Book Recommendations for Eighth Grade

We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.

● A. De St. Exupery: Flight to Arras 

● A. De St. Exupery: Little Prince 

● A. De St. Exupery: Night Flight 

● A. De St. Exupery: Wind, Sand and Stars 

● A. De St. Exupery: Wisdom of the Sands 

● Agnes Allen: The Story of Michelangelo 

● Alan Burgess: And There Was Light 

● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman 

● Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen 

● Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country 

● Albert Luthuli: Let My People Go 

● Albert Schweitzer: My Life and Thought 

● Albert Schweitzer: The Primeval Forest 

● Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Candle in the Wind 

● Alexander Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo 

● Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers 

● Alfred Lansing: Endurance 

● Alfred Slote: Hang Tough, Paul Mather 

● Ann Nolan Clark: Hoofprint on the Wind 

● Ann Nolan Clark: Santiago 

● Ann Petry: Harriet Tubman 

● Ann Petry: Tituba of Salem Village 

● Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity 

● Ann Rinaldi: Finishing Becca 

● Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl 

● Anne Holm: North to Freedom 

● Anne Parrish: A Clouded Star 

● Armstrong Sperry: Call it Courage 

● Armstrong Sperry: Captain Cook the South Seas 

● Armstrong Sperry: John Paul Jones 

● Arna W. Bontemps: Frederick Douglass 

● Arthur C. Clarke: Indian Ocean Treasure 

● Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes series 

● Arthur Orrmont: Amazing Alexander Hamilton 

● Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel 

● Beatrice Sparks: Anonymous: Go Ask Alice 

● Benary-Isbert: The Ark 

● Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography 

● Bernadine Bailey: Juan Ponce de Leon - First in the Land 

● Bess Aldrich: Lantern in Her Hand 

● Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery 

● Bruce Bliven: The Battle for Manhattan 

● Bruce Grant: Eagle of the Sea 

● Bruce Lancaster: The American Revolution 

● C. B. Woodham Smith: Florence Nightingale 

● Camilla Campbell: Coronado and His Captains 

● Captain Cook: Captain Cook 

● Captain Cook: Explores the South Seas 

● Captain Cook: Pacific Explorer 

● Captain Cook: The Quest of Captain Cook 

● Carol Brink: Caddie Woodlawn 

● Carol Brink: Magical Melons 

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Champlain 

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Father of New France 

● Charles Bruce Catton: Banners at Shenandoah 

● Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol 

● Charles Dickens: David Copperfield 

● Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist 

● Charles Dickens: Tale of Two Cities 

● Charles Duff: The Truth About Columbus 

● Charles Hamblett: Generation X 

● Charles L. Mee: Lorenzo de Medici 

● Charles Lindbergh: Spirit of St. Louis 

● Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (recommended for girls mainly) 

● Cherry Garrard: Worst Journey in the World 

● Christopher Bick: The Bells of Heaven 

● Conrad Richter: Light in the Forest 

● Conrad Richter: Sea of Grass 

● Coretta Scott King: My Life with Martin Luther King 

● Cornelia Lynde Meigs: Invincible Louisa 

● Cosmas Desmond: Discarded People 

● Cynthia Harnett: The Cargo of the Madalena 

● Cynthia Harnett: The Merchant's Mark 

● Daniel Dufoe: Robinson Crusoe 

● Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Captain Courageous 

● David C.Knight: Titan of Modern Astronomy 

● David C.Knight: Copernicus 

● David Howarth: Shetland Bus 

● David Weitzman: Great Lives: Human Culture 

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Gay Neck 

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Ghond, the Hunter 

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: My Brother’s Face 

● Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison 

● Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Bonhoeffers 

● Dorothea Snow: Henry Hudson, Explorer of the North 

● Dorothy Sterling: Forever Free 

● Dorothy Sterling: Freedom Trail 

● Douglas Freeman: Lee of Virginia 

● E.S. Miers: Billy Yank and Johnny Reb 

● E.S. Miers: Story of Thomas Jefferson 

● Edgar Allen Poe: Short Stories and Poems 

● Edvart Rolvaag: In the Earth 

● Edward Bellamy: The Duke of Stockbridge 

● Edward Everett Hale: Man Without a Country 

● Edwin Tunis: Shaw’s Fortune 

● Eizabeth Yates: Amos Fortune, Free Man 

● Eizabeth Yates: Prudence Crandall 

● Elin Yates: We, the People 

● Eliot Wigginton: The Foxfire Books series 

● Elisabeth Coatsworth: The Golden Horseshoe 

● Elisabeth Coatsworth: The Last Fort 

● Elisabeth Gray: Beppy Marlowe of Charlestown 

● Elisabeth Gray: Meggy McIntosh 

● Eliz. George Speare: Calico Captive 

● Eliz. George Speare: Witch of Blackbird Pond 

● Elizabeth Abell: Westward, Westward, Westward 

● Elizabeth Enright: The Truth about Columbus 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Botticello 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Durer 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Michelangelo 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Raphael 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Rembrandt 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Titian 

● Elizabeth Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond 

● Elizabeth Trevino: I. Juan D. Pareja: The Story of Velasquez and His Servant

● Elma Levinger: Galileo 

● Elma Levinger: Leonardo da Vinci 

● Emily Hahn: Mary Queen of Scots 

● Enid Bagnold: National Velvet 

● Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft: Ship Boy with Columbus 

● Eric Philbrook Kelly: The Trumpeter of Krakow 

● Eric Sloan: Diary of an Early American Boy 

● Eric Williams: The Tunnel 

● Eric Williams: Wooden Horse 

● Erich M. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front 

● Erich M. Remarque: Seed and Sower 

● Erick Berry: The Wavering Flame 

● Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea 

● Esther Averill: Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence 

● Esther Forbes: Johnny Tremain 

● Esther Forbes: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In 

● Esther Hautzig: Endless Steppe 

● Eugenia Ginsburg: Into the Whirlwind 

● Eve Curie: Madame Curie 

● Farley Mowat: Never Cry Wolf 

● Felice Holman: Slake's Limbo 

● Felix Riesenberg: Balboa, Swordsman and Conquistador 

● Frank L. Donovan: Many Worlds of Benjamin Franklin 

● Fred Gipson: Old Yeller 

● Frederick Douglass: Life of an American Slave 

● Gary Paulsen: Nightjohn 

● Genevieve Foster: Abraham Lincoln’s World 

● Genevieve Foster: George Washington’s World 

● Genevieve Foster: World of Captain John Smith 

● Geoffrey Ashe: Gandhi 

● Geoffrey Trease: Sir Walter Raleigh 

● George Orwell: Animal Farm 

● George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four 

● Gerald Durrel: My Family and other Animals 

● H. G. Wells: The Time Machine 

● H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds 

● H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines 

● Hal Borland: When the Legends Die 

● Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie 

● Harold Lamb: Chief of the Cossacks 

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde 

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All Men 

● Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird 

● Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

● Harry Fosdick: Martin Luther 

● Heinz Sponsel: Copernicus Struggle and Victory 

● Helen Keller: Journal of Helen Keller 

● Helen Keller: The Story of My Life 

● Helen Keller: The World I Live In 

● Helmut Gollwitzer: Dying We Live 

● Henry S. Commager: The Great Constitution 

● Henry S. Commager: The Great Proclamation 

● Howard Fast: April Morning 

● Howard Fast: Citizen Tom Paine 

● Howard Fast: Haym Salomon 

● Howard Fast: The Hessian 

● Howard Pyle: Champion of the Round Table 

● Howard Pyle: King Arthur and his Knights 

● Howard Pyle: Sir Lancelot and his Companions 

● Ingwe: Ingwe (Stories of the Akamba people of Kenya) 

● Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils 

● Irene Hunt: Up a Road Slowly 

● Irving Stone: Michelangelo 

● Irwin R. Blacker: Cortes and the Aztec Conquest 

● Isaac Asimov: the Kite That Won the Revolution 

● J. Alvin Kugelmass: Louis Braille 

● J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye 

● J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings (trilogy) 

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit 

● Jack London: Call of the Wild 

● Jack London: Sea-Wolf 

● Jack London: White Fang 

● Jacob Streit: Columban 

● Jacob Streit: Geron and Virtus 

● Jacques Lusseyran: And There Was Light 

● Jakob Wasserman: Casper Hauser 

● James Boyd: Drums 

● James Collier: Became a Winner 

● James Collier: My Brother Sam is Dead 

● James Collier: The Teddy Bear Habit or How I 

● James F. Cooper: Last of the Mohicans 

● James F. Cooper: The Spy 

● James Fisher: And Long Remember 

● James Fisher: Shackleton 

● James H. Daugherty: Abraham Lincoln 

● James H. Daugherty: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman 

● James H. Daugherty: Of Courage Undaunted 

● James H. Daugherty: Poor Richard 

● James Hilton: Good Bye, Mr. Chips 

● James Ramsey Ullman: Banner in the Sky 

● Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 

● Janet Whitney: Elisabeth Fry 

● Jean Bothwell: The Lost Colony 

● Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain 

● Jean Lee Latham: Anchors Aweigh 

● Jean Webster: Daddy Long-Legs 

● Jeanette Mirsky: Balboa 

● Jeanette Mirsky: Discoverer of the Pacific 

● Jessamyn West: The Friendly Persuasion 

● Jill Paton Walsh: Children of the Fox 

● Jim Bishop. The Day Lincoln Was Shot 

● Jim Kjelgaard: The Explorations of Pere Marquette 

● Jo Manton: Elizabeth Garret-Anderson 

● Joan Blos: Gathering of days: A New England Girl’s journal 1830-32

● Johann Wyss: Swiss Family Robinson 

● John Buchan: Salute to Adventurers 

● John Christopher: City of the Golden Lead 

● John Christopher: Pool of Fire 

● John Christopher: White Mountain 

● John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage 

● John Fenner: Brother Against Brother 

● John Fenner: The Prince of Liberty 

● John Fox: Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come 

● John G. Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks 

● John Gunther: Death Be Not Proud 

● John Kent: Elizabeth Fry 

● John Lewis: Martin Luther King 

● John Masefield: The Bird of Dawning 

● John Nechardt: Eagle Voice 

● John Steinbeck: Red Pony 

● John Steinbeck: The Pearl 

● John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley 

● Johnathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels 

● Joseph Krumgold: Onion John 

● Joy Adamson: Born Free 

● Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days 

● Julia Davis: No Other White Man 

● Julia Davis: Ride with the Eagle 

● Katherine Paterson: The Master Puppeteer 

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) 

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) 

● Kenneth Roberts: Arundel 

● Kenneth Roberts: Lydia Bailey 

● Kenneth Roberts: Northwest Passage 

● Kenneth Roberts: Oliver Wiswel 

● Kenneth Roberts: Rabble in Arms 

● Landmark Books: Landing of the Pilgrims 

● Landmark Books: Story of Thomas Edison and others 

● Landmark Books: The Vikings 

● Lauren Elder: And I Alone Survived 

● Laurens van der Post: Bar of Shadow 

● Laurens van der Post: Heart of the Hunter 

● Laurens van der Post: Lost World of the Kalahari 

● Laurens van der Post: Prisoner and the Bomb 

● Laurens van der Post: Seed and the Sower 

● Leonard Wibberley: All the Treegate 

● Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass 

● Lloyd Alexander: Taran Wanderer 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Black Cauldron 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Castle of Llyr 

● Lloyd Alexander: The High King 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Truthful Harp 

● Lois Lenski: Indian Captive, The Story of Mary Jemison 

● Lorenz Graham: Dove 

● Lorenz Graham: Return to Southtown 

● Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention 

● Louisa May Alcott: A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisiana May Alcott 

● Louisa May Alcott: Hospital Sketches 

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Men 

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women 

● Louisa May Alcott:Glimpses of Louisiana 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Christopher Columbus 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Drake 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Marco Polo 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Vasco da Gama 

● Louise S. Rankin: Daughter of the Mountains 

● Lynn Hail: Dog of the Bondi Castle 

● M. Benary-Isbert: Ark 

● M. McKendrick: Ferdinand and Isabella 

● Madeleine L'engle: Meet the Austins 

● Madeleine L'engle: The Arm of the Starfish 

● Madeleine L'engle: The Young Unicorns 

● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica 

● Mara Kay: Masha 

● Marcel Migeo: St. Exupery 

● Margaret A. Stanger: That Quail Robert 

● Margaret L. Coit: The Flight for Union 

● Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind 

● Margiad Evans: Ray of Darkness 

● Marguerite Vance: Elisabeth Tudor 

● Marguerite Vance: Martha, Daughter of Virginia 

● Marian King: Young Mary Stuart 

● Marie Curie: Madam Curie 

● Marilyn Sachs: A Summer’s Lease 

● Marjorie K. Rawlings: The Yearling 

● Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King 

● Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

● Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

● Mark Twain: Arthur’s Court 

● Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper 

● Martin Luther King: Chaos or Community 

● Mary Johnston: To Have and to Hold 

● Mary Stewart: Crystal Cave 

● Mary T. Carroll: Keep My Flag Flying 

● May McNeer: Stranger in the Pines 

● McNeer-Ward: Martin Luther 

● Mel Ellis: Flight of the White Wolf 

● Michael Crichton: Andromeda Strain 

● Michal Rusinek: Land of Nicholas Copernicus (about astronomy)

● Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 

● Mollie Hunter: A Sound of Chariots 

● Nancy Bona: A String in the Harp 

● Nancy Wilson Ross: Joan of Arc 

● Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting 

● Nina Brown Baker: Henry Hudson 

● Nina Brown Baker: Juan Ponce de Leon 

● Noah Brooks: The Story of Marco Polo 

● Norma Johnston: The Keeping Days 

● Norma Klein: Mom, the Wolfman, and Me 

● O’Henry: Short Stories 

● Paul Brickhill: Reach for the Sky 

● Paula Fox: Slave Dancer 

● Pearl S. Buck: The Big Wave 

● Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth 

● Peter Abrahams: Tell Freedom 

● Peter Burchard: North by Night 

● Prince Madupe: I Was a Savage 

● R Hayes Platt: Wilderness 

● R. & S. Benet: Book of Americans 

● R. & S. Benet: America 

● R. & S. Benet: The Devil and daniel Webster 

● R. Newton Peck: Hang for Treason 

● R. Newton Peck: The King’s Iron 

● Rachel Carson: Silent Spring 

● Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine 

● Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 

● Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles 

● Rebecca Caudill: The Far-Off Land 

● Reginald Berkeley: Lady With the Lamp 

● Regine Pernoud: The Story of Joan of Arc 

● Retold by Robin Lester: The Legend of King Arthur 

● Richard Adams: Watership Down 

● Richard E. Byrd: Alone 

● Richard Peck: The Ghost Belonged to Me 

● Rickard Peck: Ghosts I Have Been 

● Robert Falcon Scott: Scott's Last Expedition 

● Robert L. Stevenson: Kidnapped 

● Robert Lawson: Ben and Me 

● Robert Newton Peck: Soup 

● Robert Spetch: Tisha 

● Roger Duvoisin: The Four Corners of the World 

● Roger Greene: Tales of King Arthur 

● Ronald Syme: Balboa, Finder of the Pacific 

● Ronald Syme: Captain Cook, Pacific Explorer 

● Ronald Syme: Champlain of the St. Lawrence 

● Ronald Syme: Henry Hudson 

● Rosemary Harris: Bright and Morning Star 

● Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous 

● Rudyard Kipling: Kim 

● Rumer Godden: Episode of Sparrows 

● Rumer Godden: The Diddakoi 

● Ruth Cromer Weir: Marco Polo 

● Ruth Painter Randall: Courtship of Mr. Lincoln 

● S.E. Hinton: That Was Then, This Is Now 

● S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders 

● Sandburg: Abe Lincoln Grows Up 

● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women 

● Seymour Gates Pond: Ferdinand Magellan, Master Mariner 

● Shannon Garst: Jim Bridger 

● Sharon Mathis: A Teacup Full of Roses 

● Shirley Wheeler: Dr. Nina and the Panther 

● Sidney Rosen: Doctor Paracelsus 

● Sidney Rosen: Galileo and the Magic of Numbers 

● Sidney Rosen: The Harmonious World of Johann Kepler 

● Silviu Craciunas: Last Footsteps 

● Simone Weil: Gravity and Grace 

● Simone Weil: Waiting on God 

● Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe 

● Stephen Crane: Red Badge of Courage 

● Stewart E. White: Daniel Boone 

● Stewart E. White: The Sword and the Stone 

● Stewart H. Holbrook: America’s Ethan Allen 

● Stewart H. Holbrook: Swamp Fox of the Revolution 

● Susan Cooper: Dark is Rising 

● Silviu Craciunas: Lost Footsteps 

● T. E. Bethancourt: Instruments of Darkness 

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi in Two Worlds 

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi, Last of his Tribe 

● Theodore Taylor: The Cay 

● Theodore Taylor: Timothy of the Cay 

● Thomas Nelson Page: Two Little Confederates 

● Thor Heyerdahl: Kon-Tiki 

● Thor Heyerdahl: Ra 

● Thornton Wilder: Bridge of San Luis Rey 

● Timothy Leary: Politics of Ecstasy 

● Tom Cliff: Minutemen of the Sea 

● Tom Dooley: The Night They Burned the Mountain 

● Tom Galt: Peter Zenger 

● Ursula Le Guin: The Farthest Shore 

● Ursula Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan 

● Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of EarthSea 

● Van Der Rol & Verhoeven: Anne Frank, Beyond the Dairy 

● Virginia Hamilton: The Great M. C. Higgins 

● Virginia Hamilton: The House of Dies Drear 

● Virginia L.S. Eifert: Out of the Wilderness 

● Wallace Stegner: Great American Short Stories 

● Walter D. Edmonds: Drums Along the Mohawk 

● Walter D. Edmonds: In the Hands of the Senecas 

● Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

● Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

● Washington Irving: The Voyages of Columbus 

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: 40 Years for Labrador 

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: A Labrador Doctor 

● Will James: Smoky 

● Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop 

● Willa Cather: My Antonia 

● Willa Cather: O Pioneers! 

● Willa Cather: Shadows on the Rock 

● William Armstrong: Sounder 

● William Bixby: The Universe of Galileo and Newton 

● William Blinn: Brian’s Song 

● William Gibson: Miracle Worker 

● William Henry Hudson: Green Mansions 

● William James: Smoky, the Cowhorse 

● William Mayne: Earthfasts 

● William O. Steele: The Perilous Road 

● William O. Steele: Westward Adventure 

● William O. Steele: Flaming Arrows 

● William O. Steele: The Lone Hunt 

● Willian E. Barrett: Lilies in the Field 

● Willo Davis Roberts: The View from the Cherry Tree 

● Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows 

● Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic