Rising 8th Grade Reading List
2014-2015
Title
Author
Being with Henry
Martha Brooks
Burning Up
Caroline B. Cooney
Code Talker
Joseph Bruchac
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Good night, Maman
Norma Fox Mazer
Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
Ink Death
Cornelia Funke
Ironman
Chris Crutcher
Many Stones
Carolyn Coman
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Ann Head
Petey
Ben Mikaelsen
Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Rumblefish
S. E. Hinton
Sabriel
Garth Nix
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Laurie R. King
The Color of My Words
Joseph Lynn
The Golems Eye: The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Jonathan Stroud
The Hobbit, There and Back Again
J. R. R. Tolkien
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
The King's Shadow
Elizabeth Alder
The Race to Save the Lord God Birth
Phillip Hoose
The Slave Dancer: A Novel
Paula Fox
The Alchemist
Paul Coelho
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
Voyage of Plunder
Michele Torrey
Choose two novels from the list above and one WW II Biography or Autobiography
specified below.
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camp
Andrea Warren
The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom
Diary of Anne Frank
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Livia Bitton-Jackson
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli
A Lucky Child
Thomas Buergenthal