Vivian Field 7th Grade Summer Reading List
These books are either sorted by Lexile level ( 7th Grade starting at 925L) or are TAYSHAS or Lone Star finalists and are paired with the appropriate grade level. Please read a minimum of five. One book will be used for the summer reading assignment.
7th Grade
- *Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson
- Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
- Everless by Sara Holland
- The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard
- White rabbit by Caleb Roehrig
- The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
- The Summoner Trilogy by Taran Matharu (LaCaze favorite!)
- Listen to the Moon by MIchael Morpurgo
- Game Changers series by Mike Lupica
- Saving Lucas Biggs by Marisa De Los Santos
- From Norvelt to Nowhere by Jack Gantos
- What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Orphan of Awkward Falls by Keith Graves
- Sorta like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick
- Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Verse novel!)
- The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle (Verse novel!)
- The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (Classic!)
FANTASY
Eragon by Christopher Paolini Tresniowski
The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke
Above World by Jenn Reese Hirschfeld
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen Shetterly
Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Minrs by Kevin Sylvester
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
REALISTIC
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
I, Funny by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
ADVENTURE
Lockwood & Co The Screaming
Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans
Raft by S.A. Bodeen
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
House of Scorpions by Nancy Farmer
Stranded by Jeff Probst and Chris Tebbetts
I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff
Ranger’s Apprentice series by John A. Flanagan
Loot by Jude Watson
NONFICTION
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex
Bonnie and Clyde by Karen Blumenthal
It’s Up to You, Abe Lincoln by Tom & Leila
Path to the Stars by Sylvia Acevedo
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaima
Hidden Figures (Young Readers’ Audition) by Margot Lee