1990s books assigned in 7th grade
US schools assign 129 books written in the 1990s to 7th grade students, across 39 states, spanning 660L–1010L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
Most widely assigned from the 1990s
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · on 25 reading lists
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- Titles
- 129
- Written
- 1990–1999
- Lexile range
- 660L–1010L
- States assigning
- 39
The list — 1990s, 7th grade
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A Bad Case of StripesDavid Shannon
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and WonderWalter Wick
A Time of TroublesPieter Van Raven
AirbornKenneth Oppel
Ajeemah and His SonJames Berry
Aliens Ate My HomeworkBruce Coville
Among the HiddenMargaret Peterson Haddix
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping BirdsCynthia Rylant
BlackwaterEve Bunting
Bob and Jack: A Boy and His YakJeffrey Moss
BoneJeff Smith
Brother Eagle, Sister SkySusan Jeffers
Bud, Not BuddyChristopher Paul Curtis · 950L
Bull RunPaul Fleischman
Catherine, Called BirdyKaren Cushman
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the QuartersPat McKissack
Christopher Changes His NameItah Sadu
Chuck CloseRobert Storr
CrashJerry Spinelli
Danger ZoneDavid Klass
Dead Man in Indian CreekMary Downing Hahn
Dog BreathDav Pilkey
Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. DunphreyMargaret Peterson Haddix
Drive-ByLynne Ewing
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- Ella Enchanted
- Flight #116 Is Down!
- Forged by Fire
- Forty Acres And Maybe A Mule
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Frindle
- Goldengrove ; Unleaving
- Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House
- Harris and Me
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Heart of a Champion
- Heaven
- Her Stories
- Holes
- Jip
- Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
- Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth
- Kids at Work
- Lawn Boy
- Loch
- Make Lemonade
- Maniac Magee
- Martha Graham
- Math Curse
- Mick Harte Was Here
- Missing May
- Morning Girl
- Night Terrors
- Nightjohn
- Nova's Ark
- Now Is Your Time
- Orphan Train Rider
- Out of the Dust
- Pink and Say
- Poppy
- Rescue Josh McGuire
- Riding Freedom
- Romiette and Julio
- Rules of the Road #1
- Running Out of Time
- Saving Shiloh
- Shape-Changer
- Sharing Susan
- Shiloh
- Shiloh Season
- Slam
- Small Steps
- Sniper
- Sojourner Truth
- Sparrow Hawk Red
- Spirit Seeker
- Spying on Miss Müller
- Stepping on the Cracks
- Stones in Water
- Tangerine
- Tarot Says Beware
- The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
- The Birchbark House
- The Bomb
- The Boy's War
- The Boys Start the War
- The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
- The Dark-Thirty
- The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm
- The Face on the Milk Carton
- The Friends
- The Ghost of Fossil Glen
- The Giver
- The Great Little Madison
- The Grizzly
- The Haunting
- The Hero of Bremen
- The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark
- The Legend of Mackinac Island
- The Long Road to Gettysburg
- The Midwife's Apprentice
- The Moorchild
- The Name of the Game Was Murder
- The Rain Catchers
- The River
- The Road to Memphis
- The Silver Kiss
- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
- The Sweetest Fig
- The Top of the World
- The Transall Saga
- The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- The View from Saturday
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
- The Wishing Spell
- The Wright Brothers
- There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around
- There's a Girl in My Hammerlock
- Toning the Sweep
- Twisted Summer
- Two Suns in the Sky
- Under the Blood-Red Sun
- Virtually Perfect
- Walk Two Moons
- Weslandia
- When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
- White Water
- Zach's Lie
Most-assigned 1990s authors in 7th grade
Gary Paulsen (5) · Russell Freedman (4) · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (4) · Margaret Peterson Haddix (3) · Eve Bunting (3) · Jerry Spinelli (3)
Common questions
- How many 1990s books are assigned in 7th grade?
- 129 books written between 1990 and 1999 appear on 7th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- What Lexile range do these 1990s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 1990s titles assigned in 7th grade run from 660L to 1010L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.
- Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?
- 39 states assign at least one 1990s title at 7th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.