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GRADE 7 EXPECTATIONS
GRADE 8 EXPECTATIONS

Incoming 7th graders are required to read Enrique's Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with his Mother by Sonia Nazario and pick a 2nd book from the list below.  Most, if not all, of these books should be available through your local library’s E-book system and the BB&N E-book library through SORA. If you are having access issues, please contact Ms. Dominique-Pierre (MS Librarian) at cdominiquepierre@bbns.org or Mr. Billings (MS History Dept. Chair) at mbillings@bbns.org.

In addition to the required book above, choose and read a second book from the list below.

Enrique's Journey: A True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with his Mother (Young Adult Adaptation) by Sonia Nazario (REQUIRED READING)

  1. A Promise to Keep by Mario Bencastro 

  2. The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez

  3. The Circuit: The Graphic Novel by Francisco Jiménez

  4. Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs

  5. An Uninterrupted View of the Sky by Melanie Crowder 

  6. The Queen of Water by Laura Resau

  7. Silver People* by Margarita Engle

  8. Hold Tight, Don't Let Go by Laura Rose Wagner

  9. The Distance Between Us (Young Reader's Edition) by Reyna Grande

*Unlikely available in your library's E-book system or BB&N SORA

Incoming 8th graders are required to read, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi and pick the 2nd book from the list below.  Most, if not all, of these books, should be available through your local library’s E-book system and the BB&N E-book library through SORA. If you are having access issues, please contact Ms. Dominique-Pierre (MS Librarian) at cdominiquepierre@bbns.org or Mr. Billings (MS History Dept. Chair) at mbillings@bbns.org.


​In addition to the required book above, choose and read a second book from the list below.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds (REQUIRED READING)

  1. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

  2. Bomb: The Race to Build--And Steal--The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steven Sheinkin

  3. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe

  4. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

  5. Becoming by Michelle Obama​

  6. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark

  7. All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

  8. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

*Unlikely available in your library's E-book system or BB&N SORA

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