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The Seventh Grade List

A few good reading selections compliments of 7th grade

Fiction

• Oh.my.gods. – Tera Lynn Childs (she visited Rice Campus)
• Ice- Phyliss Reynold Naylor
• Send no blessings- Phyliss Reynold Naylor
• Fallen Angels- Walter Dean Myers
• Sunrise over Fallujah- Walter Dean Myers
• Bang- Sharon Flake
• I know what you did last summer-Lois Duncan
• Just a summer romance-Ann Martin
• Avalon High-Meg Cabot
• Romiette and Julio- Sharon Draper
• Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
• Begging for change- Sharon Flake
• The skin I’m in- Sharon Flake
• Money Hungry-Sharon Flake
• I am legend
• Born to rock- Gordon Korman
• Sign of the beaver – Elizabeth George Speare
• Tangerine- Edward Bloor
• Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
• Love that dog- Sharon Creech
• Walk two moons- Sharon Creech
• Hit the Road
• Go ask Alice – Anonymous
• The mergers- Steven Layne
• Olive’s Ocean
• Black and white- Paul Volponi
• The little engine that could
• Bud, not buddy- Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Watsons go to Birmingham- Christopher Paul Curtis
• What did I do to deserve a sister like you?
• I’d tell you love you but then I’d have to kill you-  Ally Carter
• Cross my heart and hope to spy – Ally Carter
• How could  you do it Diane? – Stella Peysner
• Don’t hurt Laurie – Willo Davis Roberts
• So.B.It.- Sarah Weeks
• Storm of the century(an original screenplay)- Stephen King
• The invention of Hugo Cabret- Brian Selznick
• Holes- Louis Sachar
• Ida B…and her plans to maximize fun…-Katherine Hannigan
• She said yes- Misty Bernall
• Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
• Someone like you by Sarah Dessen
• Shug- Jenny Han
• All-American Girl-Meg Cabot
• The Twits- R. Dahl
• Teen Inc.- Stefan Petrucha
• The long patrol-a Redwall tale – Brian Jacques
• The alchemist – Paulo Coehl (philosophy for mature readers)
• Bruises- Anke de Vries
• A song for summer - Eva Ibbotson
• What my mother doesn’t know- Sonya Sones
• Stargirl  and love, Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
• Thirteen reasons why- Jay Asher
• Flipped- Wendelin Van Draanen
• Trumpet of the swan-E.B. White
• Maniac Magee- Jerry Spinelli
• Ttyl and TTFN – Lauren Myracle
• Eragon and Eldest- Christopher Paolini
• Dragon Keeper- Carole Wilkinson
• You don’t know me-David Klass
• Missing Abby-Lee Weatherly
• Perfect-Natasha Friend
• Travel team – Mike Lupica
• Wolf rider – Avi
• Crack back- John Coy
• Hiroshima - John Hersey
• Goosebumps-be careful what you wish for – R.L. Stine

Non-Fiction

• Flags of our fathers- James Bradley and Ron Powers

Favorite Authors

• Sharon Flake
• Walter Dean Myers
• Stephanie Meyers
• Christopher Paul Curtis
• Phillip Pullman
• Meg Cabot
• Paulo Coelho
• Ellie Wiesel

Series

• Septimus Heap Series(Flyte, Queste, Physik) – Angie Sage
• Twilight series: Twilight, New moon, Eclipse
• Harry Potter series
• Spiderwick Chronicles series
• Narnia series
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Titan’s Curse…)
• Artemis Fowl-Eoin Colfer
• Golden Compass series-Phillip Pullman
• Maximum Ride series-James Patterson
• The Immortals-Tamora Pierce
• Song of the Lioness-Tamora Pierce
• The Ranger’s apprentice- John Flanagan
• Princess Diaries-Meg Cabot
• All-American Girl-Meg Cabot
• Dangerous Girls- R.L. Stine
• Series of Unfortunate Events-Lemony Snicket
• ReShonda Tate Billingsley (Nothing but drama, Friends like these, Blessings in disguise)
• A child called “it”, Lost boy, A man named Dave – Dave Pelzer

Oldies but goodies

• The little engine that could
• Cat in the hat and other Dr. Seuss titles
• Junie B. Jones
• Bailey School Kids
• I spy

For Mature Readers (grades 8 and up please)

• Speak

• The earth, my butt, and other big round things
• Vegan, virgin, valentine
• Rhymes with witches
• Sold and Cut-Patricia McCormick
• Night-Elie Wiesel

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