7th & 8th
Grade Favorite Book Titles
7th
and 8th Grade Students, your English teachers have agreed that if you have
not read the following titles, you may choose whatever you wish—no matter your
ZPD range. As you see, many of these
titles will be below your ZPD.
Therefore, this is a gift from your English teachers to you in order to
promote your reading enjoyment.
Across
Five Aprils (6.6) by Irene Hunt
Anne
of Green Gables (Unabridged) (7.3) by Lucy Maude Montgomery
Big
Red
(5.6) by Jim Kjelgaard
Black
Beauty
(Unabridged) (7.7) by Anne Swell
Bud,
Not Buddy
(5.0) by Christopher Paul Curtis
Cheaper
by the Dozen (6.0) by Frank Gilbreath
The
Giver
(5.7) by Lois Lowry
The
Good Earth
(6.8) by Pearl Buck
Goodbye,
Mr. Chips
(6.5) by James Hilton
Heidi (8.2) by Johanna Spyri
The
Hobbit
(6.6) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes (4.6) by Louis Sachar
I,
Juan de Pareja (6.5) by Elizabeth B. De Trevino
Island
of the Blue Dolphins (5.4) by Scott O’Dell
Jane
Eyre
(Unabridged) (7.9) by Charlotte Bronte
Johnny
Tremain
(5.9) by Esther Forbes
Little
Women
(Unabridged) (7.9) by Louisa May Alcott
My
Antonia
(6.9) by Willa Cather
My
Friend Flicka (6.0) by Mary O’Hara
My
Life in Dog Years (5.6) by Gary Paulsen
National
Velvet
(5.5) by Enid Bagnold
Night (4.8) by Elie Weisel
Old
Yeller
(5.0) by Fred Gipson
Shane (5.5) by Jack Schaefer
Summer
of the Monkeys (4.8) by Wilson Rawls
To
Kill a Mockingbird (5.6) by Harper Lee
The
Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 (5.0) by Christopher Paul Curtis
Where
the Red Fern Grows (4.9) by Wilson Rawls
White
Fang
(Unabridged) (8.4) by Jack London
The
Witch of Blackbird Pond (5.7) by Elizabeth George Speare
The
Yearling
(5.0) by Marjorie Rawlings