This page will keep track of the books we read this year in the 8th grade honors class.

Congress
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters by Nancy Pelosi		Challenging
Speaker by Denny Hastert		Challenging
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis
Wild West
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose		Challenging
Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen Ambrose		Challenging
Industrialization
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
George Eastman : A Biography by Elizabeth Brayer		Challenging
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough		Challenging
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough		Challenging
1950's
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin		Average
General History
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Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns		Average
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose		Challenging

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