8th Grade English

This page includes all of the books from this course that are available via Amazon. You can select the books you need here, and click the button at the bottom of the page to add them to your Amazon cart.

We participate in the Amazon Associate program. This means that if you use this page to make an Amazon purchase, we receive a small portion of the proceeds, which supports our non-profit mission.

If you have any questions about this page, please contact us at [email protected].

Unit 1: Facing Prejudice: All American Boys


Book: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Unit 2: Encountering Evil: Night


Play: The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (Random House; First Printing Edition, 1956)
Book: Night by Elie Wiesel (Hill and Wang, 2006)

Unit 3: Abusing Power: Animal Farm and Wicked History


Book: Joseph Stalin (A Wicked History) by Sean McCollum (Franklin Watts, 2010)
Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell (Signet Classics, 1996)

Unit 4: Surviving Repression: Persepolis


Book: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon, 1st edition, 2004)

Unit 5: Facing Calamity: Climate Change Facts and Fictions


Book: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power by Al Gore (Rodale Books, 2017)
Dive Deeper with ELA Professional Learning

Dive Deeper with ELA Professional Learning

Join our Summer Institutes in July and August 2023.