Rising 7th Grade | Summer 2019 The Gauntlet Listen to Your Heart by Karuna Riazi by Kasie West Sucked into a mechanical board When Kate Bailey let her best friend, game and forced to defeat its Alana, talk her into joining their high diabolical architect in order to free school's podcast she did not expect themselves and others trapped with to -nd herself as the host, or to enjoy them, 12-year-old Farah and her two answering calls and giving advice on best friends receive assistance from the air, but she is actually pretty a lizard guide and an aeronaut good at it. When she gets an while battling fantastical beasts and anonymous call from a boy about solving dif-cult puzzles. his secret feelings for a girl, she is faced with a problem. The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe Batman: Nightwalker by Allyson Braithwaite Condie by Marie Lu A teen captain of her Outpost's last After making an impulsive choice on mining ship targets a band of his way home from his birthday party, thieving river raiders before the Bruce Wayne must do community activities of an unknown traitor make service at Arkham Asylum, where he her question how far she is willing to encounters Madeleine Wallace, a killer go for revenge. with ties to the Nightwalkers terrorizing Gotham. Lucky Little Things by Janice Erlbaum Pizzasaurus Rex Eighth-grader Emma Macintyre is by Justin Wagner mourning the loss of her mother's After inventing a device that allows best friend and struggling to keep Rex Raditude, the Pizzasaurus, to her own friend from drifting away enter his dimension, Jeremy when she receives a mysterious letter Duderman -nds himself on the telling her to list ten lucky things she frontline when Rex is followed by would like to have happen. Emperor Buzzkill and his horde of minions. Everything Else in the Universe Ebb & Flow by Tracy Holczer by Heather Smith When Lucy's practical and orderly After a horrible year in a new town, father is sent to Vietnam to serve as Jett returns to the coast to spend the an Army doctor, she is forced to summer with his grandmother. move in with her superstitious and Where he re-examines his actions of quirky relatives. She eagerly the past year that led him to the anticipates her father's return, only betrayal of a friend and a shameful to -nd him a very changed person. secret he hasn't forgiven himself for. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 7th Grade Page 1 of 4 Rising 7th Grade | Summer 2019 Alice: From Dream to Live in Infamy Dream by Caroline Tung Richmond by Giulio Macaione It has been eighty years since the When her family moves back to Axis won World War II, and America Ohio, Alice, who can enter other was divided between the victors: the people's dreams, tries to get to the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan bottom of the secrets in her small in the West. Now resistance is hometown. This is an otherworldly growing in the Eastern territories trek into a spectacular world of and sixteen-year-old Chinese dreams, nightmares, and being a American Ren Cabot, who has every teenager. Graphic Novel reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, +nds himself drawn into a resistance group Speechless and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death. by Adam P. Schmitt Informed that he will be expected to say a few words at his cousin's wake, The Owls Have Come to 13-year-old Jimmy struggles to come Take Us Away up with something nice to say about by Ronald L. Smith his bullying, destructive cousin before After something strange happens realizing that the words that are truly during a camping trip, twelve-year-old heard are the ones that matter the alien-obsessed Simon suspects he most. has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination? It Wasn't Me by Dana Alison Levy Meet the Sky When Theo's photography project is by McCall Hoyle mysteriously vandalized at school A prospective veterinary student there are +ve suspected students determined to support her mother who all say, "It wasn't me." Theo just and sister in the aftermath of a wants to forget about the disabling accident is separated from humiliating incident but his favorite her family during a hurricane teacher is determined to get to the evacuation and trapped on the Outer bottom of it. Banks with a reckless boy who once broke her heart. The Unsung Hero of Birdsong USA Last of the Name by Brenda Woods by Rosanne Parry Gabriel, twelve, gains new perspective Arriving in 1863 New York City with his when he becomes friends with older sister, 12-year-old Danny Meriwether, a World War II hero who reluctantly pretends to be a girl in has recently returned to the order to accompany his sister into unwelcoming Jim Crow South. domestic service and avoid recruitment into the army. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 7th Grade Page 2 of 4 Rising 7th Grade | Summer 2019 All the Things That Could The Not-So-Boring Letters Go Wrong of Private Nobody by Stewart Foster by Matthew Landis A boy with OCD so severe that it is Seventh grader Oliver, a Civil War dif/cult for him to leave his house buff, is partnered with two mis/ts, and a bully with rage issues who Ella, who is on the verge of failing torments him at school are forced all her classes, and Kevin, who is by their mothers to spend winter Oliver's lunch companion--to break together, an arrangement create a documentary about the that leads to new understandings. wartime experience of the Civil War. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel The Prince and the by Rey Terciero Dressmaker An adaptation of the coming-of- by Jen Wang age novel Little Women features When Prince Sebastian con/des in the four March sisters as they his dressmaker friend Frances that struggle with school woes, health he loves to masquerade at night as issues, boy troubles, and personal the fashionable Lady Crystallia, identity. Graphic novel Frances must decide if Sebastian's secret is worth a lifetime of living in New Kid the shadows. Graphic Novel by Jerry Craft Enrolled in a prestigious private Orange for the Sunsets school where he is one of only a few by Tina Athaide students of color, talented seventh- Two 12-year-old best friends who grade artist Jordan /nds himself have never cared about their torn between the worlds of his differences are torn apart by Washington Heights apartment president Idi Amin's decision to home and the upscale circles of expel Indians from 1972 Uganda, an Riverdale Academy. Graphic Novel order that is complicated by an educational opportunity and The Remarkable Journey escalating community unrest. of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart The Revenge of Magic Living on the road in an old school by James Riley bus with her dad after losing her Losing his father during a giant mother and sisters, 12-year-old creature attack on Washington, D.C., Coyote devises an elaborate plan to young Fort becomes a student at a convince her father to make a /rst secret government school where he trip home to Washington state in /ve years, a journey studies the magic in a mysterious marked by an eclectic group of passengers they meet collection of books to protect the along the way. world from dangerous forces. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 7th Grade Page 3 of 4 Rising 7th Grade | Summer 2019 Squint by Chad Morris The Unteachables Flint desperately wants to win a comic by Gordon Korman book art contest so that he and his new A notorious class of mis-ts, friend McKell will be better accepted at delinquents and academic middle school. Unfortunately, he's underachievers, isolated away from the struggling to get the big prize before he rest of their school, embark on a year goes blind from his eye disease. of unexpected changes with a burned-out teacher who has been Resistance shattered by a cheating scandal. By by Jennifer A. Nielsen the author of Restart. After a smuggling mission to an isolated Jewish ghetto goes wrong and her Braced colleagues are arrested, Chaya Lindner, by Alyson Gerber a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied When Rachel learns that she will need Poland, decides to go to Warsaw, where to wear a back brace to keep her spine an uprising is in the works. straight, she is afraid that she will not be able to play soccer and terri-ed The Dog Who Saved the that she will not be able to hide her Universe condition from her friends and by Ross Welford classmates. When eleven-year-old Georgie's beloved dog, Mr. Mash gets sick with a deadly The Miscalculations of virus that threatens the life of every dog Lightning Girl in the country, she must embark on a by Stacy McAnulty desperate quest, with the help of an Surviving a lightning strike that has eccentric scientist, to save every dog on earth, and given her genius-level math skills, maybe for all of humanity. 12-year-old Lucy is offered entry into college but reluctantly takes her Genesis Begins Again grandmother's advice to attend one by Alicia D.