2000s books assigned in 8th grade
US schools assign 133 books written in the 2000s to 8th grade students, across 29 states, spanning 600L–820L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- Titles
- 133
- Written
- 2000–2009
- Lexile range
- 600L–820L
- States assigning
- 29
The list — 2000s, 8th grade
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Rather listen? Kids who struggle with the print versions often finish the assigned books by listening.
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- A Life in the WildPamela S. Turner
- A Mango-Shaped SpaceWendy Mass
- A Room on Lorelei StreetMary E. Pearson
A Season of GiftsRichard Peck
Adopted by an OwlRobbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen
All the Lovely Bad OnesMary Downing Hahn- An American PlagueJim Murphy
Arnie, the DoughnutLaurie Keller- As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President!Donna Gephart
- Ashley BryanAshley Bryan
- Bucking the SargeChristopher Paul Curtis
ChainsLaurie Halse Anderson · 780L- Children of the Great DepressionRussell Freedman
Claudette ColvinPhillip Hoose- ClementineSara Pennypacker
Closed for the SeasonMary Downing Hahn- Commodore Perry in the Land of the ShogunRhoda Blumberg
Cracker The Best Dog in VietnamCynthia Kadohata
Cryptid HuntersRoland Smith- Darkness Over DenmarkEllen Levine
Day of TearsJulius Lester
Deep and Dark and DangerousMary Downing Hahn- DevilishMaureen Johnson
Down the Rabbit HolePeter Abrahams
Show all 133 titles
- Dust to Eat · Michael L. Cooper
- Eragon · Christopher Paolini
- 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
- Forged by Fire · Sharon M. Draper
- Frankenstein Takes the Cake · Adam Rex
- Girl in a Cage · Jane Yolen
- Graceling · Kristin Cashore
- Home of the Brave · Katherine Applegate
- Hostage · Willo Davis Roberts
- 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
- Laura Ingalls Wilder · Tanya Lee Stone
- 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
- Love That Dog · Sharon Creech
- Magyk · Angie Sage
- Make Lemonade · Virginia Euwer Wolff
- Marching For Freedom · Elizabeth Partridge
- Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness · Scott Westerfeld
- Million-Dollar Throw · Mike Lupica
- Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism · Georgia Byng
- Mystery Fish · Sally M. Walker
- Nation · Terry Pratchett
- Nightmare at the Book Fair · Dan Gutman
- No More Dead Dogs · Gordon Korman
- No Talking · Andrew Clements
- One Candle · Eve Bunting
- Peace, Locomotion · Jacqueline Woodson
- Peeps · Scott Westerfeld
- Peter and the Starcatchers · Dave Barry
- Project Mulberry · Linda Sue Park
- 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
- Skeleton Creek · Patrick Carman
- Skeleton Man · Joseph Bruchac
- So B. It · Sarah Weeks
- Some of the Kinder Planets · Tim Wynne-Jones
- Space Station Science · Marianne J. Dyson
- Star in the Storm · Joan Hiatt Harlow
- Stargirl · Jerry Spinelli
- Stepping Up · Mark Fink
- Stolen Children · Peg Kehret
- Stormwitch · Susan Vaught
- Summer of My German Soldier · Bette Greene
- 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 Bomb · Theodore Taylor
- The Boxer · Kathleen Karr
- The Double Life of Pocahontas · Jean Fritz
- The End of the Beginning · Avi
- 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 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 Moorchild · Eloise McGraw
- The River Between Us · Richard Peck
- The Schwa was Here · Neal Shusterman
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants · Ann Brashares
- The Stranger Next Door · Peg Kehret
- The Strongest Man in the World · Nicolas Debon
- The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición · Margarita Engle
- The Tequila Worm · Viola Canales
- 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
- Under the Blood-Red Sun · Graham Salisbury
- Unwind · Neal Shusterman
- Upon the Head of the Goat · Aranka Siegal
- Vintage · Steve Berman
- 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
- Zen and the Art of Faking It · Jordan Sonnenblick
Most-assigned 2000s authors in 8th grade
Mary Downing Hahn (3) · Peg Kehret (3) · Mary E. Pearson (2) · Richard Peck (2) · Laurie Halse Anderson (2) · Graham Salisbury (2)
Common questions
- How many 2000s books are assigned in 8th grade?
- 133 books written between 2000 and 2009 appear on 8th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- What Lexile range do these 2000s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 2000s titles assigned in 8th grade run from 600L to 820L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.
- Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?
- 29 states assign at least one 2000s title at 8th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.