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