Grades 7-8 - Reading List
- Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
- Bagnold, Ebud. National Velvet
- Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451
- Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game
- Christopher, John. The White Mountains
- Cleaver, Vera. Where the Lilies Bloom
- Collier, James and Christopher. My Brother Sam Is Dead
- Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans
- Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War
- Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
- Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol
- Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Dumas, Alexander. The Count of Monte Cristo
- Eckert, Allan W. Incident at Hawk’s Hill
- Engdahl, Sylvia. Enchantress From the Stars
- Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain
- Forester, C.S. Horatio Hornblower series.
- Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl
- Frost, Robert. Poems
- George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves
- Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
- Hamilton, Virginia, M.C. Higgins the Great
- Hautzig, Esther. The Endless Steppe
- Hilton, James. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders
- Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils
- Hunter, Mollie. A Stranger Came Ashore
- Irving, Washington. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
- Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie
- Keller, Helen. Story of My Life
- Kipling, Rudyard. Kim
- LeGuin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea
- Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
- L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time
- Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave
- London, Jack. Call of the Wind
- Mazer, Harry. The Last Mission
- McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong
- O’Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah
- O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins
- O’Hara, Mary. My Friend Flicka
- Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved
- Paulus, Trina. Hope for the Flowers
- Peck, Richard. The Ghost Belonged To Me
- Peck, Robert Newton. A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Pyle, Howard. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling
- Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows
- Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. The Little Prince
- Schaefer, Jack. Shane
- Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe
- Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
- Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Sperry, Armstrong. Call It Courage
- Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony
- Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island
- Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
- Twain, Mark. Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Uchida, Yoshiko, Journey to Topaz
- Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Webster, Jean. Daddy Long Legs
- Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds
- Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Wyndham. John. The Chrysalids
- Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings
- Zindel, Paul. The Pigman