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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