2000s books assigned in 7th grade
US schools assign 218 books written in the 2000s to 7th grade students, across 38 states, spanning 600L–950L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
Most widely assigned from the 2000s
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · on 23 reading lists
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- Titles
- 218
- Written
- 2000–2009
- Lexile range
- 600L–950L
- States assigning
- 38
The list — 2000s, 7th grade
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12 AgainSue Corbett
A Corner of the UniverseAnn M. Martin
A Life in the WildPamela S. Turner
A Mango-Shaped SpaceWendy Mass
A Room on Lorelei StreetMary E. Pearson
A Season of GiftsRichard Peck
A Single ShardLinda Sue Park · 920L
A Year Down YonderRichard Peck
Absolutely Positively NotDavid LaRochelle
Adopted by an OwlRobbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen
Al Capone Does My ShirtsGennifer Choldenko
Alabama MoonWatt Key
All the Lovely Bad OnesMary Downing Hahn
Almost AstronautsTanya Lee Stone
An American PlagueJim Murphy
An American PlagueJim Murphy
And the Dish Ran Away with the SpoonJanet Stevens
Arnie, the DoughnutLaurie Keller
As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President!Donna Gephart
AshMalinda Lo
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's SongAshley Bryan
Bad News for OutlawsVaunda Micheaux Nelson
Boxes for KatjeCandace Fleming
Breathe: A Ghost StoryCliff McNish
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- Bronx Masquerade
- Bucking the Sarge
- Chains
- Children of the Great Depression
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine
- Closed for the Season
- Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
- Copper Sun
- Cracker The Best Dog in Vietnam
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead
- Criss Cross
- Cryptid Hunters
- Darkness Over Denmark
- Day of Tears
- Deep and Dark and Dangerous
- Define "Normal"
- Devilish
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Dooby Dooby Moo
- Double Fudge
- Dovey Coe
- Down the Rabbit Hole
- Dragon Rider
- Dust to Eat
- Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace
- Eragon
- Esperanza Rising
- Every Soul a Star
- Fablehaven
- Fever 1793
- FIREBOAT
- Firegirl
- Flipped
- Flora Segunda
- Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have
- Frankenstein Takes the Cake
- Girl in a Cage
- Good Masters Sweet Ladies
- Graceling
- Gregor the Overlander
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Hattie Big Sky
- Heir Apparent
- Henry's Freedom Box
- High Heat
- Home of the Brave
- Hoot
- Hostage
- I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
- Ice
- Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
- In the Belly of the Bloodhound
- Into the Wild
- Jenny of the Tetons
- John, Paul, George and Ben
- Kira-Kira
- Knocked Out by Nunga-Nungas
- Leon's Story
- Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer
- Letters from a Slave Girl
- Life as We Knew It
- Lord of the Deep
- Loser
- Love That Dog
- Magyk
- Marching For Freedom
- Mary, Bloody Mary
- Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness
- Milkweed
- Million-Dollar Throw
- Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
- Miracle's Boys
- Mississippi Trial, 1955
- Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
- Mr. Lincoln's Way
- Mr. Maxwell's Mouse
- Mystery at the Club Sandwich
- Nation
- Night Hoops
- Nightmare at the Book Fair
- No More Dead Dogs
- No Talking
- Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch
- Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe
- Peace, Locomotion
- Peeps
- Perfect
- Peter and the Starcatchers
- Point Blank
- Powerless
- Project Mulberry
- Rapunzel's Revenge
- Red Kayak
- Red Midnight
- Remember
- Rules
- Rules
- Savvy
- Say What?
- Scat
- Schooled
- Sea of the Dead
- Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
- Skeleton Creek
- Skeleton Man
- Small Steps
- So B. It
- Some of the Kinder Planets
- Son of the Mob
- Space Station Science
- Star in the Storm
- Stargirl
- Stepping Up
- Stolen Children
- Stormbreaker
- Stormwitch
- Stuck in Neutral
- Surviving the Applewhites
- Swindle
- Team Moon
- Tending to Grace
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- The Amethyst Road
- The Art of Keeping Cool
- The Babe and I
- The Boxer
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- The Boy Who Dared
- The Cats in Krasinski Square
- The City of Ember
- The Compound
- The Double Life of Pocahontas
- The End of the Beginning
- The Fire Eaters
- The First Part Last
- The Folk Keeper
- The Game of Silence
- The Ghost's Grave
- The Gollywhopper Games
- The Graveyard Book
- The Green Glass Sea
- The Higher Power of Lucky
- The Hotel Under the Sand
- The Hunger Games
- The Intruder
- The Jamie and Angus Stories
- The King of Attolia
- The Knife of Never Letting Go
- The Land
- The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
- The Lincolns
- The Longitude Prize
- The Maze of Bones
- The Maze Runner
- The Name of This Book Is Secret
- The Penderwicks
- The River Between Us
- The Schwa was Here
- The Sea of Trolls
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- The Stranger Next Door
- The Strongest Man in the World
- The Supernaturalist
- The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición
- The Swamp Fox of the Revolution
- The Tale of Despereaux
- The Tequila Worm
- The True Meaning of Smekday
- The Voice That Challenged a Nation
- The Wall
- The Wall
- There's a Bat in Bunk Five
- Things Not Seen
- Togo
- Touching Spirit Bear
- Trouble Don't Last
- True Believer
- Twilight
- Upon the Head of the Goat
- Vintage
- Waiting for Normal
- We Are the Ship
- We Are the Ship
- When the Wolves Returned
- When You Reach Me
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Word Eater
- Worth
- Yellow Star
- Zen and the Art of Faking It
- Zoe's Tale
Most-assigned 2000s authors in 7th grade
Gordon Korman (4) · Richard Peck (3) · Mary Downing Hahn (3) · Jerry Spinelli (3) · Peg Kehret (3) · Wendy Mass (2)
Common questions
- How many 2000s books are assigned in 7th grade?
- 218 books written between 2000 and 2009 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 2000s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 2000s titles assigned in 7th grade run from 600L to 950L. 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?
- 38 states assign at least one 2000s 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.