8th Grade Advanced Language Arts Reading List
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
Red Kayak.
By Priscilla Cummings
A Girl From Yamhill
by Beverly Cleary
A Mango Shaped Space
by Wendy Mass
A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly
A Separate Peace.
By John Knowles
A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
A Solitary Blue
by Cynthia Voigt
A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
by Brenda Woods
A String in the Harp
by Nancy Bond
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
Adam Canfield of the Slash
By Michael Winerip
After the First Death
Fade
I Am the Cheeze
by Robert Cormier
Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
All the Lovely Bad Ones
The Old Willis Place
By Mary Downing Hahn
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
American Hero, Charles Lindgergh
by Barry Denenberg
Among the Hidden.
Found
by Margaret Haddix
An American Plague,
by Jim Murphy
An Acquaintance With Darkness
by Ann Rinaldi
Animal Farm
1984
by George Orwell
April Morning
by Howard Fast
As Long As There Are Mountains.
By Warnock-Kinsey
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
Billy Creekmore
by Tracey Porter
Blindsided
By Priscilla Cummings
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
Bruiser
by Neal Shusterman
Bull Run
Whirligig
by Paul Fleischman
Captains Courageous
By Rudyard Kipling
Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to not Reading
By Tommy Greenwald
Chronicles of Amber (series)
by Roger Zelazny
Code talkers
by Chester Nez
Compound
by S.A. Bodeen
Eli the Good
by Silas House
Fallen Angels
Slam
Somewhere in the Darkness
by Walter Dean Myers
Firestorm, Whirlwind, Timelock: The Caretaker Trilogy
by David Klass
Changeling
by Delia Sherman
Chinese Handcuffs
Running Loose
by Chris Crutcher
Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier
Claire de Lune
By Christine Johnson
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Cold Mountain
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun
Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
David Copperfield Great Expectations Oliver Twist
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Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
Dealing with Dragons
by Patricia C. Wrede
Diamonds in the Shadow
by Caroline B. Cooney
Diary of a Young Girl
(Anne Frank)
Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
Disappearance The Friends
by Rosa Guy
Do Not Pass Go
by Kirkpatrick Hill
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dragon Slippers
by Jessica Day George
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis
Stevenson
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Dragonsinger
by Anne McCaffrey
Dragon's Gate
by Laurence Yep
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie.
By Jordan Sonnenblick
Earthshine
by Theresa Nelson
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
Out of the Dust
The Grapes of Wrath by John
Steinbeck
Edgar Allen Poe Mysteries: Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
(anything by Jane Austen)
Ender's series
by Orson Scott Card
Escaping the Giant Wave.
I’m Not Who You Think I Am. By Peg Kehret
Eva
by Peter Dickinson
Fahrenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
Farewell to Arms
Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Fever 1793.
By Laurie Halse Anderson
First Light
by Rebecca Stead
Five Flavors of Dumb
by Antony John
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
by Albert Marrin
Flight to Freedom.
By Ana Suarez-Veciana
Football Hero
by Tim Green
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule.
By Harriette Gillem Robinet
Fossil Fish Found Alive
by Sally M. Walker
Frozen Stiff.
By Sherry Shahan
Gabriel’s Horses
by Alison Hart
Getting Near to Baby
The Misadventures of Maude March
by Audrey Couloumbis
Girl, Stolen
by April Henry
Girl With a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevelier
Gracie’s Girl
by Ellen Wittlinger
Graven Images
by Paul Fleischman
Gray Wolf, Red Wolf
by Dorothy Patent
Guitar Boy
by M.J. Auch
Gulliver’s Travels (the book, not the movie)
by Jonathon Swift
Halfway to the Sky
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
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by Phillip Hoose
by Charles Frazier
by Rhoda Blumberg
by A.J. Hartley
by Charles Dickens
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Happenstance Found
Happy Kid!
Hattie Big Sky
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
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By P.W. Catanese
By Gail Gauthier
by Kirby Larson
by Douglas Adams (Humorous sci-
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson
Heat.
By Mike Lupica
Heir Apparent.
By Vivian Vande Velde
Heist Society
By Ally Carter
Here, There Be Dragons,
by James Owen
Here Comes Heavenly
by Todd Strasser
Homeless Bird
Listening for Lions
By Gloria Whelan
Homesick: My Own Story
by Jean Fritz
Hope Was Here
Peeled, Backwater
Stand Tall Rules of the Road Close to Famous
by
Joan Bauer
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
by Sherri Smith
House of Dies Drear
by Virginia Hamilton
House of the Red Fish.
By Graham Salisbury
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found.
By Sara Nickerson
Hunger Games series
by Suzanne Collins
Hurricane Dancers: The First Carribean Pirate Shipwreck
by Margarita Engle
Hurt, Go, Happy.
By Ginny Rorby
I am David
by Anne Holm
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
by Margaret Craven
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
If you Come Softly
by Jacqueline Woodson
Incarnations of Immortality (series)
by Piers Anthony
Into the Wild
by Sarah Beth Durst
Inkheart, InkSpell, InkDeath trilogy
by Cornelia Funke
Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Jasper Jones
by Craig Silvey
Jayhawker
by Patricia Beatty
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life.
By Wendy Maas
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
by Jack Gantos
Jolted: Newton Starkers Rule for Survival
by Arthur G. Slade
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
Kimchi & Calamari.
By Rose Kent
Kiss the Dust
by Elizabeth Laird
Kissing Doorknobs
by Terry Spencer Hesser
Last Book in the Universe
by Rodman Philbrick
Lawn Boy Soldier’s Heart
Woods Runner My Life in Dog Years
Soldier's Heart
Gary
Paulsen
Legend
by Marie Lu
Life as We Know it The Dead & the Gone This World we Live in by Susan Pfeffer (if you like
Hunger Games)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
by Gary D. Schmidt
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Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice,
by Peter Nelson
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
Lily's Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Lockdown
By Walter Dean Myers
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Lost in the River of Grass
By Ginny Rorby
Lost Time
by Susan Maupin Schmidt
Lyddie
by Katherine Paterson
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
Make Lemonade
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Mansion in the Mist
by John Bellairs
Matched
by Ally Condie
Maximum Ride series
by James Patterson
May Bird and the Ever After.
By Jodi Lynn Anderson
Mercy on These Teenage Chimps
Taking Sides
by Gary Soto
Miracle’s Boys. Peace, Locomotion
by Jacqueline Woodson
Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
Mississippi Trial, 1955
by Chris Crowe
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Monster
Somewhere in the Darkness
Scorpions
by Walter Dean Myers
Moorchild
by Eloise McGraw
Music of Dolphins
by Karen Hesse
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein
by Susan Goldman Rubin
My Almost Epic Summer,
by Adele Griffin
My Antonia
by Willa Cather
My Brother Sam is Dead
by James Lincoln Colier
My Fair Godmother
by Janette Rallison
My Lousiana Sky.
By Kimberly Willis Holt
My Name Is Not Easy
by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Never Forgotten
by Patricia C. McKissack
Night
by Elie Weisel
"Sing Down the Moon," which is about the Long Walk of the Navahos
by Scott O’Dell
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Okay for Now
Olive's Ocean
On My Honor
One-Eyed Cat
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Crazy Summer
One True Friend.
Once a Wolf
Once Upon a Marigold
Our Only May Amelia
Owl in Love
by Gary D. Schmidt
by Kevin Henkes
by Marion Dane Bauer
by Paula Fox
by Ken Kesey
by Rita Williams-Garcia
By Joyce Hansen
by Stephen Swinburne
by Jean Ferris
by Jennifer L. Holm
by Patrice Kindl (if you like Twilight
you might like this)
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Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Out of Patience.
Out of the Silent Planet
Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark is Rising Greenwitch
Susan Cooper
Overboard.
Parallel Journeys
by E.L. Konigsburg
By Brian Meehl
by C.S. Lewis
The Grey King Silver on the Tree
By Elizabeth Fama
by Elanor H. Ayer
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Peak
Sasquatch
Zach’s Lie.
By Roland Smith
Peeling the Onion
by Wendy Orr
Perelandra
by C.S. Lewis
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by A.S. King
Marilyn Pemba’s Song: A Ghost Story
by Tonya & Nelson Hegamin
Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller by Xavier Garza
Pathfinder
by Orson Scott Card
Pictures of Hollis Woods
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay
Phantom Toll Booth
by Norton Juster
Playing for Keeps
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Prisoners in the Palace: How Victoria Became Queen with the Help of Her Maid, a Reporter, and a
Scoundrel: A Novel of Intrigue and Romance
by
Michaela MacColl
Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906
by Gail Langer Karwoski
Rainbow Jordan
by Alice Childress
Reaching Dustin. The Starplace.
By Vicki Grove
Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks
by Kate Klise
Rising Water
by P.J. Peterson
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Murier
Regular Guy
by Sarah Weeks
Rip Van Winkle
The Headless Horseman
by Washington Irving
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Robinhood
by Howard Pyle
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Michael D Taylor
Roots
by Alex Haley
Rules
by Cynthia Lord
Rumblefish
by S.E. Hinton
Runaway
Flipped
by Wendy VanDraanen
Runner
by Cynthia Voigt
Sabriel
by Garth Nix
Sand and Fog
by Jim Brandenburg
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Shakespeare's Secret.
By Elise Broach
Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shiver Linger Forever (three books in the series)
by Maggie Stiefvater
Show Way
by Jacqueline Woodson
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
Skeleton Man.
Whisper in the Dark.
By Joseph Bruchac
Skellig
by David Almond
So Be It: A Novel,
by Sarah Weeks
Something Like Hope
by Shawn Goodman
Sorta Like a Rock Star: A Novel
by Matthew Quick
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stephen King, anything by this author
Star Crossed
by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Stick and Whittle.
By Sid Hite
Storm Warriors.
By Elisa Carbone
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson
& Marina Budhos
Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Green
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Summer of the Monkeys
by Wilson Rawls
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083. (if you liked Hunger Games you’ll like this one too!) by Andrea
White
Swallowing Stones
by Joyce McDonald
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Virginia Hamilton
Sword of the Rightful King,
by Jane Yolen
Taken
Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
Tales of Real Escape
by Paul Dawswell
Tears of a Tiger
by Sharon M. Draper
That was Then, This is Now
by S.E. Hinton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
The Anybodies
by N.E. Bode
The Art of Keeping Cool.
The Black Duck.
By Janet Taylor Lisle
The Beastly Arms
by Patrick Jennings
The Blue Sword The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
The Boy Who Dared
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Boy Who Spoke Dog
by Clay Morgan
The Candymakers
by Wendy Mass
The Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen, and a Joker
by Louis Sachar
The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance
by Margaret Mahy
The China Coin
by Allan Baillie
The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier
The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
The Code Book,
by Simon Singh
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexendre Dumas
The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart
The Dark is Rising (series)
by Susan Cooper
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
by Patricia McKissack
The Day of the Pelican
by Katherine Paterson
The Deerslayer The Pathfinder The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fennimore Cooper
The Door in the Lake.
By Nancy Butts
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
by Nancy Farmer
The Endurance: Shackleton`s Legendary Antarctic Expedition,
by Caroline Alexander
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
by Sid Fleischman
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
by Jacqueline Kelly
The Fledgling
by Jane Langton
The Gadget.
By Paul Zindel
The Ghost and the Goth
by Stacey Kade
The Ghost of Fossil Glen.
Under the Same Sky.
By Cynthia DeFelice
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
By Rae Carson
The Golden Compass
The Ruby in the Smoke
by Philip Pullman
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
The Graduation of Jake Moon
by Barbara Park
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
The Great Fire
by Jim Murphy
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
by Eloise Greenfield
The Great Wide Sea
by M.L. Herlong
The Hiding Place
by Corrie Ten Boom
The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Invisible Man
The Time Machine
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Joy Luck Club
The Jungle
The Kite Rider,
The Land I Lost
The Lord of the Rings (series)
The Loser List
The Loud Silence of Francine Green,
The Maze.
The Moonlight Man.
The Most Dangerous Game,
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The Moves Make the Man
The Musician’s Daughter,
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin
The Ocean Within.
By V.M. Caldwell
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Lereux
The Prince of Fenway Park
by Julianna Baggott
The Ravenmaster's Secret.
By Elvira Woodruff
The Red Umbrella
By Christina Diaz Gonzalez
The Return of Gabriel.
By John Armistead
The Returning
by Christine Hinwood
The Revealers.
By Doug Wilhelm
The River Between Us ,
by Richard Peck
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
by David Kherdian
The Running Dream
by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Sacrifice.
By Kathleen Duble
The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater
The Secret Life of Bees,
by Sue Monk Kidd
The Silver Kiss
by Annette Curtis Klause
The Silver Sword
by Ian Serraillier
The Spy Who Came in From the Sea
by Peggy Nolan
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
The Sword That Cut the Burning Grass ,
by Thomas Hoobler
The Thief
by Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief Lord
by Cornelia Funke
The Tomorrow Series (any book)
by James Marsden
The Tripod series,
by John Christopher
The Underneath
by Kathi Appelt N
The Unseen.
By Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Unwanteds
by Lisa McCann
The Vanishing Chip.
By Mark Delaney
The View from Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
The Wanderer
Walk Two Moons
Ruby Holler
by Sharon Creech
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices From the Titanic
by Allan Wolf
The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt
The Wreckers
by Iain Lawrence
The Young Man and the Sea
by Rodman Philbrick
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by H.G. Wells
by Homer
by Amy Tan
by Upton Sinclair
by Geraldine McCaughrean
by Huynh Quang Nhuong
by J.R.R. Tolkien
by H.N. Kowitt
by Karen Cushman
By Will Hobbs
By Betty Ren Wright
by Richard Connell
by Rodman Philbrick
by Bruce Brooks
by Susanne Dunlap
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Things Not Seen.
Three Days
Time Bomb,
To Kill a Mockingbird
Treasure of Panther Peak.
Trouble,
Trouble Don't Last.
Truesight.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Twisted
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Under the Baseball Moon ,
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Under the Mesquite
by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Undercurrents.
By Willo Davis Roberts
Virals
by Kathy Reichs (if you like CSI,
Bones, etc)
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
by Patricia Lauber
Warriors Don't Cry
by Melba Patillo Beals
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
by Sue Macy
When My Name was Keoko.
By Linda Sue Park
When the Soldiers Were Gone
by Vera Propp
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
What Hearts
by Bruce Brooks
When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin
Where Things Come Back
by John Corey Whaley
Whittington
by Alan Armstrong
Why We Broke Up
by Daniel Handler
Williwaw!
By Tom Bodett
Wild Things
By Clay Carmichael
Wing Nut
by Mary Jane Auch
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Yolonda's Genius
by Carol Fenner
Z for Zachariah
by Robert C. O'Brien
Zel
by Donna Jo Napoli
90 Miles to Havana
By Enrique Flores-Galbis
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in Eighty Days
Mysterious Island
by Jules
Verne
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By Andrew Clements
by Donna Jo Napoli
by Nigel Hinton
by Harper Lee
By Aileen Kilgore Henderson
by Gary Schmidt
By Shelley Pearsall
By David Stahler
by Mitch Albom
by Laurie Halse Anderson
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
by John H. Ritter
***Any titles in italics may count for extra credit points if completed correctly***
*All students and their level of maturity are different – the decision for which of these books
you choose to read should be made with your parents’ permission. Your language arts
teacher, the media center specialists, and WBMS are not held responsible for the content
of any of the books listed*