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7th - 8th Grade Reading List

Summer before 2nd Year Program
(American History)

** indicates books on the MD Accelerated Reader List

The Bible (King James version):

Old Testament -- Genesis; Exodus; Job; Proverbs 1-9; Ecclesiastes
New Testament -- one of the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John)

In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World, Virginia Hamilton, editor
**The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
**Johnny Tremain, by Ester Forbes
The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter
**The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
**The World in 1492, by Jean Fritz
**Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
**Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
**Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, by Ingri & Edgar D'Aulaire
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, by E.L. Konigsburg
**any of the Redwall series, by Brian Jacques
**Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
**The Door in the Wall, by Maguerite de Angeli
The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
**Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
**Stuart Little, by E. B. White
**Bridge to Terabithia, by Catherine Patterson
**The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
**Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan

What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys OR Book for Girls (as the case may be), by Lynda Madaras


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