7th Grade ELA Booklist
Title | Author | Lexile | Awards |
500-599 | |||
Sadako | Coerr, Eleanor | 500 | |
Milkweed : a novel | Spinelli, Jerry | 510 | ALA Booklinks |
Catch a tiger by the toe | Levine, Ellen | 540 | ALA Booklinks |
Fever, 1793 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 580 | ALA Booklinks |
Flying Solo | Fletcher | 590 | |
600-699 | |||
Nory Ryan's song | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 600 | ALA Book Links |
A year down yonder | Peck, Richard | 610 | 2001 Newbery Honor |
No more dead dogs | Korman, Gordon | 610 | ALA Book Links |
The killer angels | Shaara, Michael | 610 | 1975 Pulitzer Prize |
When my name was Keoko | Park, Linda Sue | 610 | ALA Best Books |
Homecoming | Voigt, Cynthia | 630 | ALA Book Links |
The breadwinner | Ellis, Deborah | 630 | ALA Book Links |
Somewhere in the darkness | Myers, Walter Dean | 640 | Newberry Honor |
Strays like us | Peck, Richard | 650 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Holes | Sachar, Louis | 660 | 1999 Newbery Medal |
Letters from Rifka | Hesse, Karen | 660 | ALA Book Links |
Miracle's boys | Woodson, Jacqueline | 660 | |
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm : a novel | Farmer, Nancy | 660 | 1995 Newbery Honor |
The house of the scorpion | Farmer, Nancy | 660 | 2003 Newbery Honor |
Wolf brother | Paver, Michelle | 660 | ALA Book Links |
Ella enchanted | Levine, Gail Carson | 670 | 1998 Newbery Honor |
Number the stars | Lowry, Lois | 670 | 1990 Newbery Honor |
The house of Dies Drear | Hamilton, Virginia | 670 | ALA Book Links |
The skin I'm in | Flake, Sharon | 670 | ALA Book Links |
Gathering blue | Lowry, Lois | 680 | ALA Book Links |
The city of Ember | DuPrau, Jeanne | 680 | ALA Best Books |
A day no pigs would die | Peck, Robert Newton | 690 | ALA Book Links |
Dr. Franklin's island | Halam, Ann | 690 | ALA Best Books |
Jaguar | Smith, Roland | 690 | ALA Book Links |
700-799 | |||
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Konigsburg, E. L. | 700 | ALA Book Links |
Shadow spinner | Fletcher, Susan | 710 | ALA Best Books |
The other side of truth | Naidoo, Beverley | 710 | ALA Book Links |
The devil's arithmetic | Yolen, Jane | 730 | ALA Book Links |
A wrinkle in time | L'Engle, Madeleine | 740 | Newbery Honor |
Schooled | Korman, Gordon | 740 | 2010 RI Teen Book Award Nominee |
The lightning thief | Riordan, Rick | 740 | ALA Book Links |
The river between us | Peck, Richard | 740 | ALA Book Links |
A Lesson Before Dying | Gaines, Ernest | 750 | ALA Notable Best Books |
The Westing game | Raskin, Ellen | 750 | 1979 Newbery Honor |
Airborn | Oppel, Kenneth | 760 | 2005 ALA Best Books |
Belle Prater's boy | White, Ruth | 760 | 1997 New Honor |
Counting on Grace | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 760 | ALA Best Books |
Hoot | Hiaasen, Carl | 760 | 2003 Newbery Honor |
The boy who dared | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 760 | ALA Book Links |
The contender | Lipsyte, Robert | 760 | ALA Book Links |
The giver | Lowry, Lois | 760 | 1994 Newbery Medal |
Life as we knew it | Pfeffer, Susan Beth | 770 | ALA Book Links |
The talking earth | George, Jean Craighead | 770 | ALA Book Links |
The weirdo | Taylor, Theodore | 770 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Tuck everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie | 770 | ALA Book Links |
Walk two moons | Creech, Sharon | 770 | 1995 Newbery Honor |
Ender's game | Card, Orson Scott | 780 | ALA Notable Best Books |
That was then, this is now | Hinton, S.E. | 780 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Night of the twisters | Ruckman, Ivy | 790 | ALA Book Links |
800-899 | |||
Joey Pigza loses control | Gantos, Jack | 800 | 2001 Newbery Honor |
Shades of gray | Reeder, Carolyn | 800 | ALA Book Links |
Summer of my German soldier | Greene, Bette | 800 | ALA Book Links |
The Glory Field | Myers, Walter Dean | 800 | ALA Book Links |
Walkabout | Marshall, James Vance | 800 | |
Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson, Katherine | 810 | 1978 Newbery Medal |
Maniac Magee : a novel | Spinelli, Jerry | 820 | 1991 Newbery Medal |
Flush | Hiaasen, Carl | 830 | ALA Book Links |
Regarding the fountain : a tale, in letters, of liars and leaks | Klise, Kate | 830 | ALA Book Links |
Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei | Sis, Peter | 830 | ALA Book Links |
Earthquake at dawn | Gregory, Kristiana | 840 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Year of impossible goodbyes | Choi, Sook Nyul | 840 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Flight to Freedom | Veciana-Suarez, Ana | 850 | ALA Book Links |
Let the circle be unbroken | Taylor, Mildred D | 850 | ALA Book Links |
The witch of Blackbird Pond | Speare, Elizabeth George | 850 | 1959 Newbery Medal |
Journey to the river sea | Ibbotson, Eva | 860 | ALA Book Links |
So B. It : a novel | Weeks, Sarah. | 860 | ALA Book Links |
The cay | Taylor, Theodore | 860 | ALA Notable Best Books |
The clay marble | Ho, Minfong | 860 | ALA Book Links |
Dragonwings | Yep, Laurence | 870 | 1976 Newbery Honor |
Mississippi Trial, 1955 | Crowe, Chris | 870 | ALA Book Links |
The Guardian | Lester, Julius | 870 | |
The view from Saturday | Konigsburg, E. L. | 870 | 1997 Newbery Honor |
Storm warriors | Carbone, Elisa Lynn | 890 | ALA Book Links |
900-999 | |||
Sounder | Armstrong, William Howard | 900 | Newbery Honor |
The red badge of courage | Crane, Stephen | 900 | |
Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two | Bruchac, Joseph | 910 | ALA Best Books |
The Alchemist: A Story About Following Your Dream | Coelho, Paulo | 910 | |
Kids on strike! | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 920 | ALA Book Links |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Lewis, C.S. | 940 | ALA Book Links |
The adventures of Tom Sawyer | Twain, Mark | 950 | |
The pigman | Zindel, Paul | 950 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Dovey Coe | Dowell, Frances O'Roark | 980 | ALA Book Links |
The black pearl | O'Dell, Scott | 980 | 1968 Newbery Honor |
Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L. M. | 990 | |
The door in the wall | De Angeli, Marguerite | 990 | 1950 Newbery Medal |
The Wednesday wars | Schmidt, Gary D | 990 | 2008 Newbery Honor |
1000-1099 | |||
My Antonia | Cather, Willa | 1010 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850 | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 1040 | 2003 ALA Best Books |
April morning | Fast, Howard | 1050 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | 1050 | |
Team Moon : how 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the moon | Thimmesh, Catherine | 1060 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America | Hopkinson, Deborah | 1060 | ALA Book Links |
Blizzard! : the storm that changed America | Murphy, Jim | 1080 | 2002 ALA Best Books |
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave | Douglass, Frederick, | 1080 | |
The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition | Frank, Anne | 1080 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Freedom riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement | Bausum, Ann | 1090 | ALA Best Books |
1100-1199 | |||
Across five Aprils | Hunt, Irene | 1100 | 1965 Newbery Honor |
An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 | Murphy, Jim, | 1130 | 2004 Newbery Honor |
Catherine, called Birdy | Cushman, Karen | 1170 | 1995 Newbery Honor |
Flying to the moon : an astronaut's story | Collins, Michael | 1170 | ALA Book Links |
I, Juan de Pareja | Trevino, Elizabeth Borton de | 1100 | 1966 Newbery Medal |
Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor | Freedman, Russell | 1140 | ALA Notable Best Books |
Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl | Bolden, Tonya | 1190 | ALA Notable Best Books |
The moves make the man : a novel | Brooks, Bruce | 1150 | Newbery Honor |
The wildlife detectives : how forensic scientists fight crimes against nature | Kallner, Donna Jackson | 1120 | ALA Book Links |
When plague strikes : the Black Death, smallpox, AIDS | Giblin, James | 1190 | ALA Notable Best Books |
1200-1299 | |||
Tracking trash : flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion | Burns, Loree Griffin | 1200 | ALA Book Links |
Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 1210 | |
Robinson Crusoe | Dafoe, Daniel | 1220 | |
The midwife's apprentice | Cushman, Karen | 1240 | 1996 Newbery Medal |
Invisible allies : microbes that shape our lives | Farrell, Jeanette | 1270 | 1999 Science Books and Films |