Top 10 Trending Books For 8th Graders

Featuring popular books-turned-movies The Maze Runner and The Fault in Our Stars! For other grades, be sure to check out what kids are reading.

1. Prodigy: A Legend Novel (Marie Lu)

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June and Day make their way to Las Vegas, where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.

2. Paper Towns (John Green)

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One month before graduating from high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until his beautiful and exciting classmate, Margo Roth Spiegelman, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

3. Wonder (R.J. Palacio)

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Ten-year-old Auggie, born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school, where he endures taunts and bullying and struggles to be seen as just another student.

4. Looking for Alaska (John Green)

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Sixteen-year-old Miles's first year at a prep school includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

5. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy.

6. City of Fallen Angels (Cassandra Clare)

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As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.

7. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding.

8. Legend (Marie Lu)

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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover they have a common enemy.

9. City of Glass (Cassandra Clare)

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Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, where she uncovers important truths about her family's past.

10. The Fault in Our Stars

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Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and, as they fall in love, they both wonder how they will be remembered.