| AR BL | Title | Author | AR Pts | Description | No.of Pages | Have Book |
| 8 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Bloomsbury), The | Twain, Mark | 12 | In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain recalls his own boyhood experiences and those of his schoolmates--a humorous perspective of carefree days. | 256 | Y |
| 8 | Be Seated | Giblin, James Cross | 3 | The history of the chair from prehistoric times to the present. | 122 | |
| 8 | Call of the Wild, The | London, Jack | 7 | Rugged outdoor story of the sled dog, Buck, who was mistreated by his master and broke free to roam the Alaskan wilderness. | 126 | Y |
| 8 | Florida | Stone, Lynn M. | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Florida's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8 | Minnesota | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Minnesota's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8 | Mississippi | Carson, Robert | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Mississippi's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8 | Red Badge of Courage (Bloomsbury), The | Crane, Stephen | 8 | This is the story of Henry Fleming, a young, inexperienced soldier in the American Civil War who has romantic notions of the hero he will be when he enters his first battle. Amidst the brutal realities of warfare, however, his illusions are shattered. | 160 | |
| 8 | They Lived with the Dinosaurs | Fisher, Enid | 1 | Describes various smaller prehistoric creatures that lived alongside the dinosaurs, including early crocodilians, shrewlike mammals, spiders, dragonflies, primitive frogs, and flying reptiles. | 32 | |
| 8 | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The | Zeinert, Karen | 3 | Describes life in the section of Warsaw where Polish Jews were confined by the Nazis and discusses the activities of the Jewish resistance prior to the destruction of the ghetto in 1943. | 97 | |
| 8 | West Virginia | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to West Virginia's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8 | Zachary Taylor | Kent, Zachary | 2 | A biography of "Old Rough and Ready," hero of the Mexican War, who became the twelfth President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| 8.1 | Ancient Rome (Eyewitness) | James, Simon | 2 | A photo essay documenting ancient Rome and the people who lived there as revealed through the many artifacts they left behind, including shields, swords, tools, toys, cosmetics, and jewelry. An Eyewitness book. | 62 | Y |
| 8.1 | Girls Who Rocked the World | Welden, Amelie | 5 | This book tells stories of thirty-three girls who were younger than twenty years of age when they changed the history of the world through amazing accomplishments. | 117 | |
| 8.1 | Illinois | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Illinois' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.1 | Michigan | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Michigan's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.1 | New York | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to New York's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.1 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Wiggin, Kate Douglas | 13 | Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up. | 276 | Y |
| 8.1 | Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space | Camp, Carole Ann | 3 | A biography of Sally Ride, who became the first American woman to travel in space. | 104 | Y |
| 8.1 | Sea-Wolf (Unabridged), The | London, Jack | 18 | This violent adventure in the wild Pacific Ocean takes place on board the "Ghost" with Captain Wolf Larsen. | 281 | Y |
| 8.1 | World War Two Submarine, A | Humble, Richard | 1 | Step inside a submarine and discover via cutaway drawings what it was like to live and work beneath the waves. | 43 | Y |
| 8.2 | Arizona | Heinrichs, Ann | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Arizona's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | |
| 8.2 | Arkansas | Heinrichs, Ann | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Arkansas' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.2 | Crystal & Gem (Eyewitness) | Symes/Harding | 1 | Describes the seven basic shapes of crystals and how they form in nature, how crystals are studied and identified, how crystals are grown artificially, how crystals are used in industry, and other aspects of crystallography. | 63 | Y |
| 8.2 | Dinosaur Babies | Green, Tamara | 1 | Discusses young dinosaurs, their hatching, development, care, and feeding. | 32 | |
| 8.2 | Girls Who Rocked the World 2 | Roehm, Michelle | 9 | This book focuses on the accomplishments of several females, inspiring others to "rock the world." | 152 | |
| 8.2 | Great Dinosaur Hunters | Green, Tamara | 1 | Recounts how different professional and amateur fossil-hunters discovered the remains of many different species of dinosaurs. | 32 | |
| 8.2 | Heidi | Spyri, Johanna | 16 | An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and becomes homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid. | 295 | Y |
| 8.2 | Herbert Hoover | Clinton, Susan | 2 | A biography of Herbert Hoover, mining engineer, millionaire businessman, director of food relief in Europe after World War I, Secretary of Commerce, and thirty-first President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| 8.2 | Idaho | Kent, Zachary | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Idaho's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 142 | |
| 8.2 | Martin Van Buren | Hargrove, Jim | 2 | Examines the life of the lawyer politician who became the eighth President of the United States and led the country through its first serious depression. | 89 | Y |
| 8.2 | Oklahoma | Heinrichs, Ann | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Oklahoma's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.2 | Oregon | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Oregon's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.2 | Vector Prime | Salvatore, R.A. | 21 | As the Jedi and the Republic focus on internal struggles, a new threat surfaces. Suddenly Luke, Mara, Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca are thrust again into battle to defend the freedom so many have fought and died for. | 387 | |
| 8.2 | Virginia | McNair, Sylvia | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Virginia's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.2 | What Dinosaurs Ate | Green, Tamara | 1 | Describes the possible eating habits of various dinosaurs, including carnivores, herbivores, fish-eaters, scavengers, and cannibals, based on the size and shape of their fossilized teeth and the remains found in their stomach cavities. | 32 | |
| 8.2 | Wyoming | Heinrichs, Ann | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Wyoming's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.3 | Alaska | Heinrichs, Ann | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Alaska's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | |
| 8.3 | California | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to California's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.3 | Hound of the Baskervilles (Unabridged), The | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 11 | Sherlock Holmes and Watson set out to solve the mystery that had haunted the Baskerville family for years and had recently occurred again. | 246 | |
| 8.3 | Indiana | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Indiana's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| 8.3 | Iowa | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Iowa's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.3 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Hargrove, Jim | 2 | Surveys the life of the Texas politician who became America's thirty-sixth President and faced great public controversy during the war in Vietnam. | 89 | Y |
| 8.3 | Montana | Heinrichs, Ann | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Montana's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.3 | New Mexico | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to New Mexico's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.3 | Paradox of Jamestown: 1585 - 1700, The | Collier, James/Christopher | 3 | Discusses the circumstances surrounding English colonization of Virginia and the evolution of slavery in that colony. | 93 | |
| 8.3 | Puerto Rico | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to the island's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.3 | Texas | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Texas' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| 8.3 | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 12 | This classic presents a tale of piracy on the tropical seas, of treachery and greed combined with romance, treasure, and adventure. | 298 | Y |
| 8.3 | Washington | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Washington's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.4 | Ancient China (Eyewitness) | Cotterell, Arthur | 1 | Discover the history of Imperial China, from the building of the Great Wall to the days of the last emperor. | 63 | Y |
| 8.4 | Chester A. Arthur | Simon, Charnan | 2 | Presents the life of the twenty-first President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| 8.4 | Children of the Swastika: The Hitler Youth | Heyes, Eileen | 3 | Chilling details on how Hitler's Nazi party exploited the idealism of Germany's young people. | 86 | |
| 8.4 | Louisiana | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Louisiana's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.4 | Maine | Harrington, Ty | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Maine's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.4 | Millard Fillmore | Casey, Jane Clark | 2 | Examines the life of the President who helped postpone the Civil War with the Compromise of 1850 and who was considered to have destroyed his political career in order to preserve the Union. | 89 | Y |
| 8.4 | New Jersey | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to New Jersey's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.4 | North Dakota | Herguth, Margaret | 3 | Illustrated introduction to North Dakota's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| 8.4 | South Carolina | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to South Carolina's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.4 | Utah | McCarthy, Betty | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Utah's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| 8.4 | Vermont | McNair, Sylvia | 4 | Illustrated introduction to Vermont's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| 8.4 | White Fang (Unabridged) | London, Jack | 19 | This classic tale tells of a savage dog's transformation through love. | 187 | Y |
| 8.5 | Georgia | Kent, Zachary | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Georgia's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.5 | Hawaii | McNair, Sylvia | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Hawaii's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.5 | Kansas | Kent, Zachary | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Kansas' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.5 | Medieval Cathedral, A | MacDonald, Fiona | 1 | The building of a medieval cathedral is revealed in a series of cutaway architectural illustrations. | 45 | Y |
| 8.5 | North Carolina | Stein, R. Conrad | 3 | Illustrated introduction to North Carolina's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | |
| 8.5 | Ohio | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Ohio's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.5 | Pennsylvania | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Pennsylvania's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| 8.6 | Anne of Avonlea (Unabridged) | Montgomery, L.M. | 16 | In this second volume of the beloved trilogy about Anne Shirley, sixteen-year-old Anne teaches at the Avonlea school. | 323 | |
| 8.6 | Connecticut | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Connecticut's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.6 | Gerald Ford | Sipiera, Paul P. | 2 | Examines the life of the first President to be sworn into office as a result of his predecessor's resignation. | 89 | |
| 8.6 | Lady or the Tiger? (Creative Education), The | Stockton, Frank | 0.5 | A princess must choose the fate for her lover--the lady or the tiger. | 32 | |
| 8.6 | Maryland | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Maryland's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.6 | New Hampshire | McNair, Sylvia | 3 | Illustrated introduction to New Hampshire's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.7 | Colorado | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Colorado's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.7 | Delaware | Kent, Deborah | 2 | Illustrated introduction to Delaware's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.7 | Massachusetts | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Massachusetts' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.7 | Nevada | Lillegard, Dee | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Nevada's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.7 | Rhode Island | Heinrichs, Ann | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Rhode Island's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| 8.7 | South Dakota | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 3 | Illustrated introduction to South Dakota's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.7 | Tennessee | McNair, Sylvia | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Tennessee's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| 8.8 | Alabama | McNair, Sylvia | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Alabama's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.8 | Franklin Pierce | Simon, Charnan | 2 | Examines the life of the New Hampshire politician who became the fourteenth President of the United States and fought for strong states' rights and less federal authority. | 89 | Y |
| 8.8 | Jo's Boys (Unabridged) | Alcott, Louisa May | 18 | The story of a teacher's struggle to unlock the mystery of a child's pain and rediscover the child who has been lost to a world far more sinister than anyone could suspect. | 350 | Y |
| 8.8 | Kentucky | McNair, Sylvia | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Kentucky's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 8.8 | Uzbekistan | Rodgers, Mary | 1 | Discusses the topography, location, ethnic mixture, history, and current political situation of the former soviet republic of Uzbekistan. | 51 | |
| 8.8 | William Howard Taft | Casey, Jane Clark | 2 | Examines the life and career of the lawyer whose relatively unsuccessful presidency was followed by a happy term as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | 89 | Y |
| 8.9 | Arms & Armor (Eyewitness) | Byam, Michele | 1 | A photo essay examining the design, construction, and uses of hand weapons and armor from a Stone Age axe to the revolvers and rifles of the wild west. An Eyewitness book. | 63 | Y |
| 8.9 | Creating the Constitution: 1787 | Collier, James/Christopher | 3 | Examines the events and personalities involved in creating the Constitution of the United States in 1787, a document which has been the foundation of American Democracy. | 95 | |
| 8.9 | Free at Last | Bullard, Sara | 6 | An illustrated history of the Civil Rights Movement and those who died in the struggle. | 103 | Y |
| 8.9 | March on Washington, The | Haskins, Jim | 5 | An account of one of the pivotal events of the civil rights movement, the march on Washington. | 121 | |
| 8.9 | Nebraska | Hargrove, Jim | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Nebraska's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| 9 | Washington, D.C. | Kent, Deborah | 3 | Illustrated introduction to the capital's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 142 | |
| 9.1 | Dig This! How Archaeologists Uncover Our Past | Avi-Yonah, Michael | 2 | Discusses methods of archaeological excavations, ancient civilizations, the history of archaeology, and pioneers in the field. | 91 | Y |
| 9.1 | War of the Worlds, The | Wells, H.G. | 11 | A daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil. The survival of mankind in the face of scientific powers spinning out of control. | 164 | |
| 9.2 | Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A | Twain, Mark | 21 | Satirical spoof taking an American backward in time to the England of Galahad. | 330 | |
| 9.2 | Engel v. Vitale: Separation of Church and State | Haas, Carol | 3 | Examines the court case that banned prayer in public schools. | 117 | Y |
| 9.2 | Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men of the American West | Allen, John Logan | 5 | This book chronicles the exploits of the mountain men who opened many trails and passages through the American West in the early 19th century. | 119 | Y |
| 9.2 | Roe v. Wade: : The Abortion Question | Herda, D.J. | 3 | Fascinating drama behind the Supreme Court's decision to legalize abortion. | 96 | Y |
| 9.3 | Dred Scott Case: Slavery and Citizenship, The | Herda, D.J. | 3 | The story of the Supreme Court decision that sparked a battle between pro- and anti-slavery forces. | 93 | Y |
| 9.3 | Prince and the Pauper (Abridged), The | Twain, Mark | 12 | A prince and pauper, who are identical in appearance, trade places in life. | 267 | Y |
| 9.4 | Brown v. Board of Education: Equal Schooling for All | Fireside/Fuller | 4 | Studies the court case that abolished the separate but equal theory of segregated education in the United States. | 106 | Y |
| 9.6 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Verne, Jules | 12 | Phileas Fogg and his servant make a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and rescuing a beautiful Indian maharani. | 297 | Y |
| 9.6 | Miranda v. Arizona: Rights of the Accused | Riley, Gail Blasser | 4 | Examines the court case that defined a defendant's rights. | 115 | Y |
| 9.6 | Prince and the Pauper (Bloomsbury), The | Twain, Mark | 14 | The story of two boys: Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, and Tom Canty, beggar, heir to empty bowls. The two boys are oddly similar in appearance and swap clothes for a prank. A riot of courtly confusion follows. | 256 | |
| 9.8 | Gideon v. Wainwright: Free Legal Counsel | Sherrow, Victoria | 2 | Account of the court decision over the right of legal representation. | 86 | Y |
| 9.9 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Verne, Jules | 17 | A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland, which leads to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries. | 288 | Y |
| 10.2 | Furman v. Georgia: The Death Penalty Case | Herda, D.J. | 3 | Examines the court case that dealt with the death penalty. | 95 | Y |
| 10.3 | New York Times v. United States: National Security and Censorship | Herda, D.J. | 3 | Examines the court case that pitted national security against the right of a free press. | 92 | Y |
| 11 | Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | Irving, Washington | 3 | This is the rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster, who challenges his rival, Brom Bones, for the love and fortune of Katrina Van Tassel. | 104 | Y |
| 11.3 | Three Musketeers (Unabridged), The | Dumas, Alexandre | 42 | One of the greatest adventure stories ever written, the prototype of literary romance. | 598 | Y |
| 12.3 | Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel | 27 | A young seaman is cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island. | 482 | Y |
| 13.5 | Gulliver's Travels (Unabridged) | Swift, Jonathan | 25 | Gulliver travels to fantastic lands to discover very different cultures and their peculiarities. | 345 | Y |