8th Grade Literature
Outside Reading
Outside Reading Book Choices
Literature: Outside Reading--Reading Level
**The Lexile Reading is "the most widely adopted
reading measure in use today, Lexiles give
teachers and parents the confidence to choose
materials that will improve student reading
skills across school subjects and at home."
"The Lexile Framework® for Reading is a
scientific approach to reading
and text measurement.
It includes the Lexile® measure
and the Lexile scale. The Lexile measure is a reading
ability or text difficulty score followed
by an “L” (e.g., “850L”).
The Lexile scale is a developmental scale for reading
ranging from below 200L for beginning-reader
material to above 1700L for advanced text."**
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare--1350L
Acorn People by Ron Jones--720L
Bird by Angela Johnson--710L
Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell--980L
Corydon & The Island of Monsters by Tobias Druitt --760L
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon--1180L
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton--1160L
Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey--810L
Heat by Mike Lupica--940L
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros--870L
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke--780L
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke--890L
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer--1270L
Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett--770L
Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery--710L
Lord of the Flies by William Golding --770L
Max the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick--930L
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway--940L
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris--840L
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster--1000L
pictures of hollis woods by Patricia Reilly Giff--650L
Pigman by Paul Zindel--950L
Presence by Eve Bunting--550L
Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton--680L
Separate Peace by John Knowles--1110L
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz--670L
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe:
A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic by Edgar Allan Poe--1300L
Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke--640L
Thief of Always by Clive Barker--740L
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi--740L
View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg--870L
Wierdo by Theodore Taylor--770L
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare--850L
99 Fear Street: The First Horror by R.L. Stine -- 710 L
99 Fear Street: The Second Horror by R.L. Stine -- 710 L
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