Recommended Reading for the Seventh Grade
With more literary classics to choose from during the seventh grade, encourage your child to write book reports and character studies from some of their favorite selections.
1. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. The Complete Stalky and Co., Rudyard Kipling
4. In the Heart of the Rockies, G.A. Henty
5. By Pike and Dyke, G.A. Henty
6. Arts, Hendrick Willem Van Loon
7. McGuffey’s Fourth Reader, William McGuffey
8. Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
9. Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
10. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
11. Song of Roland, Dorothy L. Sayers
12. All Men are Brother, Pearl S. Buck
13. Anna and the King of Siam, Margaret Landon
14. Calico Captive, Elizabeth George Speare
15. Christy, Catherine Marshall
16. Day of Pleasure, Isaac Bashevis Singer
17. Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
18. Giants in the Earth and others, O. E. Rolvaag
19. In the Hall of the Dragon King, Stephen R. Lawhead
20. With the Lee in Virginia, G.A. Henty
21. The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney
22. I Know what you did Last Summer, Lois Duncan
23. Dicey’s Song, Cynthia Voight
24. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
25. Nikolenka’s Childhood, Leo Tolstoy
26. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
27. Whites and the Blues, Alexandre Dumas
28. Travels, Marco Polo
29. Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
30. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
31. Roman Way to Western Civilization, Edith Hamilton
32. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
33. Legends of the Alhambra, Washington Irving
34. King Solomon’s Mines, Henry Rider Haggard
35. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
36. Greek Way to Western Civilization, Edith Hamilton
37. Great Expectations, Charles dickens
38. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
39. Watership Down, Richard Adams
40. War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells