Grade 8

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The Strange Tale of Ragger Bill

From the Series The Outfit

After a little girl goes missing from outside her school, everyone blames Ragger Bill. But the Outfit knows Bill is innocent, and they set out to find the missing girl before it's too late.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 540
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Sunrise Movement: The Climate Revolution Generation

From the Series Gateway Biographies

The Sunrise Movement is a youth-led organization fighting the climate crisis and building a fairer future. Climate change is harming our planet and could cause food and water scarcity, severe Read More →

  • Lexile: 1010
  • ATOS: 6.9
  • Dewey: 320.58
  • Copyright: 2023

The Super Bowl: Chasing Football Immortality

From the Series Spectacular Sports

The National Football League (NFL) is the most popular sports league in the United States, and the Super Bowl is its grandest stage. The incredible runs, the gutsy defensive stands, and the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1010
  • ATOS: 6.6
  • Dewey: 796.332/648
  • Copyright: 2018

The Superstar

From the Series Kick!

Daniela is looking forward to soccer season. Not only are the Bay Park Rams a great team, she gets to play alongside her best friend, Rinad. And then there's Kennedy—the newest member of the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 620
  • ATOS: 4.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2018

The Swiss Family Robinson

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

When a storm wrecks their ship off the coast of a deserted island in the East Indies, William, Elizabeth, and their four sons must rely on each other for survival. Stranded like Robinson… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1270
  • ATOS: 9.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

The Taming of the Shrew

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Lucentio comes to Padua to attend the university, but his attention is quickly captured by the lovely Bianca. He would do anything to marry her, including disguise himself as her Latin… Read More →

  • ATOS: 8.8
  • Dewey: 822.3'3
  • Copyright: 2015

The Team Curse

From the Series League of the Paranormal

For as long as Isaac could remember, the Middleton High baseball team hasn't won a single game. So when he tries out as a sophomore and makes the team, he's excited but not surprised. After… Read More →

  • Lexile: 610
  • ATOS: 4.3
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

This collection of sixteen short stories includes some of Edgar Allan Poe's most boundary-pushing and blood-chilling work. Selections range from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1220
  • Dewey: 813'.3
  • Copyright: 2015

The Tempest

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

A tempest shipwrecks Alonso, the king of Naples; Antonio, the duke of Milan; and several others on a small island in the Mediterranean. Little do they know that the storm was conjured by… Read More →

  • ATOS: 9.0
  • Dewey: 822.3'3
  • Copyright: 2015

The Terror of Black Eagle Tavern

From the Series The Paranormalists

Jinx looked at the bar, then back at Devon and Todd. "You may want to duck, is all I'm saying." As the words left her mouth, three glasses came shooting from the bar, straight toward the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 600
  • ATOS: 4.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

The Thief's Apprentice

From the Series Master Diplexito and Mr. Scant

Oliver, the meek son of a wealthy British industrialist, discovers the identity of a notorious thief, a man who has been skillfully evading Scotland Yard and snatching priceless artifacts for Read More →

  • Lexile: 790
  • ATOS: 6.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2016

The Three Musketeers

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Young, poor D'Artagnan is off to seek his fortune in Paris. Even before he reaches the city, he gets himself into mischief and, shortly after arriving, he offends three of the King's… Read More →

  • Lexile: 990
  • ATOS: 11.3
  • Dewey: 843'.7
  • Copyright: 2014

The Time Machine

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

The Time Traveller, a mysterious and brilliant inventor, makes a journey to the year 802,701 AD. Earth is a lush paradise inhabited by two humanoid species—the Eloi and the Morlocks. But he… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1010
  • ATOS: 7.4
  • Dewey: 823/.912
  • Copyright: 2018

The Tomb of King Tutankhamen

From the Series Unearthing Ancient Worlds

A royal treasure buried for 3,000 years … On November 4, 1922, a British archaeologist named Howard Carter unearthed a buried staircase in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. At the bottom of the… Read More →

  • Dewey: 932'.014
  • Copyright: 2008

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Marcus Brutus, a Roman politician, considers Emperor Julius Caesar to be a friend, but a senator—Caius Cassius—convinces Brutus that Caesar has too much power. Brutus would rather Rome be a… Read More →

  • ATOS: 10.8
  • Dewey: 822.3'3
  • Copyright: 2014

The Tragedy of King Lear

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

King Lear is growing old, and in an effort to preempt an inheritance war, he decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters while he is still living—dependent on which one loves… Read More →

  • Dewey: 822.3'3
  • Copyright: 2016

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Othello, a general in the Venetian army, has married the lovely Desdemona, and Roderigo is not at all happy. He was hoping to woo Desdemona for himself. Roderigo's jealousy is all Iago,… Read More →

  • ATOS: 8.4
  • Dewey: 822.3'3
  • Copyright: 2014

The Trojan Horse: The Fall of Troy [A Greek Myth]

From the Series Graphic Myths and Legends

For ten years, the battle raged. Thousands of ancient Greece's best warriors battled their enemies, the Trojans, in a desperate attempt to win back King Meneleus's beautiful wife, Helen.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 550
  • ATOS: 3.6
  • Dewey: 741.5'973
  • Copyright: 2007

The Turnaround

From the Series Mason Falls Mysteries

Justin has always been a big fan of Mason Falls High School's baseball team, the Lions—even though they are the worst in their division. But this season, the Lions are playing surprisingly… Read More →

  • Lexile: 680
  • ATOS: 4.6
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2018

The Turn of the Screw

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

A young governess takes a position caring for the orphaned niece and nephew of her employer after the death of the previous governess. The children, Miles and Flora, seem charming and sweet,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1090
  • ATOS: 8.3
  • Dewey: 813/.4
  • Copyright: 2016
Fall 2023

The Ultimate Quests: The Legends of Jason and Odysseus

From the Series Graphic Mythology

Set sail for adventure with these stormy Greek legends Jason's uncle Pelias has seized the throne of Argos. Before Jason can take his rightful place there, he must retrieve a magical item:… Read More →

  • Dewey: 398.20938/02
  • Copyright: 2023

The Uprising: The Mapmakers in Cruxcia

The land holds the truth ... the maps will reveal it. Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey Santander are mapmakers looking for their father, a famous explorer who disappeared on his last… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2021
Fall 2023

The Vikings: Raids of Terror and Bloody Battles

From the Series Deadly History

From fighting bloodthirsty battles through being sacrificed to the gods, daily life in the Viking world was pretty deadly! Readers will love digging up the past and finding out just how… Read More →

  • ATOS: 6.2
  • Dewey: 930
  • Copyright: 2023

The War of the Worlds

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

When a meteorite lands in Surrey, the locals don't know what to make of it. But as Martians emerge and begin killing bystanders, it quickly becomes clear—England is under attack. Armed… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1160
  • ATOS: 9.1
  • Dewey: 823'.912
  • Copyright: 2017