What to Read?
Most Popular Book this Fall
The Hunger Games by
Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne
Collins
Non-Fiction
 
Fantasy
 
Fantasy
 
Mystery
 
Sci-fi/Adventure
 
Realistic Fiction
 
Realistic Fiction
 
Realistic Fiction
 
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Realistic Fiction
 
Death: that surrounds Pancho,
his father accident, sisters
murder and D.Q. who is dying of
cancer
Love: D.Q. who is writing how
 he will be living out his last day 
Faith: living out your choices
On My Nightstand!
Annexed
 by Sharon Dogar
Historical Fiction
Holocaust
On My Nightstand!
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Historical Fiction
Cuban Missile Crisis
On My Nightstand!
 
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
 by John Green & David
Levithan
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Broken Memory
by Elisabeth Combres
Once by Morris Gleitzman
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No Moon by Irene N. Watts
Warriors in the Crossfire
by Nancy Bo Flood
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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Evolution of Capurnia Tate
by Jacqueline Kelly
Pale Assasin by Patricia Elliott
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The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Witches of Dreadmoore Hollow
 by Riford Mckenzie
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Once a Witch 
by Carolyn MacCullough
Princess of the Midnight Ball
 by Jessica Day George
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner
 
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When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
 
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The Dead Tossed Wave by Carrie Ryan
 
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Glimmerglass 
by Jenna Black
Beautiful Creatures 
by
Kami Garcia & Margaret
Stohl
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Fire by Kristen Cashore
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Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
 
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Magnificent 12 
The Call
by Michael Grant  
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Does My Head Look Big in This? 
by Randa Abdel Fattah
 
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My Life in Pink and Green 
by Lisa Greenwald
Everything for a Dog
 by Ann Martin
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Cruisers by Walter Dean Myers Dear George Clooney Please Marry
my Mom
 by
Susin Nielson

Book Talks 8th Grade

Editor's Notes

  • #2 statistically we see a drop in reading at the 8th grade homework? social network? interest? give you some ideas where to look see some book trailers hear some author talks beliefs about reading we can find something you will like always have current books, keep me current, make suggestions wide range of reading levels, some more mature in content, language, situations of abuse, drugs, teen pregnancy, school bullying, GLBT, graphic novels, light reading  
  • #5 The Midnight Charter by david whitley  the city of Agora, where everything can be bought and sold, two children stumble upon the mysterious and dangerous Midnight Charter and play their unique part in their society's future as they learn who they can trust.
  • #6 Incarceron by catherine fisher To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
  • #7 prince of mist  by carlos ruiz zafon Max and Alicia Carver enlist the help of their friend Roland to explore the circumstances surrounding the mysterious haunting of a spirit named Jacob, the previous owner's son who drowned; but their search uncovers a sinister character who returns from beyond in order to collect a debt from the past.
  • #8 ship breaker  by paolo bacigualupi In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
  • #17 Broken Memory  by Elisabeth Combres Five-year-old Emma witnesses the brutal murder of her mother during the 1994 genocide massacres in Rwanda and seeks shelter with an aging Hutu woman; but years later when war ends, Emma's fears continue to haunt her as she finds the courage to begin her healing. Once by Morris Gleitman After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
  • #18 Warriors in the Crossfire  by Nancy Bo Flood  Joseph, living on the island of Saipan during World War II, learns what it means to be a warrior as he and his family struggle to survive in the face of impending invasion. No Moon  by Irene N. Watts Fourteen-year-old Louisa Gardener, a nursemaid to the daughters of a wealthy family in London, is forced to confront her fear of the ocean and the memories of when her two-year-old brother drown and decide whether she will accompany the family when they make plans to set sail aboard the RMS "Titanic" to New York
  • #20 The Pale Assasin by Patricia Elliott Fourteen-year-old orphan Eugenie de Boncoeur, rich and spoiled, ignores the violence of the French Revolution that's all around her until her brother is sent away and she is promised in marriage to the vengeful assassin, Le Fantome. Now she must rely on her brains to get herself out of France and away from Le Fantome if she wants to survive. Evolution of Capurnia Tate  by Jacqueline Kelly Callie lives in rural Texas in 1899 with her six brothers. She's a real rebel, preferring to explore nature with her granddaddy to darning socks.
  • #21 New series Bright Young Things
  • #22 Witches of Dredmoore Hollow Elijah, a nearly twelve-year-old boy growing up on a farm in rural New England in 1927, makes the shocking discovery that his mother is a witch when two strangely glamorous aunts arrive, who are suspiciously interested in his first chin whisker, to spirit him away to Moaning Marsh.
  • #23 Once a Witch  by Carolyn MacCullough Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny. Princess of the Midnight Ball  by Jessica Day George A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.
  • #24 Maze Runner by James Dashner Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
  • #25 when you reach me by rebecca stead As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
  • #26 The Forest of Hands and Teeth  by Carrie Ryan Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
  • #27 GlimmerGlass by Jenna Black Dana Hathaway runs away from her alcoholic mother in order to find her father in Avalon; but the moment she steps into that world she discovers she is a Faeriewalker, someone who can travel between both worlds. Beautiful creatures In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
  • #28  Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts. Fire by kristen Cashore In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
  • #29 Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
  • #30 The Call by Michael Grant Mack MacAvoy, a seriously average twelve-year-old boy, is faced with a difficult decision when a three-thousand-year-old man appears in the boys' bathroom and informs him that he is one of the Magnificent Twelve and is needed to find his eleven teammates and save the world.
  • #31 Does My Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel Fattah Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
  • #32 Everything for a Dog by Ann Martin In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own. My life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald when the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem-solving talents to come up with a solution that might resuscitate the business and help the environment.
  • #33 cruisers by walter dean myers Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace Dear George Clooney Please Marry my Mom by  Violet, dealing with her father's new wife and her mother's bad dating decisions, decides to take control of the situation and sets in motion a plan to get movie star George Clooney to marry her mom.