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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