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 |