Entering Grade 8

HISTORICAL FICTION

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The Bletchley Riddle
by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
​My favorite book of the year and the biggest seller at our spring book fair, The Bletchley Riddle is the story of a brother and sister employed at Bletchley Park, the secret code-breaking headquarters of the UK during WWII. Neither is allowed to talk about what they do and none of the Bletchley Park employees are trusted by the residents of the nearby town. Everyone is tense and the deadline for breaking Hitler's code-creating enigma machine is looming. This book jumps from one tense action scene to the next. If you think you don't like historical fiction, give this book a try. It could just change your mind!
The Partition Project
by Saadia Faruqi
Maha is irritated that her grandmother from Pakistan has come to stay with her since she has a huge journalism assignment coming up. Little by little, she starts to listen to her grandmother's story of growing up in northern India and being forced to relocate to Pakistan during the Partition of India and Pakistan. Has her grandmother just given her the subject of her assignment? And what would she have done and felt if she had been alive then?
Illegal
by Eoin Colfer
Ebo leaves Ghana to find his brother and sister in Europe. His journey will take him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea, all in the hope of finding a better life.
Projekt 1065
by Alan Gratz
Michael and his parents move from Ireland to Germany to infiltrate the Nazi regime and live as spies. The stakes are high when he infiltrates the ranks of the Hitler Youth to disband Projekt 1065, a secret Nazi mission.
I Must Betray You
​​by Ruta Sepetys
Living under Nicolae Ceaușescu's brutal dictatorship in Romania 1989, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in ​
The Awakening of Malcom X: A Novel
​ by Ilyasah Shabazz & Tiffany D. Jackson
A narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson.
Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) 
by Daniel Nayeri
Khosrou (known as Daniel to his classmates) stands in front of his hostile Oklahoman middle school class and captivates his classmates with the epically fantastical story of his family, their life in Iran, and their lives as refugees.  
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