Books for Grade 7

Mirror & Window Books
Alvarez, Julia.  2002. Before We Were Free. NY: Knopf.
Emerson, Kevin. 2008. Carlos is Gonna Get It. NY: Arthur A. Levine.
Flake, Sharon. 2004. Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives. NY: Hyperion.
Hiaasen, Carl. 2002. Hoot. NY: Knopf.
Johnson, Angela. 2003. The First Part Last. NY: Simon & Schuster.
---------------------. 1999. Heaven. NY: Scholastic.
Kent, Rose. 2007. Kimchi & Calamari. NY: HarperCollins.
Mikaelsen, Ben, 2001. Touching Spirit Bear. NY: HarperCollins.
Mosher, Richard. 2001. Zazoo. NY: Clarion.
Myers, Walter Dean. 2010. Cruisers Book 1. NY: Scholastic.
Saldana, Rene. 2004. Finding Our Way. NY: Laurel Leaf.
Sones, Sonya. 2001. What My Mother Doesn’t Know. NY: Simon & Schuster.
Spinelli, Jerry. 2000. Stargirl. NY: Knopf.
Trueman, Terry. Stuck in Neutral. NY: HarperCollins.
Weeks, Sarah. 2005. So B. It. NY: HarperCollins.
Whelan, Gloria. 2000. Homeless Bird. NY: HarperCollins.

Text to Text
1. Graphic Novels

Butzer, C.M. 2008. Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel. NY: Harper Collins.
Coy, John. 2003. Around the World. Illustrated by Antonio Reonegro and Tom Lynch. NY: Lee & Low.
Gaiman, Nel. 2009. Coraline: The Graphic Novel. Illustrated by P. Craig Russell. NY: Harper Collins.
Lutes, Jasson. 2007. Houdini: The Handcuff King. Illustrated by Nick Bertozzi. NY: Hyperion.
Neri, G. 2008. Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty. Illustrated by Randy DuBurke. NY: Lee & Low.
Sturm, James. 2007. Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow. Illustrated by Rich Tommaso. NY: Hyperion.
Tan, Shaun 2011. Lost and Found: Three. NY: Scholastic.
Varon, Sara. 2007. Robot Dreams. Raring Brook.
Vollmar, Rob. 2007. The Castaways. Illustrated by Pablo G. Callejo. NBM/ComicLit.
Yang, Gene Luen. 2011. Level Up. Illustrated by Thien Pham. NY: First Second Books.
Young, Karen Romano. 2010. Doodlebug:A Novel n Doodles. NY: Feiwel & Friends.
 
2. Historical Fiction
Anderson, Laurie Halse. 2000. Fever 1793. NY: Simon & Schuster.
Auch, Mary Jane. 2002. Ashes of Roses. NY: Holt.
Bruchac, Joseph (Abenaki). 2006. Codetalker, a Novel about Navajo Marines in WWII. NY: Speak.
Crowe, Chris. 2002. Mississippi Trial, 1955. NY: Fogelman.
Erdrich, Louise. 1999. The Birchbark House. NY: Hyperion.
------------------. 2006. The Game of Silence. NY: HarperCollins.
-----------------. 2010. The Porcupine Year. NY: HarperCollins.
Hesse, Karen. 2001. Witness. NY: Scholastic.
Lester, Julius.  2005. Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue. NY: Hyperion.
Mazer, Harry. 2001. A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor. NY: Simon & Schuster.
Myers, Walter Dean. 2010. Riot. NY: Egmont.
Taylor, Mildred D. 2001. The Land. NY: Fogelman.
Yee, Paul. 2004. Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories. Illustrated by Harvey Chan. Toronto: Groundwood Books.

3. Science Fiction & Fantasy
Bruchac, Joseph (Abenaki). 2007. Wabi: A Hero's Tale. NY: Speak.
Card, Orson Scott. 1974/2010. Ender's Game. Tor Books.
Crichton, Michael. 1991. Jurassic Park. NY: Ballantine Books.
DuPrau, Jeanne. 2003. The City of Ember. NY: Random.
Farmer, Nancy. 2002. The House of the Scorpion. NY: Atheneum.
Horowitz, Anthony. 2006. Stormbreaker. NY: Speak.
MacHale, D.J. 2007. Pendragon: The Merchant of Death. NY: Aladdin.
Paolini, Christopher. 2005. Eldest. NY:  Knopf.
------------------------. 2003. Eragon. NY:  Knopf.
Philbrick, Rodman. 2000. The Last Book in the Universe. NY: Blue Sky.
Pierce, Tamora. 2003. Trickster’s Choice. NY: Random.
Rowling, J.K. 2005. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. NY: Levine.

Text to World
Barakat, Ibtisam. 2007. Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Burg, Ann E. 2009. All the Broken Pieces. NY: Scholastic.
Ellis, Deborah. 2010. No Safe Place. Toronto: Groundwood Books.
----------------. 2010. Childlren of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees. Toronto: Groundwood Books.
Glover, Savion and Bruce Weber. 2000. Savion!: My Life in Tap. NY: HarperCollins.
Hobbs, Will. 2007. Crossing the Wire. NY: HarperCollins.
Park, Linda Sue. 2010. A Long Walk to Freedom. NY: Clarion
Rhodes, Jewell Parker. 2010. Ninth Ward. NY: Little Brown.
Schlosser, Eric & CharlesWilson. 2007. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food. NY: Houghton Mifflin.
 Zenatti, Valerie. 2008. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea. Bloomsbury.

Creating Visual Images
Du Bois, William. 2005. The Twenty One Balloons. NY: Pufflin.
Eisner, Will. 2007. To the Heart of the Storm. NY: W.W. Norton.
Gaiman, Neil. 2010. The Graveyard Book. Illustrated by Dave McKean. NY: HarperCollins.
Govenar, Alan. 2006. Extraordinary Ordinary People: Five Americn Masters of Traditonal Art. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.
Landowne, Youme, 2008. Pitch Black. Illustrated by Anthony Horton. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
Lyons, Mary E. 1993. Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers. NY: Atheneum.
Morice, David. 2002. Poetry Comics: An Animated Anthology. NY: T & W Books.Sis, Peter. 2007. The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Tan, Shaun. 2007. The Arrival. NY: Arthur A. Levine.
Watt, Key. 2008. Alabama Moon. NY: Square Fish.




Wonderings... 
Bacigalupi, Paola. 2010. Ship Breaker. Boston: Little, Brown.
Bloor, Edward, 2001. Tangerine. NY: Scholastic.
Cortez, Sarah (Ed). 2011. You Don't Have A Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens. Pinata Books.
Crowe, Chris. 2003. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. NY: Phyllis Fogelman Books / Penguin.
Hobbs, Will. 2001. Down the Yukon. NY: HarperCollins.
Hopkinson. Deborah. 2006. Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America. NY: Scholastic.
Janeczko, Paul B. 2010. The Dark Game: True Spy Stories. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.
Naidoo, Beverkey. 2008. Burn My Heart. NY: Amistad.
Reinhardt, Jung. 2003. Dreaming in Black and White. NY: Dial.
Wulf, Linda Press. 2006. The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story. NY: Farrar, Straus and Groux.
Wynne-Jones, Tim. 1999. Stephen Fair. Toronto: Groundwood Books.

Determining Importance
Armstrong, Jennifer. 2005. Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War. NY: Atheneum.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. 2005. Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow. NY: Scholastic.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. 2006. How to Survive in Antarctica. NY: Holiday House.
Fleischman, John. 2004. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science. NY: Sandpiper.
Mann, Charles C. 2009. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491. NY: Atheneum.
Roach, Mary 2004. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. NY:W.W. Norton.
Wright, Simeon and Herb Boyd. 2010. Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books.
Walker, Sally M. 2005. Secrets of a Civil War Submarines: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley. Carolrhoda.

Synthesis
Armstrong, Jennifer. 2000. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance. NY: Crown.
D;Adamo, Francesco. 2005. Iqbal. NY: Aladdin.
Freedman, Russell. 2004. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. NY: Clarion.
------------------------. 1998. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor. NY: Sandpiper.
Grines, Nikki. 2010. Dark Sons. Kindle Eition. Zondervan.
Janeczko, Paul B. 2007. Worlds Afire. Cambridge, MA Candlewick.
Lang, Gene Yuen. 2009. The Eternal Smile. Illustrated by Derek Kirk Kim. NY: First Second.
Nelson, Marilyn. 2005. A Wreath for Emmett Till. Illustrated by Philippe Lardy. Boston: Houghton.
Ottaviani, Jim. 2001. Two-Fisted Science. G.T. Labs.