7th Grade Extension Texts

Module 1: A Long Walk to Water

Grade 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

  • Refugess & Asylum Seekers, Dave Dalton
  • War Child: A Child's Soldier's Story, Emannuel Jal
  • The Lost Boys of Sudan, Jeff Burlingame

Texts Above Lexile 1185

  • Home of the Brave, Katherine Applegate
  • Sudan, Darfur, and the Nomadic Conflicts, Philip Steele
  • Give Me Shelter: Stories about Children Who Seek Asylum, Frances Lincoln Children's Books
  • Hoping for Peace in Sudan: Divided by Conflict, Wishing for Peace, Jim Pipe

Module 2: Industrializing America

Grade 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

  • Kids on Strike!, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
  • You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have, John Malam
  • Elizabeth Bloomer: Child Labor Activist, Jennifer Reed
  • The Industrial Revolution, Melissa McDaniel
  • The Industrial Revolution, Hilarie N. Staton
  • Children at Work, JoAnne B. Weisman Deitch
  • Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor, Michael Burgan
  • Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay, Ilan Stavans
  • The Changing Role of Women Since 1900, Louise Spilsbury
  • Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor, Russell Freeman
  • Fair Trade, Jilly Hunt

Texts Above Lexile 1185

  • The Lowell Mill Girls: Life in the Factory, JoAnne B. Weisman Deitch
  • Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops, Liesbeth Sluiter
  • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Yvon Chouinard
  • Are Worker Rights Human Rights?, Richard P. McIntire
  • A Shameful Business: The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace, James A. Gross
  • Child Labor Today: A Human Rights Issue, Wendy Herumin
  • Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez, Rudolfo Anaya

Module 3: Frederick Douglass and Slavery

Grade 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

  • Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox
  • I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery, Cynthia Grady
  • Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, Virginia Hamilton
  • Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man, Judith Fradin
  • Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • To Be a Slave, Julius Lester
  • Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship, Russell Freedman
  • Traveling the Freedom Road, Linda Osborn
  • Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War, Thomas Allen

Texts Above 1185 Lexile

  • Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroads, Joyce Hansen
  • Dred Scott v. Sanford: Slavery and Freedom Before the American Civil War, Amy Van Zee

Module 4: The Adolescent Brain and Technology

Grades 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

  • The Misfits, James Howe
  • Freak the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick
  • Friend Me! Six Hundred Years of Social Networking in America, Francesca Davis Dipiazza
  • What Goes On in My Head?, Robert Winston
  • Managing Your Digital Footprint, Robert Grayson

Texts Above Lexile 1185

  • Social Networking: The Ultimate Teen Guide, Jennifer Obee
  • The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain, JoAnn Deak and Terrance Deak