Entering Grade 8: Haverford Middle School’s Summer Reading List
Author
Title
Alexander, Lloyd
Alexie, Sherman
Alcott, Louisa May
Austen, Jane
Avi
Barron, T.A.
Bauer, Joan
Beah, Ishmael
Brian, Kate
Carbone, Elisa Lynn
Carey, Janet Lee
Cather, Willa
Rosen, Sybil
Codell, Esme Raji
Creech, Sharon
Cooney, Caroline B.
Cooney, Caroline B.
Cushman, Karen
Farmer, Nancy
Fleischman, Paul
Fletcher, Susan
Fletcher, Susan
Hensen, Joyce
Hite, Sid
Houston, James
Houston, Jeanne
Horowitz, Anthony
Howe, James
Ibbotson, Eva
Ingold, Jeanette
Jenkins, A. M.
Jimenez, Francisco
Klass, David
Knowles, John
Korman, Gordon
Lasky, Kathryn
Levine, Gail Carson
Martinez, Victor
McCaughrean, Geraldine
Moeri, Louise
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Myers, Anna
Naidoo, Beverley
Nicholson, William
Taran Wanderer
The True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Little Women
Pride and Prejudice
Wolf Rider
The Seven Songs of Merlin
Hope Was Here
Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier
Princess and the Pauper
Storm Warriors
Double Life of Zoe Flynn
My Antonia
Speed of Light
Sahara Special
Bloomability
Driver’s Ed
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Catherine, Called Birdy
House of Scorpion
Whirligig
Shadow Spinner
Walk Across the Sea
One True Friend
Stick and Whittle
Snow Mountain Passage
Fairwell to Manzanar
Stormbreaker
Misfits
Journey to the River Sea
The Big Burn
Breaking Boxes
The Circuit
Danger Zone
A Separate Peace
Son of the Mob
Memoirs of a Bookbat
Dave at Night
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
Stop the Train!
The Devil in Ol’ Rosie
Anne of Green Gables
Tulsa Burning
The Other Side of the Truth
The Wind Singer
Reading
Level
RL 6.5
RL 4.5
RL 7.9
RL 9.0
RL 7
RL 5.5
RL 7
RL 8.1
RL 7
RL 5.9
RL 4.7
RL 7.1
RL 6.8
RL 4.6
RL 4.2
RL 5.2
RL 5.9
RL 7.5
RL 6.1
RL 4.7
RL 5.5
RL 5.1
RL 4.9
RL 7.1
RL 7
RL 7.8
RL 5.4
RL 5
RL 5.9
RL 6.4
RL 5.9
RL 5.5
RL 5.5
RL 8.9
RL 6.1
RL 4.8
RL 6.1
RL 7.1
RL 5.9
RL 5.6
RL 5.9
RL 3.7
RL 5.5
RL 7.1
Entering Grade 8: Haverford Middle School’s Summer Reading List
Paolini, Christopher
Paulsen, Gary
Paulsen, Gary
Rinaldi, Ann
Salisbury, Graham
Sirof, Harriet
Spinelli, Jerry
Stroud, Jonathan
Taylor, Mildred
Webster, Jean
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Whelan, Gloria
Williams, Maiya
Eragon
Soldier’s Heart
Nightjohn
The Second Bend in the River
Lord of the Deep
Because She’s My Friend
Milkweed
The Bartimaeus Trilogy (any title)
The Land
Daddy–Long-Legs
Flipped
Homeless Bird
The Golden Hour
RL 7.8
RL 5.9
RL 4.2
RL 4.8
RL 5.4
RL 5.8
RL 5.2
RL 4.8
RL 6.9
RL 6.7
RL 5.2
RL 6.1
RL 6.3