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 Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer - teens with serious secrets E. Lockhart 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 Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl - poor girl lives in a castle Jane Austen 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 Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter - Alice + zombies Wonderland - 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 Manga Man by Barry Lyga - Manga character comes to life Chinese - Gene Luen 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 No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman - football player versus school play Mark Shulman 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 When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park - the oppressive occupation Gray - Ruta Sepetys 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 Booked by Kwame Alexander - soccer, family and friendship Halpin 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 After the Snow by S.D. Crockett - Willo lives in a new Ice Age River - Will Hobbs 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 A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray - Gemma starts finishing school and Jenna Fox - Mary E. 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 Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen - the new librarian might be an evil demon President - Josh Lieb Speak - Laurie All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin - sibling rivalry leads to self-destruction Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson - during the yellow fever epidemic, Matilda Halse Anderson 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 Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller - unlikely duo investigates cafeteria crime Incident of the Dog 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 Final Four by Paul Volponi - four NCAA players struggle with pressures Paul Volponi Baseball Great by Tim Green - baseball is complicated for Josh Steve Jobs: Insanely Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - growing up during the Iranian revolution Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall by Anita Silvey - the story of Goodall Great - Jessie Hartland 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 Unbroken: An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura South African 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 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - Brian survives with only a hatchet after a plane crash Marcus Sedgwick 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 Wednesday Wars by Gary D.