Memoria Press recommends Little Women, or Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and The Call of the Wild , as summer reading supplements to our Eighth Grade Classical Core Curriculum . For girls, read Little Women the summer before Ninth Grade. For boys, read Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and The Call of the Wild . Memoria Press product: https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/literature-and-poetry/eighth-grade-summer-reading-set-for-boys/