Suggested Books for 8^th Graders

CLASSICS

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

The Good Earth – Pearl Buck

My Antonia – Willa Cather

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes

Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

Dracula – Bram Stoker

FANTASY

Waterhship Downs – Richard Adams

The Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula LeGuin

The Once and Future King – White

NONFICTION/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

Go Ask Alice – Anonymous

Hoop Dreams – Ben Joravski

When I was Puerto Rican – Esmerelda Santiago

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali – Walter Dean Myers

Always Running – Luis Rodriguez

HISTORICAL FICTION

Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse

When Legends Die – Borland Hal

Dragonwings – Lawrence Yep

REALISTIC FICTON

Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver

The Pigman -- Paul Zindel