WEMS Summer Reading Expectations
7th Grade Recommended Summer Reading List
***Bold type indicates books also on the school’s Honors Reading List. The levels go from easier to more challenging from A to D.
Level A:
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
· The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
· Cirque du Freak series by Darren Shan
· Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
· Ugly Series by Scott Westerfield
· The Lorien Legacies (I Am Number Four) by Pittacus Lore
· Any Patrick Jones Novel: At All Costs, Doing Right, The Gamble, etc.
Level B:
· The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
· The Lost Heroes Series by Rick Riordan
· Of Beetles and Angels by Mawi Asgedom
· 13 Little Blue Envelopes Series by Maureen Johnson
· The Enemy Series by Charlie Higson
· The Fifth Wave Series by Rick Yancey
· Waterfire Saga Series by Jennifer Donnelly: Rogue Wave, Dark Tide and Deep Blue
· The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder) by Marissa Meyer
· The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Level C:
· Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
· Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
· Any Mike Lupica Book: Million-Dollar Throw, Heat, Fantasy League, Travel Team
· City of Bones Series by Cassandra Clare
· A Child Called It Series by Dave Pelzer
· The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
· Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
· Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
· Fish In a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Level D:
· The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
· Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
· My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
· Night by Elie Wiesel
· The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
· All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
· The Mitch Rapp Series by Vince Flynn
· Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson