Grade 8
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The College Football Championship: The Fight for the Top Spot
From the Series Spectacular Sports
In 2015, when Ohio State took on the University of Oregon in the first College Football Playoff championship game, millions of sports fans tuned in. But back in 1869, when Rutgers University… Read More →
The Color of Sound
Twelve-year-old Rosie is a musical prodigy whose synesthesia allows her to see music in colors. Her mom has always pushed her to become a concert violinist, but this summer Rosie refuses to… Read More →
The Combination
From the Series Night Fall ™
Dante only thinks about football. Miranda's worried about applying to college. Neither one wants to worry about a locker combination too. But they'll have to learn their combos fast—if they… Read More →
The Comeback
From the Series Lorimer Sports Stories
On the surface, fourteen-year-old Chris is pretty average, playing hockey and having friends. But underneath it all, Chris is depressed. He quits his hockey team, but his doctor suggests that Read More →
The Comedy of Errors
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The merchant Egeon is caught crossing the border from Syracuse into the rival city of Ephesus—a crime punishable by death. But Egeon isn't a criminal; he's merely trying to find his wife and… Read More →
The Communist Manifesto
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential political books in the world, despite being over one hundred years old. German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels authored the… Read More →
The Confessional
From the Series Suspended
I may be in trouble...but there's more to my story. All Jenny Vang wants to do is fit in. Not be popular. Not be cool. Just fit in. After changing schools more than once, she's an expert at Read More →
The Contest — Audisee®—Fluent Set
From the Series The Contest
Four teenagers in need of money and a second chance are offered the chance to enter a mysterious high-stakes "contest" with a $10 million prize. To compete, they each must do a series of… Read More →
The Count of Monte Cristo
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Betrayed by his closest companions who are jealous of his success and his beautiful fiancée, Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned in Château d’If in France. The prison is home to the most… Read More →
The Country Artist: A Story about Beatrix Potter
From the Series Creative Minds Biographies
Tea with a hedgehog and supper with a rabbit? Beatrix Potter entertained guests that most people--certainly Beatrix Potter's proper Victorian parents--would have thought belonged in a meadow, Read More →
The Courage of Elfina
Twelve-year-old Elfina lives with her grandmother in Paraguay. When a distant relative offers to have Elfina come live with her in the city so she can attend school, Elfina's grandmother… Read More →
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Coronavirus Timeline
From the Series Gateway Biographies
In late 2019 the Chinese city of Wuhan reported several cases of what doctors thought was pneumonia. But it wasn't long before officials identified a new coronavirus behind the outbreak:… Read More →
The Craft-a-Day Book: 30 Projects to Make with Recycled Materials
Reduce, reuse, and recycle with ideas from The Craft-a-Day Book. You can put the three Rs to work with these thirty awesome crafts! Using recycled and reusable materials from around the… Read More →
The Crazy Careers of Video Game Designers
From the Series ShockZone ™ — Games and Gamers
You might think that working in the video game industry is all fun and, well...games. Jobs like combat designer and animator sound pretty exciting. But do you know what it really takes to do… Read More →
The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories
From acclaimed and New York Times best-selling YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. • A vampire locked in a cage… Read More →
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: And Other Tales of the Jazz Age
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three thematic parts, the anthology highlights Fitzgerald's signature… Read More →
The Currys
From the Series Families of Fame & Fortune
Meet the Currys, a family of superstar athletes. The Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry and his brother, Seth Curry of the Portland Trail Blazers, faced off on the court in the first-ever… Read More →
The Cursed Ballet
From the Series The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance
Every time the Dario Quincy Academy has performed Giselle, the ballet's lead dancer has died. That's what the rumors say, anyway. But Ophelia doesn't believe in all that. She's determined to… Read More →
The Dark Divine
From the Series The Dark Divine
Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared—the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in… Read More →
The Date
From the Series The Do-Over
On the last day of school, Maribel attempts to ask her crush, Evan, out on a date to the bonfire party that night. After multiple failed attempts—including an embarrassing moment caused by a… Read More →
The Daytona 500: The Thrill and Thunder of the Great American Race
From the Series Spectacular Sports
Who won the first Daytona 500? What do teams do to prepare their cars for 500 miles of hard, high-speed racing? Who gave the Daytona 500 the nickname the "Great American Race"? Learn all… Read More →
The Deadening: Book 1
From the Series Dead Max Comix
Derrick Hollis is a 7th grader at Zachary Taylor Middle School and an aspiring cartoonist, too shy to show his work to anybody but his best friend Doug. When his dog Max dies, Derrick is left Read More →
The Deep Blue Between
Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina have always shared their lives. But after a raid on their village in 1892, the twins are torn apart. Taken in different directions, far from their home in… Read More →
The Denim Diaries: A Memoir
Laurie Boyle Crompton’s coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City area in the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic. In moving verse accompanied by diary-esque sketches,… Read More →