Louisa May             *Good Wives

                                                                *Little Women

                Aldrich, Bess                        A Lantern in Her Hand

B             Beatty, Patricia                     Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee

                Bjorn, Thyra Ferre                Papa’s Wife

                                                                Papa’s Daughter

                Bunyan, John                       *Pilgrim’s Progress

                Bohrer, Dick                          They Call Him Shifta                                                         

C             Cervantes, Miguel               *The Adventures of Don Quixote (abridged ed.)

                Cohen, Gary                          Weep Not for Me

D             Doyle, A. Conan                  *The Best of Sherlock Holmes

F              Falkner, J. Meade                 Moonfleet

                Forester, C. S.                       *The Sky and the Forest   

                Frank, Anne                          *The Diary of a Young Girl (In Class Assignment)

G             Garfield, Leon                       Shakespeare Stories

                                                                Smith

H             Hale, Edward                         *Man Without a Country and Other Stories

                Hawse, Alberta                     Vinegar Boy

                Hawthorne, Nathaniel         *A Wonder Book

                Hemmingway, Ernest           *The Old Man and the Sea

                Hinton, S. E.                          *The Outsiders

                Hunt, Irene                            *Up a Road Slowly

                                                                Lottery Rose

                                                                No Promise in the Wind

                                                                *Across Five Aprils

                Hunter, Christine                  Annalisa

I               Irving, Washington             *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other Stories

                                                                *The Sketch Book

K             Kipling, Rudyard                  *Captains Courageous

                                                                *The Jungle Book

                                                                *Kim

L.             Lamb, Charles                       *Tales from Shakespeare

                L’Engle, Madeline                The Arm of the Starfish

                London, Jack                        *The Call of the Wild

                                                                Stories of Adventure

                                                                Stories of the North

M            Melville, Herman  *Billy Bud and Typee

                                                                *Moby Dick

R             Roth, Arthur                         The Iceberg Hermit

S              Sheakspeare, William          *A Midsummer Night’s Dream

                                                                *The Comedy of Errors

                                                                *The Taming of the Shrew

                Steinbeck, John                    *The Red Pony (In Class Assignment)

                                                                *The Pearl

S              Sutcliff, Rosemary                The Silver Branch

                                                                Knight’s Fee

                                                                Song for a Dark Queen

                St. John, Patricia                   A Courageous Journey

                                                                The Runaway

                                                                Twice Freed

                Stevenson, Robert L.           *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

                                                                *Kidnapped

                                                                *Treasure Island

T             Twain, Mark                          *A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 

                                                                *Huckleberry Finn

                                                                *The Mysterious Stranger

U             Ullman, James                       Banner in the Sky

V             Verne, Jules                           Journey to the Center of the Earth

                                                                20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

                Voigt, Cynthia                      Homecoming

                                                                Dicey’s Story

                                                                A Solitary Blue

W            Wells, H. G.                           *The Time Machine

                                                                *War of the Worlds

                Wilde, Oscar                         The Happy Prince and Other Stories

                Wilder, Thornton                 Our Town

 

BIOGRAPHY

Adamson, Joy                      Born Free

Andrew, Brother                  God’s Smuggler

Baker Book House               The Life of John Bunyan

Barrett, Ethel                         Fanny Crosby

Castighia, Julie                     Margaret Mead

Deal, William                         Bunyan, John :  The Tinker of Bedford

Denenberg, Barry Nelson Mandela

Dowdy, Homer                     Christ’s Witchdoctor

Elliot, Elizabeth                     Through Gates of Splendor

Gilbreth, Frank                      Cheaper by the Dozen

                                                Belles on their Toes

Guther, John                         *Death Be Not Proud

Graham, Shirley                    Dr. George Washington Carver

Herriot, James                       *All Creatures Great and Small

                                                All Things Bright and Beautiful

Jones, Ron                            The Acorn People

Kennedy, John F.                 *Profiles in Courage

Kuhn, Isobel                         By Searching

                                                Green Leaf in Drought-time

Lindbergh                              Pilot and Poet                                     

Negash, Askale                    Haile Salassie                                     

Schlank, Carol                       Elizabeth Cady Stanton                   

Skinner, Tom                         Black and Free                                   

Taylor, Mrs. Howard           William Borden

Tiner, John Hudson             Samuel F.B. Morris

Louis Pasteur                                      

Wilson, Alan L.                    Doctor in a Dark Land