Books to Read Before You Leave 8th Grade
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women. |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre. |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game. |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland. |
| Christie, Agatha | And Then There Were None. |
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Cisneros, Sandra |
The House on Mango Street. |
| Collodi, Carlo | The Adventures of Pinocchio. |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans. |
| Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War. |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist. |
| Frank, Anne | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies. |
| Hamilton, Virginia | The House of Dies Drear. |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders. |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book. |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace. |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird. |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild. |
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver. |
| Martinez, Victor | Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida. |
| ODell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins. |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | American Tall Tales. |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet. |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. |
| Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass. |
| Pyle, Howard | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows. |
| Sachar, Louis | Holes. |
| Saki | The Story-Teller: Thirteen Tales by Saki. |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye. |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. |
| Steinbeck, John | The Red Pony. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island. |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming. |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | If You Come Softly. |