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Mount Sinai Suggested Summer Reading Entering 8th Grade
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The breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
Pravana, whose father was arrested by the Taliban--the radical religious faction controlling Afghanistan--and whose family lives in one room of a bombed-out apartment building, must disguise herself as a boy to work and support her family.
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The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery
by Alane Ferguson
While helping her father in the Colorado County coroner's office, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney's lesson in forensics takes a devastating turn when the latest victim of a serial killer turns out to be someone Cameryn knows--causing her to fear that her connection to the case may lead her to become the killer's next target. Reprint.
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The city of Ember : the graphic novel
by Jeanne DuPrau
A faithful graphic adaptation of the wildly popular novel about two children who endeavor to find answers and escape a doomed city features evocative images of such story elements as glaring lamps, dingy streets and a brilliant first sunrise.
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Code Orange
by Caroline B. Cooney
While in a panic to do a last minute report for his Advanced Bio class, Mitty Blake glances through some old medical books in his family's weekend house and discovers an old envelope containing two things that will forever alter his life.
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Crossing the wire
by Will Hobbs
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
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Dairy queen : a novel
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. 50,000 first printing.
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Death cloud
by Andy Lane
In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murderand a diabolical villain
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Dogs of war
by Sheila Keenan
A graphic novel tribute to the contributions of heroic military canines during World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War includes three stories inspired by historic battles and actual military practices that detail the shared experiences of soldiers and service dogs.
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Etiquette & espionage
by Gail Carriger
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited 14-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit and espionage.
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Feed
by M. T. Anderson
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, Titus meets Violet, an unusual teenage girl who is in serious trouble. By the author of Burger Wuss.
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Hero
by Mike Lupica
Fourteen-year-old Billy learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Billy must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
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I kill the mockingbird
by Paul Acampora
When best friends Lucy, Elena and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see To Kill A Mockingbird included, but not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm so they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic.
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The iron trial
by Holly Black
Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.
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Legend
by Marie Lu
Raised in an elite military family in a war-torn nation that was once the Western United States, 15-year-old June embarks on a revelatory cat-and-mouse manhunt for criminal youth Day, who is declared a prime suspect in the murder of June's brother.
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The maze runner
by James Dashner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape
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The ocean at the end of the lane
by Neil Gaiman
Storytelling genius Neil Gaiman delivers a whimsical, imaginative, bittersweet and at times deeply scary modern fantasy about fear, love, magic and sacrifice to reveal and to protect us from the darkness inside—a moving, terrifying and elegiac fable. Reprint.
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The screaming staircase
by Jonathan Stroud
When London is overrun by malevolent spirits, a talented group of young psychic detectives compete against other ghostbusting agencies in the debut of a new series that finds three intrepid colleagues investigating one of England's most haunted houses.
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The summer I turned pretty
by Jenny Han
Ignored by Conrad and Jeremiah one summer after the next, Belly is shocked when she returns to the beach house the following season and discovers that everything has changed, for both the better and worse.
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Under a war-torn sky
by Laura Elliott
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
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An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy
Accompanied by black-and-white archival photos and drawn from first-hand accounts, a compelling true story vividly recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as 18th-century medical beliefs and practices.
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World without fish : how could we let this happen?
by Mark Kurlansky
Examines the threats to the survival of fish in the world's oceans, discussing the damage caused by various types of fishing equipment, the impact of politics on the regulation of fishing, and the harmful effects of overfishing, pollution, and global warming
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