Challenge Book List

Book Title

Author

Genre

Level, Description and Challenge

Harry Potter
and the Order
Of The Phoenix

J.K. Rowling

Fiction

7.2 The Length is The Challenge

Twilight

Stephenie
Meyer

Romance
romance l

Harry Potter
and the
Deathly
Hallows

J. K. Rowling

Fiction

Harry is kicked out of hogwarts and it is

taken over by evil-doers. He has to
save everyone..

Inkheart

Cornelia Funke

Fiction

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her

father, who repairs and binds books for
a living, can "read" fictional characters
to life when one of those characters
abducts them and tries to force them
into service.

Incantation

Alice Hoffman

Historical
Fiction

A quick read about the Spanish

Inquisition

Eye of the
storm

Kate Messner

Fiction

A story about tornadoes attacking land

around a certain town.

Liar

Justine
Larbalestier

Fantasy

A book that has a lot of twisting turns.

(kind of weird)

Eragon

Christopher
Paolini

Fantasy

Its a book about a boy who is hunting

and a strange egg like thing appears.

Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Fiction

Level: 8.1

Brisinger

Christopher
Paolini

Fiction fantasy

A long book with a good amount of

old style words

Unbroken

Laura
Hillenbrand

Non Fiction

A world war II story of survival

Mythology

Edith
Hamilton

Fiction

Level: 8.2 A book about all sorts of

Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. The
book is challenging because there are
many characters and they can be

easily forgettable.
Summer Ball

Mike Lupica

Realistic Fiction

A very good book for kids who like

basketball. It is about the level of an 8th
grader.

Hunger
Games

Suzanne
Collins

Fiction

It is about a girl that has to fight for her

life in a environment environment
where you have have try to kill others
and survive with your resources
resources.

War and
Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Historical drama

Sarahs Key

Tatiana De
Rosnay

Historical
Fiction

Young adult book about a young girl

that lives during the time of the
Holocaust. The plot is a little
challenging to understand, and some of
the words are for a higher level reader.

Me Before
You

Jojo Moyes

Fiction

Young adult novel, higher level

vocabulary. About love and lost.

The
Adoration of
Jenna Fox

Mary E.
Pearson

Science Fiction

Vocabulary, the plot, and some other

literary points are difficult.

The Kite
Runner

Khaled
Hosseni

Historical drama

Story about a boy from kabul

Ripper

Stefan
Petrucha

Historical
Fiction

Jack the Ripper is loose in New York

City and his long lost son tries to find
him, while Jack is still on a murdering
spree.

Pride and
Prejudice

Jane Austen

Moby dick

Herman melville

Nautical Fiction

Story about whaling

The Girl on
the Train

Paula Hawkins

Fiction

A woman goes disappearing in

Whitney. There is only one person who
might know what happened. The girl on
the train.

Go set a
watchman

Harper Lee

Historical
Fiction

When scout comes back after 20 years

gone she goes on a journey and learns
about what really happend to her

12; Elizabeth Bennet lives in the early

19th century in England.

brother and if the man she is going to

marry is who she really thinks he is.
To Kill a
Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Southern Gothic

Grades 8-12 and it is a story about the

great depression and these four kids
act out different stories together over
the summer.