8th grade Suggested Summer Reading 2017 Realistic Ficton Laurie Halse Anderson: Wintergirls (278p) Kelly Bingham: Shark Girl (276p) Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (213p) Susane Colasanti: Keep Holding On (202p) and others Sarah Dessin: Saint Anything (432p) and others Gayle Forman: If I Stay (259p), Where She Went Jack Gantos: Dead End in Norvelt (341p) and sequel John Green: The Fault in Our Stars (318 p), PaperTown (305p) Tim Green: New Kid (307p) and others Jenny Han: The Summer I Turned Pretty (276p) an sequels Thatcher Heldring: Roy Morelli Steps up to the Plate (229p) Carl Hiaassen: Hoot (292p), Flush, Scat, Chomp Mark Peter Hughes: Lemonade Mouth (338p) Gordon Korman: Ungifted (280p) Mike Lupica: True Legend (292p) and others Frances O'Roark Dowell: Chicken Boy (201p) Julie Anne Peters: Define Normal Dana Reinhardt: Things a Brother Knows (256p) Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor & Park (325p), Fangirl Gary Schmidt: First Boy (205p) Neal Shusterman: Antsy does Time(247p), The Schwa was Here Jennifer E. Smith: The Statistical Probability of Falling in Love at First Sight (236p) Jordon Sonneblick: Zen and the Art of Faking It (264), After Ever After and others Jerry Spinelli: Wringer Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming (312p) Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere (275p) Historical Fiction Laurie Halse Anderson: Chains(316p), Forge, Fever, 1793 Sam Angus: Soldier Dog Susan Campbell Bartoletti: The Boy Who Dared (202p) John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: a Fable (215p) Joseph Bruchac: Code Talker: a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two (231p) Carole Estby Dagg: The Year We Were Famous Karen Hesse: Stowaway Gennifer Choldenko : Al Capone Does My Shirts (225p) and sequels Karen Cushman: The Loud Silence of Francine Green (225p) Alice Hoffman: Incantation Jennifer L. Holm: Boston Jane: an Adventure (273p) and sequels Cynthia Kadohata: Cracker: the Best Dog in Vietnam (312p) Kirby Larson: Hattie Big Sky (289p) and sequel Kathryn Lasky: Ashes (318p) Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard Terry Prachett: Dodger (360p) Ruta Sepetys: Between Shades of Gray (344p) Elizabeth Wrin: Code Name Verity (343p), Rose Under Fire Gloria Whelan: Angel on the Square (293p) Eric Zweig: Fever Season (254p) Science Fiction M. T. Anderson: Feed (237p) and others Dave Barry: Peter and the Starcatchers (451p) and sequels Kristin Cashore: Graceling (471p) and companion books Cassandra Clare: City of Bones (485p) Mortal Instrument Quintet Infernal Devices Trilogy and others Joelle Charbonneau: The Testing (344p) and sequel Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl series Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games (374p) and sequels Allyson Braithwaite Condie: Matched (369p) and sequels Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park (400p) and others James Dashner: Maze Runner (375p) and sequels John Flanagan: The Ruins of Gorlan (249p) and sequels Alex Flinn: Beastly (304p) Shannon Hale: The Goose Girl (383p) and others Rachel Hartman: Seraphina (465p) Derek Landry: Skulduggery Pleasant (392p) and sequels Christopher Paolini: Eldest (697p) and sequels James Patterson: Maximum Ride: Angel Experiment (422p) and sequels Rick Riordan: Heroes of Olympus Quintet, Kane Chronicles Trilogy Veronica Roth: Divergent (525p), Insurgent, Allegiant Michael Scott: The Alchemyst (400p) and sequels John Stephens: The Emerald Atlas (417p) and sequels Trenton Lee Stewart: The Mysterious Benedict Society (485p) series Scott Westerfeld: Uglies (425p) and sequels Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver (392p) and sequels, Scorpio Races (409p) Rachel Ward: Num8ers (325p) and sequels Mystery/Suspense/Adventure Avi: Wolf Rider: a Tale of Terror (202p) Michael D. Beil: The Secret Cellar (274p) Stephanie Bodeen: Raft (231p) Ally Carter: I’d Tell You I Love You but then I’d have to Kill You(284p) and sequels and the Heist Society Trilogy Caroline Cooney: Face on the Milk Carton (184p) and others Lois Duncan: I Know What You did Last Summer (224p) and others John Feinstein: Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (314p) and others Gordon Korman: Zoobreak (230p) Ashley Edward Miller: Colin Fischer (228p) L.A. Meyer: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy (278p) Ransom Riggs: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ( Louis Sachar: Holes (233p) Eliot Schrefer: Endangered (264p) Roland Smith: I, Q: Independence Hall (312p) and sequels, Peak Classics Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (489p) Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden (382p) Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War (253p) Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth (255p) C.S. Lewis: Chronicles of Narnia (series) H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds (204p) Non-Fiction Samantha Abeel: My Thirteenth Winter (202p) Jennifer Armstrong: Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance Marc Aronson: Trapped : How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert (144p) Susan Campbell Bartoletti: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 Neal Bascomb: The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Capture the World’s Most Notorious Nazi (256p) Harry Bernstein: The Invisible Wall: a Love Story that Broke Barriers James Bradley: Flags of Our Fathers: The Heroes of Iwo Jima Cylin and John Busby: The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir Wayne Coffey: The Boys of Winter: the Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Zlata Filipovic: Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo Sid Fleischman: The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer’s Life James Cross Giblin: Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming Shari Graydon: Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know Bethany Hamilton: Soul Surfer Marjorie Hart: Summer at Tiffany Pierre Haski: Diary of MaYan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl Phillip Hoose: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club Paul B. Janeczko: The Dark Game: True Spy Stories William Kamkwamba: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Haven Kimmel: A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Moorland, Indiana Dean Ellis Kohler with Susan VanHecke: Rock 'n' Roll Soldier: a Memoir Adeline Mah: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter Walter Dean Myers: The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Jim Murphy: Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America , The Great Fire Peter Nelson: Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis Ejovi Nuwere with David Chanoff: Hacker Cracker : a Journey From the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace Irene Opdyke: In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer David Pelzer: A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive Irene Pepperberg: Alex & Me: How a Scientist and Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence – and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process Mark Pfetzer & Jack Galvin: Within Reach: My Everest Story Stephen Pincock : Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, From the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography Ashley Rhodes-Courter: Three Little Words: A Memoir, Three More Words (available 6/30/2015) Anthony Robles: Unstoppable Ken Silverstein: The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and his Homemade Nuclear Reactor James L. Swanson: Chasing Lincoln's Killer, The President has been Shot Michael Tougias and Casey Sherman: The Finest Hour: the True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue Erin Vincent: Grief Girl .