7th Grade Summer Reading List

Kareem Between (Sep 2024)

Author: Safadi, Shifa Saltagi

With the school year getting off to a rough start, Syrian American seventh grader Kareem finds himself stuck between friends, between football, between parents and between right and wrong, and must find his voice amidst the chaos.

Genre: Novels in verse; Sports fiction 

Ages 9-12 Fiction

Maizy Chen's last chance (Feb 2022)

By: Yee, Lisa

In Last Chance, Minnesota, with her family, Maizy spends her time at the Golden Palace, the restaurant that's been in her family for generations, where she makes some discoveries requiring her to go on a search for answers.

Ages 9-12   Fiction  

Fallout (Sep 2013)

By: Strasser, Todd

When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.

Ages 9-12   Fiction  

City spies (Mar 2020)

Author: Ponti, James

Series: City spies, 1

Description: Sentenced to juvenile detention after exposing her foster parents’ crimes, a talented young hacker is rescued by a British spy who recruits five teen savants from different world regions to become elite agents for MI6. 

Ages 9-12 Fiction

The unexplainable disappearance of Mars Patel (Oct 2020)

By: Chari, Sheela

Series: Mars Patel, 1

After kids start disappearing from their school, Mars Patel and his outcast friends investigate and find that all clues point to an eccentric tech genius with a popular podcast, Oliver Pruitt, who also happens to be Mars' hero.

Ages 9-12   Fiction 

A Royal Conundrum (Jan 2024)

Author: Yee, Lisa

Illustrator: Santat, Dan - ill.

Series: Misfits (Lisa Yee), 1

An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down. 

Ages 9-12 Fiction