Grades 7 & 8 Suggested Reading List
HISTORICAL FICTION
The door of no return
by
Kwame Alexander
Ashes
by
Laurie Halse Anderson
Clan
by
Sigmund Brouwer
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
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
by
Natasha Farrant
Refugee
by
Alan Gratz
Chomp
by
Carl Hiaasen
The Windeby puzzle : history and story
by
Lois Lowry
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by
Scott O'Dell
A long walk to water : a novel
by
Linda Sue Park
The hired girl
by
Laura Amy Schlitz
My life as an ice cream sandwich
by
Ibi Aanu Zoboi
FANTASY
Sweep : the story of a girl and her monster
by
Jonathan Auxier
Inkheart
by
Cornelia Caroline Funke
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
The dragon warrior
by
Katie Zhao
SCIENCE FICTION
The maze runner
by
James Dashner
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
Confessions of a class clown
by
Arianne Costner
Stormbreaker
by
Anthony Horowitz
The unteachables
by
Gordon Korman
Red, white, and whole
by
Rajani LaRocca
The seventh wish
by
Kate Messner
The stars beneath our feet
by
David Barclay Moore
How to train your dad
by
Gary Paulsen
Black brother, black brother
by
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Amal unbound
by
Aisha Saeed
Clean getaway
by
Nic Stone
Genesis begins again
by
Alicia Williams
MYSTERY
Small spaces
by
Katherine Arden
Guest : a changeling tale
by
Mary Downing Hahn
The strangers
by
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Theodore Boone, the accused
by
John Grisham
The Parker inheritance
by
Varian Johnson
Fuzzy mud
by
Louis Sachar
NONFICTION
Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
by
Samantha Seiple
Crash from outer space : unraveling the mystery of flying saucers, alien beings, and Roswell
by
Candace Fleming
Quiet power : the secret strengths of introverts
by
Susan Cain
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you
by
Sonja Cherry-Paul
Fault lines in the constitution : the framers, their fights, and the flaws that affect us today
by
Cynthia Levinson
Countdown : 2979 days to the moon
by
Suzanne Slade
A dog in the cave : the wolves who made us human
by
Kay Frydenborg
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
Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
by
Caren Barzelay Stelson
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
Guts
by
Raina Telgemeier
The crossover : a basketball novel
by
Kwame Alexander
Allergic
by
Megan Wagner Lloyd
New kid
by
Jerry Craft
Act
by
Kayla Miller
Sheets
by
Brenna Thummler
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