7th grade Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) reading list
Books referenced by Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) at the 7th grade level. Source: pyrcapsla.wixsite.com.
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About the 7th grade Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) reading list
Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) is the Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) framework. ReadingList tracks 34 titles referenced by Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) at the 7th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 550L–950L. The framework is published at pyrcapsla.wixsite.com.
At the 7th grade level — the 6-8grade band — students are middle-grade readers, with the curriculum focused on analyzing theme, character, and craft in full-length novels and first classics. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 700L to 1010L. Measured against that 925–1185L range, of the 10 titles here with a Lexile score 1 is grade-level, 9 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 7th grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) expects.
How to use this list: treat the Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 7th gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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34 books
Among the HiddenMargaret Peterson Haddix
AwkwardSvetlana Chmakova
Black Brother, Black BrotherJewell Parker Rhodes
Bud, Not BuddyChristopher Paul Curtis · 950L
ChompCarl Hiaasen
CrashJerry Spinelli
Drums, Girls & Dangerous PieJordan Sonnenblick
EragonChristopher Paolini
Fish in a TreeLynda Mullaly Hunt · 550L
FoundMargaret Peterson Haddix
Gregor the OverlanderSuzanne Collins
Ground ZeroAlan Gratz
Heart of a ChampionCarl Deuker
HolesLouis Sachar · 660L
HootCarl Hiaasen · 760L
InvisibleChristina Diaz Gonzalez
Maniac MageeJerry Spinelli · 820L
New KidJerry Craft
Out of My MindSharon M. Draper · 700L
Parachute KidsBetty C. Tang- Peter and the StarcatchersDave BarryPeter and the StarcatchersDave Barry
Prisoner B-3087Alan Gratz
RefugeeAlan Gratz · 800L
ShilohPhyllis Reynolds Naylor · 890L
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- Spying on Miss Müller · Eve Bunting
- The Fourteenth Goldfish · Jennifer L. Holm
- The Giver · Lois Lowry
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) · Rick Riordan
- The Name of This Book Is Secret · Pseudonymous Bosch
- The Red Pyramid · Rick Riordan
- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales · Jon Scieszka
- The Sweetest Fig · Chris Van Allsburg
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre · Gail Carson Levine
- When Stars Are Scattered · Victoria Jamieson