7th Grade Reading List Genre Read. Level Title Author Biography 5.2 Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Peg Kehret Bio./Poetry 5.

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1 7th Grade Reading List Genre Read. Level Title Author Biography 5.2 Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Peg Kehret Bio./Poetry 5.3 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Biography 6.0 Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid Jerry Spinelli Biography 6.0 The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Ben Uusma Schyffert Biography 6.4 You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton? Jean Fritz Biography 6.5 Amos Fortune: Free Man Elizabeth Yates Biography 6.8 Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Philip M. Hoose Biography 7.0 Temple Grandin: How the Girl who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World Sy Montgomery Biography 7.5 The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West Sid Fleischman Fantasy 4.3 Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures Kate DiCamillo Fantasy 4.3 Tall Story Candy Gourlay Fantasy 4.7 The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Nancy Farmer Fantasy 4.7 Gregor the Overlander Suzanne Collins Fantasy 4.7 Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, the Kate DiCamillo Fantasy 4.8 The Blackhope Enigma Teresa Flavin Fantasy 4.9 The Apothecary Maile Meloy Fantasy 4.9 The Night Gardener Jonathan Auxier Fantasy 5.0 Unwind Neal Shusterman Fantasy 5.1 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien Fantasy/Mystery 5.1 Graveyard Book, The Neil Gaiman Fantasy 5.2 Nation Terry Pratchett Fantasy 5.3 The Book of Three Lloyd Alexander Fantasy 5.4 Inkheart Cornelia Funke Fantasy 5.6 Everlost Neal Shusterman Fantasy 5.7 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann Fantasy 6.0 Princess Academy Shannon Hale Fantasy 6.0 Seraphina Rachel Hartman Fantasy 6.1 The High King (Book 5 in the Chronicles of Prydain) Lloyd Alexander Fantasy 6.2 The Grey King (Book 4 in the Dark is Rising Series) Susan Cooper Fantasy 6.2 The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien Fantasy 6.4 The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Fantasy 6.6 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien

2 Fantasy 6.8 The Twenty-One Balloons William Pene du Bois Fantasy 7.0 The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley Fantasy 7.0 Ruins of Gorlan John Flanagan Fantasy ,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Hist. Fic 4.4 Countdown Deborah Wiles Hist. Fic 4.5 Number the Stars Lois Lowry Hist. Fic 4.5 A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck Hist. Fic 4.6 The Dreamer Pam Munoz Ryan Hist. Fic 4.7 Son of a Gun Anne de Graaf Hist. Fic 4.7 Kira-Kira Cynthis Kadohata Hist. Fic 4.8 One Came Home Amy Timberlake Hist. Fic 5.0 Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Hist. Fic 5.0 Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi Hist. Fic 5.1 Paperboy Vince Vawter Hist. Fic 5.1 The Seventh Most Important Thing Shelley Pearsall Hist. Fic 5.2 Chains Laurie Halse Anderson Hist. Fic 5.2 Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy Book Two Deborah Wiles Hist. Fic 5.2 The Lightning Queen Laura Resau Hist. Fic 5.3 Listen, Slowly Thanhha Lai Hist. Fic 5.3 Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool Hist. Fic 5.3 Sounder William H. Armstrong Hist. Fic/Poetry 5.3 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Hist. Fic 5.4 Heart of a Samurai Margi Preus Hist. Fic 5.5 Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins Hist. Fic 5.6 Here Lies Arthur Philip Reeve Hist. Fic 5.7 Dead End in Norvelt Jack Gantos Hist. Fic 5.7 Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson Hist. Fic 5.7 The Hired Girl Laura Amy Schlitz Hist. Fic 5.7 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Hist. Fic/Sci Fi 5.7 Steel Carrie Vaughn Hist. Fic 6.0 The Midwife's Apprentice Karen Cushman Hist. Fic 6.0 The Slave Dancer Paula Fox Hist. Fic 6.2 The Door in the Wall Marguerite De Angeli Hist. Fic/Poetry 6.2 The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba Margarita Engle Hist. Fic 6.3 Stones for My Father Trilby Kent

3 Hist. Fic 6.6 A Single Shard Linda Sue Park Hist. Fic 6.7 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, Joan W. Blos Horror 4.9 The Night Gardener Jonathan Auxier Horror 5.1 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman Informational 4.0 Eleanor Everywhere: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt Monica Kulling Informational 4.1 Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story Ken Mochizuki Informational 4.2 Grasslands Darlene R. Stille Informational 4.8 So You Want to Be President? Judith St. George Informational 5.1 Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March Linda Blackmon Lowery Informational 5.6 Woodsong Gary Paulsen Informational 5.9 We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro Baseball League Kadir Nelson Informational 6.1 Fire! Joy Masoff Informational 6.1 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace Sarah L. Thomson Informational 6.6 Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry Scott Reynolds Nelson Informational 7.1 Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Tanya Lee Stone Informational 7.1 The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club Phillip Hoose Informational 7.2 The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia Candace Fleming Informational 7.4 Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science John Fleischman Informational 7.5 The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue Mike Tougias Informational 7.6 Blizzard: A Storm That Changed America Jim Murphy Informational 7.6 The Boy's War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War Jim Murphy Informational 7.6 The Great Fire Jim Murphy Informational 7.8 Across America on an Emigrant Train Jim Murphy Informational 7.9 Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-or-Break Moment Carla K. McClafferty Informational 7.9 Smoke and Ashes: the Story of the Holocaust Barbara Rogasky Informational 8.0 Gone a Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale Jim Murphy Informational 8.1 Black Potatoes Susan Bartoletti Informational 8.1 Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food Eric Schlosser Informational 8.3 Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past James M. Deem Informational 9.0 An American Plague: The True Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Jim Murphy Informational 9.5 Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure Jim Murphy Memoir 4.6 Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Storie of Growing Up Scieszka Jon Scieszka Memoir/Poetry 6.1 Enchanted Air: Two cultures, Two Wings Margarita Engle Mystery 4.1 Bo and Mzzz Mad Sid Fleischman Mystery 4.2 Small Steps Louis Sachar

4 Mystery 4.4 Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour, The Michael D. Beil Sci Fi/Mystery 4.5 When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Mystery 4.5 Visconti House, The Elsbeth Edgar Mystery 4.6 Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Wendelin Van Draanen Mystery 4.8 Face on the Milk Carton, The Caroline B. Cooney Mystery 4.9 Evil Genius Catherine Jinks Fantasy/Mystery 5.1 Graveyard Book, The Neil Gaiman Mystery 5.2 Eye of the Crow Shane Peacock Mystery 5.3 Death at Devils Bridge Cynthia DeFelice Mystery 5.3 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin Mystery 5.4 Chasing Vermeer Blue Balliett Mystery 5.8 Book of Lost Things, The Cynthia Voigt Mystery 5.8 Into the Mist Patrick Carman Mystery 5.9 Ghost Canoe Will Hobbs Mystery 6.2 Bird Rita Murphy Mystery 6.6 Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery, The Nancy Springer Mystery 8.8 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery 4.3 The Maze of Bones Richk Riordan Mystery 5.2 Hoot Carl Hiaasen Poetry 4.9 Relatively Speaking: Poems about Family Ralph Fletcher Poetry 4.9 My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States Lee Bennett Hopkins Bio./Poetry 5.3 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Hist. Fic/Poetry 5.3 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Poetry 6.1 Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th Century American Art Jan Greenberg Memoir/Poetry 6.1 Enchanted Air: Two cultures, Two Wings Margarita Engle Hist. Fic/Poetry 6.2 The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba Margarita Engle Poetry 6.4 The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom Margarita Engle Poetry 6.5 Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost Robert Frost Poetry 6.5 The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems Michael Harrison Poetry 6.6 One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children Michael Harrison Poetry 6.8 Knock at a Star X. J. Kennedy Poetry 6.9 Freedom Business Marilyn Nelson Poetry 6.9 You Come Too Robert Frost Poetry 7.1 Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Poetry 7.4 Poetry for Young People: Walt Whitman Walt Whitman

5 Poetry Best-loved Poems Philip Smith Poetry 7.5 Singing America: Poems that Define a Nation Neil Philip Poetry Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices Paul Fleischman Poetry My Seneca Village Marilyn Nelso Poetry Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Poetry The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems Donald Hall Poetry The Oxford Book of Animal Poems Michael Harrison Poetry The New Oxford Treasury of Chidlren's Poems Michael Harrison Poetry The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems Michael Harrison Real. Fic/Poetry 4.3 The Crossover Kwame Alexander Real. Fic/Poetry 4.4 Moo Sharon Creech Real. Fic/Poetry 5.0 Hate That Cat Sharon Creech Realistic Fic 4.0 Bluefish Pat Schmatz Realistic Fic 4.0 Flyaway Lucy Christopher Realistic Fic 4.1 Anything but Typical Nora Raleigh Baskin Realistic Fic 4.4 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Realistic Fic 4.4 M. C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton Realistic Fic 4.4 Orbiting Jupiter Gary D. Schmidt Realistic Fic 4.6 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Realistic Fic 4.7 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli Realistic Fic 4.8 A Time to Dance Padma Venkatraman Realistic Fic 4.9 Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Realistic Fic 4.9 Okay for Now Gary D. Schmidt Realistic Fic 4.9 Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars Realistic Fic 5.0 Dicey's Song (sequel to Homecoming) Cynthis Voight Realistic Fic 5.0 The Thing About Jellyfish Ali Benjamin Realistic Fic 5.2 My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Annabel Pitcher Realistic Fic 5.2 Navigating Early Clare Vanderpool Realistic Fic 5.4 King of the Wind Marguerite De Angeli Realistic Fic 5.6 Counting by 7s Holly Goldberg Realistic Fic 5.8 Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Realistic Fic 5.9 The View from Saturday E. L. Konigsburg Realistic Fic 6.3 Secret Garden, The Frances Hodgson Burnett Realistic Fic 7.3 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery Realistic Fic 7.9 Little Women Louisa May Alcott

6 Sci Fi 4.5 Six M. M. Vaughan Sci Fi/Mystery 4.5 When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Sci Fi 4.7 Life as We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer Sci Fi 4.8 Among the Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix Sci Fi 4.8 Legend Marie Lu Sci Fi 5.0 City of Ember Jeanne DuPrau Sci Fi 5.0 Double Identity Margaret Peterson Haddix Sci Fi 5.0 Fuzzy Mud Louis Sachar Sci Fi 5.0 Above World Jenn Reese Sci Fi 5.0 The Last Book in the Universe Rodman Philbrick Sci Fi 5.1 Empty Suzanne Weyn Sci Fi 5.2 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Sci Fi 5.3 Turnabout Margaret Peterson Haddix Sci Fi 5.3 Leviathan Scott Westerfeld Sci Fi 5.3 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Sci Fi 5.4 Ashes Ashes Jo Treggiari Sci Fi 5.4 For Darkness Shows the Stars Diana Peterfreund Sci Fi 5.6 Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo Brian Falkner Hist. Fic/Sci Fi 5.7 Steel Carrie Vaughn Sci Fi 6.0 Glass Sentence, The S. E. Grove Sci Fi 6.1 The House of Power (Atherton Series) Patrick Carman Sci Fi 6.2 Crater Homer Hickam Sci Fi 6.6 Glitch in Sleep, The John Hulme Books in bold are Newbery medal winners