Year 8 Great Reads List 2021 – 2022
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Sandringham Learning Resources Centre (L.R.C.) Year 8 Great Reads Adventure / Survival Paul Adam: Max Cassidy series Katherine Rundell: The Good Max Cassidy is a teenage Thieves escapologist. His father went Desperate to help her beloved missing two years ago and his grandfather, Vita and her mother mother is serving a life sentence go to New York. She has one goal: for his murder. Max's mission to to break into Hudson Hall and learn the truth takes him to retrieve the jewels that the sinister central America, to the horrors of Victor Sorrotore stole from her the terrifying Shadow Island. family. With her new friends, she Book#1 plans a scary heist. Lauren St John: The One Dollar Bear Grylls: Mission Survival Horse series series Casey Blue volunteers at a local Beck is in Colombia. His uncle and riding school, but her dream is to Don Rafael know where the lost win the Badminton Horse Trials. city is, but they are both She rescues a starving, half-wild kidnapped. Beck must set off into horse, but she has reckoned the wilds of Colombia, build a raft, without her father’s criminal negotiate wild river rapids, make record, or the boy with melty, camp, and defend his friends from dark eyes, with whom she refuses wild animals in the jungle. to fall in love. Book#1 Mitch Johnson: Pop! Lauren Wolk: Beyond the Bright When the recipe to the world's Sea most popular drink - thought to Crow has always been curious be lost forever - washes up at her about the world around her, but it feet, Queenie's life instantly isn't until the night a mysterious changes. Everyone wants it, and fire appears across the water that with a $10 million bounty on her the unspoken question of her own head, Queenie's soon on the run. history forms in her heart. Soon, a Can she and her friend Todd do chain of events is triggered, leading something to fix this crazy, Crow down a path of discovery and messed up world? danger. Peter Bunzl: Cogheart series Wilbur Smith: Cloudburst Lily’s father is missing, and now The classic tale of a boy from a silver-eyed men stalk her. Mississippi River town. He With her friends—Robert, the recounts his adventures as he clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her travels down the river with a mechanical fox—Lily is plunged runaway slave, encountering a into a murky and menacing world family involved in a feud, two of murder, mayhem and mystery scoundrels pretending to be set in this gripping Victorian royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt. steam punk adventure. Book#1 Vashti Hardy: Crowfall Robert Muchamore: Robin Hood Ironhold is an orderly place but series when Orin Crowfall, a lowly After Locksley’s car plants shut servant boy, learns the island down, the prosperous town has itself is in danger, this knowledge become a toxic land. The Sheriff of makes him a target. He narrowly Nottingham and Guy Gisborne escapes on a boat, fights for control the council. When Robin’s survival with his robot friend, dad is framed for a robbery, he and Cody, pursued by a sea monster. Little John must survive in Orin will need to dig deep for Sherwood forest, sheltering the free courage and trust. fantasy spirits and outlaws. But Robin has adventure. plans. Book#1 Real Life Samira Ahmed: Love, Hate and Lisa Williamson: Other Filters Paper Avalanche Maya -an Indian American When it comes to flying under the Muslim teen confronts radar, Ro Snow is an expert: No Islamophobia and a reality she friends, No boys, can neither explain nor escape. No parties, and strictly NO She is torn between two worlds. VISITORS. Then Tanvi Shah, the But in the aftermath of a horrific girl who almost died, comes back crime, her life is turned upside into her life, and Ro finds herself down by fear, bigotry, and hatred. losing control of her lies. Sita Brahmachari: When Elizabeth Acevedo: Secrets Set Sail The Poet X Usha is devastated when her Xiomara feels unheard in her grandmother Kali Ma dies. When Harlem neighbourhood. She her new adoptive sister Imtiaz discovers slam poetry to arrives, they clash instantly. They understand her place in the world. both feel lost. Kali Ma's ghost She joins a school slam poetry club appears with a task for them: to and can’t stop thinking about her go on a quest through London. If poems. Because though the world they can set the secrets of might not want to hear, Xiomara generations free, will they be in refuses to be silent. time to save their home? Onjali Rauf: The Night Bus Hero Penny Joelsen: Things the Eye I've been getting into trouble for Can’t See as long I can remember. Recently The day that the boy gives her a no one believes me about secret note to deliver changes anything - even when I'm telling everything. Then, the boy goes the truth! It's worse since I played missing, and no one – except Libby a prank on the old man in the and her new friend Kyle – thinks park. Everyone thinks I'm just a there is anything to worry about. bully. They don't believe I could Libby is visually impaired but with be a hero. But I'm going to prove Samson, her guide dog, she wishes them all wrong. Bullying and she could be more independent. homelessness themes. Nielsen: Optimists Die First Anne Frank: The Diary of a Petula has shut herself off from Young Girl the world after a tragedy. Now she Discovered in the attic in which she sees danger in everything. She spent the last years of her life, goes to art therapy class, though Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has she has nothing in common with become a world classic—a powerful these teenage misfits, who all reminder of the horrors of war and carry their own guilt. When she is an eloquent testament to the forced to do a project with Jacob, human spirit. he helps her to face her fears, until a hidden truth threatens to derail everything. Sarah Crossan: Moonrise Angie Thomas: Concrete Rose Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten The story of Maverick Carter, years, because Ed is on death row. Starr's father, set seventeen years His date for execution has been before The Hate U Give. With his set, and Joe is determined to King Lord dad in prison and his spend those last weeks with him, mom working two jobs, Maverick no matter what other people think helps the only way he knows how: This poignant, stirring, novel asks slinging drugs. Life's not perfect, big questions. What value do you but it’s under control. then he finds place on life? What can you out he's a father! It’s not easy to forgive? And just how do you say deal drugs and finish school with a goodbye? baby dependent on him. Crime, Mystery, Thrillers and Spies Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider Andrew Lane: Young Sherlock series Holmes series Fourteen-year-old Alex is When Sherlock Holmes is fourteen recruited into MI6. Armed with - on a break from boarding school, secret gadgets, he is sent to he stays with his uncle and aunt. investigate Herod Sayle, a man When two local people die from a who is offering Stormbreaker plague, Holmes begins to computers to every school. But investigate what really killed them, the teenage spy soon finds himself helped by his new tutor, an in mortal danger. American named Amyus Crowe. Book#1 Book#1 Robin Stevens: The Chris Ryan: Agent 21 series Guggenheim Mystery Agent 21-first in an action-packed A painting is stolen but I did not adventure series by a real-life SAS see what the problem was, even if hero. When Zak Darke's parents it was worth £9.8 million. die in a mass murder he's alone in Perhaps that's because of my very the world, until he's sought out by unusual brain. But when Aunt a mysterious man from a Gloria was blamed for the theft, I government agency. 'Zak becomes had to find the painting, and Agent 21. What happened to the 20 discover who took it. agents before him he'll never know. What he does know is that his life is about to change. Katherine Woodfine: The Robert Muchamore: The Clockwork Sparrow Henderson Boys and Rock War In a world of mysteries, the series daring theft of the clockwork In World War Two, the British sparrow takes place! The most secret service is about to discover dastardly criminals in London that kids working undercover will enact their wicked plans! Our help to win the war. For official bold heroines, Miss Sophie Taylor purposes, these children do not and Miss Lilian Rose, crack codes, exist. devour ice-buns and vow to bring Book#1 the villains to justice… Andy McNab: Boy Soldier series Charlie Higson: Young Bond Danny sets out to track down and series expose his grandfather – a traitor. James Bond will one day become Now people want them both dead. the world’s most famous spy, but This is a thrilling, fast-paced for now his challenge is to fit in at series full of breath-taking action, his new school - making friends SAS procedures and surveillance and facing up to bullies. But there and survival techniques. A fast- is an even tougher challenge moving, action-packed thriller. awaiting him- something Book#1 mysterious and deadly lurking in the water.