Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...

Grade Title Author Genre Reading
Level
Reading
List
8 Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions Musgrove Nonfiction TBD
8 Battle of Jericho, The Draper Fiction 4.7
8 Behind the Blue and Gray: The Ray Nonfiction 6.5
Soldier’s Life in Civil War
8 Bronx Masquerade Grimes Fiction 5.1
8 Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of Yen Mah Memoir 6.8
an Unwanted Daughter
8 Code Talker Bruchac Historical Fiction 5.7
8 Copper Sun Draper Fiction TBD
8 Dandelion Wine Bradbury Science Fiction 6.2
8 Define Normal Peters Fiction 5.3
8 Diary of Anne Frank Frank Nonfiction/Autobiography & 7.3
Drama
8 Dicey’s Song Voight Fiction 5.2
8 Eagle Song Bruchac Fiction 4.8
8 Elements of Literature, 8 Holt, Rinehart, & Anthology various
Winston
8 City of Ember, The DuPrau Fiction 5.8
8 Farenehit 451 Bradbury Science Fiction 10.0
8 Farewell to Manzanar Houston Memoir 7.8
8 Flowers for Algernon Keyes, D. Fiction 5.9
8 Greatest Story Ever Told, The Oursler Nonfiction
8 Having Our Say Delany Memoir 6.3
8 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Adams Science Fiction 8.3
8 Homecoming Voight Fiction 6.3
8 Homeless Bird Whelan Fiction 4.1
8 Homesick: My Own Story Fritz Historical Fiction 5.5
8 Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle Mystery 7.5
8 House of the Scorpion, The Farner Science Fiction 6.3
8 House on Mango Street Cisneros Memoir 5.6
8 Immigrant Voices: Twenty-four Hunter Memoir TBD
Voices on Becoming an American
8 Izzy, Willy-Nilly Voight Fiction 6.0
8 Journey Home (with Connected Uchida Fiction 6.1
Readings)
8 Learning Tree, The Parks Fiction 8.1
8 Mary, Bloody Mary Meyer Historical Fiction 6.5
8 Miracle Worker, The Gibson Drama 7.1
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