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1 MATER CHRISTI SCHOOL GRADES 7 & 8 BOOK LIST FICTION Adams Watership Down Alcott Little Women Almond Kit s Wilderness Anderson Fever 1793 Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi Nothing But The Truth Avi Wolf Rider Bauer Rules of the Road Bennett Life in the Fat Lane Blinn Brian s Song Bloor Tangerine Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Burnford The Incredible Journey Cabot Avalon High Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko Al Capone Shines My Shoes Christie Murder on the Orient Express Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie And Then There Were None Collier My Brother Sam is Dead Emergency Room Face on the Milk Carton Losing Christina (Trilogy) Wanted! Cooper The Dark Is Rising Corder Lion Boy (Trilogy) Craven I Heard The Owl Call My Name Creech Walk Two Moons Crutcher Iron Man Crutcher Whale Talk Curtis Bud, Not Buddy Cushman Catherine, Called Birdy Cushman Mathilda Bone Cushman The Midwife s Apprentice DeFoe Robinson Crusoe DeVillers How My Journal Became a Best Seller DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux DiCamillo The Tiger Rising DiCamillo Because of Winn Dixie OVER

2 Dickens Dowell Doyle Doyle Enzensberger Farmer Fast Ferris Fleischman Fletcher Forbes Freedman Friend Funke Funke Gibson Giff Gilbreth Green Greene Griffin Gunther Haddix Haddix Hawthorne Hemmingway Henkes Henkes Herriot Hesse Hesse Hiaasen Hiaasen Hiaasen Hinton Hinton Hinton Hoffman Holt Jacques Jones Kadohata Kerr Kipling Klass Oliver Twist Dovey Coe The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories The Number Devil The Ear, The Eye and The Arm April Morning Love Among the Walnuts Bull Run The Shadow Spinner Johnny Tremain Mrs. Mike Perfect Dragon Rider Inkheart The Miracle Worker Pictures of Hollis Woods Cheaper by the Dozen The Fault in Our Stars The Summer of My German Soldier The Other Shepards Death Be Not Proud Among the Hidden (and sequels) Don t You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and the Sea Olive s Ocean Words of Stone All Creatures Great and Small Out of the Dust Music of the Dolphins Flush Hoot Scat That Was Then, This Is Now The Outsiders Tex Saving CeCe Honeycutt My Louisiana Sky Redwall (and sequels) Howl s Moving Castle Kira-Kira Children of the Lamp The Jungle Book Firestorm CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

3 Lee Lieb Littman London Lowry Lowry Lubar Lynch Martel Martin McKinley McKissack Mikaelsen Morpurgo Myers Napoli Napoli Napoli Nielsen Nix Orwell Owen Paolini Park Park Paterson Paulsen Paulsen Paulsen Peck Peck Perkins Pfeffer Pfeffer Poe Poe Pullman Raskin Reinhardt Remarque Roth Rowling Ryan Sachar Shusterman Shusterman To Kill A Mockingbird I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want To Be Your President Confessions of a Closet Catholic The Call of the Wild The Giver Gathering Blue Sleeping Freshman Never Lie Slot Machine Life of Pi A Corner of the Universe Rose Daughter A Friendship for Today Countdown Shadow Scorpions Stones in Water The Magic Circle Sirena The False Prince Sabriel Animal Farm Here, There Be Dragons (Trilogy) Eragon A Long Walk to Water A Single Shard Jacob Have I Loved Harris and Me Soldier s Heart Woods Runner A Long Way From Chicago A Year Down Yonder Criss Cross Life As We Knew It The Year Without Michael The Oblong Box The Gold Bug The Golden Compass/The Subtle Knife The Westing Game Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life All Quiet on the Western Front Divergent Harry Potter (ANY) Esperanza Rising Holes Dark Side of Nowhere The Shadow Club OVER

4 Smith Soto Spinelli Spinelli Staples Stead Steinbeck Stevenson Stevenson Stone Strasser Taylor Taylor Tingle Twain Twain Verne Weeks Wells Wells Whelan Woodson Wulffson Yolen and Coville Zindel Zindel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Help Wanted Crash Stargirl Shabanu When You Reach Me The Pearl Treasure Island Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Romeo and Juliet Code The Wave Timothy of the Cay The Cay The Edge of the Sword Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea So B. It The Time Machine War of the Worlds Homeless Bird Locomotion Soldier X Armageddon Summer The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds The Pigman CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

5 NON-FICTION Arnold Aronson Bartoletti Bartoletti Boring Bortz Bragg Chua Cohen Farrell Fleishman Fleishman Fradin Gold Gore Grady Heiligman Hose Johnson Katz Kennedy Markie Mah Mortenson and Relin Moore Moore and Krystoforski Murphy Murphy Murphy Noyes Sandler A Warmer World: From Polar Bears to Butterflies, How Climate Change Affects Wildlife Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science Hitler Youth The Boy Who Dared Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Raising the Dead Invisible Allies: Microbes that Shaped Our Lives Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science We Have Conquered Pain: The Discovery of Anesthesia Memories of Anne Frank Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, From Marbum Fever to Avian Flu Charles and Emma: The Darwin s Leap of Faith A Race to Save the Lord God Bird Shaking the Foundation: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Geeks Profiles in Courage The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery Chinese Cinderella Three Cups of Tea The Other Wes Moore From Then to Now: A Short History of the World Blizzard Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never Ending Search for a Cure An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 One Kingdom- Our Lives with Animals The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Rescue OVER

6 Silversten Stone Warren Williams Wilson Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Surviving Hitler Stay Strong Chew On This: Everything You Don t Want to Know About Fast Food 8 TH GRADE ONLY FICTION Alexie Anderson Ashser Dessen The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Speak TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY Just Listen NON-FICTION Johnson Kamkwamba Rubalcaba and Robertshaw The Ghost May The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions and Debates

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