Georgia 7th grade reading list

The 616 books most commonly assigned to Georgia 7th grade students in US schools — each with its reading level and a cited source.

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Books616Lexile410L–1300LSourceGeorgia Standards of Excellence✓ sources cited per book

Most-assigned nationally: across every US state’s official reading and award lists, the Middle (6–8) titles appearing in the most states are The Giver (20 states), The Hunger Games (14 states), and Ground Zero (8 states). From our 2026 study of 13,258 source-cited assignments (as of 2026-07-13).

Start here — most-cited for Georgia 7th grade

These are the 11 titles named in Georgia’s own curriculum documents for this grade — everything below is the wider national list. Read against the Common Core Appendix A complexity band; reading level is not thematic maturity, and several sit below the band because they are assigned for discussion.

  1. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    Mildred D. Taylor

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document and 2 national references, taught from grade 6 to 8. Covers Jim Crow South, family and land, racial injustice. At 920L it sits just under the 925–1185L band for this grade.

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  2. Mexikid

    Pedro Martín

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document and 1 national reference, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  3. The Mona Lisa Vanishes

    Nicholas Day

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document and 1 national reference, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  4. A Work in Progress

    Jarrett Lerner

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 4 to 8. Covers mental health, identity and resilience.

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  5. Farther Than the Moon

    Lindsay Lackey

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  6. Hands

    Torrey Maldonado

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  7. Hoops

    Matt Tavares

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 5. Covers courage, perseverance and history.

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  8. Not an Easy Win

    Chrystal Giles

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  9. The Door of No Return

    Kwame Alexander

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  10. Two Tribes

    Emily Bowen Cohen

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  11. What Happened to Rachel Riley?

    Claire Swinarski

    Cited in 1 Georgia curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8. Covers mystery, school and courage.

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616 books cited for Georgia 7th grade

Assignments tied directly to Georgia’s Georgia Standards of Excellence or national curricula with a Georgia-specific citation.

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About the Georgia 7th grade reading list

In Georgia schools, 7th grade students are most often assigned books drawn from Georgia Standards of Excellencealongside the national curricula that apply nationwide — Common Core State Standards Appendix B, AP English, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. ReadingList currently tracks 616 titles for 7th grade in Georgia, each tied to a Georgia-specific curriculum citation. Across the list, Lexile measures span 410L–1300L.

7th grade sits in the 6-8 grade band, where students are middle-grade readers. At this stage the emphasis is on analyzing theme, character, and author's craft across full-length novels and their first classics. Assigned reading skews toward full-length novels, plays, memoir, and frequently-challenged contemporary titles, with text complexity that, per Common Core’s Appendix A reading bands, typically falls around roughly 700L to 1010L. Measured against that 925–1185L range, of the 54 titles here with a Lexile score 9 are grade-level, 44 are more accessible (often assigned for theme over challenge), and 1 is a stretch text that may need scaffolding. Because readers in a single 7th grade classroom can span several hundred Lexile points, this list is best read as a starting point rather than a fixed requirement.

Georgia’s English Language Arts requirements are set by Georgia Standards of Excellence (gadoe.org). Most states pair their own standards with the Common Core text-complexity framework, so the 7th grade list below blends Georgia-specific assignments with the widely-taught national canon. Every title links to its primary source on the book’s detail page, so you can confirm exactly where and why it is assigned.

How to use this list:match a title to your child’s most recent Lexile or guided-reading level rather than to the grade alone. Teachers building a 7th grade unit can pair a Georgia-cited core text with a grade-appropriate companion novel; parents previewing summer or supplemental reading can check each book’s content notes and challenge history before assigning it.

Common questions

How many books are assigned to 7th grade students in Georgia?
616 books appear on ReadingList for 7th grade students in Georgia, sourced from Georgia Standards of Excellence and national curricula (Common Core, AP, IB) with applicable grade citations.
What's the Lexile range for 7th grade reading in Georgia?
Lexile measures across the 7th grade Georgia reading list range from 410L to 1300L. Books without a published Lexile (poetry, drama, picture books) are not included in this range.
Where does this reading list come from?
Entries reference Georgia Standards of Excellence (published at www.gadoe.org) plus national curricula that apply to Georgia schools: Common Core State Standards Appendix B, AP English Literature and Language, IB Diploma Programme, and Cambridge Assessment International. Every assignment row on each book's detail page links its primary source.

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