Nevada 8th grade reading list

The 512 books most commonly assigned to Nevada 8th grade students in US schools — each with its reading level and a cited source.

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Books512Lexile410L–1300LSourceNevada Academic Content Standards✓ sources cited per book

Most-assigned nationally: across every US state’s official reading and award lists, the Middle (6–8) titles appearing in the most states are The Giver (20 states), The Hunger Games (14 states), and Ground Zero (8 states). From our 2026 study of 13,258 source-cited assignments (as of 2026-07-13).

Start here — most-cited for Nevada 8th grade

These are the 30 titles named in Nevada’s own curriculum documents for this grade — everything below is the wider national list. Read against the Common Core Appendix A complexity band; reading level is not thematic maturity, and several sit below the band because they are assigned for discussion.

  1. Smile

    Raina Telgemeier

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document and 1 national reference, taught from grade 4 to 8. Covers growing up, friendship and self-acceptance. At 410L it reads well below the 925–1185L band for this grade.

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  2. 96 Miles

    J. L. Esplin

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  3. A Boy Named Queen

    Sara Cassidy

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers bullying, middle school students and peer pressure.

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  4. A Night Divided

    Jennifer A. Nielsen

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 5 to 8. Covers courage, freedom and family.

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  5. Among the Hidden

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 5 to 8. Covers freedom, identity and resistance.

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  6. Ava and Pip

    Carol Weston

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers palindromes, families and vocabulary.

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  7. Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job

    Willo Davis Roberts

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers babysitters, kidnapping and babysitters, fiction.

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  8. City of Thieves

    Alex London

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8.

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  9. Crash

    Jerry Spinelli

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers conduct of life, family life and friendship.

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  10. Cryptid Hunters

    Roland Smith

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 5 to 8. Covers survival, mystery and family.

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  11. Flight #116 Is Down!

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers aeronautics, fiction, airplanes, juvenile literature and airplanes, fiction.

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  12. Flipped

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers conduct of life in fiction, conduct of life and self-perception.

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  13. Framed!

    James Ponti

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers united states, art thefts and friendship.

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  14. Hostage

    Willo Davis Roberts

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers neighbors, robbers and outlaws, kidnapping.

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  15. Hummingbird

    Natalie Lloyd

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8.

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  16. Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

    Barbara Park

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers kindergarten, occupations and schools.

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  17. Loch

    Paul Zindel

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers underwater exploration, brothers and sisters, monsters.

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  18. Loot

    Jude Watson

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers jewel thieves, brothers and sisters, adventure and adventurers.

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  19. Magyk

    Angie Sage

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers princesses, fiction, wizards, fiction and magic, fiction.

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  20. Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

    Georgia Byng

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers amistad, bank robberies and ficción juvenil.

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  21. Red Midnight

    Ben Mikaelsen

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers emigration and immigration, kayaks, kayaks and kayaking.

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  22. Saving Winslow

    Sharon Creech

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers donkeys, human-animal relationships and friendship.

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  23. Saving Zasha

    Randi G. Barrow

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers german shepherd dog, single-parent families and family life.

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  24. Shape-Changer

    Bill Brittain

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers extraterrestrial beings, science fiction and life on other planets.

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  25. Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You

    Barthe DeClements

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers dyslexia, teacher-student relationships and schools.

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  26. Skeleton Creek

    Patrick Carman

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers diaries, best friends and horror stories.

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  27. Stepping Up

    Mark Fink

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers basketball, basketball stories and camps.

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  28. Tarot Says Beware

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers detective and mystery stories, fortune-tellers, murder.

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  29. The Boys Start the War

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 8. Covers practical jokes in fiction, brothers and sisters in fiction.

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  30. The Doom Stone

    Paul Zindel

    Cited in 1 Nevada curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 9. Covers survival, science and fear.

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512 books cited for Nevada 8th grade

Assignments tied directly to Nevada’s Nevada Academic Content Standards or national curricula with a Nevada-specific citation.

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About the Nevada 8th grade reading list

In Nevada schools, 8th grade students are most often assigned books drawn from Nevada Academic Content Standardsalongside the national curricula that apply nationwide — Common Core State Standards Appendix B, AP English, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. ReadingList currently tracks 512 titles for 8th grade in Nevada, each tied to a Nevada-specific curriculum citation. Across the list, Lexile measures span 410L–1300L.

8th grade sits in the 6-8 grade band, where students are middle-grade readers. At this stage the emphasis is on analyzing theme, character, and author's craft across full-length novels and their first classics. Assigned reading skews toward full-length novels, plays, memoir, and frequently-challenged contemporary titles, with text complexity that, per Common Core’s Appendix A reading bands, typically falls around roughly 700L to 1010L. Measured against that 925–1185L range, of the 30 titles here with a Lexile score 7 are grade-level, 22 are more accessible (often assigned for theme over challenge), and 1 is a stretch text that may need scaffolding. Because readers in a single 8th grade classroom can span several hundred Lexile points, this list is best read as a starting point rather than a fixed requirement.

Nevada’s English Language Arts requirements are set by Nevada Academic Content Standards (doe.nv.gov). Most states pair their own standards with the Common Core text-complexity framework, so the 8th grade list below blends Nevada-specific assignments with the widely-taught national canon. Every title links to its primary source on the book’s detail page, so you can confirm exactly where and why it is assigned.

How to use this list:match a title to your child’s most recent Lexile or guided-reading level rather than to the grade alone. Teachers building a 8th grade unit can pair a Nevada-cited core text with a grade-appropriate companion novel; parents previewing summer or supplemental reading can check each book’s content notes and challenge history before assigning it.

Common questions

How many books are assigned to 8th grade students in Nevada?
512 books appear on ReadingList for 8th grade students in Nevada, sourced from Nevada Academic Content Standards and national curricula (Common Core, AP, IB) with applicable grade citations.
What's the Lexile range for 8th grade reading in Nevada?
Lexile measures across the 8th grade Nevada reading list range from 410L to 1300L. Books without a published Lexile (poetry, drama, picture books) are not included in this range.
Where does this reading list come from?
Entries reference Nevada Academic Content Standards (published at doe.nv.gov) plus national curricula that apply to Nevada schools: Common Core State Standards Appendix B, AP English Literature and Language, IB Diploma Programme, and Cambridge Assessment International. Every assignment row on each book's detail page links its primary source.

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