Bibliophiles read laters
GRADE 8 BOOK CLUB
Each session we present several books to vote on for future meetings. As only one gets chosen, we list the remainders here so that bookclub members who liked a title that did not win have a reference list.
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P.S. This is also a great list for birthday presents within the age group.
2023/24 Grade 8
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Peak by Roland Smith​
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Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
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I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall
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Ducks by Kate Beaton (September 2024 reading)
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13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
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The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
2020/21 Grade 8
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Dune by Frank Herbert
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Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
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Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
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Merlin's Harp by Anne Eliot Crompton
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From Charlie's Point of View by Richard Scrimger
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Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
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The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz
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Peak by Roland Smith
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The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen
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Food Freak by Alex Van Tol
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The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
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Every Day by David Leviathan
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IT by Stephen King
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The Godfather by Mario Puzo
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Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2017/18 Grade 8 & 9
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusty Bowling
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Love My Enemy by Kate MacLachlan
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Genius: The Game by Leopold Gout
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Flower for Algernon by Daniel Keys
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Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat
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Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
2013/14 Grade 8 & 9
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The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
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Audacious by Gabrielle Pendergast
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The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna
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Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
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My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher
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Every Day by David Levithan
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Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
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Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
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A Small Death in the Great Glen by A.D. Scott
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Boys Don’t Knit by T. S. Easton
2011/12 Grade 8
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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight by Jenny Valentine
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The Rinaldi Ring by Jenny Nimmo
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Life is Funny by E.R. Frank
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Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
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Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin
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The Chrysalids by John Windham
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True Blue by Deborah Ellis
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Double Nothing by Dennis Foon
2009/10 Grade 8
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The Reckoning of Boston Jim by Claire Mulligan
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Luna by Julie Anne Peters
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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
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The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
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Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
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Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
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Caught in the Crossfire by Alan Gibbons
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Pirates! by Celia Rees
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Dead Connection by Charlie Price
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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Resurrection Blues by Mike Tanner
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Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat
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My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught
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Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn
2021/22 Grade 8
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​Borders by Thomas King and Natasha Donovan
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
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I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Cheriandy
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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O'Farrell
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Circe by Madeline Miller
2018/19 Grade 8 & 9
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I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall
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I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You by David Cheriandy
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Peak by Roland Smith
2014/15 Grade 8 & 9
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Nice Recovery by Susan Juby
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Louis Riel by Craig Thompson
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A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
2012/13 Grade 8
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Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
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Love My Enemy by Kate MacLachlan
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A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
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Modoc by Ralf Helfer
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First Stone by Don Aker
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Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
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Flip by Martyn Bedford
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
2010/11 Grade 8
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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The First Stone by Don Aker
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
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Death Benefits by Sarah N. Harvey
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Tim by Mark Haddon
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Junk by Melvin Burgess
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The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
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Time Riders by Alex Scarow
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Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
2007/8 Grade 7 & 8
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Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond
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Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
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Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
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Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Rancour by James McCann
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Alabama Moon by Watt Key
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Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata
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Ringmaster by Julia Golding
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Burn My Heart by Beverly Naidoo
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At the House of the Magician by Mary Hooper
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For Now by Gayle Friesen
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Mountain Girl River Girl by Ting-xing Ye
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Buckling the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
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Godless by Pete Hauteman