Grade 8 Summer Reading List

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Amesbury Public Library

 Allison, Jennifer   (Mystery series)
 Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator (series)  
Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator   
Gilda Joyce Ghost Sonata
Gilda Joyce Ladies of the Lake 

 
Campbell-Bartoletti, Susan (Historical Fiction)
The Boy Who Dared


 Card, Orson Scott (Science Fiction)
 *Ender’s Game

 
Colfer, Eoin (Adventure)
*Airman

 
Dessen, Sarah (Realistic)
*The Truth About Forever


 Deuker, Carl (Realistic)
 Runner

 
Farmer, Nancy (Science Fiction)
*The House Of The Scorpion

 

 


Flinn, Alex (Realistic)
*Breathing Underwater
 Nothing To Lose
 
 

 

 
Klass, David
 *Firestorm (series) (Science Fiction)
Whirlwind
 Home of the Braves (Sports)
You Don’t Know Me (Realistic)


Koss, Amy (Realistic)
The Girls


Murphy, Catherine Gilbert (Sports)

 Dairy Queen
 

Myers, Walter Dean (Realistic)
Autobiography Of My Dead Brother
 
 
 Paulsen, Gary (Historical Fiction)
Soldier’s Heart
 Naylor, Phyllis
Jade Green (Ghost)
 


 Rex, Adam (Science Fiction)
 *The True Meaning Of Smekday


Ritter, John H. (Realistic Fiction)
Under the Baseball Moon
Over the Wall
The Boy who Saved Baseball


Schmidt, Gary (Realistic)
Trouble

The Wednesday Wars
 Smelcer, John (Survival/Realistic)
The Trap
 

Sonnenblick, Jordan (Realistic)
Notes From The Midnight Driver
 

 

 

 

 

Sones, Sonya
One of those hideous book where the mother dies
Stop pretending
What my mother doesn’t know
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 * Challenging titles

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Realistic)
One Of Those Hideous Books Where  The Mother Dies
Stop Pretending
What My Mother Doesn’t Know