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