8th Grade Ideas for Summer Reading
You should be reading 5-7 books on your level in order to maintain it over the summer!
Title
Author
A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Beyond the Burning Time
Kathryn Lasky
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Homecoming
Cynthia Voigt
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Man Who Was Poe
Avi
The Maze
Will Hobbs
Missing May
Cynthia Rylant
Nothing but the Truth
Avi
The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson series)
Rick Riordan
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Redwall
Brian Jacques
Somewhere in the Darkness
Walter Dean Myers
Slam!
Walter Dean Myers
Hatchet
Gary Paulson
The Monster’s Ring
Bruce Coville
The View from Saturday
E.L. Konigsburg
Where the Lilies Bloom
Bill Cleaver and Vera Cleaver
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brasheres
Call of the Wild
Jack London
Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy
Ironman
Chris Crutcher
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Wringer
Jerry Spinelli
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
Stuck in Neutral
Terry Trueman
The Island
Gary Paulsen
The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
Skeleton Key (Alex Rider Series)
Anthony Horowitz
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Star Girl
Jerry Spinelli
Stormbreaker
Anthony Howowitz
Raven’s Gate
Anothony Horowitz
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe,
Joyce Carol Oates
Dickinson,
Twain,
James,
and
Hemingway
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart
The Book Theif
Markus Zusak
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green