GRADE 8
JUDSON ISD APPROVED READING LIST
UPDATED May 2007
GRADE 8
For books that are asterisked, parental permission is required.
TITLE OF BOOK
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Pre-AP
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ACROSS FIVE APRILS
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH
DARKNESS
BEARSTONE
BLACK BOY
* BLESS THE BEASTS AND THE
CHILDREN
CALL OF THE WILD
Cast Two Shadows
Charlie Skedaddle
Christmas Carol, A
CIRCUIT, THE
COVER UP
CUT
DANGER ZONE
DAY NO PIGS WOULD DIE, A
DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
DOWNRIVER
Dreamland
DRIVER’S ED
ENDER’S GAME
* ENDER’S SHADOW
ESPERANZA RISING
EVA
FEVER 1793
Flipped
Forged by Fire
FULL TILT
GATHERING BLUE
GENTLEHANDS
Golden Compass
GODS AND GENERALS
HILL COUNTRY
HOUSE OF DIES DREER
HOUSE ON MANGO STREET
HUSH
AUTHOR
DATE
APPROVED
BY
COMMITTEE
ANN RINALDI
2004
WILL HOBBS
GLENDON
SWARTHOUT
2001
Anne Rinaldi
Patricia Beatty
Charles Dickens
2006
2005
2005
JAY BENNETT
PATRICK
MCCORMICK
DAVID KLASS
ROBERT NEWTON
PECK
JANE YOLEN
ANNE FRANK
WILL HOBBS
Sarah Dessen
CAROLINE COONEY
ORSON SCOTT CARD
2004
1998
2006
2004
1998
PAM MUNOZ RYAN
2001
LAURIE HALSE
ANDERSON
Wendelin Van Draanan
Sharon Draper
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
LOIS LOWRY
M. E. KERR
Philip Pullman
2004
2006
2006
2005
2004
2006
JANICE WOOD
WINDLE
SANDRA CISNEROS
JACQUELINE
1998
2004
GRADE 8
TAG 7/8 AND
8TH
FRAMEWORK
I AM THE CHEESE
IF YOU COME SOFTLY
FRAMEWORK
TAG 7/8 AND
8TH
FRAMEWORK
TAG 7/8
FRAMEWORK
TAG 7/8
I, JUAN DE PAREJA
* IRONMAN
JOHNNY TREMAIN
KILLER ANGELS
LETTERS FROM A SLAVE GIRL
LORD OF THE FLIES
MESSENGER
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
WOODSON
ROBERT CORMIER
JACQUELINE
WOODSON
2004
CHRIS CRUTCHER
ESTHER FORBES
2004
MICHAEL SHAARD
LOIS LOWRY
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
Walter Dean Myers
WILLA CATHER
JAMES LINCOLN
COLLIER AND
CHRISTOPHER
COLLIER
Framework
TAG 7/8
TAG 7/8TH
GRADE
FRAMEWORK
* Monster
MY ANTONIA
MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD
FRAMEWORK
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
NIGHT
ELIE WIESEL
NIGHTJOHN
GARY PAULSEN
OUT OF THE DUST
PEARL, THE
PIGMAN
PRINCESS BRIDE
RANSOM
RED BADGE OF COURAGE
KAREN HESSE
JOHN STEINBECK
PAUL ZINDEL
WILLIAM GOLDMAN
LOIS DUNCAN
STEPHEN CRANE
RIFLES FOR WATIE
ROAD TO MEMPHIS
SCORPIONS
HAROLD KEITH
MILDRED D. TAYLOR
WALTER DEAN
MYERS
JACK SHAEFER
Gary Paulsen
LAURIE HALSE
ANDERSON
TAG 7/8 AND
8TH
FRAMEWORK
TAG 7/8 AND
8TH
FRAMEWORK
TAG 7.8
FRAMEWORK
TAG 8/10TH
GRADE
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TAG 7/8
TAG 7/8
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SHANE
A Soldier’s Heart
* SPEAK
* SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD
STARGIRL
* STAYING FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES
STORM WARRIORS
*Stuck in Neutral
SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
TAMING THE STAR RUNNER
JERRY SPINELLI
CHRIS CRUTCHER
ELISA CARBONE
Terry Trueman
BETTE GREENE
S. E. HINTON
2004
1998
2001
1997
1997
2006
2004
2001
2004
2004
2006
GRADE 8
TAG 7/8
Tears of a Tiger
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
Time Machine
TIMOTHY OF THE CAY
TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR
TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
TAG 7/8
TRUE WOMEN
TAG 7/8
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
Pre-AP
UWIND
WAR BETWEEN THE CLASSES
Pre-AP
War of the Worlds, The
* WHALE TALK
WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO
TOWN
WHITE FANG
WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND
Pre-AP
FRAMEWORK
TAG 7/8 AND
8TH
FRAMEWORK
FRAMEWORK
WOLF BY THE EARS
ZLATA’S DIARY: A CHILD’S LIFE
Sharon Draper
S. E. HINTON
H.G.Wells
THEODORE TAYLOR
BEN MIKAELSEN
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
JANICE WOODS
WINDLE
HARRIET BEECHER
STOWE
Neal Shusterman
GLORIA D.
MILKOWITZ
H.G. Wells
CHRIS CRUTCHER
KIMBERLY HOLT
2006
2005
2004
2010
2005
2004
2004
ELIZABETH GEORGE
SPEARE
ANN RINALDI
ZLATA FILIPOVIC
2004
2000