8/6/2019 7th Grade Honors Summer Reading 2011

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7th Grade Summer Reading(These titles are suggestions; there are many other choices available)

European Exploration, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Reconstruction,

and the Industrial Revolution

Blood on the River : James Town 1607 by Carbone - Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page

to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James

Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Latham - A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer

who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain during the Revolutionary War and

authored "The American Practical Navigator."

Dragon's Gate by Yep - When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to

America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the

transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1867.

Fair Weather by Richard Peck - In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel

from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the Worlds Columbian

Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-

changing experience for everyone.

Fever, 1793 by Anderson - Sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns

about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of the yellow fever

epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Robinet (1865-1877) A 12-year-old orphaned slave leaves South

Carolina in search of a Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction to claim the "40 acres and a mule"

promised by General Sherman.

Glory Field by Myers - Follows a family's two-hundred year history, from the capture of an African

boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them

away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.

Lyddie by Katherine Patterson - Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to

gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier - Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the

Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral.

Sign of the Beaver by Speare - Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century

Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Sing down the moon by O'Dell - A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was

forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.