Eighth Grade
Young Teen - Fiction
| Author | Title |
| Abdel-Fattah, Randa | # Does My Head Look Big in This? |
| Alexie, Sherman | # The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | # Fever, 1793 |
| Bauer, Joan | # Stand Tall |
| Bauer, Marion Dane, ed. | Am I Blue: Coming Out from the Silence |
| Budhos, Marina | Ask Me No Questions |
| Canales, Viola | The Tequila Worm |
| Chotjewitz, David | Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi |
| Collins, Suzanne | # The Hunger Games |
| Cooney, Caroline | If the Witness Lied |
| Cormier, Robert | I am the Cheese |
| Creech, Sharon | The Wanderer |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | # Bucking the Sarge |
| Deuker, Carl | Payback Time |
| Farmer, Nancy | # The House of the Scorpion |
| Grimes, Nikki | Dark Sons |
| Hale, Shannon | # Book of a Thousand Days |
| Han, Jenny | The Summer I Turned Pretty |
| Hesse, Karen | # Witness |
| Kadohata, Cynthia | A Million Shades of Gray |
| Korman, Gordan | Pop |
| Koss, Amy Goldman | Poison Ivy |
| Landy, Derek | Skulduggery Pleasant |
| Lowry, Lois | # The Giver |
| Magoon, Kekla | The Rock and the River |
| McCormick, Patricia | Sold (in Teen) |
| Meyer, L.A | # Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy |
| Meyers, Walter Dean | Amiri and Odette: A Love Story: A Poem |
| Na, An | # A Step From Heaven |
| Namioka, Lensey | Ties that Bind, Ties that Break |
| Nye, Naomi Shihab | # Habibi |
| Osa, Nancy | Cuba 15 |
| Paulsen, Gary | # Woods Runner |
| Peck, Richard | # A Long Way from Chicago |
| Perkins, Mitali | Monsoon Summer |
| Pfeffer, Susan Beth | # Life as We Knew It |
| Philbrick, W. R. | # Freak the Mighty |
| Preus, Margi | Heart of a Samurai: Based on the True Story of Nakahama Manjiro |
| Preller, James | Bystander |
| Reeve, Philip | Mortal Engines: A Novel |
| Sanchez, Alex | So Hard to Say |
| Skelton, Matthew | # Endymion Spring |
| Smith, roland | # Peak |
| Smith, Sheri | Flygirl |
| Spinelli, Jerry | # Stargirl |
| Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Under the Persimmon Tree |
| Stroud, Jonathan | # The Amulet of Samarkand (Trilogy) |
| Sturtevant, Katherine | A True and Faithful Narrative |
| Uehashi, Nahoko | Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit |
| Westerfeld, Scott | # Leviathan |
| Whelan, Gloria | Turning |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | # Make Lemonade |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | # After Tupac and D. Foster |
Graphic Novels
| Author | Title |
| Larson, Hope | Chiggers |
| Medley, Linda | Castle Waiting |
| Strum, James | Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow |
| Yang, Gene | American Born Chinese |
Young Teen - Non-Fiction
| Call Numbers | Author | Title |
| 133.3 K939t | Krull | They Saw the Future: Oracles, Psychics, Scientists, Great Thinkers, and Pretty Good Guessers |
| 292.211 Oc55z | O’Connor, George | Zeus: King of the Gods |
| 305.8 W556 | Gaskins (ed.) | What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People |
| 323.1 M258d | McWhorter | A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement From 1954 To 1968 |
| 362.19748 F6284p | Fleischman | Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science |
| 398.2 H18h | Hamilton | Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales |
| 509 H127a | Hakim | Aristotle Leads the Way |
| 598.72 H769r | Hoose | The Race to Save the Lord God Bird |
| 614.17 W154w | Walker, Sally M | Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland |
| 614.5 M954a | Murphy | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 |
| 641.3 M529w | Menzel | What the World Eats |
| 641.5 G415j2 | Gillies | Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook |
| 641.5 St45r | Stern, Sam | Real Food, Real Fast |
| 646.2 Ok29k | Okey | Knitgrrl |
| 664.1 A | Aronson | Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science |
| 745.5 B831b | Bruder | Button Girl: More than 20 Cute-as-a-Button Projects |
| 770.92 Sa56a | Sandler | America through the Lens: Photographers Who Changed the Nation |
| 778.5 C584b | Clee | Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play to the Silver Screen |
| 780.92 G984p | Partridge | This Land Was Made for You and Me: the Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie |
| 792.8 N195m | Nathan | Meet the Dancers |
| 796.082 B627l | Blumenthal | Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls In America |
| 796.357 R566r3 | Robinson | Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America |
| 798.8 P285p | Paulsen | Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs |
| 808.3 F965 | ed. Marcus | Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy |
| 810.8 G993 | ed. Scieszka | Guys Write for Guys Read |
| 811 N984c | Nye | Come with Me: Poems for a Journey |
| 811 So78p | Soto | Partly Cloudy |
| 811.008 R245 | Carlson (ed.) | Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United |
| 883 F628d | Fleischman | States Dateline: Troy |
| 912 R733r | Ross | The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories |
| 920 C726h | Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice |
| 920 C924m2 | McClafferty | Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium |
| 920 D137b | Dahl | Boy: Tales of Childhood |
| 920 Sa568n | Neri | Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty (in Teen) |
| 940.3 F875w | Freedman | The War to End All Wars: World War I |
| 940.5317 Op53d | Oppenheim | Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference |
| 940.54 N336L | Nelson | Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis |
| 943.086 B285h | Bartoletti | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow |
| 943.1 Sch44w | Schmemann | When the Wall Came Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Soviet Communism |
| 956.04 EL59t | Ellis | Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak |
| 974.7 H189s | Hampton | September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City |
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