LibGuides: 2024 FWCD Summer Reading: Grade 7

7th Grade Summer Reading 2024

Summer Reading for Students Entering the 7th Grade

· All 7th graders will read at least THREE books and take THREE AR quizzes.

· All students will read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and take the AR quiz.

· Students will read two additional books of their choice and take the AR quiz for both books.

Books must have an AR quiz. It is the student's responsibility to make sure the books they have chosen have an AR quiz in the system. Go to AR Bookfinder to check for a quiz. Mrs. Gardner will not create quizzes over the summer for books that do not already have a quiz.
Books must be at least 5 points each.
Students may not read any book that has been made into a movie.

· Quizzes will be taken at school in the Moncrief Library. The Moncrief Library will be open most Wednesdays from 10:00 - 1:00.

· All AR quizzes are due Wednesday, August 28, 2024.

Required Book

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
ISBN: 9780142407332
Publication Date: 2006-04-20
No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect—until the night someone takes things too far.

Need suggestions?

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
ISBN: 9780312641894
Publication Date: 2012-01-03
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Fractured Tide by Leslie Lutz
ISBN: 9780310770107
Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Seventeen-year-old Sia Gianopoulos writes to her incarcerated father as she and a handful of other survivors reach a mysterious island after a monster sinks their charter boats.
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
ISBN: 9781984836038
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt
ISBN: 9780358659631
Publication Date: 2023-05-23
Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way.
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
ISBN: 9781681190082
Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother, a world famous photojournalist--even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. When Declan finds a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist the urge to write back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger. When real life interferes with their secret life of letters, Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart.
The Line Tender by Kate Allen
ISBN: 9780735231603
Publication Date: 2019-04-16
Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier.
Lovely War by Julie Berry
ISBN: 9780451469939
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: 'Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?' but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the power of Love.
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316057776
Publication Date: 2007-03-07
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
Peak by Roland Smith
ISBN: 9780152024178
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett
ISBN: 9780063256552
Publication Date: 2023-06-27
When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye.
Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
ISBN: 9781368082853
Publication Date: 2023-01-31
Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
Stormbreaker by Horowitz Anthony
ISBN: 0142401668
Publication Date: 2004-04-12
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
ISBN: 0380977443
Publication Date: 2001-01-09
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.
Warcross by Marie Lu
ISBN: 9780399547966
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks her way into the opening tournament of the Warcross Championships, she glitches herself into the game as well as a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.
What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski
ISBN: 9780063213098
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Thirteen-year-old new girl Anna Hunt decides to make an investigative podcast about how fellow classmate Rachel Riley went from being the most popular girl in school to the most hated.