Arizona School for the Arts
2020-2021 Required Reading

8th Grade Standard

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Cover Image

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)

By James McBride
$16.00
ISBN: 9781594481925
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 7th, 2006
Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust Cover Image

Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust (Paperback)

By Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan
$6.99
ISBN: 9780062489968
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Published: Greenwillow Books - October 18th, 2016
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till Cover Image

Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till (Paperback)

By Simeon Wright, Herb Boyd
$12.95
ISBN: 9781569768198
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Published: Lawrence Hill Books - September 1st, 2011
The Crucible: (Penguin Orange Collection) Cover Image

The Crucible: (Penguin Orange Collection) (Paperback)

By Arthur Miller
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143129479
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Published: Penguin Classics - October 18th, 2016
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America Cover Image

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)

By Firoozeh Dumas
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812968378
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - January 13th, 2004
The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover Image

The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Sandra Cisneros
$11.95
ISBN: 9780679734772
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Published: Vintage - April 3rd, 1991
Romeo and Juliet (Sparknotes No Fear Shakespeare) Cover Image

Romeo and Juliet (Sparknotes No Fear Shakespeare) (Paperback)

By Sparknotes, Matt Wiegle (Illustrator)
$9.95
ISBN: 9781411498747
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Published: Sparknotes - January 1st, 2008
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Night (Paperback)

By Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translated by), Elie Wiesel (Preface by)
$11.00
ISBN: 9780374500016
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Published: Hill and Wang - January 16th, 2006
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Sweetgrass Basket (Hardcover)

By Marlene Carvell
$16.99
ISBN: 9780525475477
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Published: Dutton Books for Young Readers - September 22nd, 2005
Because I Am Furniture Cover Image

Because I Am Furniture (Paperback)

By Thalia Chaltas
$8.99
ISBN: 9780142415108
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Published: Speak - February 23rd, 2010
Under the Mesquite Cover Image

Under the Mesquite (Hardcover)

By Guadalupe García McCall
$19.95
ISBN: 9781600604294
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Published: Tu Books - April 1st, 2013
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba Cover Image

Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba (Paperback)

By Margarita Engle
$10.99
ISBN: 9781250129819
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Published: Square Fish - December 12th, 2017
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I Don't Want To Be Crazy (Paperback)

By Samantha Schutz
$9.99
ISBN: 9781338337495
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Published: Scholastic Inc. - March 26th, 2019
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Long Way Down (Paperback)

By Jason Reynolds
$11.99
ISBN: 9781481438261
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Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - April 2nd, 2019
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Other Words for Home (Hardcover)

By Jasmine Warga
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062747808
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Published: Balzer + Bray - May 28th, 2019
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SHOUT (Paperback)

By Laurie Halse Anderson
$10.99
ISBN: 9780142422205
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Published: Penguin Books - March 10th, 2020
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The Poet X (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Acevedo
$12.99
ISBN: 9780062662811
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Published: Quill Tree Books - April 7th, 2020