7th Grade
Seventh graders are asked to analyze texts in detail, including analysis of word choice and interpretation of the narrator's viewpoint.
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Resources for 7th Grade
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Newbery Medal biography of an African-born man enslaved in colonial New England who bought his freedom and that of others.
Across Five Aprils
Newbery Honor novel following an southern Illinois farm family through the five Aprils of the American Civil War.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Newbery Medal novel about a Black family holding onto their Mississippi land during the Depression and Jim Crow.
Bud, Not Buddy
Newbery Medal novel following a ten-year-old orphan across Depression-era Michigan in search of the father he thinks he has found.
Johnny Tremain
Newbery Medal historical novel following a Boston silversmith's apprentice into the events of the American Revolution.
The Sign of the Beaver
Newbery Honor survival story set in 1768 Maine, in which a settler boy and a Penobscot boy teach each other to live in the wilderness.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Newbery Medal novel about a Barbados-raised girl adjusting to Puritan Connecticut in 1687 and the witchcraft accusation that follows.
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Newbery Medal biography-novel of Nathaniel Bowditch, the self-taught sailor-mathematician who rewrote the book on navigation.
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad
Rosemary Sutcliff's vivid prose retelling of Homer's Iliad, widely used to introduce middle-grade students to the Trojan War.
The Golden Goblet
A Newbery Honor novel set in ancient Egypt, commonly paired with ancient-history studies for grades 5-8.
The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery Medal novel set in Roman-occupied Galilee, a mainstay of ancient-history literature lists.
Famous Men of Rome
Memoria Press's classical-education reader covering Rome through short biographies, from Romulus to Constantine.