Realistic Fiction Books for 8th Graders

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• Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey · Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Dragon Rider · Cornelia Funke
• Harris and Me · Gary Paulsen
• Heart of a Champion · Carl Deuker
• How to Stay Invisible · Maggie C. Rudd
• Hummingbird · Natalie Lloyd
• Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key · Jack Gantos
• Math Curse · Jon Scieszka
• Mr. Lincoln's Way · Patricia Polacco
• Saving Winslow · Sharon Creech
• Say What? · Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Stung · Bethany Wiggins
• The Honest Truth · Dan Gemeinhart
• When the Wolves Returned · Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
• Forged by Fire · Sharon M. Draper
• A Boy Named Queen · Sara Cassidy
• A Family Apart · Joan Lowery Nixon
• Airball: My Life in Briefs · L.D. Harkrader
• All the Impossible Things · Lindsay Lackey
• Amal Unbound · Aisha Saeed
• And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon · Janet Stevens
• Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity · Dave Roman
• Attack of the Black Rectangles · A. S. King
• Ava and Pip · Carol Weston
• Backlash · Sarah Darer Littman
• Becoming Muhammad Ali · James Patterson
• Best Friends · Shannon Hale
• Blackwater · Eve Bunting
• Bob and Jack: A Boy and His Yak · Jeffrey Moss
• Boxes for Katje · Candace Fleming
• Breakout · Kate Messner
• Breathe: A Ghost Story · Cliff McNish
• Brighty of the Grand Canyon · Marguerite Henry
• Bristle Face · Zachary Ball
• Cardboard · Doug TenNapel
• Chomp · Carl Hiaasen
• Christopher Changes His Name · Itah Sadu
• City of Thieves · Alex London
• Daphne's Book · Mary Downing Hahn
• December Stillness · Mary Downing Hahn
• Dogtag Summer · Elizabeth Partridge
• Don't Hurt Laurie · Willo Davis Roberts
• Donut Feed the Squirrels · Mika Song
• Dovey Coe · Frances O'Roark Dowell
• Drive-By · Lynne Ewing
• Each Kindness · Jacqueline Woodson
• Eerie Tales from the School of Screams · Graham Annable
• Flaming Arrows · William O. Steele
• Ghost in My Soup · Judi Miller
• Greetings from Witness Protection! · Jake Burt
• Harry Cat's Pet Puppy · George Selden
• Hattie Big Sky · Kirby Larson
• Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller · Doreen Rappaport
• Here Comes the Garbage Barge · Jonah Winter
• High Heat · Carl Deuker
• Hostage · Willo Davis Roberts
• House Arrest · K. A. Holt
• I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You · Ally Carter
• Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World · Katherine Hannigan
• Just Gus · McCall Hoyle
• Lawn Boy · Gary Paulsen
• Lily and Dunkin · Donna Gephart
• Little Vic · Doris Gates
• Loch · Paul Zindel
• Lost & Found: Based on a True Story · Mei Yu
• Lulu's Mysterious Mission · Judith Viorst
• Mississippi Trial, 1955 · Chris Crowe
• Mr. Maxwell's Mouse · Frank Asch
• My Explosive Diary · Emily Gale
• New Dragon City · Mari Mancusi
• Night Hoops · Carl Deuker
• On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave · Candace Fleming
• Operation: Dump the Chump · Barbara Park
• Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch · Mona Kerby
• Perfect · Natasha Friend
• Planet Earth Is Blue · Nicole Panteleakos
• Point Blank · Anthony Horowitz
• Posted · John David Anderson
• Project Mulberry · Linda Sue Park
• Red Kayak · Priscilla Cummings
• Romiette and Julio · Sharon M. Draper
• Ruby Lost and Found · Christina Li
• Sasha, My Friend · Barbara Corcoran
• Saving Sunshine · Saadia Faruqi
• Saving Zasha · Randi G. Barrow
• Sharing Susan · Eve Bunting
• Shark Summer · Ira Marcks
• Socks · Beverly Cleary
• Spying on Miss Müller · Eve Bunting
• Star in the Storm · Joan Hiatt Harlow
• Stepping Up · Mark Fink
• Stuck in Neutral · Terry Trueman
• Summer Vamp · Violet Chan Karim
• Swing · Audrey Meeker
• Taking Terri Mueller · Norma Fox Mazer
• Tangerine · Edward Bloor
• The Aquanaut · Dan Santat
• The Blackbird Girls · Anne Blankman
• The Golden Hour · Niki Smith
• The Gollywhopper Games · Jody Feldman
• The Goof that Won the Pennant · Jonah Kalb
• The Great Christmas Kidnaping Caper · Jean Van Leeuwen
• The Grizzly · Annabel and Edgar Johnson
• The Hero of Bremen · Margaret Hodges
• The Library of Ever · Zeno Alexander
• The Magic Fish · Trung Le Nguyen
• The Magic of the Glits · Carole S. Adler
• The Perfect Score · Rob Buyea
• The Root Cellar · Janet Lunn
• The Stranger Next Door · Peg Kehret
• The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman · Gennifer Choldenko
• The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson · Carol Lynch Williams
• The Two Princesses of Bamarre · Gail Carson Levine
• There's a Bat in Bunk Five · Paula Danziger
• Unbreakable · Kami Garcia
• Variant · Robison Wells
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town · Kimberly Willis Holt
• White Falcon · Elliott Arnold
• Wink · Rob Harrell
• Yellow Star · Jennifer Roy
• Zen and the Art of Faking It · Jordan Sonnenblick
• Zeus, Dog of Chaos · Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
• Zia Erases the World · Bree Barton
• ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat · Raúl the Third III
• A Time of Troubles · Pieter Van Raven
• Genesis Begins Again · Alicia D. Williams
• Heaven · Angela Johnson
• The Diary of Anne Frank · Frances Goodrich
• The Honorable Prison · Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
• Two Suns in the Sky · Miriam Bat-Ami
• Worth · A. LaFaye
• Look Both Ways · Jason Reynolds