8th Grade Language Arts Reading List
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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
A Child Called It (series), by David Pelzer
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
A Face First.
Red Kayak. By Priscilla Cummings
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
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 String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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 Cheese by Robert Cormier
After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All the Lovely Bad Ones The Old Willis Place By Mary Downing Hahn
Among the Hidden. Found by Margaret Haddix
An Acquaintance With Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
An American Plague, by Jim Murphy
And Then There Were None. by Agatha Christie
Animal Farm
1984
by George Orwell
Answers to Brut by Gillian Rubinstein
April Morning
by Howard Fast
Asimov, Isaac anything by this author
As Long As There Are Mountains. By Warnock-Kinsey
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
Billy Creekmore by Tracey Porter
Blitzcat
by Robert Westall
Blue Heron
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
Brother Night by Victor Kelleher
Bull Run
Whirligig
by Paul Fleischman
Bystander
by James Preller
Can of Worms. By Kathy Mackel
Captains Courageous By Rudyard Kipling
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Changeling by Delia Sherman
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Chasing the Falconers
No More Dead Dogs.
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Chasing Vermeer. By Blue Balliett
Chicken Boy.
By France O’Roark Dowell
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Chinese Handcuffs
Running Loose
by Chris Crutcher
Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Chronicles of Amber (series) by Roger Zelazny
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
Code talkers
by Chester Nez
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Compound
by S.A. Bodeen
Crazy Lady
by Jane Leslie Conly
Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins
Crossing Jordan by Adrian Fogelin
Dark Life
by Kat Falls
David Copperfield Great Expectations Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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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
Double Dutch, Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Downriver Far North
Ghost Canoe Go Big or Go Home Jackie's Wild Seattle
Jason’s Gold
by Will Hobbs
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Kidnapped Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Dragonsinger
by Anne McCaffrey
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie. By Jordan Sonnenblick
Earthshine
by Theresa Nelson
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Edgar Allen Poe Mysteries: Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher
Eggs
Milkweed Wringer By Jerry Spinelli
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman
Elesewhere
by Will Shetterly
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
Eye of the Great Bear
by Bill Wallace
Fahrenheit 451 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels
Slam
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Farewell to Arms
Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Feathers
by Jacqueline Woodson
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Fever 1793.
By Laurie Halse Anderson
Firestorm, Whirlwind, Timelock: The Caretaker Trilogy by David Klass
First Light
by Rebecca Stead
Flapjack Waltzes. By Nancy Hope Wilson
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
Francie by Karen English
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
Frozen Stiff.
By Sherry Shahan
Gabriel’s Horses by Alison Hart
Getting Near to Baby
The Misadventures of Maude March
by Audrey Couloumbis
Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator. By Jennifer Allison
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevelier
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
Good Night, Mr. Tom!
By Michelle Magorian
Gossamer. A Summer to Die Gathering Blue
by Lois Lowry
Gracie’s Girl
by Ellen Wittlinger
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Gulliver’s Travels (the book, not the movie) by Jonathon Swift
Halfway to the Sky by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Happy Kid!
By Gail Gauthier
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Heat. By Mike Lupica
Heir Apparent. By Vivian Vande Velde
Here Comes Heavenly by Todd Strasser
Here, There Be Dragons, by James Owen
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams (Humorous sci-fi)
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 Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
If you Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Incarnations of Immortality (series) by Piers Anthony
Inkheart, InkSpell, InkDeath trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Into the Wild
by Sarah Beth Durst
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
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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
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Jolted: Newton Starkers Rule for Survival by Arthur G. Slade
Killer Pizza
by Greg Taylor
Kimchi & Calamari. By Rose Kent
Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
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 Gary Paulsen
Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice, by Peter Nelson
Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
Life as We Know it The Dead & the Gone This World we Live in by Susan Pfeffer (if you like
Hunger Games)
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
by Gary D. Schmidt
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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
Marilyn Pemba’s Song: A Ghost Story by Tonya & Nelson Hegamin
Matched (series) by Ally Condie
Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller by Xavier Garza
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 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
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Okay for Now
by Gary D. Schmidt
Olive's Ocean
by Kevin Henkes
On My Honor
by Marion Dane Bauer
Once Upon a Marigold
by Jean Ferris
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One True Friend. By Joyce Hansen
One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
Out of Patience. By Brian Meehl
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King Silver on the Tree by
Susan Cooper
Overboard. By Elizabeth Fama
Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl
(if you like Twilight you might like this)
Peak
Sasquatch
Zach’s Lie. By Roland Smith
Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr
Phantom Toll Booth by Norton Juster
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Playing for Keeps by Joan Lowery Nixon
Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay
Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906
by Gail Langer Karwoski
Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Reaching Dustin. The Starplace. By Vicki Grove
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Murier
Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks by Kate Klise
Regular Guy
by Sarah Weeks
Rip Van Winkle The Headless Horseman by Washington Irving
Rising Water
by P.J. Peterson
Robinhood
by Howard Pyle
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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
Scat
Flush
by Carl Hiaasen
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
Sing Down the Moon, which is about the Long Walk of the Navahos by Scott O’Dell
Skeleton Man.
Whisper in the Dark.
By Joseph Bruchac
Skellig
by David Almond
So Be It: A Novel,
by Sarah Weeks
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stephen King, anything by this author
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
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 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-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 Fledgling
by Jane Langton
The Gadget.
By Paul Zindel
The Ghost of Fossil Glen.
Under the Same Sky.
By Cynthia DeFelice
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
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Invisible Man
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
The Kite Rider,
by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Lord of the Rings (series)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Loud Silence of Francine Green, by Karen Cushman
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The Maze.
By Will Hobbs
The Moonlight Man.
By Betty Ren Wright
The Most Dangerous Game,
by Richard Connell
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
The Moves Make the Man
by Bruce Brooks
The Musician’s Daughter,
by Susanne Dunlap
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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 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 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 Vanishing Chip.
By Mark Delaney
The View from Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
The Wanderer
Walk Two Moons
Ruby Holler
by Sharon Creech
The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt
The Wreckers
by Iain Lawrence
The Young Man and the Sea
by Rodman Philbrick
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
by Jacqueline Kelly
Things Not Seen.
By Andrew Clements
Three Days
by Donna Jo Napoli
Time Bomb,
by Nigel Hinton
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Treasure of Panther Peak.
By Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Trouble Don't Last.
By Shelley Pearsall
Trouble,
by Gary Schmidt
Truesight.
By David Stahler
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Twisted
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Uglies (series), by Scott Westerfeld
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Under the Baseball Moon ,
by John H. Ritter
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Under the Mesquite
by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Undercurrents.
By Willo Davis Roberts
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
by Patricia Lauber
Warriors Don't Cry
by Melba Patillo Beals
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
What Hearts
by Bruce Brooks
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
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
Wing Nut
by Mary Jane Auch
Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures
by Brian Selznick
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Yolonda's Genius
by Carol Fenner
Z for Zachariah
by Robert C. O'Brien
Zel
by Donna Jo Napoli
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne
Mysterious Island
by Jules
***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*