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