​8th Grade AMS Bookopolis Summer Reading Challenge​

Student interests, maturity levels, and reading levels are vast and varied. Therefore, students have different needs and interests when it comes to reading. Please work with your child to find appropriate
books from this list to engage and challenge your child.
Click the titles to see a summary and kid reviews. Or, view all covers on the Bookopolis blog ​here​.
Fantasy & Adventure Myths & Modern Fairy Tales Mystery & Spy Stories
The Belles ​- Dhonielle Clayton The Hazel Wood​ - Melissa Albert The Rosemary Spell​ - Virginia Zimmerman
Warcross​ - Marie Lu Trials of Apollo, The Hidden Oracle​ - Rick Riordan The London Eye Mystery​ - Siobhan Dowd
Ink & Bone​ - Rachel Caine Magnus Chase​ - Rick Riordan Murder on the Orient Express​ - Agatha Christie
Flawed​ - Cecilia Ahern Atlantia​ - Ally Condie Heist Society​ - Ally Carter
Shadowshaper​ - Daniel Jose Older The Crown’s Game​ - Evelyn Skye This is Where It Ends​ - ​Marieke Nijkamp
Strange the Dreamer​ - Laini Taylor Everland​ - Wendy Spinale Mountain Dog​ - Margarita Engle
As You Wish​ - Chelsea Sedoti Ruby Red​ - Kerstin Gier Crime Travelers​ - Paul Aertker
The Raven Boys​ - Maggie Stiefvater Seraphina​ - Rachel Hartman The Cat, The Lady, and the Liar​ - Leann
The Rithmatist​ - Brandon Sanderson Cinder​ - Marissa Mayer Sweeney
Bone Gap​ - Laura Ruby Rook​ - Sharon Cameron Theodore Boone​ - John Graham
The Reader​ - Traci Chee Dangerous​ - Shannon Hale Circle of Magic​ - Tamora Pierce
Scythe​ - Neal Shusterman The Darkest Part of the Forest​ - Holly Black We Were Liars​ - E. Lockhart
Uglies​ - Scott Westerfeld The Cellar​ - Natasha Pearson

Realistic Fiction - Sad/Gripping Historical Fiction Nonfiction

The Hate U Give​ - Angie Thomas Countdown​ - Deborah Wiles Americanized​ - Sara Saedi
Piecing Me Together​ - Renée Watson Salt to the Sea​ - Ruta Sepetys Andrew Jackson: The Making of America​ - Teri
The Serpent King​ - Jeff Zentner All We Have Left​ - Wendy Mills Kanefield
Well, That Was Awkward ​- Rachel Vail Outrun the Moon​ - Stacey Lee Girls Who Code​ - Reshma Saujani
The Sun is Also a Star​ - Nicole Yoon Flygirl​ - Sherri L. Smith Facing Frederick​ - Tonya Bolden
Booked​ - Kwame Alexander Code Talker​ - Joseph Bruchac We Will Not Be Silent​ - Russell Freedman
Far From the Tree​ - Robin Benway When My Name Was Keoko​ - Linda Sue Park Most Dangerous​ - Steve Sheinkin
Everything, Everything​ - Nicole Yoon Gone Crazy in Alabama​ - Rita Williams-Garcia The Boys in the Boat​ - Daniel James Brown
One Thing Stolen​ - Beth Kephart Hidden​ - ​Loic Dauvillier, Greg Salsedo The Family Romanov​ - Candace Fleming
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy​ - Gary Schmidt The Boy in the Striped Pajamas​ - John Boyne Sachiko: ​ - Caren Stelson
The Beginning of Everything​ - Robyn Schneider Ashes​ - Laurie Halse Anderson Chew on This​ - Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser
Tracker​ - Gary Paulsen The President Has Been Shot​ - James Swanson
When Dimple Met Rishi​ - Sandhya Menon Popular​ - Maya Van Wagenen

Classics Graphic Novels I Am Princess X​ - Cherie Priest

Treasure Island​ - Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice​ - Jane Austen
Tiger Eyes​ - Judy Blume
The Three Musketeers​ - Alexandre Dumas
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea​ - Jules Verne
The Call of the Wild​ - Jack London
Raid of No Return: WWII Tale of the Doolittle Raid​ -
Nathan Hale
Kid Beowulf: The Song of Roland​ - Alexis E. Fajardo
One Trick Pony​ - Nathan Hale
Trapped in a Video Game​ - Dustin Brady
In Real Life​ - Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
The Graveyard Book​ - Neil Gaiman, P. Craig
Russell
Hidden​ - Loic Dauvillier, Greg Salsedo

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