GOOD READS FOR
7TH & 8TH GRADES!
Read any or all of these books and take an AR quiz. Your quiz grade will count as a test grade for language class. If by chance you make it all the way through this list, I will be happy to find you some more books to read.
The books to read (and points values) are as follows:
- Night by Elie Wiesel, 4 points
- Animal Farm by George Orwell, 5 points
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 7 points
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 9 points
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham, 9 points
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 13 points
- Of Mice and Men; 4 points; Grapes of Wrath, 25 points, bothby John Steinbeck
- The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott, 14 points
- The Scarlet Letter (unabridged) by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, 22 points
- Little Women (unabridged) by Louisa May Alcott, 33 points
- Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas, 34 points
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, 33 points
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 27 points
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 69 points
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 105 points (This one is worth the effort, I promise!
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