| 单词 | eighth |
| 例句 | I kept pestering Aunt Margaret to tell me if there was anything about eighth grade that I should know and didn’t. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So, in the seventh and eighth innings, Johnny couldn’t throw a strike, at least according to the umpire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The newspaper ran a letter from Mrs. Gates to the parents of all seventh and eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z School was a distant memory; Tony hadn’t seen the inside of a classroom on a regular basis since eighth grade. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z To reach my spot I had to go to the eighth row left of the tractor shed, then walk along it, counting trees till I got to thirty-two. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He stops at the eighth one, and Hie gate clicks open. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Kathy was one of nine children, and had grown up with very little, and Zeitoun, the eighth of thirteen children, had been raised with almost nothing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Mary Alice was about to sail into eighth grade, which put her in shooting distance of high school. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z An eighth grade boy is already at one and standing at the other is Matt Hubbard. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z And instead of the eighth graders, who’ve moved on to high school, we have a crop of sixth graders who seem as uncertain as I must have been last year. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Fold the paper in half, then into quarters, and one more into eighths. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z For example, the first dot after a half note adds a quarter note length; the second dot would add an eighth note length. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They added up to this: All the eighth graders would have to squeeze into the high school; all the seventh graders would have to squeeze into the middle school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty hot question for eighth graders, if you ask me, but I was excited by it, too, because I liked when teachers asked hard questions. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z That’s a precious 25 seconds; almost an eighth of my four minutes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In eighth grade, only seven students were in my homeroom—and one of them tried to stab me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar, and she married him in another state where it’s legal to get married before eighth grade. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine me then at unlucky thirteen as I entered the eighth grade. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But thanks to Hall’s phenomenal success rate he had no trouble filling the roster for this, his eighth expedition to Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z According to August, if you’ve never seen a cluster of beehives first thing in the morning, you’ve missed the eighth wonder of the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lloyd: What do you think of the people in eighth grade? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Part of the credit goes to my dog Tilly,” said Brady, an eighth grader at Alexander Holmes Middle School. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Nervousness is bubbling up inside me like the can of Sprite an eighth grader shook at lunch and tried to offer everyone. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Saying I’m sorry for that thing I did in eighth grade feels stupid—because sorry isn’t enough. Sorry is almost an insult.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I had even passed some of the eighth graders, and I could see the leaders in front of me again. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I beat the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth graders. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It’s a chaotic mess as new sixth graders try to figure out where to go and seventh and eighth graders push each other around. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The pattern repeats at the eighth tone of a scale, the octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Yet it was obvious to everybody that the eighth grade president was not hospitalized, not suffering from amnesia, not in a vegetative state, and was very, very much alive. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Right? He kept it by his bed until eighth grade.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I want my child to pass the eighth grade; she acts like I’m a prison warden,” she says to no one in particular. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z On a shining glittering fiery day in the eighth moon, which is the last end of summer, she came to his house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Over at the eighth grade boys’ table one of them leaps out of his chair with a “YES!” and does a little dance like he just scored a touchdown. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Calista punched the button for the eighth floor, and the elevator doors closed. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z If it were distributed evenly throughout the stratosphere, it would form a layer just one eighth of an inch or so thick. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z An eighth grader with what looked to me like a full-on beard demanded my math homework from last Tuesday. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “So did you. So did the whole eighth grade.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Only the seventh and eighth graders get to go.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z A poor student, C.P. had quit school in the eighth grade and had gone to work at a service station, washing and greasing cars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They cannot be definitely dated, but the earliest are considered by most scholars to belong to the end of the eighth century or the beginning of the seventh. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z That big eighth grader held his fist out, and I put mine down on top of it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This has been running strong since eighth grade. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Sleep next to a holy candle for seven days, then on the eighth day, spit. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I hated telling her I was only going into the sixth grade when she was going into the eighth grade. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighth victory in any tournament is therefore critical, the difference between promotion and demotion; it is roughly four times as valuable in the rankings as the typical victory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I was in eighth grade, he in eleventh—a whole year older than I even am now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They grow up to be eighth graders who remind me of sumo wrestlers, but we know to keep out of their way. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “I came fifth and it was an improvement for me because I came eighth the term before. You know, our class is very competitive. I used to always come first in my primary school.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I was the eighth straight child she sent to college. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of black eighth graders start clapping and shouting, “Right on!” and “You go, sister!” but the rest of us are standing there with our tongues glued to the bottoms of our mouths. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I was just about to finish Form Two, the equivalent of eighth grade in America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z That was in the middle of eighth grade. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We’re only in eighth grade, but everyone knows she’s already picked out her first three college choices, her probable major and potential minor and the focus of her eventual graduate studies. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mind buzzed with thoughts of her sister and Benny and eighth grade dances and long pale-pink dresses and corsages. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I want to stay here with you until my last breath,” Grandma Caye told my mom on that eighth afternoon. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Worst of all, I’d miss the eighth grade dance, which all the seventh graders were already gearing up for. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Her rank goes from first to eighth as she finally drags herself across the line. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was like she was so hungry for a normal eighth grader’s experiences that she needed to drink in mine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When it widened through a stand of old pines, the eighth graders looked behind and saw me, and they strung out to cover the whole path. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In my busiest year, eighth grade, I served at over two hundred masses. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I especially looked forward to seeing some of my classmates in the eighth grade at El Camino Junior High. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We’re planning to take an eighth person into hiding with us! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It's the evening of my eighth day on the road. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In eighth grade, I entered a different world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He combed his hair in the mirror, pulling his fingers through the floppy part Ashley Sternberger in eighth grade had once called “adorable.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He had finished the eighth grade in the poor southern state of Guerrero and saw nothing in his future there but fixing flat tires. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She must have come straight from varsity cheering practice — she was one of only three eighth graders who got to practice with the high school squad — because she was wearing her uniform. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I came into the games ranked eighth in the world, and no matter what everyone else expected of me, I wanted to win. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It would have been better if it had turned out to be a stranger—a sixth or eighth grader I didn’t see in homeroom every day. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She thinks Annabeth is the most levelheaded demigod ever to hit eighth grade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The test alone had caused the wheel to move one eighth of its circumference. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her old school had been kindergarten through eighth grade, and that was back when she and Lauren were inseparable, even dressing alike when they were really young. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They probably didn’t know that his wife was a teacher too—eighth grade English at a school on Chicago’s South Side. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z August has rolled around too soon, and we only have a few more weeks before eighth grade starts. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A bunch of seventh and eighth graders in wine-colored uniforms are crowded outside the building, beneath the overhang, trying to stay dry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eighth child, Leopold, had inherited the gene and died of a brain hemorrhage at age thirty. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My tattered old bra, the one I’d had since eighth grade, was on display. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There are no early sources for his story except a few brief allusions in Hesiod, in the eighth or ninth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hadn’t planned on any late work. I got two more coming. This is my eighth today.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern continues with eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, sixty-fourth notes, and so on, each type of note being half the length of the previous type. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Sookie manhandled his burger and ripped off about an eighth of a pound like a bear. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He drafted plans, elegant plans, in eighth-, quarter-, and half-inch scale. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Only seven letter names are used to name notes: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The eighth note would, of course, be the next A, beginning the next octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A dotted quarter note, for example, would be the length of a quarter plus an eighth, because an eighth note is half the length of a quarter note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular . Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But unfortunately, we couldn’t hold on to the lead, with Dagmara failing to score any points in the eighth match, leaving the margin too large for Mariel to even the score and pull ahead. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “The eighth graders loved my name for our mission model. I told them it was our destiny to win the competition, and that this was our child. They thought it was brilliant.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I don’t want to, but it’s so much easier than drawing attention to myself by trying to go against the swarm of eighth graders headed in one direction. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “You see, our studies in the ninth grade were more or less a review of what we had in the eighth grade.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But on the eighth day Tehlu did not pause to sleep or eat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Gram is trying to pretend how excited she is I'm finally in the eighth grade, like this is a really big deal. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z As we make our way through the maze of kids, corridors, and staircases, we come across another little kid stranded in a sea of gigantic, frantic eighth graders. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Over the next two days the platform sank another eighth of an inch but no farther. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When the eighth round finally began, the lights went out again, but this time only for eight minutes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On the bus, I ignore the eighth grade boy who pretend-coughs some comment I can’t understand and lean my face against the window. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z On her eighth try using this technique, the naiads apparently lost interest. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, I was afraid to go out for recess, since I figured that Mrs. Baker had probably recruited an eighth grader to do something awful to me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The opening is maybe an eighth of an inch. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Not too long afterward, eighth grade had an assembly in the gym to talk about the upcoming orientation day we were going to have over at the county high school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z In the elevators that carry me to the eighth floor of my apartment in Grafton Hill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Palmer invited them to his eighth birthday, but no one came. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Our apartment isn’t super high, only the eighth floor, but from my window, you sure can see a lot. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Directly in front of us, behind a long counter, a row of white people, mostly women, stood staring at us as though we were the world’s eighth wonder. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t you go right down to the office and ask?” one of the eighth grade boys asks Ms. Rochambeau. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z As night came on—the eighth night of the monsoon—the winds increased, whining and howling around our hut as if seeking to pluck it from the earth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The best thing about being eighth grade president was definitely the checks Mr. Kasigi had given me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Sure, he’s weird, but he’s the best eighth grade president we’ve ever had.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Then we’d sneak into the parking lot and hide behind the teachers’ cars all the way to the street, just like the eighth graders do. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At El Camino Junior High I continued the eighth grade, which I had started in Corcoran the first week of November after the grape season was over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The kid gives me about an eighth of a smile and then turns back to Tiny, who—to be fair—is clearly the better therapist. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z An eighth grader in a football jersey lurches against my side, and I mumble an apology a split second after he’s gone. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It had been a big enough deal when you wore those black spike-heeled boots to school when you were in eighth grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “That eighth grader. His name is Patrick. Very cute, actually. And he plays soccer.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z As his old rival Specify flew to the victory, Seabiscuit labored in sixth, Kayak eighth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighth grade president wasn’t supposed to set a good example. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Maybe the coach saw a few eighth graders pounding the younger kids like usuaL Maybe the other kids saw Matt Sloans thugs getting ready, to toss Molotov cocktails around. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When writing finally returned to Greece, in the eighth century B.C., the new Greek writing, its users, and its uses were very different. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The swung triplets may be written as triplets, or they may simply be written as 11straight11 eighth notes or dotted eighth-sixteenths. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When I was done, I pulled out my zine supplies and a sheet of paper that I folded into eighths. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z And what Zach had in mind amounted to calling the entire eighth grade down on Cap. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I never heard of no eighth graders that can dunk. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Beethoven’s eighth piano sonata, known as the Pathetique, was written when he was twenty-eight and making a name for himself in Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z With an eighth of a mile to go, Richardson felt Ligaroti beginning to weaken. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The way into the eighth-grade side of the locker room was blocked by stupid eighth graders standing like cows at a gate they can’t get through. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z I remember once when we were in the eighth grade, Andy had a puppy who got hit by a car. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he was in the eighth grade and I was in sixth. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z An eighth grader, Julie Hopper, had her legs across Em’s lap. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I have my eighth birthday in a motel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The eighth graders have the spring dance,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Gino and some other eighth graders were back at the goal kicking shots at the kid in the gray sweatshirt. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z —Getting chicken pox, both of us, in the eighth grade, and staying at your house for a week, because we couldn’t go to school. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z First, jockeys must have an exquisitely fine sense of pace over each furlong, or eighth of a mile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s a load off my mind. When I found out they made him eighth grade president—well, Sophie filled me in on what that might mean.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z One day when Sapo and me were in the eighth grade, Tapia told us, “You speak two languages, you are worth two people.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The horse finished the mile sparkling and galloped out an eighth of a mile farther, still burning Pollard’s arms in his eagerness to continue. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And then in eighth grade, I had this girlfriend. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Old Town and Knightsbridge, where I attend eighth grade, are both on the side of campus that is opposite our house. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There, with the full weight of its military power in evidence, Blue Team issued an eight-point ultimatum to Van Riper, the eighth point being the demand to surrender. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Hesiod in the eighth or ninth century tells about the Chimaera, and Anteia’s love and the sad end of Bellerophon are in the Iliad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “However, I recently celebrated my eighth year of sobriety.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He was the same eighth grader who had named me Mars long ago, those many weeks ago. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Laurencin called a school assembly for the contest against the eighth grade. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z When we got to Deborah’s car, her two grandsons—Davon and Alfred, who were just shy of their eighth and fourth birthdays —sat in the backseat screaming at each other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Further fact: No sixth grade had ever competed against the eighth because no sixth grade had ever gotten that far. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Andrew says some eighth graders are taking bets on when the famous couple will get back together. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The varsity race was next, and I lined up behind the eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The news spread like wildfire that the eighth grade president was down again. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z When I looked at the hairball on the payload, I didn’t see the eighth grade president; I saw the Super Bowl champions. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Most kids my age would call Darlene a diary, but she’s much more than a place to write stupid lists of the cutest guys in eighth grade. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Since I totally just told off Matt Hubbard and some eighth grade boy. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He took us right to the fancy-food store on the eighth floor. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They’re rounding the corner for their eighth lap now, and he’s starting to see some flaws in his logic. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At 2 P.M., the entire school shuffled into the auditorium, where each of us eighth graders was awarded a certificate and a discount coupon to Kings Dominion, an amusement park down in Virginia. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Then she copied the list onto a piece of loose-leaf paper and folded it in half, then in quarters, then in eighths, then in sixteenths. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Allen knew Phillip was something special in eighth grade, when he had broken his arm during the first defensive series of a game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, in the eighth or ninth classroom I checked, I saw her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z But they also had interviews with Mrs. Gates, Mr. Ward, the sheriff, and a group of eighth graders who had been in the Portable 19 rescue brigade. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The local papers would have a field day reporting that while I was running a principals’ conference in Las Vegas, my trusted eighth grade president was emptying my treasury. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A black girl who’s sitting at the other eighth grade table raises her hand, and Ms. Rochambeau nods to her. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Olinski's sixth graders were David versus the eighth grade Goliath, and the kids with the slingshots knew how to use them. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon, Howard had a little track of three eighths of a mile cut out of the flat valley land. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, Jessie. Did you hear about the eighth grade dance?” he asked casually, leaning his elbows on the counter. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z And for the eighth time, he turned to Mrs. Halliday and asked, “What do you think the employees at the new company are saying about me?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “There’s flashlights on the eighth floor,” he reported to Liddy by walkie-talkie. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Okay, maybe “Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor” is only the eighth commandment, but it’s still pretty darn important. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Grinning and giddy, they watched as Smith’s charge worked over a mile and an eighth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, your eighth grade son is afraid of a girl. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Carl dropped out of school after the eighth grade and worked twelve to fourteen hours a day on the farm, harvesting with a team of horses, baling hay, milking and feeding the cows. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z The only time anyone had ever called me anything close to beautiful was when I was in eighth grade. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z His first recorded arrest was on October 27, 1936—his eighth birthday. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z At the halfway point, he was an eighth of a mile ahead, and observers began speculating on when the boy in the black shorts was going to collapse. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z That will leave an eighth of an inch between them.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z There had been a few seventh graders scattered among the other teams, but all the rest of the middle school regional champs were eighth graders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The eighth graders have the second floor, and the sixth graders have the first floor. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Now supremely confident of his chances of winning both the eighth and the ninth games, which would give him the match, Bobby rather formally declared that he would dethrone Spassky. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The bombings marked the eighth anniversary of American troops arriving in Saudi Arabia. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z On the eighth day Father had to return to work in Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Teotihuacan fell in the eighth century for reasons yet unknown, but left an enduring mark in central Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The middle drawer of the coffee table stuck out just a little—maybe an eighth of an inch—but for all Emma knew, maybe it had been like that before. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Folsom points, by contrast, are smaller and finer—perhaps two inches long and an eighth of an inch thick—and usually have a less prominent tail. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the eighth century B.C. the Greeks became the first people to indicate all vowels systematically by the same types of letters used for consonants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Andrew Yee, an eighth grader whose mother works with Dad at the dinosaur dig, takes my arm and starts leading me out of the atrium. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The boys’ restroom was filled with eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z An eighth of a foot...a sixteenth of a foot...a thirty-second of a foot...smaller and smaller distances, but Achilles never catches up. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The school year has just ended, and on my top-secret final exams I scored the second highest in social studies and the highest in science, out of the entire eighth grade. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not sure how long it will take to finish; I’m in the second semester of eighth grade, so I only have weekends. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s laughable to think that Nathan—who, from what I can tell, hasn’t gone on a date since eighth grade—would be speaking from experience. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Julie fell on Sixty- eighth Street, and Alex had to pull her up, which took more energy than he cared to spare at that point. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In fact, he had seldom received a mark lower than an A. In the seventh and eighth grades at St. Jude’s, he had received straight A's for two years except for a 5-plus one term. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks more like a baseball-basketball guy to me, but he coached the soccer team last season, and he knows most of the seventh and eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By eighth bell, the mansion is packed with the finest Illustrian families, along with a few of the wealthiest Mercators. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Did I mention she’s the hottest girl in the eighth grade? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Football, of course. And as the eighth grade president, you have an important role.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I sneak a peek at her, leaning over one of the eighth grade boy’s notebooks and pointing out “a few gaps in the logic here.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z One girl, an eighth grader who played the piano, was shaking so hard she had to start four times. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Seventh and eighth graders are too old for grandparents, apparently. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “This is what you wear for an eighth grade semiformal dance.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His eighth name day had come and gone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was what eighth graders whose career goal was the state penitentiary did. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And every country in the world sent its own team of one thousand eighth graders. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Dashes equal rests, and the slur underneath two notes is equal to two eighth notes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They caught the lucky eye on their eighth day of sailing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A gigantic eighth grader named Noah “No Neck” Nelson strode up the hall. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z This was the question that the eighth grade could not answer and Noah could: Name all the parts of the human eye in the order that light reaches them. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He stopped only when the stupid herd of eighth graders scattered and Coach Substitute ran in to find out what all the screeching was about. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z On the bookmobile ride back to the Olympia Village motel, Kyle realized that, at the end of the fourth day and eighth game, there were only two days and four games left. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z And then I would find that I had come up right behind the pack of eighth graders, and they were looking back at me, and I slowed down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The race, slated for August 12, would be run over a mile and an eighth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We tear through as much of it as we can, James helping me with whatever math he remembers from eighth grade, tossing me peanut butter cups when I get a right answer. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Even though I stayed at the back of the pack of eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The elevator, the only one for hundreds of miles, conveyed them to the eighth floor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mr.Thomas L. O’Halloran teaches three classes in one room, sixth, seventh, eighth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Just after my eighth birthday, Billy Deel and his dad moved into the Tracks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes bug open when I grab my eighth slice. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The cycle referenced in the title is a system for synchronizing the ritual and solar years by adding extra months to the calendar at intervals of two years, but not in the eighth year. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Let me tell you, the eighth graders were not happy. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “But do I look like a regular eighth grader?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was now on my eighth attempt, and I’d been playing for six hours straight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The rest of the eighth graders were already onstage, standing in a big semicircle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The first story about the creation of the narcissus is told only in an early Homeric Hymn of the seventh or eighth century, the second I have taken from Ovid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Bill Gates got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Seems like everybody else in eighth grade got it except me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Isa, I’d really like for you to go with me to the eighth grade dance next month. Please, will you come with me?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He grew a few inches in eighth grade, and that’s about when he started listening to good music and not wearing those giant wolf face T-shirts. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z But not one who might be in seventh or eighth grade or even high school. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And it’s certainly not something you want the hottest girl in eighth grade to hear. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the eighth week Keith took me aside following practise and gave me an evaluation of my game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I am an eighth part Jew,’ Biff said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Prozac was the third medication Dr. Howell tried me on, back when I was in eighth grade. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His reply posed far more questions than it answered: apparently, Cap had asked about it as part of his duties as eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Every school day includes a pie-eating contest!” calls out one of the eighth grade boys. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I head to the eighth floor with the insistent nurse. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I brought up every miserable commendation and award I’d won since the eighth grade. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Adding to my frustration, Alex would get to be in eighth grade—the grade I was supposed to be in. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If I were in school, I’d probably be in eighth grade now. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The second writer on the list is sometimes placed in the ninth century, sometimes in the eighth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was from eighth grade. We found her mom’s old wedding dress and so she made me go home and get a red sari so I could pretend to be a bride too.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I sat there for a few minutes, staring at the back of Renee Albert, who’s the hottest girl in the eighth grade, trying to concentrate. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tanisha and her mom had rushed to the eighth floor to get Pop Pop and also Daddy, who happened to have come home early from work. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It stunk to be starting eighth grade over a month into the school year. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Mom, come on, a kid in the mental hospital at fourteen, barely passing eighth grade—that’s not really what you had in mind, is it?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z A few weeks after I started eighth grade, Gay was making notes in her date book when she looked up. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Then, perhaps because Mother was spending all her time teaching Luke to read, Tyler asked Dad if he could enroll in the eighth grade. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By the eighth of December the Eleanor had joined the Dartmouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That eighth grader might not believe that stuff, but Frank does. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z An eighth was out, a ninth, a tenth. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In 6/8, there are six beats in a measure with each eighth note receiving one beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z On the eighth day of December the Father above took my father and took my mother. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z My English-language teacher, Mrs. Khoji, came to my house to tell me that I had received a scholarship to the Catholic school for eighth grade. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She says by the time I start eighth grade I’ll have my own room, but that’s the last thing I want now. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She doesn’t know a lot about it because she had to drop out when she was in eighth grade to help with the family business. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Gone in a flash, the memory of her eighth birthday, when her mother...her mother did something. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Never before had anyone screamed for the job of eighth grade president like Capricorn Anderson. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “He had to stop school at eighth grade to help his family work in the fields. What a shame.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah. I'm even more grounded now. Probably through the entire eighth grade.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “We go to school here. You remember: I’m Thalia. And this is Annabeth and Percy. We re in the eighth grade.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The eighth rule of Camp 14, as Shin was required to memorize it, said: “Should sexual physical contact occur without prior approval, the perpetrators will be shot immediately.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z By the second half of eighth grade, I had started spending more and more time with Brooke. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Mommy’s house was orchestrated chaos and as the eighth of twelve children, I was lost in the sauce, so to speak. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean—?” I didn’t get a chance to finish the thought, because he was already flagging down a very dazed eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Each hour the dance hall seems to grow progressively warmer, so by the eighth day, the air, walls, and floor are saturated with the hot, teeming odor of boys. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The back passenger door opened, and out stepped a gangly eighth grade boy. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The crowd—every sixth, seventh, and eighth grader at Chumley Prep—settles down. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z When I had finished the eighth grade back in Mason, Michigan, that was the last time I’d thought of studying anything that didn’t have some husde purpose. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And then this huge hand settles on my shoulder, and I look down and see the middle school graduation ring he's worn on his pinkie ever since eighth grade and know immediately that it's Tiny. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Faizah was only in eighth grade but was already taking private fencing lessons with Coach Mustilli in anticipation of being on the high school team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Bridge and Sherm made sure they weren’t assigned to break down the last “official” act, which was a barbershop quartet of eighth graders. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Danny understood this, too, since he ran behind the eighth graders on the junior varsity team, and they were angry eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z After all, next term was coming, and it never hurt a sixth grader to have a play sister in the eighth grade, or a tenth-year student to be able to call a twelfth grader Bubba. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighth grade days flowed in their hungry path and I grew more conscious of myself; I sat in classes, bored, wondering, dreaming. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What made Sunday the eighth different and particularly dangerous was the steady wind blowing in from the southwest. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Naomi’s worshipful eyes never left the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Well, I thought to myself one day as I walked to Dunbar Junior High for my eighth grade class, at least college classes will be open to us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Hazel was the eighth, and his mother became confused about his sex when he was born. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "And braver. I haven't been on my own since the eighth grade." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Faces of my teachers, distorted with my exhaustion, saying over and over, “Sparrow is going to repeat eighth grade” and “Sparrow hasn’t done work in months” and “What’s wrong with your daughter, Ms. Cooke?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z At a concert in February 1814, for example, Beethoven presented the premiere of his eighth symphony alongside a performance of his seventh, which itself was only two months old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He suggested that when elements were arranged by weight they appeared to repeat certain properties–in a sense to harmonize–at every eighth place along the scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One of the eighth grade boys jumps out of his seat. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z This is his eighth; he has pushed forward 1,800 miles. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She and Brian had been friends since the eighth grade, had been dating for almost two years. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the Pleasant Grove School that went from kindergarten through the eighth grade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Tymeka is our age, and I recognized her from the eighth grade when we used to compete in the Academic Olympics. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You may have noticed that some of the eighth notes in Figure 1.39 don't have flags; instead they have a beam connecting them to another eighth note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She taught reading to the first grade and algebra to the eighth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t smile or say “Good Morning” or “Welcome to eighth grade” or “Did you have a nice summer?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer between seventh and eighth grade, Dad put me to work stuffing envelopes for an advertising campaign he was doing to get more customers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “If I put the average eighth grader in the same position as Renee, I’m guessing that after the first few attempts, they would have said, ‘I don’t get it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He remembered second aunt with her cactus collection, fifth uncle with his beard, eighth uncle with that opium addict, socialite wife. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted the bar again quickly, but on the eighth rep, he struggled. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The eighth graders loved me after that They threw all of my clothes in the showers, and I walked home leaving puddles at every step. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Through the ninth grade, but it was really the eighth,” I told him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighth graders laughed, but when I didn’t go away Gino said to me, “You here to play, or you here to model sportswear?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched, horrified, as she tore it into quarters, then eighths. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z We all saw the landing on television when it happened, though, and for a school project in eighth grade I drew the monument that was built there on Wrigley Field. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The eighth week he took the route she completed her journey and went into her overgrown yard as usual. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In eighth grade I even put in detention time for a week, unrepentantly, for unscrewing the valve stems on one really uncouth boy’s bike tires myself and then painstakingly deflating them, for her. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It was the responsibility of the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z She wanted a birthday cake with her family, and she wanted Layla to sing “Happy Birthday” in French like she’d done every year since she started learning the language in eighth grade. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All the sixth graders have to sit in the front of the bus, while all the eighth graders lord it over everyone else in the back. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The competition was tremendous now, but the day after she was ninth a three-page letter arrived from Westley in London and just reading it over put her up to eighth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But on my eighth birthday my father brought a big box into the house. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Sixth graders head straight to the cafeteria and seventh and eighth graders are supposed to line up in the gym before first period. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Just remember,” Andrea went on, “when you start school in the States next fall, you’ll be in eighth grade. Nobody in the eighth grade is going to be singing ‘Swa- nee River.’” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, music for walking or marching is in duple meter and uses steady quarter notes, running music contains eighth notes, skipping music uses dotted rhythms, jumping music contains large interval leaps, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z On the eighth day at sea, Lefty Stephanides, grandly, on one knee, in full view of six hundred and sixty-three steerage passengers, proposed to Desdemona Aristos while she sat on a docking cleat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Those five years, from eighth grade through the end of high school, were Bill Gates’s Hamburg, and by any measure, he was presented with an even more extraordinary series of opportunities than Bill Joy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “We regularly meet twice a year in front of the Bolshoi Theater on the second of May and the eighth of November.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The principal gave the names of the three eighth graders; then he said, “And the anchor leg was run by Penn Webb, who brought the team from last place to second.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The first step would be to isolate the bouts in question: those fought on a tournament’s final day between a wrestler on the bubble and a wrestler who has already secured his eighth win. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z All the eighth graders get decked out for this event. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The eighth grade president was a star now. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Eleven hundred kids were absolutely convinced that the eighth grade president had come to tragedy. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It was Patrick, with a bunch of other eighth graders, including Julie Hopper, who patted Em on the head as she passed. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z As sixth graders who were taking the test in the eighth month of the academic year, these students needed to achieve an average score of 6.8 to be considered up to national standards. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z On the eighth of every month, I was entitled to do the same. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In eighth grade I read several hundred books, the tides of which I still can recall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the eighth day, Pinch fell sick and was moved into the cabin where Nokomis took care of them all. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Surely Luke was thinking about Mark’s seventh birthday, or maybe his eighth. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z When I catch a group of eighth graders looking at me before homeroom on Friday, I force myself to smile instead of look away. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t remember you warning the guy off when we nominated him for eighth grade president,” I snarled. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The class had shrunk to ten boys, and I came out eighth. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Today was the first day of eighth grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit mowed his stablemate down with incredible speed, running the first eighth in 11 seconds, a quarter in 23, and three eighths in 36. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I became a different person to the other eighth graders. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He really could have been any other eighth- grade kid at Eastham Middle School. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z I was in eighth grade then—a little man. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had long suspected how the kids went about picking their eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z After making a jot of notation, Rick continued, turning to the eighth question of the Voigt-Kampff profile scale. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He couldn’t show it because I was just a sixth grader and he was an eighth grader, but he knew, all right. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z In fact, I don’t know anyone’s number by heart, except my stupid eighth grade boyfriend’s, who is the last person on this or any other planet that I’d call. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Kids grabbed at it until an eighth grader emerged with it on his head. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A month ago, Danny Brooks, the eighth grader with a scoliosis brace, was picked six slots ahead of me for a round of dodgeball. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Almost a third of them had a parent who had dropped out of school before the eighth grade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z For weeks it had been open season on the eighth grade president, but he hung in there. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z This will be my eighth report this quarter. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Even though she’s only in sixth grade and all the other kids are in seventh and eighth, Zoey’s the best one on her team. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “What? He’s a WHAT? He’s in eighth grade.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was open season on the eighth grade president, especially on the school bus, where there were no teachers, and the only rule is anything goes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But in the winter of her eighth year, to Marie-Laure’s surprise, she begins to get it right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Since so much depends on a wrestler’s eighth win, he should be expected to fight harder in a crucial bout. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The number has soared because prices have correspondingly plummeted, to about an eighth of what they cost in 1994. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the 1870s, the Mooneys moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Fannie went to school, learned to read and write, and finished the eighth grade. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The West End had grades from third to eighth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Seventh graders sit in the middle or as close to the back as the eighth graders will allow. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Not even the eighth grade boy who had fifty different ideas for topics two days ago. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z By the time I reached the. first bend out of the trees, I was just behind the clump of eighth graders from Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He was by far the coolest guy at C Average, totally adorable, and the mastermind behind making Cap Anderson eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I don’t care about eighth grade or Mr. Phillips and his thoughts about my “potential.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Suppose eighth graders thought I was a rat eater? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleven hundred screaming, cheering kids went suddenly silent at the sight of the eighth grade president stretched out, dazed, on the grass. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Cap Anderson was the ultimate eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z His grandchildren would inherit a quarter; his great-grandchildren, an eighth; his great-great-grandchildren, one-sixteenth, and so forth—until his genetic essence had been diluted, in just a few generations, into complete oblivion. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That was a flapper thing to do and Andrea was only in eighth grade. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was supposed to be in eighth grade, as I had finished seventh grade in Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I was in eighth grade and I had a little speech to say at my graduation ceremony—I liked that. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach West has some of the eighth graders taking notes and keeping track of our times. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Soon after he passed away, a magazine poll taken to determine who “was the greatest man in the United States” placed Billy Sunday eighth, tied with the legendary philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Deborah was happy when she died: her grandson Little Alfred was now twelve, headed into the eighth grade, and doing well in school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A piece in six eight might have six beats in every measure, with an eighth note getting a beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I sit down to eat and liberally spread salad dressing across my plate, because on the eighth day God created ranch dressing. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A little while later, as I was chatting with the former surgeon, who told me he and Baba had been classmates in eighth grade, Soraya pulled on my sleeve. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But whatever happens, I will never forget Donoghue or our eighth- grade class. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A general rule of racing is that virtually no horse can sustain his maximum speed for more than three eighths of a mile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In August 1911, Lydia Zvereva became the eighth woman in the world—and the first woman in Russia—to get a pilot's license. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t get why the school party is for seventh graders only. It should be seventh and eighth together.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He says that Candy is his scout, that if she reports that school is okay and confirms where all the exits are, he might start eighth grade with me and Bob in September. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “It’s your present for finishing the eighth grade.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I was in eighth grade and I had gotten into high school and I was going to a party? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Then every seventh and eighth grader started to pour out of those portables, some still calm, some panicking. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The seventh and eighth grades, which our Special Progress class did in one year, were remarkable only in that I had no major fights and for the depression of my father. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Another tradition at Baker & Inglis: every year the eighth graders put on a classical Greek play. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But the tortoise lumbers ahead in that time by an eighth of a foot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I needed to remember I was in sixth grade and not in eighth grade, and I was not the hero who was supposed to be going to the rescue all the time. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The kid in the gray sweatshirt played goal for the eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Birmingham Middle has sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But in the eighth year, back from exile in Attika, Orestes killed the snake who killed his father. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Allegra shrugged and returned to her new favorite topic, the eighth grade dance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Then he looked at the rest of the eighth graders, and all the seventh and sixth graders, too. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The hottest girl in the eighth grade came to my house to tutor me, and I booted her off of my property. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was a factory worker whose education ended at the eighth grade; his mother had some factory jobs, too. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t get mad. I’m sure lots of kids in the eighth grade can’t read.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z According to my tally, Mrs. Hagen was my eighth so-called mother in three and a half years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I never thought they would make me move all the way to Arizona and go to a new school right after starting eighth grade. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The east wing, which was sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z On the fifteenth of May, while David was in his last day of school in the eighth grade, his uncle Owen died in a drugged state resembling a coma. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Nurse Myerson helped him up into the ambulance, and the greatest eighth grade president we ever had was gone. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Right after recess, I found that the eighth graders had filled the boys’ restroom with smoke so thick you couldn’t even smell the disinfectant. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “I’m not saying you can’t care. I just don’t want a repeat of my science project in eighth grade.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “On Halloween. A lot of the eighth graders were at Julie’s house watching horror movies.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z My back started bothering me in eighth grade but really began to hurt earlier that summer. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But when the eighth came round, a certain Phoinikian adventurer came too, a plausible rat, who had already done plenty of devilry in the world. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Better than any eighth grader he had ever coached before. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z On her eighth birthday, Ethel’s father forbid her to play with Jasmine so as not to pervert the natural state of relations between the races. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After I spent a year dreading it, November eighth finally come. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Eventually, Parker purchased his eighth company, a large tech firm. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was his eighth revolution around the lake. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We were occupied in the usual manner on the day of the eighth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I run up the stairs to the eighth floor and knock on 806. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z For example, the interval between the seventh and eighth harmonics is a major second, but so are the intervals between 8 and 9, between 9 and 10, and between 10 and 11. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Maybe she didn’t understand what it meant to be hungry, not even to care when the server gave you a look as he brought the eighth, ninth basket of breadsticks to the table. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Capricorn Anderson was elected eighth grade president, unopposed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z We were outcasts in a school where the smartest eighth graders were in the 8–1 homeroom, each subsequent drop in number indicating one notch less smarts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Before they left, my mother called the school principal to notify him that I’d be entering eighth grade. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighth of ten kids, Oshiro had grown up in a small town in Hawaii. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A walking model of all the various styles of fine hand sewing and it didn’t worry me that I was only twelve years old and merely graduating from the eighth grade. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On a previous visit, she had pushed it inquisitively into the cigar cutter, and had lost about an eighth of an inch of it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z For me, the story started the day before the beginning of eighth grade. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We were going to do the seventh and eighth grades in one year and were then going to do the ninth grade the next year, making up any work we needed along the way. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z And in front of a whole lot of eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Beatrice, I—” The elevator reaches the eighth floor and the doors open. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z On the eighth explosion, the sluggers shocked me again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The school ran from kindergarten all the way through eighth grade, which meant that by the time I’d reached the upper grades, I knew every light switch, every chalkboard and cracked patch of hallway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Not everyone in eighth grade is going to know exactly the same things.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But Tayo could remember that time in the eighth grade when they had followed old Benny to see where he kept his wine. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The eighth grade wing was on the opposite end of the building from the art room. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Let me tell you, when you’re in the seventh grade, it isn’t healthy to run at the front of a pack of eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Can you imagine what it’s like to walk into the boys’ restroom before the eighth graders have cleared out? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So in the spring of eighth grade I decided to quit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got to the apparatus unit in the middle of November, Coach found out Joseph could do stuff better than any of the other eighth graders. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “It was here since, oh yes, the eighth of March. I guess it was late. You’re going to be sent home. This is your second Purple Heart, isn’t it?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in the afternoon of the eighth of October there was a sudden cry of pain from the room where they slept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On the eighth day Kunthi came as I was cooking the rice water. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought back to myself in eighth grade—all the good times still to come. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The eighth graders had picked this computer genius, Luke Simard, and got him elected president just so they could make fun of him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z For the record, they finished fourth and eighth respectively. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I did a term paper on the history of jazz in Chicago when I was in eighth grade. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In eighth grade he had torn ligaments in his thumb. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it looks anything like the artist’s conception,” physicist Robert Cornog told a friend, “it will be the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh wonder of the world.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, we turn into a neighborhood where some kids who definitely look like eighth graders get on and go straight to the back of the bus. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z But for a while I didn’t worry about eighth grade. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighth grade I applied to the High School of Art and Design on Fifty-seventh Street and Second Avenue. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He waved his flashlight back and forth as if to day of eighth grade we defaced his yearbook picture with staples and left it like an effigy behind his seat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A sixth grader wouldn’t dare step to an eighth grader. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He’s supposedly the Link Rowley of the eighth grade, Mr. Popularity, basketball star. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z When I awoke that morning, the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, the straw mat covering my bed was already sticky. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighth graders were talking about it in the hall all week. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “In eighth grade, I was a lot smaller than I am now. That was before your time, before you got here.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In 4/4 or 2/4 time, microbeats would be represented by the eighth notes, while in 3/4 time microbeats would be represented by the quarter notes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Spring semester of eighth grade brought me into Mr. da Silva’s English class. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Normal schools do. Everybody always waits for the eighth-grade president to do everything. But our eighth graders are lazy. No offense.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Of course he’s a student! He’s the eighth grade president!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z An attractive high school girl had to look good to an eighth grader, especially one who had barely laid eyes on a female who wasn’t his grandmother. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The eighth, sixteenth, and thirty-second harmonics will also be A's. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In the West End there was a room for each grade—third, fourth, and fifth on the ground floor, six, seventh, and eighth on the second floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After working as a proofreader in the seventh grade, I’d started laying out pages in the eighth grade, and in the ninth grade I began reporting and writing articles and taking photographs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He still had no idea how he could get Bri from Eighty- eighth Street downtown. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Seventh and eighth periods were Music with Mr. Kempsey, our form teacher. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Now people were treating the eighth grade president like—well, like an eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z This story is told only in a very early poem, one of the earliest of the Homeric Hymns, dating from the eighth or the beginning of the seventh century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So the glad days passed; and on the eighth day of May the Riders of Rohan made ready, and rode off by the North-way, and with them went the sons of Elrond. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Did this happen when you were in eighth grade?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z No. Now, are my eighth graders my most rambunctious group? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t he that eighth grader who looks like he’s thirty?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He then went on to algebra I, a course that the average college-bound student took in ninth grade and some took in eighth. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some tall eighth graders are standing behind me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “I learned more from my grandmother than I did the whole eighth grade.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My restlessness with Mason—and for the first time in my life a restlessness with being around white people—began as soon as I got back home and entered eighth grade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Gay was a writer who was just finishing her eighth book, and Philip made films. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The link was near the bottom of the Local News section, the eighth click down, but I was on the boards. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Although he had not been our teacher when we were in the eighth grade, we had been allowed every day to join the high school for music since the chorus could not do without Caroline. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest’s appearance would be only the eighth by a US physicist since the inception. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z PV Middle had two dances a year for the seventh and eighth graders, Fall Ball and Spring Fling. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He came to my eighth birthday party and spent the whole time picking his nose and eating it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Oh, that story," said Mo. “Didn't I make it up for your eighth birthday? It's rather a gloomy tale, as far as I remember." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Several weeks into eighth grade, I finally heard from Martin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was almost a full week since anybody had laid eyes on the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The school was about four blocks away—a big, redbrick, square building that took care of all grades, kindergarten through the eighth. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you telling me you forgot about the eighth grade dance already?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I am in the eighth grade and am studying French. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond them, the stupid stupid stupid eighth graders stood watching. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Technically, he’s top banana as president of the eighth grade, even though he only ran for office to impress Suzy Kraft, who dumped him anyway, the day after the election. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z By the time I came around for the second time, things were slowing down considerably, and every eighth grader—and a whole lot of the seventh graders—were far ahead of me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z This was my time—eighth grade, captain of the football and soccer teams, Big Man on Campus. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The first time I dated her was when we were in the eighth grade. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The duel stretched on: an eighth, a quarter, a half. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t that amazing that she’s going to the eighth grade dance?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I only have two weeks before grades close and there’s no way Mom will let me go if I don’t, well, graduate eighth grade. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z What happened was a massive wedgie contest between the seventh and eighth graders, two pebble fights, and a full-tackle basketball game. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was in eighth grade when I got a painful and prominent red zit on my forehead. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t the eighth commandment say that a scythe can’t own anything but his robe, ring, and journal?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I said to my father, “First game is October eighth.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z So we went to the movies, Barbarella again, the eighth straight night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All four members of Maxwell, the other team in the final round, were in the eighth grade. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z For example, the election for eighth grade president was coming up. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The elevator moves like molasses, chug-a-lugging its way to the eighth floor. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Mom wasn’t expecting it when, on the eighth day, Grandma Caye called her into her room and said she was ready to die. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Stella’s father stiffened at the word “boys,” his face going hard, but Pastor Patton told the man calmly, “We have come to register to vote in the presidential election to be held on November eighth.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After the eighth, the young man interrupted his selfpunishment to run to the wood’s edge and there be violently sick. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as an eighth of the hill, by volume, was composed of such fragments, he said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The eighth child was named Hazel before the mother got it through her head that Hazel was a boy and by that time she was used to the name and never bothered to change it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no fluke: in another clandestine workout not long after, the colt would tie a thirty-year-old world record for seven eighths of a mile, running it in 1:22. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though this was my first time in the eighth grade at El Camino, I did not feel too nervous. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All through seventh grade and into eighth I pursued my goal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I think so. I definitely went in eighth. Remember?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z But he wanted to start the seventh and eighth graders now so that he could choose a varsity team and have them run over the summer and be ready to begin real competition by September. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Basically the third floor is entirely the sixth grade, the second floor is the seventh grade, and the first floor is the eighth grade, with a few exceptions. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she did something special for me: she helped me apply to a private Catholic girls’ school, Our Lady of Mercy, for the eighth grade. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Matt’s mouth has dropped open, and the eighth grade boy is looking at me like I just beamed in from space. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s one thing to hit jumpers over other eighth graders; it’s a whole other thing to score on high school monsters. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z But the eighth rat still lay unmoving among the saplings. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Now we were the eighth graders, and it was our turn to do the same thing. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I spoke across a vast gym floor to six hundred and fifty sixth, seventh, and eighth graders arrayed in bleachers before me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z For three years, from sixth to eighth grade, Ben would go to the courts adjacent to the Centre Theater in Alexandria, Virginia, to learn the fundamentals from boys much older and stronger than he. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The phone was up to its eighth ring. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I hadn’t seen the yard man since my mother replaced him three years ago, and Mr. Barron had vanished from my life after eighth grade. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I wish you could transfer to my school for eighth grade,” I told Damaris on the phone one night. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z As eighth grade president, I was in charge of the Halloween dance, and I was giving it the Rishon treatment. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z For all I knew, this could be her eighth or ninth attempt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I think something must happen to you when you get into eighth grade. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z This was Japan’s eighth largest city, and the location of an important army base. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We still have spring break together! And I haven't missed a spring break ‘Besties Weekend’ since eighth grade, when I got that cold!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z When I was walking out to the Mess the other night, I overheard two girls, probably from seventh or eighth grade, from Block 3—another desi block. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I was standing in the goal at soccer practice taking shots from some of the starting players, mostly eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, in order to be promoted, every student in third, sixth, and eighth grade had to manage a minimum score on the standardized, multiple-choice exam known as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t know what might happen if a dump of eighth graders caught a seventh grader in the lead. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Yet before my eyes, it had turned into the eighth grade president’s coming-out party. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, and their children, during the two months I lived with them—while finishing eighth grade—also tried to get me to tell them what was wrong. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The parents of a child provided, on average, half the content of that feature; the grandparents, a quarter; the great-grandparents, an eighth—and so forth, all the way back to the most distant ancestor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He treated us with complete seriousness, as if we eighth graders, during fifth period, might settle something scholars had been arguing about for centuries. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But now, in eighth grade, my size has become a profit center. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Ms. Rochambeau nods and moves on to the table of eighth grade boys who are all standing up and yelling at each other. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The woman eyed me coldly and said, “All seventh and eighth graders are in portable classrooms. The main building is for sixth graders only.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z True, eighth graders are pretty negative—I might be that way too next year. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In his formal education, he had never gone beyond the eighth grade. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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