Classic but interesting books for a 8th grader?

Question

I am home schooled so for reading class my mom wants me to read "classic" books. All the books she picked out sound boring...like out in the country or about animals. What are some interesting books for a 8th grader?

Answer 1

A lot of books can be quite tricky, especially if you feel like you're being 'made' to read it for school. I found that with To Kill A Mockingbird, and it wasn't until I was older that I appreciated it.

The book I read in eighth grade was 'The Outsiders', and it's set in the 1950s. It's about the social divide between the rich kids and the poor kids. Everyone in my class LOVED this book! I still read it over and over again. It's not really, really long, but it has some really important themes in it you can discuss. It was written by a girl who was just 17!

Check it out - there's even a movie you can watch based on the book. It has a really young Tom Cruise in it! Of course, I think the book is much better, but I think you would really enjoy it!

Answer 2

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway

Huckleberry Fin, Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Great Expectations, David Copperfield.  

Answer 3

1. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

2.Harry Potter Series- J.KRowling

Answer 4

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Number the Stars

Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl

A Streetcar Named Desire

Go Ask Alice

The Outsiders

The Great Gasby

Fahrenheit 451

Enjoy!

Answer 5

Well for 18th century books I like any book by Victoria holt

I wouldnt recoment pride and prejiduce since its kind of hard to understand. But great expectations is good, The Giver which i read in 8th grade.  

Answer 6

agatha christie and then there were none

amazing book

the sky is falling-kit pearson

to kill a mocking bird

Answer 7

"The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" #7 at:

http://watchtower.org/e/publications/ind...

compiles all 4 Gospels about Jesus Christ, chronologically--as far as possible.

"Mankind's Search for God" #9 at:

http://watchtower.org/e/publications/ind...

"QUESTIONS Young People Ask--ANSWERS That Work" :

Section #1. The Home Front: Dealing With Family Members  

Section #2 You and Your Peers

Section #3 A Look at How You Look

Section #4 Why Do I Feel This Way?

Section #5 School and Work

Section #6 s*x and Morals

Section #7 Dating, Love, and the Opposite s*x

Section #8 The Trap of Drugs and Alcohol

Section #9 Leisure Time  

Section #10 Your Future

http://watchtower.org/e/publications/ind... < #5 at

(Not Classic, but, definately helpful & of interest to ones your age!)

That latter book is based on a series of articles,

some of which are posted online---their index is at:

http://watchtower.org/e/archives/index.h...

Answer 8

I'm not quite sure your mom's definition of classic but try some of these (This list of books is made up of "classics" published 20+ years ago, hopefully your mom will consider them classics)

Westling Game by Raskins

The Cay by Taylor

The Dark is Rising by Cooper

The Hero and the Crown by McKinley

A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia by Paterson

The Headless Cupid by Snyder

High King by Alexander

The Egypt Game by Snyder

The Black Cauldron by Alexander

The Door in the Wall by de Angeli

Night by Wiesel

Ginger Pye by Estes

The Middle Moffat by Estes

Answer 9

The Time Machine by Jules Verne

A journey to the center of the Earth by Jules Verne

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

All of these are exiciting, wonderfull stories and are classics as well. But, don't forget that a book dosen't have to be a sterotypic 'classic' for it to be good as well. See if your mom will let you read 'The Giver' by Louis Lowry. It has many of the elements of a classic book, but is more modernly told.

Answer 10

She chose animals, so try My Friend Flicka; Black Beauty; Old Yeller. The first 2 are about horses, the third, about a dog named "Old Yeller" [Yeller is a country slang for the word "yellow"]. I LOVED "My Friend Flicka"

Answer 11

Read:

1. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery. Best book I think I've ever read.

2. Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

3. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

4. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

5. C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters

6. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

7. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgeson)

8. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

9. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (sorry I can't remember the author)

10. Anything by Jane Austen

That's a good start, I think. You are probably going to get people telling you to read Twilight.  It is not classic nor is it any good whatsoever.  Don't read it.  Harry Potter is not considered classic either, although due to it's popularity and quality of writing I wonder if it might be in the future.  It's good.  You should read them anyway.

Good luck!