Reading Log Book List

7th Grade

You must read two books from this list each quarter for your reading logs. Read each book in its entirety. After you have fulfilled your three books from the book list, you may have your choice of reading material for the rest of the reading logs for that quarter, as long as it is continuous print (no comic books or graphic novels).

Note: Any books you read after the two required books each quarter must be on or near grade level appropriateness. For example, you may not read from the Goosebumps series or from A Series of Unfortunate Events novels. If you have any questions, please see Miss Rothschild.

Classics

1984, George Orwell

Absolutely Normal Chaos, Sharon Creech

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria ReMarque

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Anne of Green Gables series, L.M. Montgomery

A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck

A Raison in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

A Solitary Blue, Cynthia Voight

A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver

Black Boy, Richard Wright

Call of the Wild, Jack London

The Chocolate Wars, Robert Cormier

ColdMountain, Charles Frazier

Cold, Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns

Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes, Louis Sacher

The Double Helix, James D. Watson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Emma, Jane Austen

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Gifted Hands, Ben Carson

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift

Hard Times, Charles Dickens

The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margeret Craven

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Lion in Winter, James Goldman

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Wolf

No-No Boy, John Okada

Not Without My Daughter, Betty Mahmoody

Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

The Price and the Pauper, Mark Twain

Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Separate Peace, John Knowles

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury

Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir

The Pearl, John Steinbeck

The Red Pony, John Steinbeck

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, James Thurber

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

The War of the Worlds, H.G.Wells

When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago

White Fang, Jack London

WutheringHeights, Emily Bronte

Contemporary Fiction

Afterlife, Gary Soto

Alice I Think, Susan Juby

America, E.R.Frank

Ashes of Roses, Mary Jane Auch

Buried Onions, Gary Soto

Circle of Magic and Circle Opens Series, Tamora Pierce

Cuba 15, Nancy Osa

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles

Dunk, David Lubar

Feed, M.T.Anderson

The First Part Last, Angela Johnson

Gingerbread, Rachel Cohn

Gospel According to Larry, Janet Tashjian

Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery, John Feinstien

Make Lemonade, Virginia Euwer Wolff

Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli

A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnell

Once Upon a Marigold, Jean Ferris

Pay It Forward, Catherine Ryan Hyde

Perfect, Natasha Friend

Rag and Bone Shop, Robert Cormier

Rules of the Road, Joan Bauer

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, Ron Koertge

The Skin I’m In, Sharon Flake

Spellbound, Janet McDonald

Swear to Howdy, Wendelin Van Draanen

Thirteen Edited, James Howe

True Believer, Virginia Euwer Wolff

Mary Jane, Judith O’Brien

Rock Star Superstar, Blake Nelson

So B. It, Sarah Weeks

Sweetblood, Pete Hautmann

This Lullaby, Sarah Dessen

Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher

Witch Child, Celia Rees

Nonfiction

Breaking Through, Francisco Jimenez

Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah

Engineering the City, Matty Levy and Richard Panchyk

Gifted Hands, Ben Carson, M.D.

Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos

In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel, Nancy Mace

Killer Whales, Mark Carwardine

Police Lab: How Forensic Science Tracks Down and Convicts Criminals, David Owen

Red Scarf Girl, Ji Li Jiang

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944, Aranka Siegel

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