The Best Books To Read In 8th Grade
“What are the best books to read in 8th Grade?” We looked at 626 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 23 books, all appearing on 3 or more, “Best 8th Grade” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The books include images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 600+ books, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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Top 23 8th Grade Books
23 .) Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Lists It Appears On:
- Benicia Public Library
- Read Aloud America
- We Are Teachers
“Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the “”Indian-ness in her blood,”” travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a “”potential lunatic,”” and whose mother disappeared.
As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe’s outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold—the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.”
22 .) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lists It Appears On:
- Highland Park Public Library
- LWSD
- Eclectic Homeschooling
TREASURE ISLAND is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gold”. It was originally serialized in the children’s magazine Young Folks between 1881 through 1882 under the title Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym “Captain George North”.
21 .) The Watson’s Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Lists It Appears On:
- Read Aloud America
- We Are Teachers
- LWSD
“Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There’s Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who’s thirteen and an “”official juvenile delinquent.””
When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma’s church is blown up.”
20 .) The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Lists It Appears On:
- Read Aloud America
- Goodreads
- Highland Park Public Library
“No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he’s got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect—until the night someone takes things too far.
The Outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction that laid the groundwork for the YA genre. S. E. Hinton’s classic story of a boy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it was the day it was first published.”
19 .) The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Lists It Appears On:
- LWSD
- Goodreads
- Read Aloud America
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can’t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy’s mom finds out, she knows it’s time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he’ll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends — one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena — Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.
18 .) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lists It Appears On:
- Highland Park Public Library
- Intellectual Takeout
- We Are Teachers
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
17 .) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Eighth Grade Reading List
- Seefer Elliot
“It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. “
16 .) Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Lists It Appears On:
- Eighth Grade Reading List
- Benicia Public Library
- Read Aloud America
“Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’ s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first.
Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.”
15 .) Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Lists It Appears On:
- Benicia Public Library
- Goodreads
- Read Aloud America
This gripping story, written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo’s struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father’s slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo’s badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved piano again. The 1998 Newbery Medal winner.
14 .) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lists It Appears On:
- Highland Park Public Library
- Goodreads
- Read Aloud America
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.
13 .) Heat by Mike Lupica
Lists It Appears On:
- Benicia Public Library
- LWSD
- Read Aloud America
Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system—or worse, sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. With no way to prove his age, no birth certificate, and no parent to fight for his cause, Michael’s secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources.
12 .) Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Lists It Appears On:
- Highland Park Public Library
- LWSD
- Read Aloud America
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present—and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent’s divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or despair—it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive.
11 .) Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lists It Appears On:
- AADL
- Imagination Soup
- Read Aloud America
“During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.
Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie’s world upside down. At her feverish mother’s insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.”
10 .) Cinder (Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer
Lists It Appears On:
- Eighth Grade Reading List
- Goodreads
- Imagination Soup
“Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.”
9 .) Beowulf
Lists It Appears On:
- Read Aloud America
- Read Aloud America
- Intellectual Takeout
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel’s mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the “four-squareness of the utterance” in ?Beowulf? and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.
8 .) Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Lists It Appears On:
- Benicia Public Library
- LWSD
- Read Aloud America
Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I’m not the only kid who lives here. There’s my sister, Natalie, except she doesn’t count. And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cook’s or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. Plus, there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don’t want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you’re me. I came here because my mother said I had to.
7 .) A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Lists It Appears On:
- Highland Park Public Library
- LWSD
- Read Aloud America
“An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.”
6 .) Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Lists It Appears On:
- Homeschool Curriculum
- Intellectual Takeout
- LWSD
- Eclectic Homeschooling
The Newbery Award winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton—a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.
5 .) Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Lists It Appears On:
- LWSD
- Benicia Public Library
- Read Aloud America
- Goodreads
In James Patterson’s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the “flock”–Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel–are just like ordinary kids–only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time…like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the “School” where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare–this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf “Erasers” in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb–now her betrayed and greatest enemy–that her purpose is save the world–but can she?
4 .) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lists It Appears On:
- Homeschool Curriculum
- Read Aloud America
- Intellectual Takeout
- LWSD
Mark Twain’s brilliant 19th-century novel has long been recognized as one of the finest examples of American literature. It brings back the irrepressible and free-spirited Huck, first introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and puts him center stage. Rich in authentic dialect, folksy humor, and sharp social commentary, Twain’s classic tale follows Huck and the runaway slave Jim on an exciting journey down the Mississippi.
3 .) The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Lists It Appears On:
- Read Aloud America
- Highland Park Public Library
- Intellectual Takeout
- Eclectic Homeschooling
Jack London’s novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. The author’s restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement, and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes harrowing experiences — and his fascination with the theories of such thinkers as Darwin, Spencer, and Marx — came the inspiration for novels of adventure that would make him one of America’s most popular writers.
2 .) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Highland Park Public Library
- Intellectual Takeout
- Read Aloud America
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
1 .) The Giver by Lois Lowry
Lists It Appears On:
- Benicia Public Library
- Goodreads
- Highland Park Public Library
- Read Aloud America
- Seefer Elliot
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
The 600+ Additional Best Books To Read In Eight Grade
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 24 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Intellectual Takeout |
Eclectic Homeschooling | |||
| 25 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | Intellectual Takeout |
Eclectic Homeschooling | |||
| 26 | Among the Hidden | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Benicia Public Library |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 27 | An American Plague | Jim Murphy | Read Aloud America |
Benicia Public Library | |||
| 28 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Goodreads |
Intellectual Takeout | |||
| 29 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Pragmatic Mom | |
Eclectic Homeschooling | |||
| 30 | Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon | Steve Sheinkin | Imagination Soup |
Homeschool Curriculum | |||
| 31 | Chains | Laurie Halse Anderson | Benicia Public Library |
| LWSD | |||
| 32 | Crossing the Wire | Will Hobbs | LWSD |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 33 | Divergent series | Veronica Roth | Goodreads |
Great! Schools | |||
| 34 | Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery | Peter Abrahams | Benicia Public Library |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 35 | Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card | Highland Park Public Library |
Imagination Soup | |||
| 36 | Eragon | Christopher Paolini | LWSD |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 37 | Fablehaven | Brandon Mull | Benicia Public Library |
| LWSD | |||
| 38 | Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | Benicia Public Library |
| LWSD | |||
| 39 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 40 | Hattie Big Sky | Kirby Larson | LWSD |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 41 | Heist Society | Ally Carter | Imagination Soup |
Eighth Grade Reading List | |||
| 42 | Hidden Talents | David Lubar | Benicia Public Library |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 43 | Holes | Louis Sachar | Highland Park Public Library |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 44 | I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World | Malal Yousafzai | Imagination Soup |
Homeschool Curriculum | |||
| 45 | Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | AADL |
Pragmatic Mom | |||
| 46 | Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes, Lynn Ward (illus.) | Intellectual Takeout |
Education World | |||
| 47 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Eclectic Homeschooling |
Intellectual Takeout | |||
| 48 | Little Women | Louis May Alcott | Homeschool Curriculum |
Highland Park Public Library | |||
| 49 | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | Benicia Public Library |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 50 | Matched | Ally Condie | Goodreads |
Eighth Grade Reading List | |||
| 51 | Night | Elie Wiesel | Goodreads |
| LWSD | |||
| 52 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Goodreads |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 53 | Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida: A Novel | Victor Martinez | Read Aloud America |
Highland Park Public Library | |||
| 54 | Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story about Brain Science | John Fleischman | LWSD |
Benicia Public Library | |||
| 55 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
Intellectual Takeout | |||
| 56 | Savvy | Ingrid Law | Benicia Public Library |
| LWSD | |||
| 57 | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | Goodreads |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 58 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | LWSD |
Eclectic Homeschooling | |||
| 59 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | Highland Park Public Library |
Intellectual Takeout | |||
| 60 | The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Michael Scott | Benicia Public Library |
| LWSD | |||
| 61 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | Read Aloud America |
Highland Park Public Library | |||
| 62 | The Cay | Theodore Taylor | Education World |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 63 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | Goodreads |
| Seefer Elliot | |||
| 64 | The Fourth Stall | Chris Rylander | Pragmatic Mom |
Eighth Grade Reading List | |||
| 65 | The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Highland Park Public Library |
Benicia Public Library | |||
| 66 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Benicia Public Library |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 67 | The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Great! Schools |
Highland Park Public Library | |||
| 68 | The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again | J.R.R. Tolkien | Intellectual Takeout |
Highland Park Public Library | |||
| 69 | The House of Dies Drear | Virginia Hamilton | LWSD |
Highland Park Public Library | |||
| 70 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
| LWSD | |||
| 71 | The Lord of the Rings series | J.R.R. Tolkien | Great! Schools |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 72 | The Maze Runner | James Dashner | Goodreads |
Eighth Grade Reading List | |||
| 73 | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire | Howard Pyle | Eclectic Homeschooling |
Highland Park Public Library | |||
| 74 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | Goodreads |
| Seefer Elliot | |||
| 75 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | Read Aloud America |
We Are Teachers | |||
| 76 | The Sea of Trolls | Nancy Farmer | LWSD |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 77 | The Son of Neptune | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
Eighth Grade Reading List | |||
| 78 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Intellectual Takeout |
| LWSD | |||
| 79 | The Titan’s Curse | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 80 | The Wednesday Wars | Gary D. Schmidt | Benicia Public Library |
We Are Teachers | |||
| 81 | Things Not Seen | Andrew Clements | Benicia Public Library |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 82 | To Be A Slave | Julius Lester | Goodreads |
| LWSD | |||
| 83 | Touching Spirit Bear | Ben Mikaelsen | LWSD |
Read Aloud America | |||
| 84 | Uglies | Scott Westerfeld | Goodreads |
| LWSD | |||
| 85 | Unwind | Neal Shusterman | LWSD |
Great! Schools | |||
| 86 | Yellow Star | Jennifer Roy | Read Aloud America |
| AADL | |||
| (Titles Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 87 | 5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery | Fradin | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 88 | A Boy at War: a novel of Pearl Harbor | Harry Mazer | Read Aloud America |
| 89 | A code talker : a novel about the Navajo marines of World War two | Joseph Bruchac | AADL |
| 90 | A Corner of the Universe | Ann M. Martin | Read Aloud America |
| 91 | A Coyote’s in the House | Leonard Elmore | Read Aloud America |
| 92 | A Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Peck | Read Aloud America |
| 93 | A Girl Named Disaster | Nancy Farmer | Read Aloud America |
| 94 | A long walk to water | Linda Sue Park | AADL |
| 95 | A Long Way From Chicago | Richard Peck | Read Aloud America |
| 96 | A Night Divided | Jennifer A. Nielsen | Imagination Soup |
| 97 | A Poke in the Eye: A Collection of Concrete Poems | Paul B. Janeczko | Read Aloud America |
| 98 | A Tale Dark and Grimm | Adam Gidwitz | Benicia Public Library |
| 99 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | Highland Park Public Library |
| 100 | A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown’s War Against Slavery | Marrin | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 101 | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck | Read Aloud America |
| 102 | Akata Witch | Nnedi Okorafor | Pragmatic Mom |
| 103 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Highland Park Public Library |
| 104 | All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook | Leslie Connor | Brightly |
| 105 | Always Wear Clean Underwear | Marc Gellman | Read Aloud America |
| 106 | Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart | Fleming | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 107 | American Tall Tales | Mary Pope Osborne | Highland Park Public Library |
| 108 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | Highland Park Public Library |
| 109 | Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain | Freedman | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 110 | Angelfall | Susan Ee | Imagination Soup |
| 111 | Animals Alive: The Fight for Survival in the Wild | DK Publishing | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 112 | Anna Dressed in Blood | Kendare Blake | Pragmatic Mom |
| 113 | Any Small Goodness, A Novel of the Barrio | Tony Johnston | Read Aloud America |
| 114 | Anya’s Ghost | Vera Brosgol | Pragmatic Mom |
| 115 | Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | Benicia Public Library |
| 116 | Awaken | Katie Kacvinsky | Pragmatic Mom |
| 117 | Bad Island | Doug Tennapel | Pragmatic Mom |
| 118 | Beautiful Creatures series | Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl | Great! Schools |
| 119 | Beauty Queens | Libba Bray | Imagination Soup |
| 120 | Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | Read Aloud America |
| 121 | Becoming Naomi Leon | Pam Munoz Ryan | Read Aloud America |
| 122 | Before We Were Free | Julia Alvarez | Benicia Public Library |
| 123 | Behind the mountains | Edwidge Danticat | AADL |
| 124 | Belle Prater’s Boy | Ruth White | Read Aloud America |
| 125 | Bindi Babes | Narinder Dhami | Read Aloud America |
| 126 | Bird in a Box | Andrea Davis Pickney | Pragmatic Mom |
| 127 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | Read Aloud America |
| 128 | Black Duck | Janet Lisle | LWSD |
| 129 | Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives | Marrin | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 130 | Bleachers | John Grisham | Read Aloud America |
| 131 | Blood Red Road | Moira Young | Pragmatic Mom |
| 132 | Bloody Jack | L.A. Meyer | Read Aloud America |
| 133 | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | Deem | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 134 | Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History’s Mysteries | MacLeod | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 135 | Booked | Kwame Alexander | Brightly |
| 136 | Born at Midnight | C.C. Hunter | Pragmatic Mom |
| 137 | Born to Fly | Shane with Malcolm McConnell Osborn | Read Aloud America |
| 138 | Boy | Roald Dahl | Read Aloud America |
| 139 | Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor | Harry Mazer | Read Aloud America |
| 140 | Bras and Brooksticks | Sarah Mlynowski | Read Aloud America |
| 141 | Brian’s Return | Gary Paulsen | Read Aloud America |
| 142 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | We Are Teachers |
| 143 | Brown Girl Dreaming | Woodson | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 144 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | We Are Teachers |
| 145 | Burger Wuss | M.T. Anderson | Read Aloud America |
| 146 | Buried Beneath Us: Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas | Aveni | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 147 | Call it Courage | Armstrong Sperry | Read Aloud America |
| 148 | Caminar | Skila Brown | AADL |
| 149 | Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | Intellectual Takeout |
| 150 | Captains Courageous | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 151 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
| 152 | Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith | Heiligman | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 153 | Chasing Vermeer | Blue Balliett | Read Aloud America |
| 154 | Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 155 | Chicken Soup for the Soul | Jack Canfield | Read Aloud America |
| 156 | Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me | Timothy Tocher | Read Aloud America |
| 157 | Children of the River | Linda Crew | Education World |
| 158 | Chime | Franny Billingsley | Pragmatic Mom |
| 159 | City of Ashes | Cassandra Clare | Goodreads |
| 160 | City of Bones | Cassandra Clare | Goodreads |
| 161 | City of Orphans | Avi | Pragmatic Mom |
| 162 | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Hoose | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 163 | Clockwork: Or All Wound Up | Philip Pullman | Read Aloud America |
| 164 | Code Orange | Caroline B. Cooney | LWSD |
| 165 | Code Talker | Joseph Bruchac | Imagination Soup |
| 166 | Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | Education World |
| 167 | Counting by 7s | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 168 | Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickels: America’s First Black Paratroopers | Stone | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 169 | Cowslip | Betsy Haynes | Read Aloud America |
| 170 | Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam | Cynthia Kadohata | Read Aloud America |
| 171 | Crazy Lady | Jane Leslie Conly | Read Aloud America |
| 172 | Crispin: the Cross of Lead | Avi | Read Aloud America |
| 173 | Crush | Ellen Conford | Benicia Public Library |
| 174 | Curse of the Blue Tattoo | L.A. Meyer | Read Aloud America |
| 175 | Dark Water Rising | Marian Hale | LWSD |
| 176 | Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales | Neal Shusterman | Benicia Public Library |
| 177 | Daughter of Venice | Donna Jo Napoli | Read Aloud America |
| 178 | David Copperfield (Wordsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Collection) | Charles Dickens | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 179 | Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue | Julius Lester | Benicia Public Library |
| 180 | Dead End in Norvelt | Jack Gantos | Pragmatic Mom |
| 181 | Death Cloud | Andrew Lane | Pragmatic Mom |
| 182 | Delirium | Lauren Oliver | Goodreads |
| 183 | Dog Friday | Hilary McKay | Read Aloud America |
| 184 | Dog in the Wood | Monika Schroder | LWSD |
| 185 | Double Identity | Margaret Peterson Haddix | LWSD |
| 186 | Dragonrider | Cynthia Funke | Read Aloud America |
| 187 | Drawing from Memory | Say | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 188 | Eager | Helen Fox | Benicia Public Library |
| 189 | Earth Children series | Jean M. Auel | Great! Schools |
| 190 | East | Edith Pattou | LWSD |
| 191 | Eighth Grade Bites: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod #1 | Heather Brewer | LWSD |
| 192 | Eldest | Christopher Paolini | LWSD |
| 193 | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | Goodreads |
| 194 | Elephant Run | Roland Smith | LWSD |
| 195 | Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 196 | Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | Read Aloud America |
| 197 | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine | Read Aloud America |
| 198 | Empty | Suzanne Weyn | LWSD |
| 199 | Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters and More | Joshua Gee | Benicia Public Library |
| 200 | Endymion Spring | Matthew Skeleton | LWSD |
| 201 | Entwined | Heather Dixon | Pragmatic Mom |
| 202 | Escape to West Berlin | Maurine F. Dahlberg | Read Aloud America |
| 203 | Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | Read Aloud America |
| 204 | Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath | Read Aloud America |
| 205 | Facing the Lion | Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton | Read Aloud America |
| 206 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | LWSD |
| 207 | Find Where the Wind Goes | Dr. Jae Jemison | Read Aloud America |
| 208 | Finding Buck McHenry | Alfred Slote | Read Aloud America |
| 209 | Fire Storm (Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins) | Andrew Lane | Imagination Soup |
| 210 | Five 4ths of July | Pat Raccio Hughes | Pragmatic Mom |
| 211 | Flip | Martyn Bedford | Pragmatic Mom |
| 212 | Flipped | Wendelin van Draanen | Benicia Public Library |
| 213 | Flush | Carl Hiaasen | Read Aloud America |
| 214 | Fly by Night | Frances Hardinge | Read Aloud America |
| 215 | Flying Solo | Ralph Fletcher | Read Aloud America |
| 216 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Read Aloud America |
| 217 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | Education World |
| 218 | Frozen Summer | Mary Jane Auch | Read Aloud America |
| 219 | Gathering Blue | Lois Lowry | Read Aloud America |
| 220 | Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator | Jennifer Allison | Benicia Public Library |
| 221 | Go Big or Go Home | Will Hobbs | LWSD |
| 222 | Go Figure! A totally cool book about numbers | Johnny Ball | Read Aloud America |
| 223 | Good Old Boy | Willie Morris | Read Aloud America |
| 224 | Granny Torrelli Makes Soup | Sharon Creech | Read Aloud America |
| 225 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Intellectual Takeout |
| 226 | Green Boy | Susan Cooper | Read Aloud America |
| 227 | Grimm Legacy | Polly Schulman | LWSD |
| 228 | Gulliver’s Travels | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 229 | Half Magic | Edward Eager | Read Aloud America |
| 230 | Half-Moon Investigations | Eoin Colfer | Read Aloud America |
| 231 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 232 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 233 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 234 | Haunting Violet | Alyxandra Harvey | Pragmatic Mom |
| 235 | Heartbeat | Sharon Creech | Read Aloud America |
| 236 | Heir Apparent | Vivian Vande Velde | Read Aloud America |
| 237 | Helen Keller, Rebellious Spirit | Laurie Lawlor | Read Aloud America |
| 238 | Hidden | Helen Frost | Pragmatic Mom |
| 239 | Hiding Mr. McMulty | Berniece Rabe | Read Aloud America |
| 240 | Homecoming | Cynthia Voigt | Highland Park Public Library |
| 241 | Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | Read Aloud America |
| 242 | Hope Was Here | Joan Bauer | Read Aloud America |
| 243 | Horowitz Horror | Anthony Horowitz | Benicia Public Library |
| 244 | Houdini: the Handcuff King | Jason Lutes & Nick Bertozzi | Benicia Public Library |
| 245 | Hour of the Bees | Lindsay Eagar | Brightly |
| 246 | House of Night | P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast | Great! Schools |
| 247 | How Angel Peterson Got His Name | Gary Paulsen | Benicia Public Library |
| 248 | How to Cook: Delicious Dishes | Maggie Mayhew | Pragmatic Mom |
| 249 | Human.4 | Mike A. Lancaster | Pragmatic Mom |
| 250 | Humbug Mountain | Sid Fleischman | Read Aloud America |
| 251 | Hurt Go Happy | Ginny Rorby | LWSD |
| 252 | Hush | Jacqueline Woodson | Read Aloud America |
| 253 | I Funny: A Middle School Story | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 254 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | Highland Park Public Library |
| 255 | I Love Him to Pieces | Evonne Tsang | Pragmatic Mom |
| 256 | I, Robot | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 257 | I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You | Ally Carter | Benicia Public Library |
| 258 | Ice Drift | Theodore Taylor | Read Aloud America |
| 259 | If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period | Gennifer Choldenko | Benicia Public Library |
| 260 | If I Stay | Gayle Forman | Goodreads |
| 261 | If You Come Softly | Jacqueline Woodson | Highland Park Public Library |
| 262 | Inkheart | Cornelia Funke | Read Aloud America |
| 263 | Insurgent | Veronica Roth | Goodreads |
| 264 | Into the Dark | Peter Abrahams | Read Aloud America |
| 265 | Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way | Land, Sea and Air | Pragmatic Mom |
| 266 | Invasion: A C.H.A.O.S. Novel | Jon S. Lewis | Pragmatic Mom |
| 267 | Invisible Allies, Microbes That Shape Our Lives | Jeanette Farrell | Read Aloud America |
| 268 | Iqbal | Francesco D’Adamo | AADL |
| 269 | Ironman | Chris Crutcher | Education World |
| 270 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott ODell | Highland Park Public Library |
| 271 | It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel | Firoozeh Dumas | Brightly |
| 272 | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | LWSD |
| 273 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | Highland Park Public Library |
| 274 | Jason’s Gold | Will Hobbs | Read Aloud America |
| 275 | Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker | Powell | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 276 | Journey to the Bottomless Pit | Elizabeth Mitchell | Read Aloud America |
| 277 | Journey to the River Sea | Eva Ibbotson | Read Aloud America |
| 278 | Jumping the Nail | Eve Bunting | Read Aloud America |
| 279 | Just Jake #1 | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 280 | Just Jake #2: Dog Eat Dog | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 281 | Keeper of the Doves | Betsy Byars | Read Aloud America |
| 282 | Keeper of the Night | Kimberly Willis Holt | Benicia Public Library |
| 283 | Kensuke’s Kingdom | Michael Morpurgo | Read Aloud America |
| 284 | Kids Pick the Funniest Poems | Bruce Lansky | Read Aloud America |
| 285 | King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table | Roger Lancelyn Green/Howard Pyle | Intellectual Takeout |
| 286 | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata | Read Aloud America |
| 287 | Laika | Nick Abadzis | Benicia Public Library |
| 288 | Last Shot | John Feinstein | Read Aloud America |
| 289 | Letters from Wolfie | Patti Sherlock | Benicia Public Library |
| 290 | Liddy | Katherine Paterson | Read Aloud America |
| 291 | Lilies of the Field | William Barrett | Read Aloud America |
| 292 | Listen | Stephanie S. Tolan | Read Aloud America |
| 293 | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Gary D. Schmidt | LWSD |
| 294 | Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson | Read Aloud America |
| 295 | Lone Wolf | Kristine L. Franklin, Joe Baker (illus.) | Education World |
| 296 | Looking for Alaska | John Green | Goodreads |
| 297 | Lord of the Deep | Graham Salisbury | Read Aloud America |
| 298 | Lord of the Rings Trilogy | J.R.R. Tolkien | LWSD |
| 299 | Lost in the Barrens | Farley Mowat | Read Aloud America |
| 300 | Lyddie | Katherine Paterson | Education World |
| 301 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Intellectual Takeout |
| 302 | Maggie’s Door | Patricia Reilly Giff | Read Aloud America |
| 303 | Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary | Partridge | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 304 | Master George’s People: George Washington, His Slaves, and His Revolutionary Transformation | Delano | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 305 | Maze Runner | James Dashner | LWSD |
| 306 | Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare | Eclectic Homeschooling |
| 307 | Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff | Jennifer Holm | Benicia Public Library |
| 308 | Midget | Tim Bowler | Education World |
| 309 | Midnight Magic | Avi | Read Aloud America |
| 310 | Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys | Jane Yolen | Read Aloud America |
| 311 | Milkweed | Jerry Spinelli | Read Aloud America |
| 312 | Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce | Benicia Public Library |
| 313 | Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series | Ransom Riggs | Great! Schools |
| 314 | Mockingjay | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
| 315 | Moon Over Manifest | Clare Vanderpool | LWSD |
| 316 | Mosquitoland | David Arnold | Imagination Soup |
| 317 | Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics | Chris Grabenstein | Brightly |
| 318 | My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | Read Aloud America |
| 319 | Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man | Katherine Kirkpatrick | Pragmatic Mom |
| 320 | Never Mind! | Avi & Rachel Vail | Read Aloud America |
| 321 | Night Flying | Rita Murphy | Read Aloud America |
| 322 | Night of the Howling Dogs | Graham Salisbury | Benicia Public Library |
| 323 | Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls | Jane Yolen | Read Aloud America |
| 324 | Notes from the Midnight Driver | Jordan Sonnenblick | LWSD |
| 325 | Now Is the Time for Running | Michael Williams | Pragmatic Mom |
| 326 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Read Aloud America |
| 327 | Okay for Now | Gary Schmidt | Pragmatic Mom |
| 328 | Olive’s Ocean | Kevin Henkes | Read Aloud America |
| 329 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Highland Park Public Library |
| 330 | Open Minds | Susan Kaye Quinn | Imagination Soup |
| 331 | Orchards | Holly Thompson | Pragmatic Mom |
| 332 | Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline | Imagination Soup |
| 333 | Out of Abaton: The Wooden Prince | John Claude Bemis | Brightly |
| 334 | Out of darkness | Ashley Hope Pérez | AADL |
| 335 | Page | Paige | Pragmatic Mom |
| 336 | Paper Towns | John Green | Goodreads |
| 337 | Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story” | Paul Aurandt | Read Aloud America |
| 338 | Pax | Sara Pennypacker | Brightly |
| 339 | People Who Make a Difference | Brent Ashabrenner | Read Aloud America |
| 340 | Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters | Rick Riordan | Read Aloud America |
| 341 | Peter and the Starcatchers | Dave and Ridley Pearson Barry | Read Aloud America |
| 342 | Pets, Vets and Marty Howard | Joan Carris | Read Aloud America |
| 343 | Pieces of Georgia | Jennifer Bryant | Benicia Public Library |
| 344 | Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi | Highland Park Public Library |
| 345 | Planet Middle School | Nikki Grimes | Pragmatic Mom |
| 346 | Play to the Angel | Maurine F. Dahlberg | Read Aloud America |
| 347 | Poppy | Avi | Read Aloud America |
| 348 | Pretties | Scott Westerfeld | Goodreads |
| 349 | Princess Academy | Shannon Hale | LWSD |
| 350 | Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot | Benicia Public Library |
| 351 | Prodigy: A Legend Novel | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 352 | Protector of the Small Quartet | Tamora Pierce | Read Aloud America |
| 353 | Queen Bee | Chynna Clugston | Benicia Public Library |
| 354 | Rascal | Sterling North | LWSD |
| 355 | Raven’sGate | Anthony Horowitz | Read Aloud America |
| 356 | Read All About It | Jim Trelease | Read Aloud America |
| 357 | Recycle This Book: 100 Top Children’s Book Authors Tell You How to Go Green edited | Dan Gutman | Benicia Public Library |
| 358 | Red Kayak | Priscilla Cummings | LWSD |
| 359 | Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan | LWSD |
| 360 | Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard | Imagination Soup |
| 361 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown | Imagination Soup |
| 362 | Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution | Jiang | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 363 | Replay | Sharon Creech | Read Aloud America |
| 364 | Rio Grande Stories | Carolyn Meyer | Read Aloud America |
| 365 | River Thunder | Will Hobbs | Read Aloud America |
| 366 | Robot Dreams | Sara Varon | Benicia Public Library |
| 367 | Rodrick Rules | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 368 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred Taylor | Read Aloud America |
| 369 | Roots | Alex Haley | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 370 | Rot and Ruin | Jonathan Maberry | Imagination Soup |
| 371 | Ruby Red | Kerstin Gier | Pragmatic Mom |
| 372 | Ruins of Gorlan: Ranger’s Apprentice #1 | John Flanagan | LWSD |
| 373 | Rules | Cynthia Lord | Read Aloud America |
| 374 | Runaway | Wendelin Van Draanan | LWSD |
| 375 | Running Out of Time | Margaret Haddix | Read Aloud America |
| 376 | Sabriel | Garth Nix | Imagination Soup |
| 377 | Sammy Keyes (Mystery series) | Wendelin Van Draanen | Read Aloud America |
| 378 | Satch & Me | Dan Gutman | Read Aloud America |
| 379 | Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia | Montgomery | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 380 | Scary Stories | Barry Moser | Benicia Public Library |
| 381 | Scat | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 382 | Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | Intellectual Takeout |
| 383 | Secrets of the terra-cotta soldier | Ying Chang Compestine | AADL |
| 384 | Secrets of Valhalla | Jasmine Richards | Brightly |
| 385 | Seraphina | Rachel Hartman | Imagination Soup |
| 386 | Shadow and Bone | Leigh Bardugo | Imagination Soup |
| 387 | Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska | Read Aloud America |
| 388 | Shakespeare’s Secret | Elise Broach | Benicia Public Library |
| 389 | Shelf Life: Stories by the Book | Gary Paulsen | Read Aloud America |
| 390 | Shooting Kabul | N. H. Senzai | AADL |
| 391 | Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1800-1924 | Deborah Hopkinson | Read Aloud America |
| 392 | Sidekicked | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 393 | Silent Boy | Lois Lowry | LWSD |
| 394 | Silent to the Bone | E.L. Konigsburg | Benicia Public Library |
| 395 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | J.R.R. Tolkien | Intellectual Takeout |
| 396 | Skellig | David Almond | Read Aloud America |
| 397 | Skin I’m In | Sharon Flake | Benicia Public Library |
| 398 | Skinny Melon and Me | Jean Ure | Read Aloud America |
| 399 | Skulduggery Pleasant | Derek Landy | Benicia Public Library |
| 400 | Skybreaker | Kenneth Oppel | Read Aloud America |
| 401 | Small Acts of Amazing Courage | Gloria Whelan | Pragmatic Mom |
| 402 | Small Steps | Louis Sachar | Read Aloud America |
| 403 | So B. It | Sarah Weeks | Read Aloud America |
| 404 | So Far from the Bamboo Grove | Yoko Kawashima Watkins | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 405 | So Hard to Say | Alex Sanchez | Benicia Public Library |
| 406 | Soldier’s Heart | Gary Paulsen | LWSD |
| 407 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | Read Aloud America |
| 408 | Son of a gun | Anne De Graaf | AADL |
| 409 | SOS Titanic | Eve Bunting | Read Aloud America |
| 410 | Sounder | William Armstrong | Read Aloud America |
| 411 | Spanking Shakespeare | Jake Wizner | Goodreads |
| 412 | Spy X: Hide and Seek | Gordon Korman | Read Aloud America |
| 413 | Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories | Kelly and G. Grant Link | Pragmatic Mom |
| 414 | Steven Spielberg: Crazy for the Movies | Susan Goldman Rubin | Read Aloud America |
| 415 | Stones in Water | Donna Jo Di Napoli | Read Aloud America |
| 416 | Stop Pretending: what happened when my big sister went crazy | Sonya Sones | Read Aloud America |
| 417 | Story Thieves: The Stolen Chapters | James Riley | Brightly |
| 418 | Strange Happenings | Avi | Read Aloud America |
| 419 | Stranger in the Woods, A Photographic Essay | Carl R. and Stoick Sams | Read Aloud America |
| 420 | Stranger With My Face | Lois Duncan | Read Aloud America |
| 421 | Strings Attached | Judy Blundell | Pragmatic Mom |
| 422 | Summer of My German Soldier | Bette Greene | LWSD |
| 423 | Supernaturalist | Eoin Colfer | LWSD |
| 424 | Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | Read Aloud America |
| 425 | Sweetgrass Basket | Marlene Carvell | Read Aloud America |
| 426 | Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems | Kristine O’Connell George | Read Aloud America |
| 427 | Swindle | Gordon Korman | LWSD |
| 428 | Swiss Family Robinson | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 429 | Sword of the Rightful King | Jane Yolen | Read Aloud America |
| 430 | Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina | DePrince | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 431 | Tall Story | Candy Gourlay | Pragmatic Mom |
| 432 | Tangerine | Edward Bloor | Benicia Public Library |
| 433 | Tanglewreck | Jeannette Winterson | Read Aloud America |
| 434 | Tellos: Reluctant Heroes | Todd Dezago & Mike Wieringo | Benicia Public Library |
| 435 | Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World | Montgomery | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 436 | Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power | Milton Meltzer | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 437 | Thank You, Jackie Robinson | Barbara Cohen | Read Aloud America |
| 438 | The Absolute Value of Mike | Kathryn Erskine | Pragmatic Mom |
| 439 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Goodreads |
| 440 | The Accidental Genius of Weasel High | Rick Detorie | Pragmatic Mom |
| 441 | The Aeneid | Virgil/Penelope Lively | Intellectual Takeout |
| 442 | The Agency | Y S Lee | Imagination Soup |
| 443 | The Akhenaten Adventure | P.B. Kerr | Read Aloud America |
| 444 | The Arrival | Shaun Tan | Benicia Public Library |
| 445 | The Battle of the Labyrinth | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| 446 | The Black Arrow | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 447 | The Book of the Lion | Michael Cadnum | LWSD |
| 448 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | John Boyne | Imagination Soup |
| 449 | The Boy Who Saved Baseball | John H. Ritter | Read Aloud America |
| 450 | The Boyfriend Rules of Good Behavior | Catherine Bateson | Benicia Public Library |
| 451 | The Breadwinner | Deborah Ellis | Read Aloud America |
| 452 | The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown | Betsy Byars | Read Aloud America |
| 453 | The Calder Game | Blue Balliett | Read Aloud America |
| 454 | The Candy Shop War | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 455 | The Challenge: Steel Trapp #1 | Ridely Pearson | LWSD |
| 456 | The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle | Janet Fox | Brightly |
| 457 | The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | Highland Park Public Library |
| 458 | The Chosen | Chaim Potok | Education World |
| 459 | The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales | Chris Vall Allsburg | Pragmatic Mom |
| 460 | The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child | Francisco Jiménez | Benicia Public Library |
| 461 | The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau | Read Aloud America |
| 462 | The Coast Mappers | Taylor Morrison | Read Aloud America |
| 463 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Goodreads |
| 464 | The Dark Stairs: A Herculeah Jones Mystery | Betsy Cromer Byars | Benicia Public Library |
| 465 | The Demon Dentist | David Walliams | Brightly |
| 466 | The Diamond of Drury Lane: A Cat Royal Adventure | Julia Golding | Benicia Public Library |
| 467 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | Intellectual Takeout |
| 468 | The dreamer | Pam Muñoz Ryan | AADL |
| 469 | The Elephant Scientist | O’Connell & Jackson | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 470 | The Exiles | Hilary McKay | Read Aloud America |
| 471 | The Face on the Milk Carton | Caroline Cooney | Benicia Public Library |
| 472 | The Falcon’s Malteser | Anthony Horowitz | Read Aloud America |
| 473 | The Farthest Shore | Ursula Le Guin | Read Aloud America |
| 474 | The Fixer | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Imagination Soup |
| 475 | The Floating Islands | Rachel Neumeier | Pragmatic Mom |
| 476 | The Gathering | Kelley Armstrong | Pragmatic Mom |
| 477 | The Girl Is Murder | Kathryn Miller Haines | Pragmatic Mom |
| 478 | The Girl Who Could Fly | Victoria Forester | Benicia Public Library |
| 479 | The Golden Hour | Maiya Williams | Read Aloud America |
| 480 | The Grave | James Heneghan | Read Aloud America |
| 481 | The Green Glass Sea | Ellen Klages | Read Aloud America |
| 482 | The Grisha Trilogy | Leigh Bardugo | Great! Schools |
| 483 | The Heart of a Chief | Joseph Bruchac | Read Aloud America |
| 484 | The Hero Project | Robert and William Hatch Hatch | Read Aloud America |
| 485 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 486 | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | Benicia Public Library |
| 487 | The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | Highland Park Public Library |
| 488 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 489 | The Incredible Journey | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 490 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | Read Aloud America |
| 491 | The Islander | Cynthia Rylant | Read Aloud America |
| 492 | The jumping tree | René Saldaña | AADL |
| 493 | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | Highland Park Public Library |
| 494 | The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | Education World |
| 495 | The Land of Forgotten Girls | Erin Entrada Kelly | Brightly |
| 496 | The Land of the Silver Apples | Nancy Farmer | Read Aloud America |
| 497 | The Last Boy at St. Edith’s | Lee Gjertsen Malone | Brightly |
| 498 | The last cherry blossom | Kathleen Burkinshaw | AADL |
| 499 | The Last Dragon | Jane Yolen | Pragmatic Mom |
| 500 | The Last Lecture | Rady Pausch | Imagination Soup |
| 501 | The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 | James Fenimore Cooper | Highland Park Public Library |
| 502 | The Last Olympian | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| 503 | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | Highland Park Public Library |
| 504 | The Living | Matt de la Pena | Imagination Soup |
| 505 | The Lost Hero | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| 506 | The Man in the Ceiling | Jules Feiffer | Read Aloud America |
| 507 | The Mark of Athena | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| 508 | The Mighty/Max the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | Read Aloud America |
| 509 | The Mudpack and Me | Joan Thompson | Read Aloud America |
| 510 | The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 511 | The Naked Mole-Rat Letters | Mary Amato | Read Aloud America |
| 512 | The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization | Daniel Pinkwater | Read Aloud America |
| 513 | The Night of the Howling Dogs | Graham Salisbury | Read Aloud America |
| 514 | The Odd Squad Bully Bait | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 515 | The Odyssey | Homer | Intellectual Takeout |
| 516 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | LWSD |
| 517 | The Pea Soup Poisonings | Nancy Means Wright | Read Aloud America |
| 518 | The Pearl | John Steinbeck | LWSD |
| 519 | The Pirate’s Son | Geraldine McCaughrean | Read Aloud America |
| 520 | The Planet of Junior Brown | Virginia Hamilton | Read Aloud America |
| 521 | The Poisoned House | Michael Ford | Pragmatic Mom |
| 522 | The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights | Steve Sheinkin | AADL |
| 523 | The Power of Six | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 524 | The Prince and the Pauper | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 525 | The Race to Save the Lord God Bird | Phillip Hoose | Benicia Public Library |
| 526 | The Rat Prince | Bridget Hodder | Brightly |
| 527 | The Raven Cycle | Maggie Stiefvater | Great! Schools |
| 528 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | Intellectual Takeout |
| 529 | The red pencil | Andrea Davis Pinkney | AADL |
| 530 | The Red Pony | John Steinbeck | Highland Park Public Library |
| 531 | The Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| 532 | The River Between Us | Richard Peck | LWSD |
| 533 | The Roar | Emma Clayton | LWSD |
| 534 | The Ruby Notebook | Laura Resau | Imagination Soup |
| 535 | The Scorpio Races | Maggie Stiefvater | Imagination Soup |
| 536 | The Sea of Monsters | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| 537 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | LWSD |
| 538 | The Secret of ROVER | Rachel Wildavsky | Pragmatic Mom |
| 539 | The Series of Unfortunate Events (series) | Lemony Snicket | Read Aloud America |
| 540 | The Serpent King | Jeff Zentner | Imagination Soup |
| 541 | The Shakespeare Stealer (Series) | Gary Blackwood | Read Aloud America |
| 542 | The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare | Read Aloud America |
| 543 | The Star Fisher | Laurence Yep | Read Aloud America |
| 544 | The Story-Teller: Thirteen Tales by Saki | Saki | Highland Park Public Library |
| 545 | The Storyteller’s Daughter | Cameron Dokey | Read Aloud America |
| 546 | The Summer I Learned to Fly | Dana Reinhardt | Pragmatic Mom |
| 547 | The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table | Rosemary Sutcliff | Highland Park Public Library |
| 548 | The Sword in the Stone | T. H. White | Read Aloud America |
| 549 | The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | Highland Park Public Library |
| 550 | The Thickety: Well of Witches | J.A. White | Brightly |
| 551 | The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | Benicia Public Library |
| 552 | The Thief Lord | Cornelia Funke | Read Aloud America |
| 553 | The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo | Read Aloud America |
| 554 | The Time Machine | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 555 | The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 556 | The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West | Fleischman | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 557 | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | Education World |
| 558 | The Two Princesses of Bamarra | Gail Carson Levine | Read Aloud America |
| 559 | The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder | John Bellairs | Benicia Public Library |
| 560 | The Wanderer | Sharon Creech | Read Aloud America |
| 561 | The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic | Allan Wolf | Pragmatic Mom |
| 562 | The Wind Singer: an adventure | William Nicholson | Read Aloud America |
| 563 | The Winter People | Joseph Bruchac | Read Aloud America |
| 564 | The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree | Bill Brittain | We Are Teachers |
| 565 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare | We Are Teachers |
| 566 | The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | Education World |
| 567 | The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar | Roald Dahl | Read Aloud America |
| 568 | The Wright 3 | Blue Balliett | Read Aloud America |
| 569 | Then I Met My Sister | Christine Hurley Deriso | Pragmatic Mom |
| 570 | Theodore Boone: The Abduction | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 571 | There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock | Jerry Spinelli | Read Aloud America |
| 572 | Things Hoped For | Andrew Clements | Read Aloud America |
| 573 | Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher | Goodreads |
| 574 | This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein | Kenneth Oppel | Pragmatic Mom |
| 575 | Thunder Cave | Roland Smith | Read Aloud America |
| 576 | Tiger (Kung-Fu Series) | Jeff Stone | Read Aloud America |
| 577 | Tiger’s Quest | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 578 | Time of the Witches | Anna Myers | LWSD |
| 579 | Time Stops for No Mouse: a Hermux Tantamoq Adventure | Michael Hoeye | Read Aloud America |
| 580 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | LWSD |
| 581 | Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 582 | Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert | Aronson | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 583 | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | Read Aloud America |
| 584 | Tunnel Vision | Susan Shaw | Pragmatic Mom |
| 585 | Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali | Smith | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 586 | Ultraviolet | R. J. Anderson | Pragmatic Mom |
| 587 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Eclectic Homeschooling | |
| 588 | Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team | Steve Sheinkin | Imagination Soup |
| 589 | Under the Mesquite | Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Pragmatic Mom |
| 590 | Unlocked | Ryan G. Van Cleave | Pragmatic Mom |
| 591 | Until Tuesday | Luis Carlos Montalvan with Bret Witter | Imagination Soup |
| 592 | Virtual War | Gloria Skurzynski | Read Aloud America |
| 593 | Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World | Eighth Grade Reading List | |
| 594 | Walker of Time | H. H. Vick | Benicia Public Library |
| 595 | Wanting Mor | Rukhsana Khan | AADL |
| 596 | Weedflower | Cynthia Kadohata | Read Aloud America |
| 597 | Wereworld | Curtis Jobling | Imagination Soup |
| 598 | Whales on Stilts! | M.T. Anderson | Read Aloud America |
| 599 | What a Great Idea! | Stephen M. Tomecek | Read Aloud America |
| 600 | What My Mother Doesn’t Know | Sonia Sones | Read Aloud America |
| 601 | What the Moon Saw | Laura Resua | Read Aloud America |
| 602 | What the World Eats | D’Aluisio | Homeschool Curriculum |
| 603 | Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom | Sue Macy | Pragmatic Mom |
| 604 | When My Name Was Keoke | Linda Sue Park | Read Aloud America |
| 605 | When the Snow Fell | Henning Mankell and Laurie Thompson | Great! Schools |
| 606 | When the Tripods Came | John Christopher | Read Aloud America |
| 607 | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberly Willis Holt | Read Aloud America |
| 608 | Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy | Wilson Rawls | Highland Park Public Library |
| 609 | Where the streets had a name | Randa Abdel-Fattah | AADL |
| 610 | Where Things Come Back | John Corey Whaley | Pragmatic Mom |
| 611 | White crane | AADL | |
| 612 | White Fang | Jack London | LWSD |
| 613 | Wicked Lovely | Melissa Marr | Great! Schools |
| 614 | Wideness and Wonder: The Life and Art of Georgia O’Keeffe | Susan Goldman Rubin | Pragmatic Mom |
| 615 | Wing and Claw: Forest of Wonders | Linda Sue Park | Brightly |
| 616 | Wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson | Goodreads |
| 617 | Witch Week | Diana Wynne Jones | Benicia Public Library |
| 618 | Withering Tights | Louise Rennison | Pragmatic Mom |
| 619 | Witness | Karen Hesse | LWSD |
| 620 | Wolf by wolf | Ryan Graudin | Imagination Soup |
| 621 | Wonder | Seefer Elliot | |
| 622 | Wonderstruck | Brian Selznick | Pragmatic Mom |
| 623 | Woods Runner | Gary Paulsen | LWSD |
| 624 | Woodsong | Gary Paulsen | Read Aloud America |
| 625 | Wringer | Jerry Spinelli | We Are Teachers |
| 626 | Year of Impossible Goodbyes | Sook Nyul Choi | Read Aloud America |
17 Best 8th Grade Book Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| AADL | 8th grade and 9th grade Historical Fiction |
| Benicia Public Library | Great Books for Seventh and Eighth Grade |
| Brightly | 16 Great Middle Grade Books to Read in 2016 |
| Eclectic Homeschooling | Classic Literature for Middle School |
| Education World | EIGHTH GRADE SUMMER READLING LIST |
| Eighth Grade Reading List | 8th Grade Must Read List |
| Goodreads | Popular 8th Grade Books |
| Great! Schools | Best book series for 8th graders — ever |
| Highland Park Public Library | Books to Read Before You Leave 8th Grade |
| Homeschool Curriculum | Recommended 8th Grade Reading List |
| Imagination Soup | 8th Grade Summer Reading List (ages 13+) |
| Intellectual Takeout | Top Schools Think 7th and 8th Graders Should Be Able to Read These Books |
| LWSD | Recommended Summer Reading for Students Entering the Eighth Grade |
| Pragmatic Mom | Best Books for Middle Schoolers: From Our Wonderful Middle School Librarian! |
| Read Aloud America | Read Aloud America Composite Book List for Years 1999 – 2009 |
| Seefer Elliot | 8th Grade Books To Read |
| We Are Teachers | 10 Books Every Middle Schooler Should Read |
