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