7th-8th Grade Booklist

Favorite picks and great reads for 7th & 8th grade readers selected by our teen librarians. The Young Adult Collection is made up of books for a wide age range (12-18 years old) and includes a variety of different topics and interests. Not all titles will be appropriate for all readers.

Showing 1 - 10 of 10  There are a total of 23 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Ashlords"
Star rating for Ashlords
Series:
Ashlords volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Follows alchemists Imelda, Adrian, and Pippa as they reach for their dreams of glory riding phoenix horses at The Races, the modern spectacle that has replaced warfare within their empire.
Book cover for "Better Nate than ever"
Star rating for Better Nate than ever
Author:
Series:
Nate volume 1.
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
Description:
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T."
Book cover for "The last cuentista"
Star rating for The last cuentista
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
Book cover for "The librarian of Auschwitz"
Star rating for The librarian of Auschwitz
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
Book cover for "My so-called Bollywood life"
Star rating for My so-called Bollywood life
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Winnie Mehta was never really convinced that Raj was her soul mate, but their love was written in the stars. Literally, a pandit predicted Winnie would find the love of her life before her eighteenth birthday, and Raj meets all the qualifications. Which is why Winnie is shocked when she returns from her summer at film camp to find her boyfriend of three years hooking up with Jenny Dickens. As a self-proclaimed Bollywood expert, Winnie knows this is...
Book cover for "A phở love story"
Star rating for A phở love story
Author:
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
High school seniors Bảo and Linh, whose feuding families own competing Vietnamese restaurants, conceal their budding romance, as well as Linh's desire to become an artist.
Book cover for "Pride and premeditation"
Star rating for Pride and premeditation
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it.
Book cover for "The summer we forgot"
Star rating for The summer we forgot
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Told in alternating voices, Darby, her ex-boyfriend Morgan, and their friends become embroiled in a murder investigation when their science teacher's body is discovered at the summer camp they all attended.
Book cover for "The Unwanteds"
Star rating for The Unwanteds
Author:
Series:
The Unwanteds volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
Book cover for "When Dimple met Rishi"
Star rating for When Dimple met Rishi
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting an arranged marriage with him.