Book List for 7th and 8th grade Social Studies (These are merely suggestions; if you have something else, please bring it to me, and I will approve it if it is historically relevant or tied to a particular era.)
A Day No Pigs Would Die
A Man For All Seasons (Early Europe)
A Murder For Her Majesty (Early Europe)
A Single Shard
A String In The Harp
American Indian Childrenof thePast(NativeAmerica
Because Of Winn-Dixie
Better Times Than These
Beyond The Divide (19th Century)
Black Hawk Down
Bridge To Terabithia
Buffalo Hunt (Native American)
Call Of The Wild
Carrie’s War (20th Century)
Catch-22
Catcher In The Rye
Cherokee Legends and the Trail of Tears (Native American)
Children Of The Wild West
Chocolate War
Circle Of Fire (20th Century)
Crandall’s Castle
Crash
Dancing In Cadillac Light
Dandelion Wine
Daniel’s Walk
Death Comes For The Archbishop
Diary Of Anne Frank
Down The Yukon
Dragonwings (19th Century)
East Of Eden
Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey
Edith, Herself (19th Century)
Fair Weather
Fatherland
Flowers For Algernon
For Freedom: The Story Of A French Spy (WWII)
Francis Parkman and the Plains Indians (Nat/Amer)
Gadget
Ghost Girl
Gideon (20th Century)
Go Tell It To The Mountain
Going Solo
Grandmother Stories of the Northwest (Nat Amer)
Grapes Of Wrath (Great Depression Era)
Guests (Native American)
Hakon Of Rogen’s Saga (Viking Era)
Haunting Of Swain’s Fancy
Homesick; My Own Story
Huckleberry Finn
I Am The Cheese
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Impossible Journey
Invisible Man
Island Of The Blue Dolphins (19th Century)
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Tremain
Jump Ship To Freedom (Colonial)
King Of The Cloud Forests
Lasting Echoes: An Oral History of Native American People
Legend Days (19th Century)
Life On The Mississippi
Listen For Rachel (19th Century)
Long Meg
Long Way Home
Maggie’s Door
Mara, Daughter Of The Nile
Mother Night
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Myths and Legends of the Indian Southwest (Native American)
Of Mice and Men
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
One Fat Summer
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
One-Way To Ansonia (19th Century)
Path Of The Pale Horse (Colonial)
Prairie Songs (19th Century)
Ravenmaster’s Secret
Reef Of Death
Roll Of Thunder (20th Century)
Room Made Of Windows
Roughing It
Runs With Horses (Native American)
Sarah Bishop (Colonial)
Sarah, Plain And Tall (19th Century)
Save Queen Of Sheba (19th Century)
Sister Carrie
Slave Queen Of Sheba
So Far From The Bamboo Grove (20th Century)
Stepping On The Cracks
Streams In The River, River To The Sea (19th Century)
Summer Of My German Soldier
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
The Age Of Innocence
The American Indians (Native American)
The Battle Horse (20th Century)
The Bluest Eye
The Children's Crusade
The Cider House Rules
The Color Of Water
The Color Purple
The Door In The Wall
The Empty Sleeve
The Endless Steppe (20th Century)
The Eternal Spring Of Mr. Ito (20th Century)
The Expendables
The Fighting Ground (Colonial)
The First Americans (Native American)
The Grapes Of Wrath
The Illyrian Adventure
The Lark And The Laurel (Early Europe)
The Last Run
The Man Who Was Poe
The Night Journey
The Old Man And The Sea
The Outsiders
The Return Of The Native
The Serpent’s Children
The Shining Company
The Sign Of The Beaver
The Sign Of The Beaver (Colonial)
The Sun Also Rises
The Thirteenth Member
The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle
The Upstairs Room (20th Century)
The View From The Pighouse Roof (20th Century)
The Wild Children (20th Century)
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
Third Girl From The Left (19th Century)
Touching Spirit Bear
Trouble At The Mines (19th Century)
Turn Homeward (19th Century)
Turn Homeward, Hannalee
Upon The Head Of The Goat
When Daylight Comes (Colonial)
Witches’ Children (Colonial)
Year Of Impossible Goodbyes (20th Century)
Zach’s Lie
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