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Ready-To-Go Sales Sheets 3.Qxd Grade 8 100 Individual Titles Favorites Collection Title Author Lexile GRL Title Author Lexile GRL 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne 1030 Z Locomotion Woodson The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain 950 Z Marco's Millions Sleator 640 All Shook Up Denenberg 990 Missing May Rylant 980 W Amelia’s War Rinaldi 580 Monster Myers 670 Bat 6 Wolff 930 T Mummies, Bones, & Body Parts Wilcox 900 U Behind the Bedroom Wall Williams 660 V Mystery of the Island Jewels Stengel The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder Strickland 770 S No Man's Land Bartoletti 700 The Best Poems Ever Mesmer Y Numbering All the Bones Rinaldi 600 W Blind Date Stine 600 Once upon a Marigold Ferris 840 Bloomability Creech 850 V Out of the Dust (Six Book Collection) Hesse X Boston Jane Holm 690 Out of the Dust Book Guide Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul Canfield 780 Pictures of Hollis Woods Giff 650 R The Chocolate War Cormier 820 Poetry U.S.A. Molloy Come All You Brave Soldiers Cox 1270 Pride and Prejudice Austen 1100 Crispin Avi 780 W Private Captain Crisp 750 Dogsong Paulsen 930 V The Ravenmaster's Secret Woodruff 750 T Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson 990 Z Red Scarf Girl Jiang 780 Z Dracula Stoker 990 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare The Dream Keeper Hughes Rosa Parks (Six Book Collection) Haskins 970 U Eight Tales of Terror Poe 1340 Rosa Parks Book Guide Evvy's Civil War Brenaman The Runner Voigt 840 Fatality Cooney 710 Running Back to Ludie Johnson 960 Foster's War Reeder 940 V Salsa Stories Delacre 760 S Freeze Tag Cooney Samir and Yonatan Carmi 810 From Where I Sit Nixon 780 Sarah Bishop O’Dell 760 X Ghost Soldier Alphin 750 The Shakespeare Stealer Blackwood 840 Going Solo Dahl 1080 T The Skin I'm In Flake 670 Great Expectations Dickens 1200 S Smoke Screen Koss 640 The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Myers 1030 A Solitary Blue Voigt 770 W Green Angel Hoffman 910 W Song Quest Roberts 780 X Grind Wasserman The Story-teller's Daughter Dokey 700 Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear Shakespeare Things Not Seen Clements 690 V Heaven Johnson 790 The Time Machine Wells 1070 Heroes and Monsters of Greek Myth Evslin 870 To Kill a Mockingbird Lee 870 Z Hiroshima Yep 660 S Top Ten Greek Legends Deary 740 A Hive for the Honeybee Lally 780 Top Ten Shakespeare Stories Deary 810 The Hobbit Tolkien 1000 Z Tracker Paulsen 1010 T How Far Would You Have Gotten if Walker's Crossing Naylor 830 I Hadn't Called You Back? Hobbs 830 The War of the Worlds Wells 1170 I'm Nobody! Who Are You? Dickinson White Fang London 970 Y If You Come Softly Woodson 570 The Wish List Colfer 520 W Indigo Hoffman 980 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare 850 W Jazzimagination Draper 770 Q Witness Hesse The Journal of James Edmond Pease Murphy 1070 The Wolving Time Jennings The Last Book in the Universe Philbrick 740 Wuthering Heights Brönte 880 Leon's Story Tillage 970 T The Year of the Hangman Blackwood 820 Letters from a Nut Nancy 840 “Independent reading of high-quality trade books significantly increases students’ vocabulary... overall literacy growth in 23 statistically significant ways.” -American Educational Research Journal Grade 8 100 Individual Titles Independent Reading Collection Title Author Lexile GRL Title Author Lexile GRL Above the Veil Nix 740 Local News Soto 820 W Alex Rodriguez Thornley 980 Lord of the Kill Taylor 700 W Allison’s Trumpet and other Stories Loser Spinelli 650 U Aquamarine Hoffman 940 Losing Joe’s Place Korman 790 T As Long as the Rivers Flow Allen 1160 Lost Star Lauber 870 T Beach House Stine 590 Luna Bay: Pier Pressure Lantz Beyond the Burning Time Lasky 970 Luna Bay: Wave Good-bye Lantz Blister Shreve 820 Luna Bay: Weather or Not Lantz The Boggart Cooper 1030 U The Minstrel's Melody Tate 740 The Boy Who Saved Baseball Ritter 660 V Missing Since Monday Martin 660 Brave the Betrayal Applegate 630 W The Mozart Season Wolff 690 Carolina Crow Girl Hobbs 620 T My Brother Sam Is Dead Collier 770 Y Classic Tales of Terror My Own Worst Enemy Sonenklar 670 Clem's Chances Levitin 770 W Navajo Long Walk Armstrong 700 T Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Sheldon 710 The Only Alien on the Planet Randle 650 Crazy Laws Hyman Plain City Hamilton 490 The Crystal Mask Roberts 770 X Play to the Angel Dahlberg 670 Dancing on the Edge Nolan 850 Point Blank Horowitz 610 W Danger Zone Klass 850 W The Red Badge of Courage Crane Dark Quetzal Roberts Reese Witherspoon Rivera Discover the Destroyer Applegate 550 Remnants Applegate The Divine Wind Disher 870 Rock Solid! Preller 710 O Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes Sachar 560 O Run Away Home McKissack 810 X Drawing Lessons Mack 650 Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man Van Draanen 890 Emergency Room Cooney 720 The Second Bend in the River Rinaldi 540 Fallen Angels Myers 650 Shadow of the Red Moon Myers 660 Fashion Rivera 920 Skeleton Man Bruchac 730 U Flash Fire Cooney 820 Snail Mail, No More Danziger 660 Flight #116 Is Down Cooney 710 So Far From Home Denenberg 710 Frightful's Mountain George 650 U Someday Koller 680 W Girlhearts Mazer 600 Stargirl Spinelli 590 The Girls Koss 710 Stay Strong Williams The Glory Field Myers 800 X The Stone Soup Book of Friendship Stories Mandel 690 Heartland: After the Storm Brooke 560 Stormbreaker Horowitz 670 Heartland: One Day You'll Know Brooke 610 Summer Boys Lynn Hoot Hiaasen 760 W Summer on Wheels Soto 930 Iditarod Dream Wood 890 N Survival in the Storm Janke 990 W Inside the Illusion Applegate 610 Surviving Hitler Warren 820 Into Battle Nix 740 Tales for the Midnight Hour Stamper 650 It’s an Aardvark Eat Turtle World Danziger 620 Tell Me This Isn’t Happening! Clairday 670 Jacob Have I Loved Paterson 880 S Thirteen Pines 710 The Jacob Ladder Hausman 690 Tobey Maguire Abraham 810 R Jesse Soto 900 Y Toning the Sweep Johnson 760 Y Jon Krakauer's Adventure on Mt. Everest Werther 800 R Tru Confessions Tashjian 920 Journey to Jo’burg Naidoo 760 S Understand the Unknown Applegate 810 Katarína Winter 660 X The Violet Keystone Nix 780 Keys to the Kingdom: Grim Tuesday Nix The Voice on the Radio Cooney 660 Keys to the Kingdom: Mister Monday Nix 800 The Wanderer Creech 830 V Leroy and the Old Man Butterworth 630 The Well Taylor 760 T Lily B. on the Brink of Cool Kimmel When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Holt 700 “Independent reading of high-quality trade books significantly increases students’ vocabulary... overall literacy growth in 23 statistically significant ways.” -American Educational Research Journal Grade 8 100 Individual Titles Nonfiction Collection Title Author Lexile GRL Title Author Lexile GRL After the Holocaust Greenfeld 1130 Jackie’s Nine Robinson 1040 Alberto Giacometti Gaff 1090 U John Coltrane Selfridge 1210 U Amazing Escapes Packard 1040 John James Audubon Anderson 1000 W The American Revolution Carter 1200 V John Muir Anderson 1030 W Amsterdam Kent Life on Other Worlds Moser 1100 U Ancient Times Austrian A Look at Moons Moser 1030 U And Not Afraid to Dare Bolden 1170 Malcolm X Myers 1050 Andy Warhol Bolton 1050 U Mark Twain Cox 1250 W Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Frank 1080 Y Martin Luther King Jr. Pettit Athens Stein Meteors, Meteorites, and Meteoroids Moser 1090 U Awesome Animals Packard 1080 R Montreal Rogers S Bangkok McNair 950 S Muhammad Ali Tessitore 1330 V Bill Gates Wukovits Multimedia Magic Perry Bizarre Bugs Packard No Body's Perfect Kirberger 890 Black Hands, White Sails McKissack 1130 Norman Rockwell Cohen 1170 V Blasts from the Past Packard 1080 R Odd-inary People Packard 1120 R Buenos Aires Kent 960 S Onboard the Space Shuttle Moser 1110 U Catch the Spirit Perry, Ph.D. Pablo Picasso Scarborough 1050 U Childtimes Greenfield 1000 X Paul Klee Laidlaw 1060 U The Colors of Freedom Bode 700 T Physics Lab in a Hardware Store Friedhoffer 1040 U The Coming Global Superstorm Bel & Streiber Physics Lab in a Housewares Store Friedhoffer 1000 T The Creek Newman Physics Lab in the Home Friedhoffer 960 U The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Shot Haskins 1140 Y Physics Projects for Young Scientists Adams Dublin Kent 910 S The Potawatomi Powell 960 S Exploration of Mars Bergin 1150 U Project Gemini Moser 1040 U Extraordinary Jewish Americans Brooks Project Mercury Moser 1030 U Flying Free Hart 1130 T Restless Spirit Partridge 970 Y Girls Who Rocked the World Welden 1050 S Ripley's Whales and Dolphins Perrine 1240 Henri Matisse Welton 1120 U Roman Life Guy 1100 High-Tech IDs Tocci Sacajawea Bruchac 840 Y The History of Fighter Planes Obe Praes 1190 Science Lab in a Supermarket Friedhoffer The History of Science Fiction Miller Separate But Not Equal Haskins 1230 Hong Kong Stein S Standing Tall Palacios 1060 S How To Be a Genius Hancock Steven Spielberg Gottfried How To Build a Robot Gifford Swingers and Crooners Gourse 1070 U How to Build a Rocket Richardson Timekeepers Gourse 1170 U How To Build a Time Machine Richardson To Be a Slave Lester 1080 Z How To Conquer the Internet Lewis 960 R To the Young Environmentalist Leuzzi 1090 V How To Live Forever Arnold Tundra Shepherd 1020 T How to Live on Mars Gifford United Nations Melvern 790 U How To Make a Million Brown The Usborne Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece Chisholm How to Meet Aliens Gifford Vincent van Gogh Green How to Save the Planet Taylor Voices from Vietnam Denenberg 910 How to Split the Atom Richardson 900 R Volunteering for a Political Campaign Klee S The Hudson River Whitcraft S We Shall Not Be Moved Dash 1170 Z If an Asteroid Hit the Earth Moser 1110 U Woods and Forests Martin Indian Chiefs Freedman 1030 Y World War II McGowen 1310 T An Indian Winter Freedman 1150 U World’s Weirdest Critters Packard 980 J.R.R.
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