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- Eighth Grade Selections
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- Jacob Have I Loved
- by Katherine Paterson,1990,
244pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- A twin, overshadowed by her
talented, charismatic sister, is tormented by jealousy and hate.
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- Wringer
- by Jerry Spinelli,1998, 128pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Palmer LaRue does not want
to be a wringer, one of the boys who breaks the necks of pigeons
wounded at the annual pigeon shoot. He decides to make a personal
stand against this annual rite of passage.
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- The Skin I'm In
- by Sharon G. Flake,1998, 192pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- A riveting first novel that
tackles the issues of race and self-acceptance through a thirteen-year
old girl's concern over her extremely dark skin.
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- Monster
- by Walter Dean Meyers, 2001
reprint, 281 pp., Reading Level: Young Adult
- Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon,
on trial as an accomplice to a murder, records his trial in the
form of a film script as he tries to sort out who he is and what
is real.
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- Letters from the Inside
- by John Marsden, 146 pp., Reading
Level: Young Adult-Adult
- Two teenage girls begin
correspondence that gradually reveals more than either young
woman wants known. Their lives are great, supposedly, until you
find out that Mandy'd brother is frighteninigly violent; Tracey
is in maximum-security prison. And then, the letters from one
girl just stop...
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- Bull Catcher
- by Alden R.Carter, 2000, 288
pp., Reading Level: Young Adult
- Freshman Neil "Bull"
Larsen has one goal in mind - to play baseball through high school
and beyond. But when he submits his four-year baseball diary
as his senior project, Bull reexamines his dream and learns some
surprising things about himself.
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- Don't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey
- by Margaret Peterson Haddix,
1997, 125 pp., Reading Level: Young Adult
- Sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles
her life in the journal she must keep for English class. When
her abusive father returns home, Tish's entries are increasingly
marked "Do Not Read" until she realizes silence may
be dangerous.
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- Armageddon Summer
- by Jane Yolen &
Bruce Coville, 1997, 266 pp., Reading Level:
Young Adult
- As Jed and Marina accompany
their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end
of the world on a mountaintop, they begin to question what their
beliefs really are.
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- A Day No Pigs Would Die
- by Robert Newton Peck, 1997,
150 pp., Reading Level: 9-12
- The tender story of a Shaker
family in Vermont is related by a young, sensitive boy.
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- Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
- by Suzanne Fisher Staples,
1997, 150 pp., Reading Level: 8
- Shabanu is the young daughter
in a family of nomads in a desert area of modern Pakistan. She
attempts to run away when a much older man is chosen for her
husband. Shabanu must deny her own pride and face her responsibilities
to her family and culture.
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