About Mrs. Quinn

Mrs. Quinn's Favorite Books for Eighth Graders (and Everyone!)

If you want to read about...

Realistic teenagers with realistic problems:

• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

• Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

• Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

• Anything by Sarah Dessen

Action and adventure with a side of magic:

• • The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

  • The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

• Savvy by Ingrid Law

  • The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

  • The Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima

Action-packed futuristic books:

• • The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld

  • The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

  • The Maze Runner series by James Dashner

  • The Matched series by Ally Condie

  • The Legend series by Marie Lu

  • The Cinder series by Marissa Meyer

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Survival:

• Hatchet and the other Brian books by Gary Paulsen

• Cold River by William Judson

What life was like in times gone by:

• The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple

• Flygirl by Sherri Smith (a Virginia Young Reader's pick for 2012-2013!)