Suggested Reading List for Eighth Grade

    BLOOMABILITY
    by Sharon Creech

    THE BOY WHO OWNED THE SCHOOL:
    A COMEDY OF LOVE
    by Gary Paulsen

    THE CALL OF THE WILD
    by Jack London

    CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY
    by Karen Cushman

    CHRISTY
    by Catherine Marshall

    THE GIRL WHO INVENTED ROMANCE
    by Caroline B. Cooney

    GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    by Charles Dickens

    HOPE WAS HERE
    by Joan Bauer

    HOW I CHANGED MY LIFE
    by Todd Strasser

    THE INVISIBLE LADDER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF
    CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POEMS FOR
    YOUNG READERS
    edited by Liz Rosenberg

    JANE EYRE
    by Charlotte Bronte

    THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
    by Washington Irving

    LOCH
    by Paul Zindel

    A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO:
    A NOVEL IN STORIES
    by Richard Peck

    THE OUTSIDERS
    by S.E. Hinton

    THE PRINCESS DIARIES
    by Meg Cabot

    STARGIRL
    by Jerry Spinelli

    THOSE SUMMER GIRLS I NEVER MET
    by Richard Peck

    TREASURE ISLAND
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Series for Eighth Graders:

  • THE EARTHSEA books (LeGuin)
  • LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy (Tolkien)
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