Essential+Reading+for+Every+8th+Grader

=// for Every 8th Grader //= ||
 * = Essential Reading =
 * # **//Across Five Aprils//** by Irene Hunt
 * 1) **//Adam of the Road//** by Elizabeth Janet Gray
 * 2) **//The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and 13 Related Readings//** by Mark Twain
 * 3) **//The Alchemist//** by Paulo Coelho
 * 4) **//Annie John//** by Jamaica Kincaid
 * 5) **//Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories//** by Chris Crutcher
 * 6) **//A Child Called It//** by David Pelzer
 * 7) **//The Chosen//** by Chaim Potok
 * 8) **//The Color Purple//** by Alice Walker
 * 9) **//Down These Mean Streets//** by Piri Thomas
 * 10) **//Earthsea Wuartet #1 The Wizard of Earthsea//** by Ursula Le Guin
 * 11) **//18 Best Stories//** by Edgar Allan Poe
 * 12) **//Ender's Game//** by Orson Scott Card
 * 13) **//Fences//** by August Wilson
 * 14) **//Grendel//** by John Gardner
 * 15) **//Having Our Say//** by Sarah Delany
 * 16) **//Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Greek Myths//** by Bernard Evslin
 * 17) **//Invisible Man//** by Ralph Ellison
 * 18) **//Krik? Krak!//** by Edwidge Danticat
 * 19) **//Maus I: My Father Bleeds History//** by Art Spiegelman
 * 20) **//Monster//** by Walther Deam Myers
 * 21) **//Of Mice and Men//** by John Steinbeck
 * 22) **//Slaughterhouse-Five//** by Kurt Vonnegut
 * 23) **//Twenty One Great Stories//** by Abraham Lass and Norma Tasman, eds.
 * 24) **//Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories//** by Sandra Cisneros ||