Favorite Books for 7th Grade Boys -- 2013

At the end of every school year I ask my students to hand in a list of their top five books. I compile these into a recommended reading list for 7th graders. Here is the boys' list for 2013

BOYS’ TOP 11  (in order of popularity)

1. The Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan
2.  Beyonders series, by Brandon Mull
3.  Fablehaven series, by Brandon Mull
4.  Hunger Games series, by Suzanne Collins
5.  Heroes of Olympus series, by Rick Riordan
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, by Jeff Kinney
7.  Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
8.  Inheritance series (Eragon), by Christopher Paolini
9. The Candy Shop War series, by Brandon Mull
10. Alex  Rider series, by Anthony Horrowitz
11.   39 Clues series, by various authors

All Others  (in alphabetical order)

‡ Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by SethGrahame-Smith

Adventurers Wantedseries, by M. L. Forman

All Things Bright and Beautiful series, by James Herriot

The Bartimaeus Trilogy, by Jonathan Stroud

The Big Field, by Mike Lupica

The Book of Mormon

Bone graphic novels series, by Jeff Smith

The Cardturner, by Louis Sachar

Chaos Walkingseries, by Patrick Ness

Charlie Bone series, by E. Rogers

Conspiracy 365series, by Gabrielle Lord

Dragonlance Chronicles (trilogy), by Margaret Weis

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing

Farworld series, by J. Scott Savage

Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick

Guinness Book of World Records 2013

Glass series, by Maria v. Snyder

Gregor the Overlanderseries, by Suzanne Collins

Gross Jokes, published by Scholastic

Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer

The Hunger but Mainly Death Games: a Parody, by Bratniss Everclean

‡I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior: Memoir of an American Soldier, by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin

I Am Number Four, by Pittacus Lore

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings series, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Holes, by Louis Sachar

Insignia series, by S. J. Kincaid

James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl

Janitors series, by Brandon Mull

‡The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

Leven Thumpsseries, by Obert Skye

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel 

‡ Lone  Survivor: the Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson

The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

Loser, by Jerry Spinelli

Matched series, by Ally Condie

The Maze Runnerseries, by James Dashner

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 series, by Richard Paul Evans

The Missing series (Found), by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway

Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson

Pendragon series, by D. J. MacHale

Peter and the Starcatchers series, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Poison Studyseries, by Maria V. Snyder

Rangers Apprenticeseries, by John Flanagan

The Red Pyramidseries, by Rick Riordan

School Jokes, published by Scholastic

Science Fair, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

The Shadow Childrenseries, by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Septimus Heapseries (Magyk), by Angie Sage

The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare

Soldier X, by Don L. Wulffsonn

Star Wars: Last of the Jedi series, by Jude Watson

The Stonehearttrilogy, by Charlie Fletcher

Storm Testamentseries, by Lee Nelson

The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo

Ten True Tales: Heroes of 9/11, by Allan Zullo

Through My Eyes, by Tim Tebow and Nathan Whitaker

Travel Team, by Mike Lupica

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stephenson

The Unwantedsseries, by Lisa McMann

The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt

Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls

Witch and Wizardseries, by James Patterson

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the

Living Dead, by Max Brooks

‡  Represents a book that I CAN NOT recommend for this age group.