Eighth Grade Suggested Summer Reading List 2017-18 Young Adult Literature Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom An American Childhood Annie Dillard The Princess Bride William Goldman Painted House John Grisham Pay it Forward Catherine Ryan Hyde Hoops Walter Dean Myers Hatchet Gary Paulsen Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Jacob Have I Loved Kathleen Paterson Maximum Ride (series) James Patterson My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor The Homecoming Cynthia Voight Black and White Paul Volponi The Girl in the Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland The Uglies (series) Scott Westerfield Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen I Am The Cheese Robert Cormier Based in History Histories of Immigrant Teens Janet Bode Flags of Our Fathers William Broyles, Jr A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson Mississippi Trial, 1955 Chris Crowe Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglas Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Edelman, ed. Zlata’s Diary Zlata Filipovic Hiroshima John Hersey Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Witness Karen Hesse Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston The Jungle Upton Sinclair Sunflower Simon Weisenthal The Doll Maker Harriet Arnow Orphan Train Christine Baker Kline Classics Little Women Louisa May Alcott Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas Lost Horizon James Hilton A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith The Lord of the Rings (series) J.R.R. Tolkien Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain .