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Grade 8

161 stories, poems and plays that fit grade 8.

Short stories

66 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Martian Odyssey Stanley G. Weinbaum short story A Pail of Air Fritz Leiber short story A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs short story A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry short story A Scandal in Bohemia Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band Arthur Conan Doyle short story After Twenty Years O. Henry short story Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne short story Beyond Lies the Wub Philip K. Dick short story The Big Trip Up Yonder Kurt Vonnegut short story The Cabuliwallah Rabindranath Tagore short story The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain short story The Cop and the Anthem O. Henry short story The Cosmic Express Jack Williamson short story The Crystal Crypt Philip K. Dick short story Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster short story The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes short story The Defenders Philip K. Dick short story The Doll's House Katherine Mansfield short story The Eyes Have It Philip K. Dick short story The Final Problem Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Gift of the Magi O. Henry short story The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Interlopers Saki short story The Invisible Man H. G. Wells short story The Last Leaf O. Henry short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving short story Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper short story The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe short story The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs short story The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell short story The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie short story The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie short story The Musgrave Ritual Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie short story The Necklace Guy de Maupassant short story The Open Window Saki short story Partners in Crime (selected stories) Agatha Christie short story Piper in the Woods Philip K. Dick short story Poirot Investigates (selected stories) Agatha Christie short story Printcrime Cory Doctorow short story The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry short story The Red-Headed League Arthur Conan Doyle short story Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving short story Rocket Summer Ray Bradbury short story The Runaway Skyscraper Murray Leinster short story The Sargasso of Space Edmond Hamilton short story Silver Blaze Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Stainless Steel Rat Harry Harrison short story The Story-Teller Saki short story The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe short story The Three Questions Leo Tolstoy short story To Build a Fire Jack London short story Tony and the Beetles Philip K. Dick short story The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly short story Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne short story Vanka Anton Chekhov short story White Fang Jack London short story Year of the Big Thaw Marion Zimmer Bradley short story Youth Isaac Asimov short story Zero Hour Ray Bradbury short story

Poems

44 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson poem A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe poem A narrow fellow in the grass Emily Dickinson poem Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay poem Barter Sara Teasdale poem The Bells Edgar Allan Poe poem Caroling Dusk: Harlem Renaissance poems (selected) Countee Cullen (editor) poem The Creation James Weldon Johnson poem Dream Variations Langston Hughes poem Dreams Langston Hughes poem Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe poem Fire and Ice Robert Frost poem Fog Carl Sandburg poem I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth poem I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson poem I, Too Langston Hughes poem In Flanders Fields John McCrae poem Incident Countee Cullen poem Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats poem Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson poem Mother to Son Langston Hughes poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes poem Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost poem O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman poem Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley poem The Pasture Robert Frost poem Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem Rainbow Gold (selected poems for young readers) Sara Teasdale (editor) poem The Raven Edgar Allan Poe poem The Road Not Taken Robert Frost poem Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare poem The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost poem Success is counted sweetest Emily Dickinson poem Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar poem There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale poem There is no frigate like a book Emily Dickinson poem The Tiger William Blake poem The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar poem When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman poem

Myths, fables and folk tales

4 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy Padraic Colum myth The Children of Odin: Norse myths Padraic Colum myth The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde fairy tale The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor Arabian Nights (Lang) fairy tale

Chapter books and novels

38 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens chapter book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain chapter book Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery chapter book At the Earth's Core Edgar Rice Burroughs chapter set The Big Four Agatha Christie chapter set The Call of the Wild Jack London chapter book Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini chapter set Key Out of Time Andre Norton chapter set Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson chapter set The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs chapter set Little Women Louisa May Alcott chapter book Lone Star Planet H. Beam Piper chapter set The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie chapter set The Mark of Zorro Johnston McCulley chapter set The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle chapter book The Mysterious Island Jules Verne chapter set The Mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie chapter set Plague Ship Andre Norton chapter set The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain chapter set The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy chapter set The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie chapter set The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie chapter set The Skylark of Space E. E. Smith chapter set Space Prison Tom Godwin chapter set Space Tug Murray Leinster chapter set Star Born Andre Norton chapter set Star Hunter Andre Norton chapter set Star Surgeon Alan E. Nourse chapter set Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg chapter set Storm Over Warlock Andre Norton chapter set The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle chapter book The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan chapter set Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll chapter book The Time Machine H. G. Wells chapter book The Time Traders Andre Norton chapter set Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson chapter book Triplanetary E. E. Smith chapter set The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells chapter book

Plays

3 titles · Parts for the whole class.
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare play Twelfth Night William Shakespeare play

True stories

6 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.
Impressions of an Indian Childhood Zitkala-Sa memoir Indian Boyhood Charles A. Eastman memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass memoir The School Days of an Indian Girl Zitkala-Sa memoir The Story of My Life Helen Keller memoir Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington memoir