Approved Titles ELA 7th Grade
7th Grade Approved Titles |
Author |
Regular Ed |
Special Ed/Ell |
Honors |
Fiction |
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| “The Gift of the Magi” and Other Short Stories | O. Henry | x | ||
| 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East | Shihab Nye | x | ||
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | x | ||
| 2010: Odyssey two | Arthur C. Clarke | x | ||
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | x | ||
| A Summer to Die | Lois Lowry | x | ||
| A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeleine L'Engle | x | ||
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | x | ||
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | x | ||
| The Adventures of Ulysses | Bernard Evslin | x | ||
| Anna of Byzantium | Tracy Barrett | x | ||
| Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | x | ||
| Buried Onions | Gary Soto | x | ||
| Call it Courage | Armstrong Sperry | x | ||
| Call of the Wild | Jack London | x | ||
| Chain of Fire | Beverley Naidoo | x | ||
| Cheaper by the Dozen | Frank B. Gilbreth Ernestine Gilbreth |
x | ||
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | x | ||
| Crash | Jerry Spinelli | x | ||
| Crispin | Avi | x | ||
| Damascus | Gerard Degeorge | x | ||
| Dandelion Wine | Ray Bradbury | x | ||
| Deenie | Judy Blume | x | ||
| Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | x | ||
| Escaping Tornado Season | Julie Williams | x | ||
| Field of Dogs | Katherine Paterson Emily Arnold McCully |
x | ||
| Flipped | Wendelin Van Draanen | x | ||
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | x | ||
| Girl Named Disaster | Nancy Farmer | x | ||
| Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | x | ||
| Greek Myths & Legends | Diana Ferguson | x | ||
| Habibi | Naomi Shihab Nye | x | ||
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | x | ||
| Haveli | Suzanne Fisher Staples | x | ||
| Heartbeat | Sharon Creech | x | ||
| Hitch | Jeanette Ingold | x | ||
| Holes | Louis Sachar | x | ||
| Homeless Bird | Gloria Whelan | x | ||
| Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | x | ||
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford | x | ||
| I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton De Trevino | x | ||
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | x | ||
| A Jar of Dreams | Yoshiko Uchida | x | ||
| Joey Pigza Loses Control | Jack Gantos | x | ||
| Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | Jack Gantos | x | ||
| Joey Pigza: What Would Joey Do? | Jack Gantos | x | ||
| Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George John Schoenherr |
x | ||
| Kim/Kimi | Hadley Irwin | x | ||
| King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian | Marguerite Henry Wesley Dennis |
x | ||
| Kiss the Dust | Elizabeth Laird | x | ||
| Let the Circle Be Unbroken | Mildred D. Taylor | x | ||
| Lost Boy | David J. Pelzer | x | ||
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | x | ||
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | x | ||
| Multicultural Reader | Perfection Learning | x | ||
| Music of Dolphins | Karen Hesse | x | ||
| Mutants | x | |||
| My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | x | ||
| Olive’s Ocean | Kevin Henkes | x | ||
| On Pointe | Lorie Ann Grover | x | ||
| One Fat Summer | Robert Lipsyte | x | ||
| Peak | Roland Smith | x | ||
| Pictures of Hollis Woods | Patricia Reilly Griff | x | ||
| Probably Still Nick Swansen | Virginia Euwer Wolff | x | ||
| Road to Memphis | Mildred E. Taylor | x | ||
| Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | x | ||
| Secret of the Andes | Ann Nolan Clark | x | ||
| Seedfolks | Paul Fleischman | |||
| Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind | Suzanne Fisher Staples | x | ||
| Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska Alvin Smith |
x | ||
| Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | x | ||
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | x | ||
| Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | x | ||
| Slam! | Walter Dean Myers | x | ||
| Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio | Peg Kehret | x | ||
| Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island | Eve Bunting | x | ||
| Sounder | H. Armstrong James Barkley |
x | ||
| Stop Pretending | Sonya Sones | x | ||
| Sunrise Over Fallujah | Walter Dean Myers | x | ||
| Swallowing Stones | Joyce Mcdonald | x | ||
| Sweetgrass | Mary Alice Monroe | x | ||
| Tales from Silver Lands | Charles J. Finger | x | ||
| Tangerine | Edward Bloor | x | ||
| The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker | Cynthia DeFelice | x | ||
| The Butterfly Revolution | William Butler | x | ||
| The Cay | Theodore Taylor | x | ||
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas père | x | ||
| The Gadget | Paul Zindel | x | ||
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | x | ||
| The Gold-Bug and Other Stories | Edgar Allan Poe | x | ||
| The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson | x | ||
| Three Cups of Tea (Young Readers Edition) | Greg Mortenson/David Oliver Relin | x | ||
| Thura's Diary | Thura Al-Windawi | x | ||
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | x | ||
| The Language of Goldfish | Zibby Oneal | x | ||
| The Number Devil | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | x | ||
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | x | ||
| The Red Pony | John Steinbeck | x | ||
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | x | ||
| The Wanderer | Sharon Creech David Diaz |
x | ||
| Thunder Cave | Roland Smith | x | ||
| Ties That Bind, Ties That Break | Lensey Namioka | x | ||
| Tiger Eyes | Judy Blume | x | ||
| Touching Spirit Bear | Ben Mikaelsen | x | ||
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | x | ||
| Voyage of the Lucky Dragon | Ralph E. Lapp | x | ||
| Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | x | ||
| Walkabout | James Vance Marshall | x | ||
| War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | x | ||
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | x | ||
| Wringer | Christopher Paul Curtis | x | ||
| Z for Zachariah | Robert C. O'Brien | x | ||
| Zeely Hamilton | Virginia Hamilton Symeon Shimin |
x | ||
Historical Fiction |
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| Journey to Jo'burg | Beverley Naidoo | x | ||
| Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | x | ||
| Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | x | ||
| Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa | Hazel Rochman | x | ||
| Watsons Go to Birmingham | Christopher Paul Curtis | x | ||
Nonfiction |
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| Castle | David Macaulay | x | ||
| Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats | Gary Paulsen | x | ||
| Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter | Adeline Yen Mah | x | ||
| Dance of the Continents | Roy A. Gallant | |||
| Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China | Bette Lord | x | ||
| I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai | x | ||
| I Have Lived One Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust | Livia Bitton-Jackson | x | ||
| Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution | Ji-li Jiang | x | ||
| Scientists of the Ancient World | Margaret J. Anderson Karen F. Stephenson |
x | ||
| Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand | x | ||
| The Material World: A Global Family Portrait | Peter Menzel | x | ||
| To Be a Slave | Julius Lester Tom Feelings |
x | ||