Great books for 7th & 8th graders!

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Fiction (Juv)

American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
RA664 .Y4 M875 2003 (Juv)

Black Potatoes: the Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Bartoletti
DA950.7 .B37 2001 (Juv)

Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul by Jack Canfield
BJ1631 .C465 2000 (Juv)

Close to Shore: the Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
QL638.93 .C36 2003 (Juv)

Far North by Will Hobbs
Fiction (Teen)

God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant
PZ8.3 .R95 Go 2003 (Juv)

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Fiction (Juv)

Holes by Louis Sachar
Fiction (Juv)

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Fiction (Juv)

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin
DD247 .H5 G49 2002 (Biog) (Teen)

My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
PS3566 .A834 Z47 1998 (Juv)

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
Fiction (Teen)

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Fiction (Teen)

Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Fiction (Teen)

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong
G850 1914 .S53 A76 1998 (Juv)

So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Fiction (Juv)

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Fiction (Teen)

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Fiction (Juv)

We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose
E178.3 .H74 2001 (Juv)