Finalized 7th grade list 

               
               
Mandatory              
               
Author     Title        
               
Lowry, Lois   The Giver: First Semester    
               
Taylor, Mildred   Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry: Second Semester
               
Supplementary Selections            
               
Bloor, Edward   Tangerine        
Clements, Andrew   Things Not Seen      
Clooney, Caroline   Flight 116 is Down      
Collier, James   My Brother Sam is Dead    
Cooper, Susan   The Dark Is Rising      
Cormier, Robert   The Chocolate War      
Dahl, Roald   A Boy        
Danziger, Paula   The Cat Ate My Gymsuit    
Duncan, Lois   I Know What You Did Last Summer  
Griffin, John Howard   Black Like Me      
Hesse, Karen   The Aleutian Sparrow      
Hiassen, Carl   Hoot        
Hinton, S.E.   The Outsiders        
Keller, Helen   The Story of My Life      
King, Stephen   The Body (edited)      
Lord, William    Night To Remember      
Myers, Walter Dean   Scorpions        
O'Dell, Scott   Sarah Bishop      
Paterson, Katherine   The Great Gilly Hopkins    
Paulsen, Gary   Hatchet        
      Soldier's Heart      
Philbrick, Nathaniel   Revenge of the Whale (non-fiction)  
Philbrick, Nathaniel   Freak the Mighty      
Raskin, Ellen   The Westing Game      
Sacher, Llouis   Holes        
Sewell, Anna   Black Beauty      
Snicket, Lemony   The Carnivous Carnival     
         ( Series of Unfortunate Events Book 9)  
Spinelli, Jerry   Loser        
Spinelli, Jerry   Wringer        
Steinbeck, John   The Red Pony      
Strasser, Todd   The Wave        
Taylor, Mildred   Let the Circle Be Unbroken    
Taylor, Thedore   The Cay        
Tolkien, J.R.   The Hobbit      
Twain, Mark   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer    
Voight, Cynthia   Dicey's Song      
Wilson, Rauels,    Where the Red Fern Grows    
Zindel, Paul   The Pigman      
               
               

 

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