Best Biography Books for 8th Grade

The memoirs and biographies collected here for eighth graders range from the civil rights movement to the everyday pressures of middle school. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice pairs Phillip Hoose's narrative with Colvin's own account of challenging bus segregation in Montgomery, and Brown Girl Dreaming traces Jacqueline Woodson's childhood between South Carolina and Brooklyn. Graphic memoirs such as Mexikid sit alongside prose and verse, so readers can choose the form that suits them.