Cherry Hill Public Schools
Core Literature List
Grade 7
Title
Skellig
Flip
The Lost Years
of Merlin
The Chronicles of
Narnia
Author
David Almond
David Lubar
T. A. Barron
C. S. Lewis
Genre
Science Fiction/
Fantasy
Science Fiction/
Fantasy
Science Fiction/
Fantasy
(Middle Ages)
Science Fiction/
Fantasy
Reading
Level
Synopsis
5.3
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and
the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old
house, Michael retreats to the garage and
finds a mysterious stranger who is something
like a bird and something like an angel.
5.7
5.2
5.7
Reviews/Awards
Wilson's Children
06/01/01
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/01
ESLC 06/01/00
School Library
Journal starred
02/01/99
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.) 01/21/00
Five Owls 05/01/99
Book Links (A.L.A.)
05/01/04
Booklist starred
02/01/99
Eighth-grade twins Taylor and Ryan are
complete opposites and seem to have nothing
in common, until they find a set of mysterious
disks that magically allow them to transform
into legendary figures from the past.
School Library
Journal 08/01/03
Publishers Weekly
07/14/03
Horn Book 04/01/04
BCCB 10/01/03
Library Media
Connection 02/01/04
Kliatt 07/01/03
A young boy who has no identity or memory
of his past washes ashore on the coast of
Wales and finds his true name after a series
of fantastic adventures.
Wilson's Children
06/01/01
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/01
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.) 02/18/97
School Library
Journal 09/01/96
Book Links (A.L.A.)
05/01/99
Books for the Teen
Age (NYPL)
04/01/98
Publishers Weekly
08/12/96
Booklist 04/15/00
The magician's nephew -- The lion, the witch
and the wardrobe -- The horse and his boy -Prince Caspian -- The voyage of the Dawn
Treader -- The silver chair -- The last battle.
Chronicles the adventures of four English
schoolchildren who discover a passageway to
a magical land called Narnia, where animals
can talk and the lion king Aslan fights an
ongoing battle against evil witches.
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Core Literature List
Grade 7
Dragon Keeper
Touching Spirit
Bear
Tangerine
The Kite Rider
The Westing
Game
Carole Wilkenson
Ben Mikaelsen
Edward Bloor
Geraldine
McCaughrean
Ellen Raskin
Science Fiction/
Fantasy
Cross Curricular
5.2
Mystery/
Adventure
6.7
Mystery/
Adventure
Mystery/
Adventure
Mystery/
Adventure
YA
6.2
7.0
In ancient China during the Han Dynasty, a
nameless orphan is hopeless and lonely until
she comes to the aid of an aging dragon, and
together they journey to protect a mysterious
stone.
After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen
year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to
prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing
alternative based on the Native American
Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote
Alaskan Island where an encounter with a
huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the
shadow of his football hero brother Erik,
fights for the right to play soccer despite his
near blindness and slowly begins to
remember the incident that damaged his
eyesight
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to
save his widowed mother from a horrendous
second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has
life-changing adventures when he takes to the
sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting
the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
The mysterious death of an eccentric
millionaire brings together an unlikely
assortment of heirs who must uncover the
circumstances of his death before they can
claim their inheritance.
School Library
Journal 05/01/05
Voice of Youth
Advocates
BCCB 03/01/05
V.O.Y.A. 06.01.05
School Library
Journal starred
02/01/01
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.) 01/21/02
Booklist 01/01/01
BCCB 05/01/01
Book Report
09/01/01
Voice of Youth
Advocates
(V.O.Y.A.) 06/01/01
Kirkus Review
01/01/01
Kliatt starred
01/01/05
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/01
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.) 01/19/98
School Library
Journal 04/01/97
Book Links (A.L.A.)
07/01/00
Books for the Teen
Age (NYPL)
04/01/98
Booklist 05/01/97
Kirkus starred
02/01/97
Horn Book 07/01/97
Wilson's Children
06/01/03
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/03
School Library
Journal starred
06/01/02
Five Owls 06/20/03
Booklist starred
05/15/02
Library Media
Connection starred
01/01/03
Books for the Teen
Age (NYPL)
05/01/04
Publishers Weekly
07/08/02
Wilson's Children
11/01/96
Wilson's Junior
High School
09/01/95
ESLC 03/01/98
Newbery
Medal/Honor
3/2/2016
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Core Literature List
Grade 7
01/01/79
Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
Classic –
Contemporary &
Traditional
5.1
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s
Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three
teenagers and intense soul-searching for one
of the youths involved, a sensitive fourteenyear-old writer named Ponyboy.
School Library
Journal
Book Links
(A.L.A.) 05/01/00
CSCBC
Booklist starred
Wilson's Senior
High School
11/01/97
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/95
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.)
School Library
Journal
Book Links (A.L.A.)
05/01/95
Booklist
Horn Book
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Classic –
Contemporary &
Traditional
6.8
Given his lifetime assignment at the
Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the
receiver of memories shared by only one
other in his community and discovers the
terrible truth about the society in which he
lives
Wilson's Children
06/01/01
Wilson's Senior
High School
11/01/02
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/01
ESLC 06/01/00
Newbery
Medal/Honor
01/01/94
School Library
Journal
Book Links (A.L.A.)
05/01/04
Publishers Weekly
Treasure Island
Robert Lewis
Stevenson
Classic –
Contemporary &
Traditional
7.0
While going through the possessions of a
deceased guest who owed them money, the
mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure
map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
Wilson's Children
11/01/96
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/95
Where the Red
Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Classic –
Contemporary &
Traditional
6.4
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves
his heart's desire when he becomes the owner
of two redbone hounds and teaches them to
be champion hunters.
Wilson's Children
11/01/96
Wilson's Junior High
School 04/01/01
ESLC 06/01/00
School Library
Journal
Booklist
Reference and
Research Book
News
Wilson's Children
Wilson's Junior High
The Miracle
Worker
William Gibson
Roll of Thunder,
Mildred D. Taylor
Classic –
Contemporary &
Traditional
Cross
7.1
6.9
William Gibson's play about teacher Annie
Sullivan's determined quest to give twelveyear-old Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute,
the gift of language.
Sequel: Let the circle be unbroken. An
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Core Literature List
Grade 7
Hear My Cry
African-American family living in the South
during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and
discrimination which its children do not
understand.
CurricularHistorical Fiction
& Nonfiction
06/01/01
School 09/01/01
ESLC 06/01/00
Newbery
Medal/Honor
01/01/77
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.) 01/01/77
School Library
Journal
Five Owls 06/20/03
Book Links (A.L.A.)
01/01/04
Horn Book Starred
The True
Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle
Avi
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
the true story of an
unwanted daughter
So Far from the
Bamboo Grove
I have Lived a
Thousand Years
Yoko Kawashima
Watkins
Livia Bitton Jackson
Cross CurricularHistorical Fiction
& Nonfiction
7.0
Cross CurricularHistorical Fiction
& Nonfiction
7.1
Cross CurricularHistorical Fiction
& Nonfiction
Cross CurricularHistorical Fiction
& Nonfiction
(Holocaust)
6.0
6.3
Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, the only
passenger on a voyage from England to
America in 1832, must take serious matters
into her own hands when she learns that the
captain is murderous.
The author tells the story of her painful
childhood in China where she lived until the
age of fourteen with her father, stepmother,
and siblings, all of whom considered her bad
luck because her mother died shortly after
giving birth to her.
A fictionalized autobiography in which
eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to
Japan with her mother and sister at the end
of World War II.
A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she
tells about her experiences at Auschwitz
concentration camp where she was taken at
the age of thirteen in 1944 when the Nazis
invaded her native Hungary.
Horn Book Starred
Kirkus starred
Wilson's Junior High
School 08/01/01
School Library
Journal 10/01/99
Publishers Weekly
starred 07/12/99
Booklist 10/01/99
BCCB 11/01/99
Book Report
01/01/00
Voice of Youth
Advocates
(V.O.Y.A.) 12/01/99
Multicultural
Review 06/01/00
Wilson's Children
06/01/01
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/01
ESLC 06/01/00
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.)
School Library
Journal
Book Links (A.L.A.)
03/01/04
Horn Book starred
Booklist
Wilson's Senior
High School
09/01/98
Wilson's Junior High
School 07/01/98
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.) 11/19/98
School Library
Journal 05/01/97
Horn Book starred
07/01/97
Books for the Teen
Age (NYPL)
04/01/98
Publishers Weekly
starred 02/03/97
New York Times
08/03/97
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Core Literature List
Grade 7
TEACHER RESOURCES
Island Boyz
Graham Salsibury
Half Human
An Island Like
You
Short Story
Collection
5.4
Short Story
Collection
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Short Story
Collection
6.3
7.0
Island boyz -- The ravine -- Mrs. Noonan -Forty bucks -- The hurricane -- Aumakua -Frankie Diamond is robbing us blind -Waiting for the war -- The doi store monkey - Angel-baby -- Hat of clouds. Presents ten
short stories by award-winning Hawaiianborn young adult author Graham Salisbury.
Becoming / Nancy Springer -- Linnea / D.J.
Malcolm -- Water's edge / Janni Lee Simner - Elder brother / Tamora Pierce -- How to
make a human / Lawrence Schimel -Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire -- Centaur field
/ Jane Yolen -- Princess Dragonblood / Jude
Mandell -- Soaring / Tim Waggoner -- The
hardest, kindest gift / Bruce Coville. A
collection of stories about such creatues as
mermaids and centaurs, who are part-human
and part-animal, and their struggles to
understand their true identities.
Bad influence -- Arturo's flight -- Beauty
lessons -- Catch the moon -- An hour with
abuelo -- The one who watches -- Matoa's
mirror -- Don Jose of La Mancha -- Abuela
invents the zero -- A job for Valentin -- Home
to El Building -- White balloons. Twelve
stories about young people caught between
their Puerto Rican heritage and their
American surroundings.
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/03
School Library
Journal starred
03/01/02
Booklist starred
04/15/02
Books for the Teen
Age (NYPL)
05/01/04
Kirkus starred
03/15/02
Horn Book 03/01/02
BCCB 03/01/02
Book Report
09/01/02
School Library
Journal 12/01/01
Books for the Teen
Age (NYPL)
05/01/02
Publishers Weekly
11/26/01
Booklist 12/15/01
Book Report
02/01/02
Voice of Youth
Advocates
(V.O.Y.A.) 12/01/01
Wilson's Senior
High School
11/01/97
Wilson's Junior High
School 09/01/96
School Library
Journal starred
07/01/95
Notable/Best Books
(A.L.A.) 01/22/96
Book Links (A.L.A.)
12/01/02
Booklist starred
02/15/95
Horn Book starred
Books for the Teen
Age (NYPL)
04/01/98
3/2/2016
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