8th GRADE ELAR APPROVED READING LIST
All Classes
Regular English and Reading
Acorn People, The/Jones
Across Five Aprils/Hunt
And Then There Were None/Christie
Best Loved Folktales of the World/Cole
Blood on the River/ Carbonne
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The/Boyne
Bull Run/Fleischman
Burning Up/Cooney
California Blue/Klass
Call of the Wild/London
Changes in Latitude/Hobbs
Contender/Lipsyte
Downsiders/Shusterman
Dragonwings/Yep
Drums, Girls & Dangerous
Pie/Sonnenblick
Far North/Hobbs
Farewell to Manzanar/Houston
Fever, 1793/ Halse-Anderson
Full Tilt/Shusterman
Hope Was Here/Bauer
Invisible Thread, The/Uchida
Izzy Willy Nilly/Voight
Letters from Rifka/Hesse
Lincoln-a Photobiography/Freedman
Midwife’s Apprentice, The/Cushman
My Brother Sam is Dead/Collier
Notes from a Midnight
Driver/Sonnenblick
Outsiders, The/Hinton
Pigman, The/Zindel
Rosa Parks: The Movement
Organizes/Friese
Schwa was Here, The/Shusterman
Scorpions/Myers
Sherlock Holmes Reader/
Single Shard, A/Park
Skellig/ Almond
Soldier’s Heart, A/Paulsen
Such Nice Kids/Bunting
That Was Then, This is Now/Hinton
True North/Lasky
Westing Game, The/Raskin
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The/Speare
Witness/Hesse
Revised 2011
Pre-AP
GT
In addition to titles approved for
regular English and reading
classes, these titles may be used in 8th
Grade Pre‐ AP English:
In addition to titles approved for regular
English and reading
classes, these titles may be used in 8th Grade
GT English:
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young
Girl/Frank
April Morning/Fast
Book Thief, The/Zusak
Chinese Cinderella/Yen Mah
Dandelion Wine/ Bradbury
Hobbit, The/Tolkien
Hunger Games, The/ Collins
I Am the Cheese/Cormier
Ironman/Crutcher
Kaffir Boy/ Mathabame
Lottery Rose, The/Hunt
Murder on the Orient
Express/Christie
Much Ado About
Nothing/Shakespeare
Mythology /Hamilton
Night /Weisel
October Country, The/Bradbury
Oliver Twist/Dickens
Time Machine, The/Wells
Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of
Venice, The/Shakespeare
Year of Impossible Goodbyes/Choi
Alicia: My Story/Appleman-Jurman
All But My Life /Klein
Deathwatch/White
Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Russia,
The/
Hautzig
Friedrich/Richter
Hiding Place, The/ Boom
Odyssey, The / Homer
Only Alien on the Planet, The/Randle
Pictures, 1918/Ingold
Pygmalion/My Fair Lady/Shaw
River Thunder /Hobbs
Separate Peace, A/Knowles
Summer of My German Soldier/Greene
Tempest, The/Shakespeare
Voice on the Radio, The/Cooney
Revised 2011