Recommended Reading List—Grade 7 entering Grade 8

Genre	Title	Author	Synopsis
fiction	A Year Down Yonder	Richard Peck	In this sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for a year.
Historical fiction	Milkweed	Jerry Spinelli	The horrific events of the Holocaust are witnessed by a naïve orphan boy.
Historical fiction	My Brother Sam is Dead	James Lincoln Collier & Chris Collier	Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution.
fiction	The Acorn People	Ron Jones	A special group of disabled people make their dreams come true at Camp Wiggin.
fiction	The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier	A high school freshman discovers the consequences of refusing to join the school’s annual fundraiser.
fiction	Flipped	Wendelin Van Draanen	Next-door neighbors Juli and Bryce take turns narrating the story of their changing feelings about each other.
fiction	Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	The journal of Charlie, a mentally retarded adult who becomes a genius after undergoing a brain operation.
fiction	Flush	Carl Hiaasen	Noah and Abbey set out to prove their father was justified in sinking a polluting casino.
fiction	Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie	David Lubar	Scott has one goal for his chaotic freshman year of high school—to survive.

Genre	Title	Author	Synopsis
fiction	A Day No Pigs Would Die	Robert Newton Peck	A thirteen-year old Vermont farm boy’s story of his relationship with his father.
fiction	Face on the Milk Carton	Caroline Cooney	Janie recognizes her face on a milk carton as the 3-year old girl who disappeared twelve years before.
fiction	Running Out of Time	Margaret Peterson Haddix	Jesse thinks she is living in a small 1800s village, until one day she discovers the shocking truth.
biography	Tiger Woods	Nicholas Edwards	Read about one of the best-known sports figures in the world of golf and beyond.
nonfiction	Red Scarf Girl	Ji-Li Jiang	As a girl in communist China, author Jiang must face some difficult choices.
fiction	Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story	Lila Pearl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan	The true story of a Jewish family in Nazi Germany.
fiction	Tangerine	Edward Bloor	A legally blind soccer player moves to a surreal new town and begins to uncover the truth about his football-hero brother.
nonfiction	Memories of Anne Frank	Alison Leslie Gold	Hannah lived next door to Anne Frank, who disappeared until they met again at a concentration camp.