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Sacred Heart School Grade 7

• Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Required)

Choose at least two additional books from the following list :

• Dicey's Song, by Cynthia Voigt — Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor and courage.
• Sounder, by William Howard Armstrong — Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
• Summer of My German Solider, by Bette Greene — When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.
• Transall Saga, by Gary Paulsen — While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
• True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi — As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
• Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls — A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
• The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings — A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.

Sacred Heart School Grade 8

• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Required) —The quiet heroism of Atticus Finch and the honesty of his children Jem and Scout as they face prejudice in the American South of the 1930s still ring true. The American Library Association voted this the best novel of the century.
• Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929, by Karen Blumenthal (Required) —This comprehensive review of the events, personalities, and mistakes behind the Stock Market Crash of 1929 features photographs, newspaper articles and cartoons of the day.

Choose one additional book from the following list:

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain —Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in the 19th century, wakes up to find himself in the England of King Arthur. He proceeds to modernize the kingdom by organizing a school system, contructing telephone lines and inventing the printing press.
• Crispin: Cross of Lead, by Avi —This historical fiction narrative follows the frantic flight of a thirteen-year-old peasant boy across 14th century England.
• Land of Hope, by Joan Nixon —Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
• Lord of the Flies, by William Golding —In this classic tale, a group of English school boys are left on an unpopulated island to confront the defects of both their society and their own natures.
• Silas Marner, by George Eliot —A gentle linen weaver who is wrongly accused of a heinous theft goes into seclusion. He then finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage.
• War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells —As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.