Grade 8 Reading List Each ELA teacher is required to complete at least one novel each year with all students.

On Level Reading List

Stories/Novels:

Ajeemah and His Son, James Berry 760 Historical Fiction All-American Girl, Meg Cabot 880 Fiction Assassin, Anna Myers 790 Historical Fiction Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers 970 Realistic Fiction Black Duck, Janet Lisle 790 Historical Fiction Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis 950 Historical Fiction Buried Onions, Gary Soto 850 Fiction Call of the Wild, The, Jack London 780 Adventure Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank Gilbreth 890 Comedy Contender, The, Robert Lipsyte 760 Fiction Corner of the Universe, A, Ann Martin 750 Realistic Fiction Deadline, Chris Crutcher 880 Realistic Fiction Fire from the Rock, Sharon Draper 830 Historical Fiction First Part Last, The, Angela Johnson 790 Fiction Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes 910 Science Fiction Forged by Fire, Sharon Draper 780 Fiction Game, Walter Dean Myers 800 Fiction Glory Field, The, Walter Dean Myers 800 Fiction Halfback Tough, Thomas J. Dygard 800 Fiction Homeless Bird, Gloria Whelan 800 Realistic Fiction House on Mango Street, The, Sandra Cisneros 870 Fiction I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust, Inge Auerbacher 950 Historical Fiction I Am the Cheese, Robert Cormier 810 Mystery I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, Jacqueline Woodson 740 Fiction Lord of the Flies, William Golding 770 Adventure/Fiction Mississippi Trial, 1955, Chris Crowe 870 Historical Fiction My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George 810 Fiction Outside Shot, The, Walter Dean Myers 770 Fiction Rats, Paul Zindel 800 Fiction Running Loose, Chris Crutcher 870 Fiction Secret Life of Bees, The, Sue Monk Kidd 840 Historical Fiction Shattered, (Bluford High Series #12) Paul Langan Unlisted Fiction Slam, Nick Hornby 740 Fiction Slam, Walter Dean Myers 750 Fiction Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut 850 Science Fiction Sleep Away Girls, Jen Calonita Unlisted Fiction Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, David Lubar Unlisted Realistic Fiction Summer of Secrets, (Bluford High Series #10), Paul Langan Unlisted Fiction Sold, Patricia McCormick 820 Fiction Soldier Boys, Dean Hughes 790 Historical Fiction Solitary Blue, A, Cynthia Voigt 770 Fiction Sunrise over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers 780 Realistic Fiction Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, Andrea Warren 820 Historical Fiction That Was Then, This is Now, S.E. Hinton Unlisted Fiction Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A, Betty Smith 810 Fiction True Believer, Virginia Euwer Wolff 820 Fiction When She Hollers, Cynthia Voigt 740 Fiction Wrinkle in Time, A, Madeline L’Engle 740 Science Fiction You Know Where to Find Me, Rachel Cohn 900 Realistic Fiction

Poetry

Informational Texts After the Death of Anna Gonzales, Terri Fields Unlisted Non-Fiction Barack Obama: An American Story, Bob Carlton and Ariele Gentiles Unlisted Biography Diary of Anne Frank, The, The Play Unlisted Non-Fiction Freedom Writers Diary, The, Erin Gruwell Unlisted Non-Fiction

Stretch Level Texts

Stories/Novels Animal Farm, George Orwell 1170 Science Fiction Bucking the Sarge, Christopher Paul Curtis 1000 Fiction Brothers in Arms, (Bluford High Series #9) Paul Langan and Ben Alirez Unlisted Fiction Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, The, Heather Brewer Unlisted Fiction Deathwatch, Robb White 990 Mystery Fallen, The, Paul Langan Unlisted Fiction Hatchet 1020 Realistic Fiction Ironman, Chris Crutcher 980 Fiction Just Dial a Number, Edith Maxwell Unlisted Fiction Love and Peaches, Jodi Lynn Anderson Unlisted Fiction Pygmalion 1340 Fiction War of the Worlds, George Orwell 1170 Fiction West Side Story, Arthur Laurents Unlisted Fiction

Poetry

Informational Texts

Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry, Scott Nelson 1030 Biography American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, An, Jim Murphy 1130 Non-Fiction We Beat the Streets, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt Unlisted Non-Fiction