2025 Summer Reading Program: Grades 8-9

Updated March 5, 2025
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2025 Summer Reading Program: Grades 8-9

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Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Paper Book
Robert F. Sibert Award-winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups.In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling...
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Paper Book
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny and Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent". When Momma and Dad decide it's time to visit Grandma, Dad comes home with an amazing...
The reason I jump : the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism
Higashida, Naoki
Paper Book
"One of the most remarkable books I've ever read. It's truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid."--Jon Stewart, The Daily Show NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The Wall Street Journal * Bloomberg Business * Bookish
Flesh & blood so cheap : the Triangle fire and its legacy
Marrin, Albert.
Paper Book
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames.  The factory was crowded.  The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside.  One hundred forty-six people--mostly women--perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American...
The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp
Yancey, Richard.
Paper Book
Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur--the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly delivers the sword into the hands of a man with...
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