Our 7th Grade Homeschool Reading List

  Last week I shared our 10th grade homeschool reading list with you all, and today I’d like to share our 7th grade homeschool reading list. Our daughter’s list is built in part from suggestions from Ready Readers 3 and Reading Roadmaps. Both guides are ones that I highly recommend if you are looking to build quality literature lists for your children. The Ready Reader provides a comprehensive look at the included books in areas such as  conflict, plot, setting, characters, theme, literary devices and author of the stories. It also contains  a fabulous set of questions (and answers) to get us started. We loved the one we used last year and look forward to this one as well. McKenna and I are definitely looking forward to many of the books on her list, and she has already finished three of the books. Each week we sit down together and talk about different aspects of the books that she is reading, including the story line, characters, theme, etc…

Our 7th Grade Homeschool Reading List

• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit(carry over from last year)
• At the Back of the North Wind by George McDonald (another carryover)
• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
• Watership Down by Richard Adamas
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

This list doesn’t include our family read alouds or any books or series that she chooses to read during her free time. Typically she has an assignment due for each book: a short paper summary or a story map with corresponding questions for the book. There are a few books that will require a ‘deeper’ paper for her this year as well.

A few of the above books have a video version available, so we are going to have some movie fun together (McKenna is definitely looking forward to that!). Comparing the movie to the book is a great process as well, especially since they often differ so much from each other!

  

Homeschool Reading Lists for our Other Children

Interested in seeing reading lists for our other kids as well? Check out our reading choices for this and past years by clicking on the links below.

• 3rd grade homeschool reading list
• 4th grade homeschool reading list
• 5th grade homeschool reading list
• 6th grade homeschool reading list
• 9th grade homeschool reading list
• 10th grade homeschool reading list

See all of our curriculum choices for this school year in our 7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices post. It includes our lit program and several other wonderful programs we are loving!

What books are on your child’s reading list for this year?