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reading list is suggested list for students to pick from to do
independent reading. Any other books that are not on the list must
be approved by Ms. Blanchard prior to reading and doing a book report to
insure that the book is appropriate for eighth grade and that particular
student. Required reading novels have been eliminated because they
will be read as part of the curriculum. (Note: The list below is in alphabetical order by author. Click on the letter to get to the first letter of the author's last name. Click on the first name that appears at the top of that list to return to the alphabet.) |
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Author |
Title |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Adamson, Joy | Born Free |
| Aiken, Joan | The Cuckoo Tree |
| Night Fall | |
| The Shadow Guests | |
| The Wolves of Willoughby | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Little Men | |
| Aldrich, Bess | A Lantern in Her Hand |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Book of Three |
| The High King | |
| The Kestrel | |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Anonymous | Go Ask Alice |
| Arnothy, Christine | I Am Fifteen-And I Want to Die |
| Arrick, Fran | Tunnel Vision |
| Asimov, Isaac | Fantastic Voyage |
| The Foundation | |
| Avi | The Barn |
| Nothing But Truth | |
| Wolf Rider | |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Tuck Everlasting |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | Hope Was Here |
| On My Honor | |
| Squashed | |
| Bennett, Jay | The Executioner |
| Bess, Clayton | Stories for a Black Night |
| Blinn, William | Brian's Song |
| Blos, Joan W. | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal |
| Blume, Judy | Tiger Eyes |
| Borland, Hal | When the Legends Die |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Golden Apples of the Sun | |
| Braithwaithe, E. R. | To Sir, With Love |
| Brancato, Robin | Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Time |
| Winning | |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Brooke, William | A Telling of the Tales |
| Brooks Bruce | The Moves Make the Man |
| Brooks, Terry | The Shannaran Series |
| Brown, Susan | You're Dead David Borelli |
| Buck, Pearl | The Good Earth |
| Burnett, Francis Hodgson | The Secret Garden |
| Burnsh, Bree | Biography of Harriet Tubman |
| Byars, Betsy | Cracker Jackson |
| The Pinballs | |
| Carmody, Isobelle | The Gathering |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Through the Looking Glass | |
| Castaneda, Omar | Among the Volcanos |
| Christie, Agatha | Murder on the Orient Express |
| Cleaver, Vera and Bill | Where the Lilies Bloom |
| Collier, Christopher | My Brother Sam Is Dead |
| Cooney, Caroline | Driver's Ed |
| Cooper, Susan | The Grey King |
| Cormier, Robert | The Bumblebee Flies Anyway |
| The Chocolate War | |
| Fade | |
| I Am the Cheese | |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Craven, Margaret | I Heard the Owl Call My Name |
| Creech, Sharon | Walk Two Moons |
| Crew, Gary | No Such Country |
| Strange Objects | |
| Crew, Linda | Children of the River |
| Cross, Gillian | On the Edge |
| Crutcher, Chris | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes |
| Stotan | |
| Cushman, Karen | The Midwife's Apprentice |
| Dahl, Roald | The BFG |
| Boy | |
| Going Solo | |
| Dansinger, Paula | The Pistachio Prescription |
| Day, Clarence | Life with Father |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Weasel |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie |
| Dickinson, Peter | Healer |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Duncan, Lois | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Killing Mr. Griffin | |
| Ransom | |
| Stranger with My Face | |
| Durrell, Gerald | My Family an Other Animals |
| Eckert, Allan W. | Incident at Hawk's Hill |
| Faber, Doris | Martin Luther King. Jr. |
| Farley, Walter | The Black Stallion |
| Fast, Howard | April Morning |
| Fischer, Louis | Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World |
| Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy |
| Fox, Paula | Slave Dancer |
| Frank, Pat | Alas, Babylon |
| Freedman, Russell | Lincoln" A Photobiography |
| The Wright Brothers | |
| Gaines, Ernest | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| Gallico, Paul | The Snow Goose |
| Garrique, Sheila | The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito |
| George, Jean | Julie of the Wolves |
| Gilbreth, Frank | Cheaper by the Dozen |
| Gipson, Fred | Old Yeller |
| Gleitzman, Morris | Misery Guts |
| Two Weeks with the Queen | |
| Godden, Rumer | Peacock Summer |
| Thursday's Child | |
| Graham, Robin | Dove |
| Greene, Bette | Summer of My German Soldiers |
| Greenberg, Jan | No Dragons to Slay |
| Greenberg, Joanne | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
| Griffin, John Howard | Black Like Me |
| Guest, Judith | Ordinary People |
| Gunther, John | Death Be Not Proud |
| Guy, Rosa | The Disappearance |
| The Friends | |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | The Jellyfish Season |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Zeeley |
| Harrison, Barbara | A Twilight Struggle: The Life of J. F. Kennedy |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| Herriot, James | All Things Bright and Beautiful |
| All Things Wise and Beautiful | |
| Hesse, Karen | Out of the Dust |
| Heyerdahl, Thor | Kon Tiki |
| Hinton, S. E. | The Outsiders |
| Rumble Fish | |
| Tex | |
| That Was Then, This is Now | |
| Hobbs, Will | Downriver |
| Hughes, Monica | Hunter in the Dark |
| Hunt, Irene | Everlasting Hills |
| The Lottery Rose | |
| William | |
| Hurwin, Davida | A Time for Dancing |
| Johnston, Julie | Hero of Lesser Causes |
| Jones, Ron | Acorn People |
| Juster, Norton | The Phantom Tollbooth |
| Keith, Harold | Rifles for Watie |
| Keller, Helen | The Story of My Life |
| Kennedy, John F. | Profiles in Courage |
| Kerr, M. E. | Gentlehands |
| Killilea, Maria | Karen |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
| Kim | |
| Captains Courageous | |
| Koertge, Ron | The Harmony Arms |
| Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright | |
| Le Guin, Ursula | The Farthest Shore |
| Tombs of Atuan | |
| A Wizard if Earthsea | |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Wind in the Door |
| A Wrinkle in Time | |
| Lester, Julius | To Be a Slave |
| Levenkron, Steven | The Best Little Girl in the World |
| Lewis, C. S. | The Chronicles of Narnia Series |
| Lewis, Elizabeth Forman | Young Fu if the Upper Yangtze |
| Lipstye, Robert | The Brave |
| The Chief | |
| The Contender | |
| Liewellyn, Richard | How Green Was My Valley |
| London, Jack | The Sea Wolf |
| Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars |
| Rabble Starkey | |
| A Summer to Die | |
| Lynch, Chris | Shadow Boxer |
| Slot Machine | |
| Magorian, Michelle | Good Night, Mr. Tom |
| Mahy, Margaret | The Changeover |
| Major, Kevin | Blood Red Ochre |
| Marsden, John | So Much to Tell you |
| Tomorrow, When the War Began | |
| Marshall, James Vance | Walkabout |
| Mathis, Sharon Bell | Teacup Full of Roses |
| Mazer, Harry | The Last Mission |
| When the Phone Rang | |
| Mazer, Norma Fox | After the Rain |
| A Figure of Speech | |
| McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonsong |
| McGraw, Eloise | Mara, Daughter of the Nile |
| Meigs, Cornelia | Invisible Louisa |
| Merrill, Jean | The Pushcart War |
| Moeri, Louise | The Forty-Third War |
| Montgomery, L. M. | Anne of Greene Gables |
| Morpurgo, Michael | The War of Jenkins' Ear |
| Mowat, Farley | Never Cry Wolf |
| A Whale for the Killing | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Hoops |
| Scorpions | |
| Somewhere in the Darkness | |
| Namioka, Lesley | Who's Hu? |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Ice |
| Shiloh | |
| Nelson, O.T. | The Girl Who Owned a City |
| Nelson, Theresa | Earthshine |
| Neufeld, John | Edgar Allan |
| Lisa, Bright and Dark | |
| Nixon, Joan | The Seance |
| Nolan, Christopher | Under the Eye of the Clock |
| North, Sterling | Rascal |
| O'Brien, Robert | Z for Zachariah |
| O'Dell, Scott | The Black Pearl |
| Carlota | |
| Zia | |
| O'Hara, Mary | My Friend Flicka |
| Thunderhead | |
| Pascal, Francine | Hangin' Out with Cici |
| Paterson, Katherine | Park's Quest |
| Rebel's of the Heavenly Kingdom | |
| The Master Puppeteer | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dogsong |
| Hatchet | |
| The Monument | |
| The Winter Room | |
| Peck, Richard | Are you in the House Alone? |
| A Year Down Yonder | |
| Ghosts I Have Been | |
| Secrets of the Shopping Mall | |
| Something for Joey | |
| Perl, Lila | That Crazy April |
| Perty, Ann | Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground.. |
| Pfeffer, Susan | Courage, Dana |
| Raskin, Ellen | The Westing game |
| Rawlings, Marjory Kinnan | The Yearling |
| Read, Piers P. | Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors |
| Reiss, Johanna | The Upstairs Room |
| Richter, Conrad | The Light in the Forest |
| Roberts, Willo | Don't Hurt Laurie |
| Rostkowski, Margaret | After the Dancing Days |
| Rubinstein, Gillian | Space Demons |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May |
| Sachs, Marilyn | Class Pictures |
| The Fat Girl | |
| Saint Exupery, Antoine | The Little prince |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Stories for Children |
| When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw | |
| Sleator, William | The Duplicate |
| The Green Futures of Tycho | |
| House of Stairs | |
| Interstellar Pig | |
| Into the Dream | |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Smith, K. | Skeeter |
| Snyder, Anne | Goodbye, Paper Doll |
| Snyder, Zilpha | The Egypt Game |
| Soseki, Natume | Botchan |
| Stevenson, Robert Lewis | Kidnapped |
| Stewart, Mary | The Crystal Cave |
| The Hollow Hills | |
| The Last Enchantment | |
| Touch Not the Cat | |
| Strasser, Todd | The Wave |
| Swarthout, Glendon | Bless the Beasts & Children |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Taylor, Mildred | Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
| Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry | |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Cay |
| Teresa, Mother | My Life for the Poor |
| Tolkein, J. R. R. | The Hobbit |
| The Lord of the Rings | |
| Townsend, Sue | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 |
| Trevino, Elizabeth B. | I, Juan de Pareja |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| The Prince and the Pauper | |
| Valens, E. G. | The Other Side of the Mountain |
| Verne, Jules | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | |
| Voight, Cynthia | Dicey's Song |
| Homecoming | |
| Izzy-Willy Nilly | |
| Jackaroo | |
| The Runner | |
| A Solitary Blue | |
| Washington, Booker T. | Up From Slavery |
| Well, H. G. | Seven Science Fiction Novels |
| The War of the Worlds | |
| Wells, Rosemary | The Man in the Woods |
| Through the Hidden Door | |
| When No One Was Looking | |
| White, Robb | Deathwatch |
| White, Ryan | Ryan White, My Own Story |
| White, T. H. | The Once and Future King |
| The Sword and the Stone | |
| Wilder, Thornton | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy |
| Wyss, Johann David | Swiss Family Robinson |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragonwings |
| Rainbow People | |
| Yolen, Jane | Children of the Wolf |
| The Devil's Arithmetic | |
| Dragon's Blood | |
| The Gift of Sarah Barker | |
| Zindel, Paul | My Darling, My Hamburger |
| The Pigman | |
| The Pigman's Legacy |
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