Help with eighth grade reading list-suggest modern lit please.

[Catherine]

I will keep some of TWTM suggestions, but am looking for new ideas. Open to lit from any source. What do you think of The Good Earth? How Green was my Valley? Cry the Beloved Country? Things Fall Apart? Willa Cather? Help!

[elw_miller]

I will keep some of TWTM suggestions, but am looking for new ideas. Open to lit from any source. What do you think of The Good Earth? How Green was my Valley? Cry the Beloved Country? Things Fall Apart? Willa Cather? Help!

 

The Good Earth--excellent

Cry the Beloved Country--also excellent

For Willa Cather, I really enjoyed My Antonia.

 

Night. Elie Wiesel

Spoonriver Anthology. Edgar Lee Master

The Killer Angels. Michael Shaara

 

Good free reading:

Summer of My German Soldier

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Tears of a Tiger

The Power of One. by Bryce Courtenay (another book set in South Africa)

A Confederacy of Dunces

Watership Down

[Mrs Mungo]

Personally, I think I'd save The Good Earth and Things Fall Apart for high school. I think they get more out of those books when they are a bit older.

 

I would emphasize that the books on TWTM list, make sure you get the unabridged versions. Swiss Family Robinson and Little Women (among others) are much tougher when you read the original versions.

 

I added some sci-fi to the list such as Ender's Game and Ursula LeGuin. We did some fun books like The Graveyard Book. Animal Farm and SE Hinton are good choices.

[elw_miller]

. I added some sci-fi to the list such as Ender's Game and Ursula LeGuin. We did some fun books like The Graveyard Book. Animal Farm and SE Hinton are good choices.

 

Oo! Yes, definitely Ender's Game!