8th Adv/Hon
Self-Selected Independent Reading Suggestions
This is a suggested list. Most titles listed by nine weeks relate to the theme of the text we will be
reading in class. The books on the yearlong list are from various genres and contain various themes. You
may read any book from any list at any time during the year (but you STILL must submit the title to Mrs.
Rogers for approval).
First Nine Weeks:

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen*

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli*

Hidden Like Anne Frank by Marcel Prins
and Peter Henk Steenhuis

Is it Night or Day? by Fern Schumer
Chapman *

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli*

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter
Dean Myers (nonfiction)
Third Nine Weeks:

Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry*

Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt

The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender

Odette’s Secrets by Maryann MacDonald*

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick*

The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon

Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Leyson (nonfiction) +

Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A

Rules by Cynthia Lord
World War II Soldier, Normandy, France,

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer*
1944 by Walter Dean Myers

That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton

Second Nine Weeks:
Fourth Nine Weeks:
Yearlong Titles:

Crash by Jerry Spinelli*

Hidden by Helen Frost

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson*

Stargirl or Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly

Space Station Seventh Grade by Jerry
Spinelli

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

Kick by Walter Dean Myers
Hunt +

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by
Chris Grabenstein +
*This symbol means that a copy of the book is in the classroom library.
+This symbol means that the book is a Reading Bowl (Georgia Children’s Book Award) book.