8Th Grade Read-A-Likes If You Liked What You Read for Summer Reading, Try These Recommendations
8th grade read-a-likes If you liked what you read for summer reading, try these recommendations
If you liked... Try... We Were Liars - Chime by Franny Billingsley - for the unreliable narrator E. Lockhart Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer - teens with serious secrets Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach - mute boy & 246-year-old girl Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon - allergic to the world
Pride and Prejudice - Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman - P&P set in high school Jane Austen Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl - poor girl lives in a castle Love by the Morning Star by Laura L. Sullivan - mistaken identity Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia Wrede - letters between magical cousins
Alice’s Adventures in Splintered by A. G. Howard - a descendent of the real Alice Wonderland - Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter - Alice + zombies The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - another outlandish story Lewis Carroll Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman - a more tame historical fiction about a girl in England American Born The Accidental Genius of Weasel High by Rick Detorie - freshman filmmaker Chinese - Gene Luen Manga Man by Barry Lyga - Manga character comes to life One-Punch Man by One - average looking guy can beat you with one punch Yang Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - growing up during the Iranian revolution
Scrawl - Bystander by James Preller - Eric decides not to be a bystander to bullying Mark Shulman No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman - football player versus school play Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt - damaged foster child looking for redemption Between Shades of Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein - American pilot caught by Nazis Gray - Ruta Sepetys When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park - the oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan Front Lines by Michael Grant - what if women served in combat during WWII Mexican Whiteboy - Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork - Marcelo is forced to work at his dad’s office to get “real world” experience outside his special school Matt de la Peña Boy 21 by Matthew Quick - quiet b-ball player mentors new student The Living by Matt de la Peña - fun summer job turns deadly All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely - falsely accused of stealing, Rashad suffers a beating by a police officer which Quinn witnesses Endangered - Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys - daughter of a prostitute tries to escape 1950s New Orleans Eliot Schrefer Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel - 13-year-old Ben is told to treat a baby chimp like a brother What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell - Evie gets involved in a dangerous scam If you liked... Try... Monster - Walter How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon - 16-year-old is shot, but no two witnesses agree about what happened Dean Myers The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma - ballet dancer sent to juvie Tyrell by Coe Booth - life in a Bronx homeless shelter Fallout by Ellen Hopkins - siblings cope with mom’s addiction Shutout - Brendan Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead - friends growing up and growing apart Halpin Booked by Kwame Alexander - soccer, family and friendship Crossover by Kwame Alexander - twin basketball stars Tumbling by Caela Carter - five gymnasts try-out for the Olympics Take Me to the Storm Runners by Roland Smith - Chase gets caught in the storm of the century River - Will Hobbs After the Snow by S.D. Crockett - Willo lives in a new Ice Age Dan Versus Nature by Don Calame - a funny take on wilderness survival Beauty Queens by Libba Bray - beauty contestants stranded on a mysterious island Unwind - Neal Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - computer hacker, terrorist attack, San Francisco becomes a police state Shusterman Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi - strip the ship or rescue the girl The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer - Matt is the clone of a 142-year-old drug lord The Adoration of Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson - Lee can sense gold Jenna Fox - Mary E. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray - Gemma starts finishing school and discovers her magical powers Pearson Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza - Mila is on the run from the CIA Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto - wild west meets steampunk I Am a Genius of Dull Boy by Sarah Cross - Avery tries to hide his amazing super powers Unspeakable Evil and I Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld - What if your superpowers weren’t so super? Want to be Your Class Born to Rock by Gordon Korman - nerd discovers his dad is a punk rock legend President - Josh Lieb Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen - the new librarian might be an evil demon
Speak - Laurie All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin - sibling rivalry leads to self-destruction Halse Anderson Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson - during the yellow fever epidemic, Matilda learns self-reliance and perseverance Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - shy, smart Charlie deals with the suicide of his friend The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin - teen artist dies mysteriously The Curious 100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith - Finn struggles with heartbreak and paranoia Incident of the Dog Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller - unlikely duo investigates cafeteria crime The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk - transferring from a deaf school in the Night-time - to a mainstream one, with a mysterious death too Mark Haddon Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano - math whiz from a trailer park tries to catch a serial killer
RVCPL 221 N. Village Ave. 516-766-6257 x6 rvclibrary.org/teens 7th grade read-a-likes If you liked what you read for summer reading, try these recommendations
If you liked... Try... The Hobbit, or There The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - a new fantasy classic The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove - One sentence can reveal the world's and Back Again - most powerful secret J.R.R. Tolkien Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve - Fever leaves her sheltered world to learn about her past Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale - Bobby goes on a five-year quest Sherlock Holmes - Jackaby by William Ritter - Sherlock meets Doctor Who Death Cloud by Andrew Lane - teenage Sherlock solves his first mystery Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro - Holmes and Watson’s descendants at boarding school Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason - Holmes’ niece and Bram Stoker’s sister team up The Lion, the Witch Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins - epic battle between men, rats, bats, cockroaches and spiders And the Wardrobe- Emerald Atlas by John Stephens - orphan siblings discover special powers C.S. Lewis Wildwood by Colin Meloy - Prue searches for her baby brother who was kidnapped by crows The Misfits - Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor - Addie copes with family troubles Shug by Jenny Han - girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth James Howe Loser List by H.N. Kowitt - Danny’s drawing abilities help him with bullies Twerp by Mark Goldblatt - Julian writes a journal for English class Leverage by Joshua Cohen - gymnast Danny is bullied by football players Flygirl - A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly - based on a true crime story Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming - bio of Amelia Earhart Sherri L. Smith Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - pilot tries to survive Nazi capture The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - siblings escape WWII London and an abusive mom Game Seven - QB1 by Mike Lupica - inspired by the Manning family Paul Volponi Final Four by Paul Volponi - four NCAA players struggle with pressures Baseball Great by Tim Green - baseball is complicated for Josh Steve Jobs: Insanely Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - growing up during the Iranian revolution Great - Jessie Hartland Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall by Anita Silvey - the story of Goodall and the chimpanzees she observed Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin - a government desk jockey exposes political deception Charles and Emma: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by The Darwins’ Leap of Candace Fleming - out of touch royals Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael Faith - Deborah O. Tunnell - after WWII an American pilot drops candy to Berlin’s children Heiligman
If you liked... Try... Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park - based on a true story South African Unbroken: An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand - amazing bio adapted for young adults Revolutionary - I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai - the girl who defied the Taliban to go to school Beatrice Gormley Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton - surfing and survival The Girl Who Threw A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass - Mia is worried that she’s crazy, but she really has synesthesia Butterflies - Mick Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham - artist survives shark attack Cochrane Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock - girl tries out for the football team
Revolver - Peak by Roland Smith - 14-year-old wants to be the youngest to climb Mt. Everest Marcus Sedgwick Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - Brian survives with only a hatchet after a plane crash The Living by Matt de la Peña - Fun cruise ship job turns deadly after a tsunami Fallout by Todd Strasser - What if a nuclear bomb fell and only one family in the neighborhood has a bomb shelter? Life as We Knew It - Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - Everyone can hear each others thoughts, and everyone is male Susan Beth Pfeffer Safekeeping by Karen Hesse - a girl caught in the middle of a political disaster Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne - 14 kids try to survive the end of the world This is the Story of You by Beth Kephart - Mira weathers a storm and its aftermath Flipped - The Cardturner by Louis Sachar - Alton learns about life from an eccentric uncle Wendelin Van Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt - all the other kids leave for CCD or Hebrew school, and Holling reluctantly reads Shakespeare with his teacher Draanen Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson - friend disappears, leaves bucket list When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - girl receives notes from the future Goodbye Stranger - 3 Willows by Ann Brashares - three friends the summer before high school Rebecca Stead This is All Your Fault, Cassie Parker by Terra Elan McVoy - betrayed by a friend To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han - love letters get mailed to all of Lara Jean’s crushes past and present The Kind of Friends We Used to Be by Frances O'Roark Dowell - friends since pre- school, drift apart The Odyssey - Other classics as graphic novels by Gareth Hinds: Gareth Hinds Macbeth Romeo and Juliet Beowulf
Howl’s Moving The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge - a tree that feeds on lies and bears the truth Castle - Dianne Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta - an orphan, a mysterious girl, and an imposter on the throne Wynn Jones 13th Child by Patricia Wrede - 13 doesn’t have to be an unlucky number Seraphina by Rachel Hartman - humans and dragons that can assume human form coexist in an uneasy truce.
RVCPL 221 N. Village Ave. 516-766-6257 x6 rvclibrary.org/teens 6th grade read-a-likes If you liked what you read for summer reading, try these recommendations
If you liked... Try... The Little Prince - Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - lucky girl with a horse and a monkey Antoine de Saint The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - four animal friends The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling - the boy raised by wolves Exupery Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - the boy who never grows up Little Women - The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall - sweet sisters story Louisa May Alcott Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder - another classic Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - would you want to live forever? Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich - girl of the Ojibwa tribe The Phantom Tollbooth - Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan - Viking myths come to life Norton Juster Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman - boy helps gods beat giants Inkheart by Cornelia Funke - dad can “read” fictional characters to life
Bystander - Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia - Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to James Preller beat up Trina Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by David Lubar - navigating high school Tangerine by Edward Bloor - nearly blind boy wants to play soccer Amelia Lost - I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis - tales of kids surviving famous disasters Candace Fleming Almost Astronauts: 13 Women who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone - the Mercury 13 women did not make it to space, but they still dreamed
The Notorious Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson - the escape of John Wilkes Benedict Arnold - Booth and the 12-day search for him and his accomplices Steve Sheinkin Grover Cleveland, Again! by Ken Burns - presidential fun facts Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider by Jean Fritz - lookin’ for a mind at work?
Chains - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson - young African Laurie Halse boy raised as part of an experiment during the Revolutionary War Invasion by Walter Dean Myers - two friends have very different roles in the Anderson segregated Army during WWII Copper Sun by Sharon Draper - two girls, a slave and an indentured servant, escape a Carolina plantation Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - refugees try to escape post WWII Europe One Crazy Summer - The Other Half of My Heart by Sundee T. Frazier - twin daughters of Rita Williams-Garcia interracial parents have very different skin tones Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata - Japanese-American family imprisoned in an internment camp Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth - a new foster brother Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff - an orphan & an elderly artist Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm - Penny learns a secret about her father’s death If you liked... Try... The Story of Apple - Raspberry Pi by Charles R. Severance and Kristin Fontichiaro - learn about Sara Gilbert computer programming Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Wal-Mart and Became America's Richest Man by Karen Blumenthal - Wal-mart started as a one-room general store in Arkansas Bomb by Steve Sheinkin - traces the scientific discoveries and military intelligence needed to build the nuclear bomb Rush for the Gold - Best of the Best by Tim Green - Little League World Series John Feinstein Winning Team by Dominique Moceanu - Britt joins an elite gymnastics gym Heat by Mike Lupica - pitching prodigy on the run from social services
Payback Time by Carl Deuker - Mitch becomes a sports reporter Theodore Boone: Brixton Brothers series by Mac Barnett - funny take on Hardy Boys Kid Lawyer - Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer - twelve-year-old private eye Swindle by Gordon Korman - conned out of valuable baseball card, Griffin plans to John Grisham steal it back
The Maze Runner - Legend by Marie Lu - a famous criminal and a brilliant soldier James Dashner Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card - the Earth is under attack from aliens After the End by Amy Plum - Juneau escapes to Alaska after WWIII The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau - if you don’t pass the test, you disappear
How Angel Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson - Tyler gets a new tough reputation Peterson Got His Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick - Steven’s little brother is diagnosed with leukemia Name - Gary Paulsen Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka - growing up Scieszka Inside Out and Sunny Side Up by Jennifer Holm - older brother throws the family into chaos Back Again - Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt - new in town, Doug finds a safe haven in the public library Thanhha Lai Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper - a brilliant girl has been trapped in her mind All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg - Matt escaped the Vietnam War Nerd Girls- Schooled by Gordon Korman - Cap has never watched TV or ate pizza Alan Lawrence Mother Daughter Book Club series by Heather Vogel - four very different sixth- grade-girls form a book club Sitomer The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger - Can a finger puppet predict the future? I Funny - James Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead - spying on a mysterious neighbor Patterson and Chris Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen - lawn mowing = big money Ungifted by Gordon Korman - troublemaker gets sent to gifted school by mistake Grabenstein Holes by Louis Sachar - Stanley might be cursed The Olympians - The Only Living Boy series by David Gallaher - Erik finds himself surrounded by George O’Connor monsters and aliens Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes / Greek Gods by Rick Riordan - the original myths told with Percy’s trademark wit.
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