Eighth Grade Reading List
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn …… by Betty Smith
Animal Farm …… by George Orwell
Brian’s Song …… by Blinn
Call It Courage …… by Armstong Sperry
Dicey’s Song …… by Voigt
Dragonquest …… by Anne McCaffrey
Excape From Egypt …… by Sonia Levitin
Escape to Freedom …… by Davis
Fahrenheit 451 …… by Ray Bradbury
Hiroshima …… by John Hersey
I Am the Cheese …… by Robert Cormier
Inherit the Wind …… by Lawrence and Lee
Letters from the Inside …… by John Marsden
Little Women …… by Louisa May Alcott
Narrative Life of Frederick Douglas …… by Frederick Douglas
National Geographic – periodical
Night …… by Elie Wiesel
Our Town …… by Thornton Wilder
Pigs Don’t Fly …… by Mary Brown
Scopes Trial …… by Jim Murphy
Sounder …… by William Armstrong
Summer of My German Soldier …… by Bette Greene
Summer of the Swans …… by Betsy Byars
Thank you, M’am …… by Langston Hughes
The Effect of Gamma Rays of Man-in-the Moon Marigolds ……by Paul Zindel
The Examination …… by Malcolm Bosse
The Foundation Series …… by Isaac Asimov
The Glory Field …… by Walter Dean Myers
The Old Man and the Sea …… by Ernest Hemingway
The Outsiders …… by S.E. Hinton
The Pearl …… by John Steinbeck
The Princess Bride …… by Goldman
To Kill a Mockingbird …… by Harper Lee
Treasure Island …… by Stevenson
War of the Worlds …… by H.G. Wells
Z for Zachariah …… by O’Brien