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PJH 8 th Grade Expert 21

PJH 8 th Grade Expert 21. Summer Reading List Choose 1 book from the Summer Reading List and be ready to demonstrate your knowledge before you come back to school in August. We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis. Lexile Level: 860 Biography/African American Interest

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PJH 8 th Grade Expert 21

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  1. PJH 8th GradeExpert 21 Summer Reading List Choose 1 book from the Summer Reading List and be ready to demonstrate your knowledge before you come back to school in August.

  2. We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis Lexile Level: 860 Biography/African American Interest Shares anecdotes from the childhoods, teen years, and young adult lives of three men from Newark, New Jersey, who made a pledge to each other in high school to stay safe from drugs, gangs, and crime, and work to become doctors--a goal they have successfully achieved. We Beat the Street Book Trailer

  3. Evaby Peter Dickinson Lexile Level: 1010 Science Fiction/Transplants After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee. Thirteen year old Eva wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .

  4. Shackleton’s Stowaway by Victoria McKernan Lexile Level: 740 Action/Adventure A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice. Shackleton's Stowaway Book Trailer

  5. Belle Teal by Ann M. Martin Lexile Level: 890 Historical Fiction Belle Teal Harper's entrance into fifth-grade in the early 1960s brings many changes and challenges as her Gran's memory begins to slip; her mom spends long hours away at work, and her class gets two new students, including an African-American boy. Belle Teal Book Trailer

  6. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick Lexile Level: 940 Realistic Fiction When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family. Drums, etc. Book Trailer

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