7th GRADE – SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT
SUGGESTED READING LIST
Students MUST read one of the following books over the summer and MUST be prepared to take an AR test when you return to school in the fall. The AR test grade will be taken as a quiz grade in the gradebook.
HISTORICAL FICTION DRAMA
The Great Escape – Paul Brickhill The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton
The Light in the Forest – Conrad Richter REALISTIC FICTION
Letters from a Slave Girl – Mary Lyons
Massacre Island – Anne Dalton Old Yeller – Fred Gipson
My Brother Sam is Dead – James Lincoln Collier The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket
The Shakespeare Stealer – Gary Blackwood Donner Party – Scott P. Werther
The Slave Dancer – Paula Fox Flight #116 is Down – Caroline Cooney
The Smuggler – Iain Laurence Holes – Louis Sachar
Soldier’s Heart – Gary Paulsen The Lottery Rose – Irene Hunt
Summer of the Monkeys – Wilson Rawls Rascal – Sterling North
Twenty and Ten – Claire Hutchet Bishop Slam! – Walter Dean Myers
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth Speare The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
Year Down Yonder – Richard Peck The View from Saturday – E.L. Konigsburg
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes – Gary Paulsen
SCIENCE FICTION NON-FICTION
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne The Acorn People – Ron Jones
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of the Day
“Z” for Zachariah – Robert C. O’Brien America Entered World War II – Shelly
Tanaka
FANTASY Blizzard – Jim Murphy
Children of the River – Linda Crew
The Black Cauldron – Lloyd Alexander Colin Powell – John Passaro
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story – Ben Carson
Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground
The Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling Railroad – Ann Petry
The Library Card – Louis Sachar Harry Houdini: Young Magician -
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien Kathryn K. Barland
The Grey King – Susan Cooper Hindenburg: The Fiery Crash of the German Airship-
Kathleen W. Deady
The Land I Lost – Quang Nhuong Huynh
My Life in Dog Years – Gary Paulsen
My Life with Chimpanzees – Jane Goodall
Rosa Parks, My Story – Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins
The Snow Treasure – Marie McSwigan
Sorrow’s Kitchen: Zora Neale Hurston – Mary Lyons
A Summer Life – Gary Soto
We Rode the Orphan Trains – Andrea Warren