8th Grade Girls' Favorites

  • A Child Called It and its sequel, The Lost Boy
  • A Door Near Here by Heather Quarles
  • America by E. R. Frank
  • Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
  • Bad by Jean Ferris
  • Beatrice Sparks books
  • Books by Chris Crutcher
  • Born Blue by Han Nolan
  • Crooked by Laura McNeal
  • Cruddy by Lynda Barry
  • Cut by Patricia McCormick
  • Dancing With an Alien by Mary Logue
  • Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
  • Drive-By by Lynne Ewing
  • Fearless by Francine Pascal
  • Goats by Brock Cole (a summer camp prank goes awry)
  • Heroes by Robert Cormier
  • Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter
  • In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier
  • It Happened to Nancy by an anonymous teen (similar to Go Ask Alice)
  • Letters From the Inside by John Marsden
  • Make Lemonade and True Believer by Virginia Euwer Woolf
  • Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
  • McDaniel, Lurlene
  • My Sister's Bones (about a girl dealing with an anorexic sister)
  • Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (vampire who looks like the boy next door)
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald (this is a really awesome book!)
  • The Bluford Series - 7 books in the series, very inexpensive - pulp fiction
  • The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Robert Cormier
  • The Long Night of Leo and Bree by Ellen Wittlinger
  • The Princess Diaries and Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
  • We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier (Cormier's account of a house trashing and revenge)
  • When She Hollers by Cynthia Voigt
  • When She Was Good by Norma Fox Mazer
  • Wind Blows Backward (a girl whose boyfriend acts suicidal)


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