Suggested Books for 7^th Graders

Science Fiction/Fantasy

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

Dispossessed – Ursula Leguin

The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm – Nancy Farmer

Children of Time – Deborah Moulter

Things Not Seen – Andrew Clements

The Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula LeGuin

The Hobbit- J.R. Tolkien

Watership Down – Richard Adam

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

Realistic Fiction

Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli

Pictures of Hollis Wood – Patricia Reilly Giff

Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

Chaser: A Novel in E-Mails – Michael J. Rose

Hoot – Carl Hiaasen

Taking Sides – Gary Soto

Surviving the Applewhites – Stephanie Jolan

Face on the Milk Carton

Baseball in April and other Stories – Gary Soto

Beyond the Mountains – Edwidge Danticat

Hoops – Walter Dean Myers

Scorpions – Walter Dean Myers

Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo – Zlata Filipovi

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali – Walter Dean Myers

When I was Puerto Rican – Esmerelda Santiago

Bad Boy – Walter Dean Myers

Guts – Gary Paulson

Historical Fiction

Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis

The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare

Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Grey

Number the Stars – Lois Lowry

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi

Soldier’s Heart – Gary Paulsen

A Corner of the Universe – Ann Martin

My Brother Sam is Dead – James Lincoln

Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes

Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse