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North Attleboro Summer ReadingEighth Grade 2019
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Fever, 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
*Required. In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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Ender's game
by Orson Scott Card
An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction. Nebula and Hugo Winner. Reissue.
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The contender
by Robert Lipsyte
Caught in the pressures of Harlem life amidst narcotics addiction, police, and street fights, Alfred Brooks, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out, turns to boxing. An ALA Notable Book. Reissue.
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Cinder
by Marissa Meyer
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take onthe Cinderella story
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Touching Spirit Bear
by Ben Mikaelsen
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. Reprint.
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The Perfect Score
by Rob Buyea
Five sixth-graders struggle with questions about their futures, a learning disability, a dysfunctional home environment, good intentions gone wrong and new priorities, in a story set against a backdrop of high-pressure standardized testing. By the award-winning author of Because of Mr. Terupt.
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The plot to kill Hitler : Dietrich Bonhoeffer : pastor, spy, unlikely hero
by Patricia McCormick
A painstakingly researched account of the heroic efforts of religious leader and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer to expose the atrocities being committed against Jewish citizens to the Allied forces discusses his pacifist activism and role in an assassination plot that targeted Adolf Hitler.
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Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive
by Laura Hillenbrand
A young adult edition of the bestseller documents the story of how Louis Zamperini, a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic athlete and World War II pilot, crashed into the ocean and survived for weeks on a life raft only to become a prisoner of war.
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