Recommended Reading

Featured 7th Grade Reading List Selection

	A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass Search

	Life of Pi by Yann Martel Search

	Shakespeare Stealer (1998) by Gary L. Blackwood Search

	*Funny in Farsi by Dumas, Firzoozeh Search

	Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien Search

	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Search

	The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Hanff, Helene Search

	The Founding Brothers by Ellis, Joseph Search

	Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Search

	Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull Search

	Morality Play by Barry Unsworth Search

	Known World by Edward P. Jones Search

	Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Search

	Forever by Pete Hamill Search

	Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen Search

	Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Search

	Black Boy by Richard Wright Search

	The Human Stain by Philip Roth Search

	Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Search

	Chiefs by Stuart Woods Search

	Republic of Love by Carol Shields Search

	Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Search

	Pope Joan by Donna Cross Search

	Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres Search

Hot Titles (Book lists from BH Public Schools, the New York Times and more)
 

Featured New York Times Bestsellers Selection
		Are You Kidding Me? by Rocco Mediate and John Feinstein Search

Featured ALA Best Books for Young Adults Selection
		The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom. by Engle, Margarita. School Library Journal : Gr 9 Up—Often, popular knowledge of Cuba begins and ends with late-20th-century textb... Search

Featured Newbery Medal Winners Selection
		Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Library Journal : Gr 4-7-Motherless Bud shares his amusingly astute rules of life as he hits the road to find the ja... Search

Featured Caldecott Medal Winners Selection
		Hey, Al by Richard Egielski School Library Journal : K Up The theme here is, ``be happy with who you are,'' or maybe, ``there's no free lunch.''... Search

Featured Oprah's Book Club Selection
		The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Publishers Weekly : Third-string Cleveland Browns quarterback Rick Dockery becomes the greatest goat ever by throwin... Search

Featured Agatha Awards Selection
		Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett Publishers Weekly : Puzzles nest within puzzles in this ingeniously plotted and lightly delivered first novel that, ... Search

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