Grades 7 & 8 Suggested Reading List
HISTORICAL FICTION
The door of no return by Kwame Alexander
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
The boy at the top of the mountain by John Boyne
The Beatryce prophecy by Kate DiCamillo
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Ellie Engle saves herself! by Leah Johnson
The Windeby puzzle : history and story by Lois Lowry
World made of glass by Ami Polonsky
The hired girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
My life as an ice cream sandwich by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
 
FANTASY
Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson
Tiger honor by Yoon Ha Lee
Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky by Kwame Mbalia
The golden compass by Philip Pullman
The hobbit, or, There and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien
The troubled girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
 
SCIENCE FICTION
Project F by Jeanne DuPrau
Michael Vey : the prisoner of cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
The last cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
The giver by Lois Lowry
 
REALISTIC FICTION
The crossover by Kwame Alexander
Simon sort of says by Erin Bow
The tenth mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko
Breaking into sunlight by John Cochran
Wrecker by Carl Hiaasen
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Slugfest by Gordon Korman
Deer run home : a novel in verse by Ann Clare LeZotte
Tig by Heather Smith
What happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski
Summer at Squee by Andrea Wang
 
MYSTERY
Small spaces by Katherine Arden
The strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Guest : a changeling tale by Mary Downing Hahn
The midnight children by Dan Gemeinhart
The Parker inheritance by Varian Johnson
 
NONFICTION
Crash from outer space : unraveling the mystery of flying saucers, alien beings, and Roswell by Candace Fleming
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you by Sonja Cherry-Paul
Bite by bite : American history through feasts, foods, and side dishes by Marc Aronson
How to know a crow : the biography of a brainy bird by Candace Savage
A dog in the cave : the wolves who made us human by Kay Frydenborg
Houses with a story : a dragon's den, a ghostly mansion, a library of lost books, and 30 more amazing places to explore by Seiji Yoshida
The Atlas Obscura explorer's guide for the world's most adventurous kid by Dylan Thuras
The boys who challenged Hitler : Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip M. Hoose
Vietnam : a history of the war by Russell Freedman
Surviving middle school : navigating the halls, riding the social roller coaster, and unmasking the real you by Luke Reynolds
 
Graphic Novels
Mexikid : a graphic memoir by Pedro Martin
A first time for everything by Dan Santat
Asgardians : Odin by George O'Connor
Two tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen
Plain Jane and the mermaid by Vera Brosgol
Very bad at math by Hope Larson
Hoops by Matt Tavares
Unicorn boy by Dave Roman
The Ojja-wojja : a horror-mystery, or whatever by Magdalene Visaggio
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