Grade 7

Sequel to Inkheart and Inkspell.
656 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery, including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place, and then they dissapear!
379 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

After a mean collector cons him out of a valuable baseball card, Griffin must put together a band of misfits to recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way, a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his.
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists

A mysterious stranger who can spin straw into gold promises to make Charlotte's money problems disappear, but what does he want in return?
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, 18th Century, Ghosts

When a polar bear promises that her family will become rich if the Lass accompanies him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the bear is not what he seems, nor is his castle, which is made of ice and inhabited by a silent staff of servants. The bear is really a prince who's been enchanted by a troll queen.
336 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Trolls, Fairy Tales

On San Francisco Bay in 1866, when a mysterious shipwreck survivor - a young, feverish boy who claims to be a pirate - washes into their cove, secrets that have been tranquilly hidden across generations are suddenly threatened.
207 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Pirates, 19th Century

Dylan's Scout troop goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Survival, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes

13-year-old Cap has been homeschooled his whole life, but now he is going to public middle school for the first time. He is not prepared for the kids there, and they are not prepared for him!
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Popularity

This wordless graphic novel powerfully captures the immigrant experience.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Refugees

Book 8 of the Pendragon series. The leaders of Ibara are keeping a devastating secret from their people, one that gives Saint Dane all the opportunity he needs to launch his final assault on Halla.
560 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

In Gandhi-era India, 12-year-old Leela's life changes dramatically when she becomes a widow and must renounce the happy life she knew, and prepare for a life of mourning a husband she barely knew.
288 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  India

When eighth-grader San Lee moves to a new town and a new school, he doesn't try to make new friends or be cool. Instead he devises a plan to be totally different.
272 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Popularity

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the South, uses his wits to try to bring justice to the lying preacher who stole money that was saved to buy a family's freedom.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  19th Century, Funny, Slavery

Elaine, the Lady of Shalott tells her version of the King Arthur legend.
394 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  King Arthur

Theodosia must reverse the black magic that only she can see in the ancient artifacts her archaeologist parents bring back from Egypt.
344 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Magic

Twelve-year-old Matthew moves to Montreal in the summer of 1946, and gets a job at the baseball stadium to watch Jackie Robinson break into the major league.
221 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Racism, Baseball

Thirteen-year-old Azad, a Kurdish boy living in Iran, tries desperately to cling to the life he has known, but the political situation in Iran during the war with Iraq, and Saddam Hussein's persecution of the Kurds forces his family to flee.
152 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Refugees, Middle East

Holling's 7th grade year is off to a bad start when he realizes that his teacher hates him - for no reason.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Funny

The lives of two girls, one a slave and the other her beautiful master, change forever when Mt. Vesuvius erupts.
160 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

15-year-old J.J. disappears into the fairy world to plug a time leak caused 150 years ago when his great-grandfather disappeared.
448 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ireland, Fairies, Parallel Universe

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
533 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Orphans

Book 3 of the Percy Jackson series.
320 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 2 of the Chronus Chronicles. Sequel to The Shadow Thieves.
448 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 2 of the Wave Walkers series.
240 pages Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates

Book 2 of the Jimmy Coates series.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Robots, Spies

Littlest One is a tiny creature learning her job of giving dreams to humans. When the Sinisteeds go after John, a young boy, with their horrifying nightmares, Littlest One must protect John from the nightmare of his dark past.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

Yorsh, a young elf orphan, discovers he is part of a powerful prophecy connecting the last dragon and the last elf.
361 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Dragons, Warriors

When the sea called to Sapphy's father, he vanished from her life. When the sea called to her brother, he started disappearing for hours on end. And now the sea is calling to Sapphy, and she feels its pull more strongly than she's ever felt anything in her life. 336 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Twelve-year-old Maud lives in an orphanage until she adopted by an elegant high society con artist who wants to use Maud in her schemes.
389 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Orphans

Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper, a clock that controls time, and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use it for their own evil ends.
415 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Evil Scientists, Parallel Universe, Time Travel

Book 1 of the Chronus Chronicles. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her cousin Zee must set out to save humankind from denizens of the Underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.
424 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology, Zombies, Evil Scientists

After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Molly learns that her father is a basketball star for the Boston Celtics.
246 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Fathers, Basketball

Book 1 of the Wave Walkers series. Jolly and Munk, two "polliwogs" who have the ability to walk on water, running for their lives from an evil sea creature, end up on a mysterious pirate ship run by a crew of ghosts.
336 pages Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates, Ghosts

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old Hattie travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself, and describes her difficult new life in letters to her old friend fighting the war in Europe.
289 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  World War I, Wild West Pioneers

Book 2 of the Echo Falls series. Things are amiss in Echo Falls. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, eighth-grader Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car.
352 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Detectives

Fourteen-year-old Clara is invited to Mexico to meet her grandparents for the first time. When she gets there, she's stunned by their life: they live in a simple shack in a small mountain village, very different from suburban Maryland.
272 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mexico, Grandparents

Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting The Last Supper while also trying to discover who his real parents are in fifteenth-century Milan, Italy.
390 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  14th-15th Century

Book 6 of the Alex Rider series. Shot outside the offices of MI6 and left for dead by Scorpia, Alex Rider awakens in a top-secret hospital, glad simply to be alive. But when the boy in the next room is the victim of a kidnapping attempt, it is Alex who saves him, only to be kidnapped himself.
362 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Book 5 of the Artemis Fowl series.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Spies

In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
224 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Russia, Poverty, Dancing

A legendary archer from ancient Korea travels forward in time to twelve-year-old Kevin's bedroom in New York. Now Kevin has to find a way to get him back before he changes history forever.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Korea, Time Travel

In ancient Persia, Mitra and her little brother, Babak, scratch out a living by begging and stealing food, but Mitra knows they are exiled royals if they could only rejoin the rest of their family. Then they discover that Babak has a strange power, he can dream other people's dreams. They use this gift to gain money until they attract the attention of the wrong person.
304 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Homelessness, Middle East

Book 2 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. As the Kalaxx warriors close in on the hidden cove where they are stranded, Becca and Doug unearth a riddle linked to a 1533 painting, which may hold the key to the Guild's dark secrets and to finding their parents. But how can they solve the puzzle and escape with their lives before their enemies attack?
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 1 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. While trying to find their missing parents, Doug and Becca encounter an ancient order of Chinese mercenaries, a brutal pirate warlord, a feisty Texan heiress, and a stolen cache of a volatile explosive called zoridium. By their saga's end, the duo has exposed a murderous plot involving their parents and uncovered a secret society hidden from the world for hundreds of years.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 7 of the Pendragon series. Bobby must save the people of Quillan from being pawns in a cruel game.
496 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 6 of the Pendragon series. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu on Zadaa where the Traveler Loor lives as a member of the Batu. Together she and Bobby must work to thwart Saint Dane's efforts to destroy Zadaa.
416 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Michael Arroyo has a dream of pitching in the Little League World Series, and an arm that throws serious heat. But, orphaned after his family fled from Cuba, Michael has no one to watch out for him except his older brother, who is only 17, and if Social Services hears of the boys' situation, they will be separated in the foster care system-or even worse, sent back to Cuba.
220 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Baseball

Book 3 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

Book 2 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series. Two teen nannies in New York City learn the dangers of losing old boyfriends and gaining new ones in the glamorous but deceptive world of the rich and powerful.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

In a government class, three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.
176 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  High School, Mean girls, Popularity

A retelling of the Snow White story.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Princes, Fairy Tales, Love, Singing

Book 2 of the Percy Jackson series. After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

Three teens and a curator of unclassifiable artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Museum Mysteries, Zombies, Evil Scientists

In 1452, a man appears at Gutenberg's home with a mysterious chest which can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The book is blank, but then words begin to appear on the page, words only the boy can see.
400 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  14th-15th Century, Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Fletcher Moon is the youngest qualified private detective in the world. Things are going pretty well until he is caught up in an investigation involving the town's biggest crime family. Grievous bodily harm, arson, dangerous undercover work ensue as Fletcher is framed for several crimes he did not commit.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Detectives

Sequel to The Convicts. As Tom Tin sails through islands of headhunters and cannibals to Australia, where he's to serve a lengthy sentence for a murder he didn't commit, he and his fellow convict, Midgely, plot their escape.
240 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, 19th Century, Boy Bullies

Orpheus, a musician who is loved and admired by the gods and humans, attempts to use his musical power to rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the Underworld after she dies from a serpent bite on their wedding day.
144 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Sequel to Inkheart.
635 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

As a Navajo boy at American school, Ned Begay was punished for speaking Navajo, but when war broke out with Japan, the navajo language formed an unbreakbale code that saved many American lives.
240 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  World War II, Racism

Volcano researcher Donna O'Meara's photographs and accounts of treacherous journeys get readers up close and personal with some of the world's most dangerous volcanoes.
56 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Volcanoes

On August 24, A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius began to erupt. Within twenty-four hours, the entire city of Pompeii had been utterly annihilated. It was not until hundreds of years later that archaeological excavations began to unearth what had been buried under layers of volcanic rubble.
48 pages, Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

When his father lands in debtors' prison, Tom, 14, tries to survive on the rough streets of early-nineteenth-century London.
208 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  19th Century, Boy Bullies

Like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.
375 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Detectives

Steven has won a coveted press pass for the Final Four. But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. Steven and his fellow winner, Susan, overhear a threat to throw the championship game. Now they have just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of MSU’s star players . . . and why.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, Detectives

In Mississippi in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian war tactics, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar, coming ashore in the form of Hurricane Camille.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Civil Rights Movement, Racism, Hurricanes

Nell is a wild child: friend of fairies and piskies...and, some say, a witch. Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.
263 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Fairies, Mean girls, Witches

Book 18 of the Redwall series. The otters of Green Isle have long been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis and his catguards, who torture the otters at every opportunity until the day their savior will arrive—the prophesized High Rhulain, who will lead them in battle and a return to glory.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

High school senior, Laura Sweeney has never had a date. She needs a proven "get the guy" strategy. Luckily she knows exactly the expert to call. He's a matchmaking mastermind who actually has the bow and arrow to prove it. Let's just call him...Cupid.
288 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Funny, Love, Mythology

Book 1 of the Percy Jackson series. Twelve-year-old Perseus 'Percy' Jackson, whose mother is mortal and whose father is Poseidon the God of the Sea, lives in the 21st century where the Greek gods are still very much around.
384 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology, Monsters

While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
250 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Love, Singing

Hermes, Prince of Thieves and son of Zeus, relates why the seasons change, the history of the Trojan War, his friendship with Pegasus, and many more adventures.
229 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow stows away on board Shakleton's ship bound to explore the Antarctic continent. Within months, the ship, trapped and crushed by ice, sank with no hope of rescue. If the men were to survive in the most hostile place on earth, they would have to do it on their own.
336 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Survival

Book 1 of the Maximum Ride series. Max and the rest of her "family", all 98% human and 2% bird as a result of a genetic experiment, must rescue the youngest member, Angel, who has been abducted by a group of mutant wolf-men.
480 pages Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Mutants, Survival, Flying People

During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmah, a young refugee from Afghanaistan, and Nustrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Pakistan.
288 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Middle East, Refugees

While working on a project, Julia, a Korean-American, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, and patience.
240 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Korea, Racism

Part of the Royal Diaries series. Fourteen-year-old Sophia is engaged to the nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. She must travel to Russia where she is renamed Catherine and married, but she watches helplessly as her family is torn from her, her own mother is involved in a spying ring against the empress, and all that is familiar to her disappears.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  18th Century, Princesses, Russia

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thriteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into returning to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
208 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects: