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This School Year's Best-Selling Books for Grades 6-8

These enthralling best-sellers with complex characters and in-depth plots will engage your students. 

By Scholastic Editors
December 10, 2024

Books about difficult periods of history and complex characters are an excellent entry point to a productive class discussion. This list of best-selling books will encourage your students to think more deeply about important topics like friendship, courage, and acceptance. These stories are a fantastic addition to the classroom library and will help your students build important reading skills like reading comprehension. 

For instance, Show Me a Sign: Sail Me Away Home is a gripping story inspired by the history of a deaf community in the early 19th century. Readers will follow the journey of deaf heroine, Mary Lambert, while learning about the history and culture of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, disabled, and marginalized youth. Spark further conversation in your classroom with this Ann Clare LeZotte discussion guide, which includes discussion questions and extension activities for each of the books in the Show Me a Sign trilogy.

Meanwhile, Front Desk features a Chinese American protagonist, Mia, and her experiences growing up with immigrant parents who work at a motel that treats them unfairly. Mia secretly helps her parents with work while attending school — while dealing with bullies and racist remarks. This story has many lessons about resiliency and responsibility

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Based on extensive research and published in cooperation with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, When We Flew Away is an extraordinary and moving tour de force.

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Holes

Grades 6 - 8
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This winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award features Stanley Yelnats, a kid who is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats.

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Captain America: The Ghost Army

Grades 6 - 10
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The worlds of historical fiction and super hero comics collide in this original graphic novel destined to be a hit with fans of all ages.