Gifted Eight-Year Old Booklist

November, 2011

(click here for the Booklist for More Sensitive Gifted Eight-Year Olds)

  • Anderson, Laurie Halse — CHAINS and FORGE
  • Bernobich, Beth — FOX AND PHOENIX
    Cooney, Caroline — GODDESS OF YESTERDAY
  • Coville, Bruce — SONG OF THE WANDERER (& sequels)
    short stories — BRUCE COVILLE’S BOOK OF NIGHTMARES, BRUCE COVILLE’S BOOKS OF MONSTERS; BRUCE COVILLE’S BOOK OF ALIENS; HALF HUMAN
  • DiCamillo, Kate — BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE
  • Duane, Diane — SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD; DEEP WIZARDRY; HIGH WIZARDRY (& sequels)
  • Cynthia de Felice — THE GHOST OF FOSSIL GLEN; and other books
  • Neal Gaiman — ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS; THE GRAVEYARD BOOK
  • Jack Gantos — JOEY PIGZA LOSES CONTROL (& sequels)
  • Margaret Peterson Haddix — JUST ELLA, UPRISING, AMONG THE HIDDEN & sequels
  • Shannon Hale — Books of Bayern Series: GOOSE GIRL, ENNA BURNING and RIVER SECRETS; PRINCESS ACADEMY; BOOK OF A THOUSAND DAYS
  • James Howe — THE MISFITS; TOTALLY JOE; ADDIE ON THE INSIDE
  • Catherine Jinks — EVIL GENIUS (& sequels); PAGAN’S CRUSADE (& sequels)
  • Diana Wynne Jones — THE YEAR OF THE GRIFFIN; CHARMED LIFE; ARCHER’S GOON; HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE; CART AND CWIDDER;  many more!
  • Patrice Kindl — OWL IN LOVE
  • Gordon Korman — NO MORE DEAD DOGS; SWINDLE; and more
  • Ingrid Law — SAVVY (& sequel)
  • Gail Carson Levine — ELLA ENCHANTED; THE TWO PRINCESSES OF BAMARRE
  • David Lubar — the Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie series; The Weenies series; DOG DAYS; HIDDEN TALENTS, TRUE TALENTS and FLIP; and more
  • Lisa Mantchev — EYES LIKE STARS (& sequels)
  • Ann M. Martin — BELLE TEAL; A CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE
  • China Miιville — UN LUN DUN
  • Kenneth Oppel — AIRBORN, SKYBREAKER and STARCLIMBER
  • Nix, Garth — Keys to the Kingdom series: MISTER MONDAY, GRIM TUESDAY, DROWNED WEDNESDAY, SIR THURSDAY, LADY FRIDAY, SUPERIOR SATURDAY, LORD SUNDAY
  • Rodman Philbrick — FREAK THE MIGHTY and MAX THE MIGHTY; THE LAST BOOK IN THE UNIVERSE
  • Terry Pratchett — Tiffany Aching series: THE WEE FREE MEN, A HAT FULL OF SKY and I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT
  • Sarah Prineas — THE MAGIC THIEF (& sequels)
  • Louis Sachar — HOLES
  • Laura Amy Schlitz — GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES!: Voices From a Medieval Village
  • Pamela Service — THE WINTER OF MAGIC’S RETURN (& sequels)
  • Delia Sherman — THE CHANGELING and THE MAGIC MIRROR OF THE MERMAID QUEEN
  • Jerry Spinelli — THERE’S A GIRL IN MY HAMMERLOCK; MANIAC MAGEE
  • Rebecca Stead — WHEN YOU REACH ME and FIRST LIGHT
  • Caroline Stevermer — MAGIC BELOW STAIRS
  • Vivian Vande Velde — SMART DOG; NEVER TRUST A DEAD MAN; HEIR APPARENT; DRAGON’S BAIT; and many more!
  • N. D. Wilson — 100 CUPBOARDS (& sequels)
  • John Flanagan — THE RUINS OF GORLAN (first book in The Ranger's Apprentice series)

Gifted Eight-Year-Old Booklist For More Sensitive Kids

(parents, pre-read — just in case!)
November, 2011
  • Alexander, Lloyd — THE BLACK CAULDRON; THE BOOK OF THREE (& sequels)
  • Cammuso, Frank — KNIGHTS OF THE LUNCH TABLE (& sequels) (graphic novels)
  • Coville, Bruce — JULIET DOVE, QUEEN OF LOVE; THE MONSTER'S RING; JEREMY THATCHER, DRAGON HATCHER; JENNIFER MURDLEY'S TOAD; MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN; MY TEACHER FLUNKED THE PLANET; SONG OF THE WANDERER; I LEFT MY SNEAKERS IN DIMENSION X; and more
  • DiCamillo, Kate — BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE
  • Duane, Diane — SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD
  • Durst, Sarah Beth — INTO THE WILD and OUT OF THE WILD
  • Eager, Edward — THE TIME CASTLE; HALF MAGIC; and more
  • Forbes, Esther — JOHNNY TREMAINE
  • Friesner, Esther — Princesses of Myth Series: NOBODY'S PRINCESS and NOBODY'S PRIZE (Helen of Troy); SPHINX'S PRINCESS and SPHINX'S QUEEN (Nefertiti); SPIRIT'S PRINCESS (Himiko, Japanese Shaman-Queen)
  • Gaiman, Neal — ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS
  • Gantos, Jack — JOEY PIGZA LOSES CONTROL (& sequels)
  • Hale, Shannon — PRINCESS ACADEMY
  • Jones, Diana Wynne — THE YEAR OF THE GRIFFIN; CHARMED LIFE; many more!
  • MacLachlan, Patricia — SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL
  • Sachar, Louis — HOLES
  • Sherman, Delia — THE CHANGELING and THE MAGIC MIRROR OF THE MERMAID QUEEN
  • Snyder, Zilpha Kealty — THE EGYPT GAME and THE GYPSY GAME; many more!
  • Stead, Rebecca — WHEN YOU REACH ME and FIRST LIGHT
  • Webb, Holly — DOGSMAGIC
  • Wilder, Laura Ingalls — THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE (& sequels) 

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