The Best Books for Middle School According to My Students 2. Today my students did one of my favorite speeches of the year  the very best book they have read this year. They have highlighted, enticed and persuaded others to fall in love with their selected book. And I have taken note. It turns out my students have very good taste when it comes to books. Some of these are fine for all 7th graders, some are more mature, I am including them all so that you can make your own decision. Y11eEy68g2Q8AI24/76bbefaea51bbb9018c0069e6971452e/magyk.jpg' alt='Watch Online Free Septimus Heap: Magyk ' title='Watch Online Free Septimus Heap: Magyk ' />9780330460699 0330460692 Ugenia Lavender Poster, Geri Halliwell 9781860055669 1860055664 ECDL Syllabus 4. Module 3 Word Processing Using Word 2007. Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the babys father, Silas Heap. All parents are informed of the range of books that are present in our classroom library so that students can choose something that speaks to them. It was interesting to see just how many of these books I myself had read and booktalked, as well as how many have been favorites two years in a row. So what are the must have or add books in a 7th grade library for 2. Behold the entire listAnd if you would like to see 2. I promise you wont regret itThe Land of Stories by Chris Colfer. From Amazon The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face to face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought. From Amazon In Wonder, readers were introduced to memorable English teacher Mr. Browne and his love of precepts. This companion book features conversations between Mr. Browne and Auggie, Julian, Summer, Jack Will, and others, giving readers a special peek at their lives after Wonder ends. Mr. Brownes essays and correspondence are rounded out by a precept for each day of the yeardrawn from popular songs to childrens books to inscriptions on Egyptian tombstones to fortune cookies. His selections celebrate the goodness of human beings, the strength of peoples hearts, and the power of peoples wills. Theres something for everyone here, with words of wisdom from such noteworthy people as Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Confucius, Goethe, Sapphoand over 1. Wonder who sent R. J. Palacio their own precepts. Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Girl gets boy backsort of. Ava cant see him or touch him, unless shes dreaming. Hi-Def Flushed Away Movie. She cant hear his voice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think shes crazy, but she knows hes here. Jackson. The boy Ava thought shed spend the rest of her life with. Hes back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds. From acclaimed author, Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1. 95. 5, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the devoted couple who faced discrimination, fought it, and won. From Amazon Deenies mother wants her to be a model, with her face on magazine coversmaybe even in the moviesbut Deenie wants to spend Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworths. She wants to be a cheerleader, too, and go to the seventh grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums. Instead, Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis. And that means body stockings to squeeze into, a roomful of strangers to face, and a terrifying brace that shell need to wear for years that goes from her neck to her hips. Suddenly Deenie has to cope with a kind of specialness thats frighteningand might be hers forever. From Amazon Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant scientist Aaron Al Baz saved a pocket of civilization by designing the Eco. Panopticon, a massive computer program that hijacked all global technology and put it to use preserving the last vestiges of mankind. Humans will wait for thousands of years in Eden until the Eco. Pan heals the world. As an illegal second child, Rowan has been hidden away in her familys compound for sixteen years. Now, desperate to see the world, she recklessly escapes for what she swears will be only one night of adventure. Though she finds an exotic world, and even a friend, the night leads to tragedy. Soon Rowan becomes a renegade on the run. From Amazon Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate lossher lifeand Lia is left behind, haunted by her friends memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lias struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all hope. From Amazon Tyrell is a young African American teen who cant get a break. Hes living for now with his spaced out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. His fathers in jail. His girlfriend supports him, but he doesnt feel good enough for her and seems to be always on the verge of doing the wrong thing around her. Theres another girl at the homeless shelter who is also after him, although the desires there are complicated. Tyrell feels he needs to score some money to make things better. Will he end up following in his fathers footsteps From Amazon The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven year olds in Sudan, a girl in 2. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours walk from her home she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the lost boys of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nyas in an astonishing and moving way. From Amazon On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. Its Alfie Mc. Quinn, the notorious cat burglar, and hes dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March Find jewels. But March learns that his father is not talking about a stash of loot. Hes talking about Jules, the twin sister March never knew he had. No sooner than the two find each other, theyre picked up by the police and sent to the worlds worst orphanage. Its not prison, but it feels like it. March and Jules have no intention of staying put. They know their fathers business inside and out, and theyre tired of being pushed around. Just one good heist and theyll live the life of riches and freedom most kids only dream about. Watch out There are wild kids on the loose and a crime spree coming. From Amazon Based on the adult bestseller, Outcasts United An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Womans Quest to Make a Difference, this young peoples edition is a complex and inspirational story about the Fugees, a youth soccer team made up of diverse refugees from around the world, and their formidable female coach, Luma Mufleh. Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical southern town until it became a refugee resettlement center.