7th/8th Grade Reading List
|
Author |
Lexile |
|
|
Alan and Naomi |
Myron Levoy |
500 |
|
Alligator Bayou |
Donna Jo Napoli |
430 |
|
Beware! |
Diana G. Gallagher |
410 |
|
The Boy Who Drank Too Much |
Shep Greene |
450 |
|
Bridge to America |
Linda Glasser |
510 |
|
The Cage |
Ruth Sender |
500 |
|
Camp Can’t |
Diana G. Gallagher |
500 |
|
The Clay |
David Almond |
490 |
|
Crackerback |
John Coy |
490 |
|
Double Fudge |
Judy Blume |
450 |
|
Everything is Fine |
Anne Dee Ellis |
460 |
|
Freeze frame |
Heidi Ayare |
490 |
|
Fudge-a-mania |
Judy Blume |
490 |
|
Karate Countdown |
Jake Maddox |
400 |
|
Kit’s Wilderness |
David Almond |
470 |
|
Marvin Redpost—A Flying Birthday Cake? |
Louis Sachar |
460 |
|
Marvin Redpost—Alone in His Teacher’s House |
Louis Sachar |
420 |
|
Marvin Redpost—Super Fast, Out of Control! |
Louis Sachar |
410 |
|
Marvin Redpost—Class President |
Louis Sachar |
430 |
|
Secrets |
Karen Taylor |
480 |
|
Skellig |
David Almond |
490 |
|
Sideways Stories From Wayside School |
Louis Sachar |
460 |
|
Smiles to Go |
Jerry Spinelli |
490 |
|
Spies |
Karen Tayleur |
470 |
|
Stage Fright |
James Howe |
490 |
|
Terror World |
Tony Norman |
450 |
|
Three Days |
Donna Jo Napoli |
490 |
|
Vote! |
Diana G. Gallagher |
400 |
|
Wayside School Falling Down |
Louis Sachar |
440 |
|
The Wish |
Gail Carson Levine |
490 |
|
What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything and Other Stories |
Avi |
500 |
|
Whatever! |
Diana G. Gallagher |
500 |
|
Author |
Lexile |
|
|
A Boy at War |
Harry Mazer |
530 |
|
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
Sherman Alexie |
600 |
|
A Year Down Yonder |
Richard Peck |
610 |
|
Amah |
Laurence Yep |
570 |
|
Black Box |
Julie Schumacher |
600 |
|
Bounce |
Natasha Friend |
570 |
|
Box Out |
John Coy |
530 |
|
The Boy Who Lost his Face |
Louis Sachar |
570 |
|
Bright Shadow |
Avi |
560 |
|
Catch the Tiger By the Toe |
Ellen Levine |
540 |
|
Chevrolet Saturdays |
Candy Dawson Boyd |
590 |
|
The Dark Stairs |
Betsy Byars |
570 |
|
Dead Letters |
Betsy Byars |
570 |
|
Death’s Door |
Betsy Byars |
520 |
|
Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes |
Louis Sachar |
560 |
|
Drive-By |
Lynne Ewing |
560 |
|
Eggs |
Jerry Spinelli |
610 |
|
Fever 1793 |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
580 |
|
Finding Stinko |
Michael de Guzman |
560 |
|
Guilty! |
Diana G. Gallagher |
530 |
|
Hush: an Irish Princess’ Tale |
Donna Jo Napoli |
570 |
|
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period |
Gennifer Choldenko |
530 |
|
If you Come Softly |
Jacqueline Woodson |
570 |
|
Killer Angels |
Michael Sharra |
610 |
|
The King of Mulberry Street |
Donna Jo Napoli |
560 |
|
Legend of Spud Murphy |
Eoin Colfer |
580 |
|
Lost in Cyberspace |
Richard Peck |
550 |
|
Love, Aubrey |
Suzanne LaFleur |
570 |
|
Lucinda’s Secret—Spiderwich Chronicles |
Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black |
570 |
|
Lush |
Natasha Friend |
550 |
|
Mallory on the Move |
Laure Friedman |
550 |
|
The Many Troubles of Andy Russell |
David A. Adler |
570 |
|
Milkweed |
Jerry Spinelli |
510 |
|
Need |
Carrie Jones |
510 |
|
Night |
Elie Weisel |
570 |
|
No More Dead Dogs |
Gordon Korman |
610 |
|
Nory Ryan’s Song |
Patricia Reilly Giff |
600 |
|
Notes from a Liar and her Dog |
Gennifer Choldenko |
580 |
|
Parachuting Hamsters and Any Russell |
David A. Adler |
560 |
|
Perfect |
Natasha Friend |
590 |
|
Pleasing the Ghost |
Sharon Creech |
520 |
|
Poe Park |
Agnes Martinez |
550 |
|
The Presence |
Eve Bunting |
550 |
|
Public Enemy Number Two |
Anthony Horowitz |
580 |
|
Quake |
Joe Cottonwood |
590 |
|
Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive) At Last |
Avi |
530 |
|
The Secret School |
Avi |
540 |
|
The Seeing Stone—The Spiderwick Chronicles |
Tony Di’Terlizzi and Holly Black |
560 |
|
The Smile |
Donna Jo Napoli |
580 |
|
Something Fishy at MacDonald Hall |
Gordon Korman |
560 |
|
Something Upstairs |
Avi |
580 |
|
S.O.R. Losers |
Vi |
520 |
|
Spells & Sleeping Bags |
Sarah Mlynowski |
580 |
|
Superfudge |
Judy Blume |
560 |
|
Stargirl |
Jerry Spinelli |
590 |
|
Tarot Says Beware |
Betsy Byars |
540 |
|
There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock |
Jerry Spinelli |
520 |
|
Thin Air |
David Getz |
570 |
|
Waiting for Normal |
Leslie Connor |
570 |
|
What Happened to Cass McBride |
Gail Giles |
520 |
|
When My Name Was Keoko |
Linda Sue Park |
610 |
|
Windcatcher |
Avi |
540 |
|
The Wish List |
Eoin Colfer |
520 |
|
Year Down Yonder |
Richard Peck |
610 |
|
Author |
Lexile |
|
|
A Day No Pigs would Die |
Robert Newton Peck |
690 |
|
Bait |
Alex Sanchez |
630 |
|
Breadwinner |
Katherine Paterson/Donna Diamond |
630 |
|
City of Ember |
Jeanne DuPrau |
680 |
|
Crossing the Wire |
Will Hobbs |
670 |
|
Dr. Franklin’s Island |
Ann Halam |
690 |
|
Ear, the Eye, and the Arm |
Nancy Farmer |
660 |
|
Fallen Angels |
Walter Dean Myers |
650 |
|
Firegirl |
Tony Abott |
670 |
|
Flight #116 is Down! |
Caroline B. Cooney |
710 |
|
Gathering Blue |
Lois Lowry |
680 |
|
Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
680 |
|
Homecoming |
Cynthia Voight |
630 |
|
House of Dies Drear |
Virginia Hamilton |
670 |
|
I am Messenger |
Markus Zusak |
640 |
|
Jaguar |
Roland Smith |
690 |
|
Letters from Rifka |
Karen Hesse |
660 |
|
Lord of the Nutcracker Men |
Ian Lawrence |
640 |
|
Miracle Boys |
Jacqueline Woodson |
660 |
|
My Name is Asher Lev |
Chaim Potok |
640 |
|
Native Son |
Richard Wright |
700 |
|
Number the Stars |
Lois Lowry |
670 |
|
Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck |
630 |
|
Other Side of the Truth |
Beverley Naidoo |
710 |
|
Sadoko and a Thousand Paper Cranes |
Eleanor Coerr |
630 |
|
Seedfolks |
Paul Fleischman |
710 |
|
Shadow Spinner |
Susan Fletcher |
710 |
|
Silver Kiss |
Annette Curtis Klause |
690 |
|
Skin I’m In |
Sharon Flake |
670 |
|
Somewhere in Darkness |
Walter Dean Myers |
640 |
|
Stormbreaker |
Anthony Horowitz |
670 |
|
Stray Like Us |
Richard Peck |
650 |
|
Tears of a Tiger |
Sharon M. Draper |
700 |
|
The House of the Scorpion |
Nancy Farmer |
660 |
|
Under a War Torn Sky |
L.M. Elliot |
640 |
|
Wolf Brother |
Michelle Payer |
660 |
|
Zlata’s Diary |
Zlata Filipovic |
640 |
|
Author |
Lexile |
|
|
A Long Way from Chicago |
Richard Peck |
750 |
|
A Thief in the Village |
James Berry |
740 |
|
After the First Death |
Robert Cormier |
740 |
|
Airborn |
Kenneth Oppel |
760 |
|
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 |
Elisa Carbone |
820 |
|
Boy Who Dared |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
760 |
|
Briar Rose |
Jane Yolen |
820 |
|
Bull Run |
Paul Fleishchman |
810 |
|
Climbing the Stairs |
Padma Venkatraman |
750 |
|
Contender |
Robert Lipsyte |
760 |
|
Counting on Grace |
Elizbeth Wintrop |
760 |
|
Devil’s Arithmetic |
Jane Yolen |
730 |
|
Downriver |
Will Hobbs |
760 |
|
Elsewhere |
Will Shetterly |
720 |
|
Ender’s Game |
Orson Scott Card |
780 |
|
Escape from Warsaw |
Ian Serraillier |
810 |
|
Far North |
Will Hobbs |
820 |
|
Flight to Freedom |
Ana Veciana-Suarez |
850 |
|
Flush |
Carl Hiaasen |
830 |
|
Football Genius |
Tim Green |
800 |
|
Football Hero |
Tim Green |
840 |
|
Girl Named Disaster |
Nancy Farmer |
730 |
|
Girl Son |
Anne E. Neuberger |
740 |
|
Glory Field |
Walter Dean Myers |
800 |
|
Hoops |
Walter Dean Myers |
740 |
|
Hoot |
Carl Hiaasen |
760 |
|
I Am the Cheese |
Robert Cormier |
810 |
|
Incantation |
Alice Hoffman |
730 |
|
Joel Pigza Loses Control |
Jack Gantos |
800 |
|
Journey to Jo’burg |
Beverley Naidoo |
760 |
|
Kissing Doorknobs |
Terry Spencer Hesser |
730 |
|
Life as We Knew It |
Conrad Richter |
770 |
|
Lightening Thief |
Rick Riordan |
740 |
|
Long Way from Chicago |
Richard Peck |
750 |
|
Loud Silence of Francine Green |
Karen Cushman |
750 |
|
My Brother Sam is Dead |
James Lincoln Collier/Christopher Collier |
770 |
|
Night of the Twisters |
Ivy Ruckman |
790 |
|
On the Devil’s Court |
Carl Deuker |
730 |
|
Peak |
Roland Smith |
760 |
|
Peeling the Onion |
Wendy Orr |
790 |
|
Red Pony |
John Steinbeck |
810 |
|
Regarding the Fountain |
Kate Klise |
830 |
|
River Between Us |
Richard Peck |
740 |
|
Ruby in the Smoke |
Philip Pullman |
750 |
|
Schooled |
Gordon Korman |
740 |
|
Shades of Gray |
Carolyn Reeder |
800 |
|
Slam |
Lewis Shiner |
750 |
|
Smiler’s Bones |
Peter Lerangis |
760 |
|
Starry Messenger |
Peter Sis |
830 |
|
Streams to the River, River to the Sea |
Scott O’Dell |
740 |
|
Summer of my German Soldier |
Bette Greene |
800 |
|
Swallowing Stones |
Joyce McDonald |
820 |
|
Talking Earth |
Jean Craighead George |
770 |
|
That was Then, This is Now |
S.E. Hinton |
780 |
|
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
Avi |
740 |
|
Walk Two Moons |
Sharon Creech |
770 |
|
Walkabout |
James Vance Marshall |
800 |
|
Weirdo |
Theodore Taylor |
770 |
|
Westing Game |
Ellen Raskin |
750 |
|
When You Reach Me |
Rebecca Stead |
750 |
|
Whirligig |
Paul Fleishchman |
760 |
|
Author |
Lexile |
|
|
Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
950 |
|
Anne of Green Gables |
L.M. Montgomery |
970 |
|
As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner |
870 |
|
Bean Trees |
Barbara Kingsolver |
900 |
|
Black Pearl |
Scott O’Dell |
980 |
|
Bless me, Ultima |
Rudolfo Anaya |
840 |
|
Chain of Fire |
Beverly Naidoo |
910 |
|
Clay Marble |
Minfong Ho |
860 |
|
Code Talker |
Joseph Bruchac |
910 |
|
The Count of Monte Cristo |
Alexander Dumas |
930 |
|
Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
890 |
|
Door in the Wall |
Marguerite De Angeli |
990 |
|
Dovey Coe |
Frances O’Roark Dowell |
980 |
|
Dragonsinger |
Anne McCaffrey |
920 |
|
Dragonwings |
Laurence Yep |
870 |
|
Earthquake at Dawn |
Kristiana Gregory |
840 |
|
Everlost |
Neil Schusterman |
860 |
|
Fade |
Robert Cormier |
990 |
|
Farenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
890 |
|
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Ernest Hemingway |
840 |
|
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent |
Julia Alvaraz |
950 |
|
Ironman |
Chris Crutcher |
980 |
|
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
950 |
|
Jacob Have I Loved |
Katherine Paterson |
880 |
|
Johnny Tremain |
Esther Forbes |
840 |
|
Journey to the River Sea |
Eva Obbotson |
860 |
|
Kids on Strike! |
Michael Shaara |
920 |
|
Let the Circle be Unbroken |
Mildred D. Taylor |
850 |
|
Make Lemonade |
Virginia Euwer Wolff |
890 |
|
Master Puppeteer
|
Katherine Paterson/Haru Wells |
860 |
|
Max the Mighty |
Rodman Philbrick |
930 |
|
Mortal Engines |
Philip Reeve |
990 |
|
Pigman |
Paul Zindel |
950 |
|
Rebecca |
Daphne Du Maurier |
880 |
|
Red Badge of Courage |
Stephen Crane |
920 |
|
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Mildred D. Taylor |
920 |
|
Rules of the Road |
Joan Bauer |
850 |
|
Running Loose |
Chris Crutcher |
870 |
|
Secret Life of Bees |
Sue Monk Kidd |
840 |
|
Shakespeare’s Scribe |
Gary L. Blackwood |
870 |
|
So B. It |
Sarah Weeks |
860 |
|
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes |
Chris Crutcher |
920 |
|
Storm Warriors |
Elisa Carbone |
890 |
|
Stranger in a Strange Land |
Robert Heinlein |
940 |
|
Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
890 |
|
Tomorrow, When the War Began |
John Marsden |
850 |
|
View from Saturday |
E.L. Konigsburg |
870 |
|
Watership Down |
Richard Adams |
880 |
|
We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust |
Jacob Boas, ed. |
970 |
|
Wednesday Wars |
Gary D. Schmidt |
990 |
|
Weetzie Bat |
Francesca Block |
960 |
|
What Would Joey Do? |
Jack Gantos |
860 |
|
Where the Lilies Bloom |
Bill Cleaver/ Vera Cleaver |
920 |
|
Witch of Blackbird Pond |
Elizabeth George Speare |
850 |
|
Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L’Engle |
940 |
|
Year of the Impossible Goodbyes |
Sook Nyul Choi |
840 |
|
Author |
Lexile |
|
|
A Death in the Family |
James Agee |
1020 |
|
A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
1130 |
|
Across Five Aprils |
Irene Hunt |
1100 |
|
An American Plague |
Jim Murphy |
1130 |
|
Annie on My Mind |
Nancy Farmer |
1000 |
|
April Morning |
Howard Fast |
1050 |
|
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories |
Chris Crutcher |
1010 |
|
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice |
Laurie King |
1100 |
|
Black Beauty |
Anna Sewell |
1010 |
|
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
1040 |
|
Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America |
Jim Murphy |
1080 |
|
Blue Sword |
Robin McKinley |
1030 |
|
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
John Boyne |
1080 |
|
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Thornton Wilder |
|
|
Call of the Wild |
Jack London |
1110 |
|
David Cooperfield |
Charles Dickens |
1070 |
|
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam |
Bernard Edelman, ed. |
1010 |
|
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
1040 |
|
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery |
Russell Freedom |
1100 |
|
Eva |
Peter Dickinson |
1070 |
|
Farewell to Manzanar |
James A. Houston/Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston |
1040 |
|
Freak the Mighty |
Rodman Philbrick |
1000 |
|
Freedom Riders: John Lewis & Jim Zwerg |
Ann Bausum |
1090 |
|
Go Ask Alice |
Anonymous |
1010 |
|
Gone With the Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
1100 |
|
Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1070 |
|
Growing Up |
Russell Baker |
1090 |
|
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
1000 |
|
Hobbit |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
1000 |
|
Hot Zone |
Richard Preston |
1030 |
|
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
1090 |
|
I, Juan de Pareja |
Elizabeth Borton De Trevino |
1100 |
|
Kids at Work: Lew HIne and the Crusade… |
Russsell Freeman |
1140 |
|
King of the Shadows |
Susan Cooper |
1010 |
|
Little Women |
Louise May Alcott |
1010 |
|
Lizzie Bright and the Buckmister Boy |
Gary D. Schmidt |
1000 |
|
Lord Jim |
Joseph Conrad |
1110 |
|
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America |
Nathan McCall |
1010 |
|
Mists of Avalon |
Marion Zimmer Bradley |
1120 |
|
My Life and Hard Times |
James Thurber |
1120 |
|
Out of the Silent Planet |
C.S. Lewis |
1020 |
|
Pearl |
John Steinbeck |
1010 |
|
Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austin |
1100 |
|
The Princess and the Goblin |
George MacDonald |
1030 |
|
Rascal |
Sterling North |
1140 |
|
Sabriel |
Garth Nix |
1060 |
|
Soldier’s Heart |
Gary Paulsen |
1000 |
|
Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self |
Lori Gottlieb |
1100 |
|
The Thurber Carnival |
James Thurber |
1050 |
|
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
1050 |
|
Watson Go to Birmingham |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
1000 |
|
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Arthur C. Clarke |
1060 |
|
20,000 Leagues under the Sea |
Jules Verne |
1030 |
|
Author |
Lexile |
|
|
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
1170 |
|
Autobiography of a Face |
Lucy Grealy |
1200 |
|
Black Boy |
Richard Wright |
NA |
|
Catherine, Called Birdy |
Karen Cushman |
1170 |
|
Ethan Frome |
Edith Wharton |
1160 |
|
Fast Food Nation |
Eric Schlosser |
1410 |
|
Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut’s Story |
Michale Collins |
1170 |
|
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
1170 |
|
The Good Earth |
Pearl S. Buck |
1530 |
|
Gulliver’s Travels |
Jonathan Switt |
1330 |
|
Hiroshima |
John Hersey |
1190 |
|
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle |
Madeleine Baker |
1150 |
|
Into Thin Air |
Jon Krakauer |
1320 |
|
Into the Wild |
Jon Krakauer |
1270 |
|
Ivanhoe |
Sir Walter Scott |
1410 |
|
Invisible Allies: Microbe that Shape our Lives |
Jeanette Farrell |
1270 |
|
Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Bronte |
NA |
|
The Jungle |
Upton Sinclair |
1170 |
|
Last of the Mohicans |
James Fenimore Cooper |
1350 |
|
Les Misreables |
Victor Hugo |
NA |
|
Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century Girl |
Tonya Bolden |
1190 |
|
A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
William Shakespeare |
NA |
|
Midwife’s Apprentice |
Karen Cushman |
1240 |
|
Moby Dick |
Herman Melville |
1230 |
|
Moves Make the Man |
Bruce Brooks |
1150 |
|
My Dog Skip |
Willie Morris |
1380 |
|
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas |
Frederick Douglas |
1400 |
|
Never Cry Wolf |
Farley Mowatt |
1330 |
|
Prince and the Pauper |
Mark Twain |
1160 |
|
Revenge of the Whale or, In the Heart of the Sea |
Nathaniel Philbrick |
1170 |
|
Robinson Crusoe |
Daniel Defoe |
1320 |
|
Roots |
Alex Haley |
1330 |
|
The Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
1340 |
|
Sense and Sensibilty |
Jane Austen |
1180 |
|
Silas Marner |
George Eliot |
1330 |
|
Silent Spring |
Rachel Carson |
1340 |
|
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean |
Loree Griffin Burns |
1200 |
|
Walden |
Henry David Thoreau |
NA |
|
Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
NA |
