7th GRADE ELAR APPROVED READING LIST
All Classes
Regular English and Reading:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The/Twain
Baseball in April/Soto
Black Pearl, The/O’Dell
Christmas Carol, A/Dickens
City of Ember/DuPrau
Code Orange/Cooney
Crash/Spinelli
Down a Dark Hall/Duncan
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, The/Kelly
Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred
Kropp,
The/Yancey
Freak the Mighty/Philbrick
Gathering Blue/Lowry
Girl Who Owned a City, The/Nelson
Giver, The/Lowry
Graduation of Jake Moon, The/Parks
Great Gilly Hopkins, The/Paterson
Green Glass Sea, The/Klages
Hatchet/Paulsen
Homecoming/Voight
House of Dies Drear, The/Hamilton
Jason’s Gold/Hobbs
Julie of the Wolves/George
Just Like Martin/Davis
King Arthur/Pyle
Locked in Time/Duncan
Night to Remember, A/Lord
Nothing But the Truth/Avi
On My Honor/Bauer
Out of the Dust/Hesse
Shabanu, Daughter of the
Wind/Staples
Shadow Club, The/Shusterman
Stargirl/Spinelli
Surviving Antarctica/White
Things Not Seen/Clements
Touching Spirit Bear/Mikaelsen
Trino’s Choice/Bertrand
Watsons Go to Birmingham, The/Curtis
Wizard of Oz, The/Baum
Zlata’s Diary/Filipovic
Revised 2011
Pre-AP
GT
In addition to titles approved for
In addition to titles approved for Regular
Regular English and Reading
English and Reading classes, these
classes, these titles may be used in 7th titles may be used in 7th Grade GT English:
Grade Pre‐ AP English:
Animal Farm/Orwell
Danger Zone/Klass
Fahrenheit 451/Bradbury
Martian Chronicles, The/Bradbury Macbeth/Shakespeare
Red Pony, The/Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird/Lee
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A/Smith
Tunes for Bears to Dance
To/Cormier
Twelfth Night/Shakespeare
Warrior Heir/Chima
Wave, The/Strasser
Wizard of Earthsea, A/LeGuin
War of the Worlds/ Wells –ACL
only