Novel Selections for Lit Logs

1. Seventh Grade Novels
Ms. Spinelli
2013-2014

2. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
An accomplished journalist driven solely by his career reconnects
with his former college professor battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
In this long-time favorite, the four lovely and lively March sisters grew
up in New England a century ago, touched by war and each moved to
follow their own path.

4. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The sights and sounds of old Philadelphia are vividly drawn in this
tense, riveting tale of the ravages of the Yellow Fever epidemic.

5. Feed by M.T. Anderson
This story is set in a future world where television and computers are
connected directly into people’s brains when they are babies.

6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient
grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her
brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and local
prejudices.

7. The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
After arriving at her uncle’s estate, orphaned Mary Lennox discovers
the arched doorway into an overgrown garden, shut up since the
death of her aunt ten years earlier.

8. Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card
The government drafts genius child Andrew ―Ender‖ Wiggin to attend
orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training in order to defend
against alien invasions.

9. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Bored with farm life and anxious for some excitement, Henry Fleming
sets off to join the Union troops fighting the Civil War.

10. Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca’s future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of
France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome – yet mysterious –
widower whose sudden proposal takes her by surprise.

11. The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne
Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful
reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human
spirit.

12. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Twelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and
darkness until Annie Sullivan, half-blind herself, arrived to tame the
wild girl no one could reach.

13. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island try to
govern themselves with disastrous results.

14. Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham
Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-
old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets.

15. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: the
socs (those who have money) and the greasers (those who need to
watch their backs).

16. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Charlie Gordon, a mentally disabled adult who cleans floors and
toilets, becomes a genius through an experimental operation.

17. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
As seen through the eyes of his children, this is the
legendary, wrenching story of lawyer Atticus Finch, who takes on a
case that cuts deeply into the heart of racism in the 1930s Deep
South.

18. The Giver by Lois Lowry
In a "perfect" society free of war, fear, and pain, 12-year-old Jonas
begins to understand a disturbing truth.

19. Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Aboard the Hispaniola, Jim Hawkings sails toward Treasure Island,
but soon learns that the ship's cook is really the famous pirate Long
John Silver, who is scheming to steal the loot.

20. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
This great, epic adventure of Bilbo Baggins serves as the prelude to
the legendary Lord of the Rings trilogy.

21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Huck runs away and meets Miss Watson's slave, Jim, hiding on an
island. The runaways begin the memorable adventures that have
enthralled generations of readers.

22. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a
mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to
everyone.

23. Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
The classic story of Phileas Fogg and his exciting race against time
across Europe, Asia, and America.

24. Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an
Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
This riveting memoir explores a girl's painful coming-of-age in a
wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.

25. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
After sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke on a
stranger named Angelo Pignati, they unexpectedly befriended the old
man.

26. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living in Nazi Germany, scratches out a
meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters
something she can’t resist–books.