Books for 8th graders???

Question:

Books for 8th graders???

do you have any suggestions of books that are like mystery or like meg cabots THE BOY NEXT DOOR kind of thing? i want to kno cuz im going to the library today and i need some rly interesting books that will keep me preocupied during the summer. the more books you give the better chance of having 10 points coming your way. pls help =]

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Trap
Nixon *
Julie is perturbed about spending the summer in Texas helping her great aunt and uncle, until she discovers herself in the middle of a dangerous mystery. She must solve it before she's the next victim.

J/ Fiction
Small White Scar

Nuzum

Ever since the death of his Mother, Will wants to leave the childhood responsibility of caring for his twin brother Denny and become a rodeo champion. When Will sets out to enter the rodeo in La Junta, Denny follows him. This begins a wild and dangerous trip that Will had expected to make alone.

J/ Fiction East
Pattou
Would you believe that the direction you were facing when born could influence who you are? In this medieval fantasy, Nymah Rose, is facing North (the direction of an unpredictable, wandering child), but her mother lies to keep her close and tells her it was East (an obedient and pliable child). But destiny cannot be denied when a great white bear appears and convinces Nymah Rose to leave with him into the unknown.

J/ Fiction
Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshall in the West

Paulsen *

Bass, a young slave on a small frontier homestead, is brave and resourceful. At seventeen, he runs away into the Indian Territory to find freedom, but also finds danger and adventure.

J/ Fiction
Here Lies the Librarian

Peck *

PeeWee and Jake are determined to be the best mechanics with the finest garage just as soon as the hard road comes through town to bring all those new automobiles in! Tornadoes, bullies and plain old bad luck can't stop these two from success, especially with a little help from the new young librarians.

J/ Fiction The River Between Us
Peck *
At fifteen, twins Noah and Tilly Pruitt share a humble but happy life on the Mississippi. Life suddenly changes as the Civil War makes its way to their town and a steamboat from New Orleans docks and two mysterious young women step ashore.

J/ Fiction Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
Peck *
"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," says Russell Culver. Russell and his brother hope school will shut down for good. Russell's dream of working the New 1904 Case Agitator steel threshing machine at wheat harvest will come true after all. No such luck, his sister, Tansy becomes the new teacher and Russell seems doomed to another year in the classroom.

J/ Fiction Trickster's Choice
Pierce *
Readers of the Song of the Lioness series will rejoice - Alanna and George's daughter is starring in a new series! Aly is very much her father's daughter and wishes to be a spy for their kingdom of Tortall. Opposing both her parent's wishes, Aly follows the guidance of a trickster god and becomes immediately embroiled in an adventure of political intrigue and murderous conspiracy.

J/ Fiction Vampire High
Rees
Cody Elliot's grades are so abysmal, he doubts that the Vlad Dracul Magnet School will accept him. To his surprise he's allowed in, the only catch being that he must try out for the water polo team. It turns out that the other students are vampires and will die in the water. His teachers automatically give him A's, but Cody realizes that he wants to do the work and get real grades, as bad as they might be.

J/ Fiction
The Intruders

Richardson

Joel could imagine his sister Cassie laughing out loud at him. Sure, the house they were moving into with their mom and new stepfamily was a neglected, rotting mess, but haunted? How else to explain images of a "long sharp dagger, the blade thick with dripping blood" that suddenly appears before his eyes? Then his sister and stepbrothers begin to experience the same horrifying occurrences....

J/ Fiction Blood on His Hands
Roberts*
When Marc hears that hound baying, he feels as if he's been running for hours. He'd hit Stoner in self- defense. Is he being tracked by bloodhounds? It is kill or be killed, but will they believe him, a resident at Camp Heritage for delinquent boys?

J Fiction Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses
Robinet
Jacob is a slave, but he knows about freedom and what Abraham Lincoln's election would mean. There is no way he's going to let Mister Higgenboom, his new master, rob the stage of the Pony Express wages. The news must reach California, where they are headed, no matter what!

J/ Fiction Lord of the Deep
Salisbury*
Mikey is proud to be a deckhand on his stepfather's charter fishing boat. He admires Bill and secretly calls him "Lord of the Deep" for his fishing and piloting skills. Then one day at sea threatens his life and his admiration for a man he thought he knew.

J Fiction Teenage Mermaid
Schreiber
A silver heart locket, that's Spencer's only clue. Who is his enchanting rescuer, a lovely girl with "golden yellow and sun-fire orange hair that sparkles like tiny stars?" Waterlilly is her name, and she has done the forbidden - touched an "Earthee." Worse, she has kissed the surfer, who is totally freaked out in an enormous wave. She must retrieve her heirloom necklace; he must find the "gorgeous glistening girl." A mod update of a fairytale classic!

J/ Fiction The Book of Dead Days
Sedgwick
Boy, a servant with no name or past, and Willow his only friend, must help Valerian, a magician, search for the Book. The Book is supposed to help Valerian escape from a deadly pact he made fifteen years ago. Their adventure leads them to old cemeteries and underground canals where Boy and Willow eventually learn the truth about Valerian's past.

J/ Fiction The Schwa Was Here
Shusterman
He raises his hand in class, yet teachers never call him. Even though he sits next to you for months, you still think he is a new student. They say he is invisible. They say his mother vanished into thin air. They say he will too, someday. He is -- the Schwa.

J/ Fiction Pool Boy
Simmons
Brett was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and at 15, he kicks and screams like a baby when it's taken away. His riches to rags odyssey teaches this spoiled kid about family, loyalty, and work--a.k.a. real life.

J/ Fiction
Endymion Spring

Skelton

Blake Winters stumbles upon a mysterious blank book in an Oxford Library that starts him on a life-threatening adventure.

J/ Fiction Hannah's Garden
Snyder
Cassie and her mother return to the family farm when her grandfather is dying. Once there, Cassie discovers the family secret and is caught between two supernatural clans-the evil Red clan-and her own people, the Green clan.

J/ Fiction Separate Sisters
Springer*
Donni and Trisha are only a year apart, but they're as different as sisters can be. Donni's wild and Trisha is expected to be perfect, especially since their parents' divorce. With the sisters living apart and both of them emotionally hurting, their differences grow. Will they ever bridge this gap, or will they be separate sisters forever?

J/ Fiction Thief of Dreams
Strasser *
"Your mother and I are going to China for a month," my father announces. My Uncle Lawrence, I've met him once, will be staying with me while the're gone. I like him a lot but something is odd about Uncle Lawrence; he sneaks out late at night dressed in black and I find his Arizona driver's license with a different name. Who is the real Uncle Lawrence?

J/ Fiction Lord of the Kill
Taylor *
Sixteen year old Ben Jepson's parents own a wild cat sanctuary in southern California. When his parents are in India, Ben's favorite Siberian tiger, Lord of the Kill, is kidnapped and he must find him. (sequel to Sniper)

J/ Fiction
The Counterfeit Princess

Thomas

After the Duke of Northumberland has her parents sent to the Tower of London, 15 year old Iris seeks revenge. Posing as the Princess Elizabeth to save her from evil plots against her life, Iris finds that treachery exists within every aspect of court life but love does too in the guise of Andrew, a knight of the realm.

J/ Fiction Something About America
Testa
Through poetic free verse, a young teen tells about her experiences in America after fleeing war-torn Kosova. She feels like a "typical American schoolgirl," but her parents have a hard time adjusting, until her father organizes a protest rally against a hate group in a neighboring town.

J/ Fiction Now You See It...
Vande Velde*
Wendy finds a pair of ordinary-looking sunglasses and wears them to school. She gets a shock when two of her classmates appear changed when viewed through the glasses. The best-looking, most popular girl at James Fenimore Cooper High becomes very old and very ugly, and a new boy has long, pointed ears. Suddenly, they are interested in Wendy.

J/ Fiction So B. It: A novel
Weeks
Heidi knows very little about her mentally disabled mother - a woman of only 23 total words. At twelve, Heidi begins to resent the mystery and seeks to learn more about her mother and hence herself. Here is Heidi's story of discovery about her spirit, her past and her future.

J/ Fiction Secret Hour
Westerfield
Bixby, Oklahoma is the place where the secret hour exists for only a few people of power, the Midnighters and the Creatures of the dark who haunt the shadows. The 25th hour is when all else is frozen until the great moon sets in the sky at the end of the hour. Jessica Day does not appear to be an outsider like the other Midnighters at Bixby High when she moves there from Chicago. But outsider or not, Jessica will soon discover she has a hidden power that the dark creatures sense.

Winterson

Something very strange is happening to the layers of time. Time is stopping; time tornados are scooping people up and making them disappear. Tanglewreck, the house where Silver lives with her cranky aunt, seems to be in the center of it all.

J/ Fiction The Hero
Woods
A trip, terror, and tragedy change the lives of Jamie, Jerry, and Dennis. They discover what makes a hero.

J/ Fiction Sorcery and Cecelia, or, the Enchanted Chocolate Pot
Wrede *
Kate first knows something is wrong when her hot chocolate burns a hole straight through her dress. Then there is her brother Oliver - ever since he was turned into a tree he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is! Clearly magic is a dangerous and deadly presence in their seemingly quiet world of manners in Victorian London. Who are the sinister wizards and what do they want from Cecelia and Kate?

J/ Fiction A Thief in the House of Memory
Wynne-Jones
Declan's discovery of a body in the old family home triggers a flood of strange memories and dreams that deepen the mystery surrounding his mother's disappearance.

J Fiction The Dragons of Spratt, Ohio
Zinnen
John is helping to raise a clutch of nine baby dragons that devour hundreds of hot dogs, smell of dragonstink, and hunt Holstein cows. Strange things are starting to happen and the dragon babies desperately need John's help.