EIGHTH GRADE BOOK REPORT BOOKLIST 2016-2017
Mrs. Wright – Room 39
BOOK REPORTS MUST BE DONE ON A BOOK FROM THIS LIST
(OR A BOOK APPROVED BY MRS. WRIGHT) TO RECEIVE CREDIT
BIOGRAPHIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES/MEMOIRS
My Thirteenth Winter Samantha Abeel
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced Nujood Ali
Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom
Heaven is for Real Todd Burpo
700 Sundays Billy Crystal
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin
Marley and MeJohn Grogan
The Year I Got Polio Peg Kehert
Into Thin Air John Krakauer
Color of Water James McBride
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls
Night Elie Wiesel
I Am MalalaMalala Yousafzai w/
Christina Lamb
Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean BoyhoodRichard E. Kim
HamiltonRon Chernow
FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION
The Chocolate Cobweb Charlotte Armstrong
For One More Day Mitch Albom
The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod (Eighth Grade Bites) Heather Brewer
Skeleton Creek Patrick Carmen
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pet Sematary Stephen King
The Shining Stephen King
It Stephen King
Ruined Paula Morris
Life as We Knew It Susan Pfeffer
Wings Aprilynne Pike
Interview With a Vampire Anne Rice
Vampire Diaries L.J. Smith
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenRansom Riggs
DivergentVeronica Roth
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
The HobbittJ.R.R. Tolkein
Mysterious Benedict SocietyTrenton Lee Stewart
The Mermaid’s MirrorL.K. Madigan
DivergantVeronica Roth
Ender’s GameOrson Scott Card
YOUNG ADULTS IN TROUBLE/FICTION
It Happened to Nancy Anonymous
Finding Katie Anonymous
These Things Hidden Heather Gudenkauf
Truth About Forever Sarah Dessen
Runaway Wendelin Van Draanen
Breathing Underwater Alex Flinn
The Client John Grisham
Kissing Doorknobs Terry Spencer Hesser
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie David Lubar
Scorpians Walter Dean Myers
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult
The Atonement Child Francine Rivers
Click Here Denise Vega
So Be It Sarah Weeks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeMark Haddon
HISTORICAL FICTION
Fever Laurie Halse Anderson
Kindred Octavia Butler
Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko
Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
Under a War Torn Sky L.M. Elliot
My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George
News From the Dead Mary Hooper
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare
The Help Kathyrn Stockett
Distant Waves Suzanne Weyn
Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan
GREAT LITERATURE
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies William Golding
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Animal Farm George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
The PearlJohn Steinbeck
1984George Orwell