2000s books assigned in 8th grade

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• Chains · Laurie Halse Anderson
• Children of the Great Depression · Russell Freedman
• Claudette Colvin · Phillip Hoose
• Clementine · Sara Pennypacker
• Closed for the Season · Mary Downing Hahn
• Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun · Rhoda Blumberg
• Copper Sun · Sharon Draper
• Cracker The Best Dog in Vietnam · Cynthia Kadohata
• Cryptid Hunters · Roland Smith
• Darkness Over Denmark · Ellen Levine
• Day of Tears · Julius Lester
• Deep and Dark and Dangerous · Mary Downing Hahn
• Define "Normal" · Julie Anne Peters
• Devilish · Maureen Johnson
• Dooby Dooby Moo · Doreen Cronin
• Dovey Coe · Frances O'Roark Dowell
• Down the Rabbit Hole · Peter Abrahams
• Dragon Rider · Cornelia Funke
• Dust to Eat · Michael L. Cooper
• Eragon · Christopher Paolini
• Every Soul a Star · Wendy Mass
• Fever 1793 · Laurie Halse Anderson
• FIREBOAT · Maira Kalman
• Firegirl · Tony Abbott
• Flipped · Wendelin Van Draanen
• Flora Segunda · Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have · Allen Zadoff
• Frankenstein Takes the Cake · Adam Rex
• Girl in a Cage · Jane Yolen
• Graceling · Kristin Cashore
• Gregor the Overlander · Suzanne Collins
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows · J. K. Rowling
• Hattie Big Sky · Kirby Larson
• Heir Apparent · Vivian Vande Velde
• Henry's Freedom Box · Ellen Levine
• High Heat · Carl Deuker
• Home of the Brave · Katherine Applegate
• Hoot · Carl Hiaasen
• Hostage · Willo Davis Roberts
• I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You · Ally Carter
• Ice · Sarah Beth Durst
• Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World · Katherine Hannigan
• In the Belly of the Bloodhound · L. A. Meyer
• Into the Wild · Sarah Beth Durst
• Jenny of the Tetons · Kristiana Gregory
• John, Paul, George and Ben · Lane Smith
• Knocked Out by Nunga-Nungas · Louise Rennison
• Leon's Story · Leon Walter Tillage
• Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer · Robert Byrd
• Letters from a Slave Girl · Mary E. Lyons
• Life as We Knew It · Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Lord of the Deep · Graham Salisbury
• Loser · Jerry Spinelli
• Love That Dog · Sharon Creech
• Magyk · Angie Sage
• Marching For Freedom · Elizabeth Partridge
• Mary, Bloody Mary · Carolyn Meyer
• Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness · Scott Westerfeld
• Milkweed · Jerry Spinelli
• Million-Dollar Throw · Mike Lupica
• Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman · Alan Schroeder
• Miracle's Boys · Jacqueline Woodson
• Mississippi Trial, 1955 · Chris Crowe
• Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism · Georgia Byng
• Mr. Lincoln's Way · Patricia Polacco
• Mr. Maxwell's Mouse · Frank Asch
• Mystery at the Club Sandwich · Doug Cushman
• Nation · Terry Pratchett
• Night Hoops · Carl Deuker
• Nightmare at the Book Fair · Dan Gutman
• No More Dead Dogs · Gordon Korman
• No Talking · Andrew Clements
• Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch · Mona Kerby
• Peace, Locomotion · Jacqueline Woodson
• Peeps · Scott Westerfeld
• Perfect · Natasha Friend
• Peter and the Starcatchers · Dave Barry
• Point Blank · Anthony Horowitz
• Powerless · Matthew Cody
• Project Mulberry · Linda Sue Park
• Rapunzel's Revenge · Shannon Hale
• Red Kayak · Priscilla Cummings
• Red Midnight · Ben Mikaelsen
• Remember · Toni Morrison
• Savvy · Ingrid Law
• Say What? · Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Scat · Carl Hiaasen
• Schooled · Gordon Korman
• Sea of the Dead · Julia Durango
• Secrets of a Civil War Submarine · Sally M. Walker
• Skeleton Creek · Patrick Carman
• Skeleton Man · Joseph Bruchac
• Small Steps · Louis Sachar
• So B. It · Sarah Weeks
• Some of the Kinder Planets · Tim Wynne-Jones
• Son of the Mob · Gordon Korman
• Space Station Science · Marianne J. Dyson
• Star in the Storm · Joan Hiatt Harlow
• Stargirl · Jerry Spinelli
• Stepping Up · Mark Fink
• Stolen Children · Peg Kehret
• Stormbreaker · Anthony Horowitz
• Stormwitch · Susan Vaught
• Stuck in Neutral · Terry Trueman
• Surviving the Applewhites · Stephanie S. Tolan
• Team Moon · Catherine Thimmesh
• Tending to Grace · Kimberly Newton Fusco
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian · Sherman Alexie
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox · Mary E. Pearson
• The Amethyst Road · Louise Spiegler
• The Art of Keeping Cool · Janet Taylor Lisle
• The Babe and I · David A. Adler
• The Book Thief · Markus Zusak
• The Boxer · Kathleen Karr
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas · John Boyne
• The Boy Who Dared · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• The Cats in Krasinski Square · Karen Hesse
• The City of Ember · Jeanne DuPrau
• The Compound · S. A. Bodeen
• The Double Life of Pocahontas · Jean Fritz
• The End of the Beginning · Avi
• The Fire Eaters · David Almond
• The First Part Last · Angela Johnson
• The Folk Keeper · Franny Billingsley
• The Ghost's Grave · Peg Kehret
• The Gollywhopper Games · Jody Feldman
• The Graveyard Book · Neil Gaiman
• The Green Glass Sea · Ellen Klages
• The Hotel Under the Sand · Kage Baker
• The Hunger Games · Suzanne Collins
• The Intruder · John Rowe Townsend
• The Jamie and Angus Stories · Anne Fine
• The King of Attolia · Megan Whalen Turner
• The Knife of Never Letting Go · Patrick Ness
• The Land · Mildred D. Taylor
• The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler · James Cross Giblin
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) · Rick Riordan
• The Lincolns · Candace Fleming
• The Longitude Prize · Joan Dash
• The Maze of Bones · Rick Riordan
• The Maze Runner · James Dashner
• The Name of This Book Is Secret · Pseudonymous Bosch
• The River Between Us · Richard Peck
• The Schwa was Here · Neal Shusterman
• The Sea of Trolls · Nancy Farmer
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants · Ann Brashares
• The Stranger Next Door · Peg Kehret
• The Strongest Man in the World · Nicolas Debon
• The Supernaturalist · Eoin Colfer
• The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición · Margarita Engle
• The Tequila Worm · Viola Canales
• The True Meaning of Smekday · Adam Rex
• The Voice That Challenged a Nation · Russell Freedman
• The Wall · Peter Sís
• The Wall · Peter Sís
• There's a Bat in Bunk Five · Paula Danziger
• Things Not Seen · Andrew Clements
• Togo · Robert J. Blake
• Touching Spirit Bear · Ben Mikaelsen
• Trouble Don't Last · Shelley Pearsall
• True Believer · Virginia Euwer Wolff
• Twilight · Stephenie Meyer
• Unwind · Neal Shusterman
• Upon the Head of the Goat · Aranka Siegal
• Vintage · Steve Berman
• Waiting for Normal · Leslie Connor
• We Are the Ship · Kadir Nelson
• We Are the Ship · Kadir Nelson
• When the Wolves Returned · Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
• When You Reach Me · Rebecca Stead
• Word Eater · Mary Amato
• Worth · A. LaFaye
• Yellow Star · Jennifer Roy
• Zen and the Art of Faking It · Jordan Sonnenblick
• Zoe's Tale · John Scalzi