7th Grade Reading List

Around the World 80 Days - Jules Verne

The Ark - Margaret Benary-Isbert

Arm of the Starfish - Madeleine L'Engle

Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett

And Now Miguel - Joseph Krumgold

Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Gray

Banner in the Sky - James Ramsey Ullman

Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - R.L. Stevenson

The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell

Born Free - A lioness of Two Worlds - Joy Adamson

Bread Sister of Sinking Creek - Robin Moore

Brother Dusty Feet -Rosemary Sutcliff

Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis

Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lee Latham

The Cay - Theodore Taylor

The Chemical History of a Candle - Michael Faraday

Crispin: The Cross of Lead. (continue the series) Avi (Edward Worthing Wortis

Changeover, A Supernatural Romance - Margaret Mahy

The Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes

A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck

The Door In the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli

Famous Experiments You Can Do - Robert Gardner

Downriver - Will Hobbs

Flour Babies - Anne Fine

Freedom Beyond the Sea - Waldtraut Lewin

The Ghost Belonged To Me - Richard Peck * and other books by Richard Peck

The Haunting - Margaret Mahy

The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley

High Deeds of Finn Mac Cool - Rosemary Sutcliff

Homecoming - Cynthia Voight

Holes - Louis Sachar

J.R.R. Tolkien series - finish with Ryder

I, Juan de Pareja - Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

It's Like This Cat - Emily Cheney Neville

Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott

Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes (in 6th)

Journey to the Center of the Earth  - Jules Verne

The Kings Fifth -Scott O-Dell

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

A Long Way From Chicago - Richard Peck

The Great M.C. Higgins - Virginia Hamilton

The Morning Star - H. Rider Haggard

The Mystery of the Periodic Table - Benjamin D. Wiker

The Other Side of Truth - Beverly Nardoo

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

The Owl Service - Alan Garner

Queens Own Fool - Jane Yole

Rime of The Ancient Mariner - Samual Taylor Coleridge

Prince and The Pauper - Mark Twain

Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman

Science Experiments You Can Eat - Vicki Cobb

The Second Mrs. Giaconda - E. L. Konigsburg

Shabanu - Suzanne Fisher Staples

Shark Beneath the Reef - Jean Craighead George

Silent to the Bone - E. L. Konigsburg

Slake's Limbo - Felice Holman

Stowaway - Karen Hesse

Summer of Swans - Betsy Byars

Tales from Shakespeare - retold by Roger Green

Tales from Shakepeare - Charles and MAry Lamb

Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Tisha: the story of a yound teacher in the Alaska Wilderness - Robert Specht

The Trumperter of Krakow - Eric Philbrook Kelly

Up a Road Slowly - Irene Hunt

Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech

The Wilerness Tattoo - Wiliam O. Steele

The Witch of Blackbird Pond E. G. Speare - (read aloud in 6th loved this - can on his own this year)

With Pipe, Paddle and Song - Elizabeth Yates

The Wizard of Earthsea (trilogy) Ursula K. Le Guin

Wolf - Gillian Cross

A Wrinkle In Time (AND SERIES) - Madeleine L'Engle (read aloud when they were younger, good for Ryder to read the series on his own)

The Yearling - Marjorie Rawlings