Recommended 8th Grade Reading

Autobiography of my dead brother A long walk to water Adoration of Jenna Fox, The Airman Al Capone does my shirts All the broken pieces Almost astronauts Auslander, The Blue sword, The Boy who dared, The Boy who saved baseball, The Brain jack Chains: Seeds of America Chasing Lincolns killer Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, The : Eighth grade bites Compound, The Dairy queen Diceys song Edgar Allan Poes tales of mystery Elephant run Enders game Good brother, bad brother: The story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth Grimm legacy, The Heist society Hollow kingdom, The Hoot Hope was here Leviathan Longitude prize, The Loud silence of Francine Green, The Lucy long ago: uncovering the mystery of where we came from Walter Dean Myers Linda Sue Park Mary E. Pearson Eoin Colfer Gennifer Chaldenko Anne E. Burg Tanya Lee Stone Paul Dowsell Robin McKinley Susan Campbell Bartoletti John H. Ritter Brian Falkner Laurie Halse Anderson James Swanson Heather Brewer S. A. Bodeen Catherine Gilbert Murdock Cynthia Voight Edgar Allan Poe Roland Smith Orson Scott Card James Cross Giblin Realistic-Urban Fic Historical Fic Sci-Fi Adventure/Steampunk Historical Fic Historical Fic Non-Fic Historical Fic Fantasy Historical Fic/coming-of-age Sports Dystopia Historical Fic Non-Fic Paranormal Sci-Fi Realistic Fic Realistic Fic Mystery/Horror Historical Fic Sci-Fic Non-Fic

Elizabeth Shulman Ally Carter Clare B. Dunkle Carl Hiaasen Joan Bauer Scott Westerfeld Joan Dash Karen Cushman Catherine Thimmesh

Fairy tale Mystery Fantasy Animal Realistic Sci-Fi/Steampunk Non-Fic Historical Fic Non-Fic

Maximun Ride series Moon over Manifest More than a label: why what you wear and who youre .. Nation Old Yeller Onward: A photobiography of African-Am polar explorer Payback time Peak Poems from homeroom: a writers place to start Princess of the Midnight Ball Race to save the Lord God Bird, The Reality check Red Moon at Sharpsburg Romeo & Juliet code, The Ruby in the smoke, The Scat Secret garden, The Seven paths to death Shark girl Shooting the moon Sleeping freshmen never lie Smiles to go Stuck in neutral The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen amazing Thirteenth child, The This is rocket science: the true story of the risk-taking scien Touching Spirit Bear Under the baseball moon Watership down What I saw and how I lied Wizard of Earthsea, A Woods runner Written in bone: buried lives of Jamestown & Colonial Mar. Z for Zachariah

James Patterson Clare Vanderpoole Aisha Muharrar Terry Pratchett Fred Gipson Dolores Johnson Carl Deuker Roland Smith Kathi Appelt Jessica Day George Phillip M. Hoose Peter Abrahams Rosemary Wells Phoebe Stone Phillip Pullman Carl Hiaasen Frances Burnett Parker Dorothy Hoobler Kelly Bingham Frances ORoark David Lubar Jerry Spinelli Terry Trueman Chris Van Allsburg Patricia Wrede Gloria Skurzynski Ben Mikaelson John H. Ritter Douglas Adams Judy Blundell Ursula K. LeGuin Gary Paulsen Sally M. Walker Robert OBrien

Paranormal/Adventure Realistic Fic Non-Fic Survival Animal Biography Sports Adventure Poetry Fairy tale Non-Fic Mystery Historical Fic Mystery Mystery Realistic-eco fic Realistic-period Mystery Realistic Fic Historical Fic Humor Realistic Fic Psychological thriller Short Story collection Fantasy Non-Fic Realistic/Adventure Sports/realistic fic Animal Historical Fic Fantasy Historical Fic/adventure Non-Fic Dystopia/Sci-Fi