Book Recommendations for Seventh Grade

We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.

● Agnes Allen: The Story of Michelangelo 

● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman 

● Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen 

● Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country 

● Albert Luthuli: Let My People Go 

● Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers 

● Alfred Lansing: Endurance 

● Alfred Slote: Hang Tough, Paul Mather 

● Ann Nolan Clark: Hoofprint on the Wind 

● Ann Nolan Clark: Santiago 

● Ann Petry: Tituba of Salem Village 

● Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl 

● Armstrong Sperry: Call it Courage 

● Armstrong Sperry: Captain Cook the South Seas 

● Arthur C. Clarke: Indian Ocean Treasure 

● B. T. Washington: Up From Slavery 

● Benary-Isbert: The Ark 

● Bernadine Bailey: Juan Ponce de Leon - First in the Land 

● Camilla Campbell: Coronado and His Captains 

● Captain Cook: Captain Cook 

● Captain Cook: Explores the South Seas 

● Captain Cook: Pacific Explorer 

● Captain Cook: The Quest of Captain Cook 

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Champlain 

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Father of New France 

● Charles Duff: The Truth About Columbus 

● Charles L. Mee: Lorenzo de Medici 

● Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (recommended for girls mainly) 

● Cherry Garrard: Worst Journey in the World 

● Christopher Bick: The Bells of Heaven 

● Coretta Scott King: My Life with Martin Luther King 

● Cosmas Desmond: Discarded People 

● Cynthia Harnett: The Cargo of the Madalena 

● Cynthia Harnett: The Merchant's Mark 

● Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 

● David C.Knight: Titan of Modern Astronomy 

● David C.Knight: Copernicus 

● David Howarth: Shetland Bus 

● Dorothea Snow: Henry Hudson, Explorer of the North 

● Elizabeth Enright: The Truth about Columbus 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Botticello 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Durer 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Michelangelo 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Raphael 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Rembrandt 

● Elizabeth Ripley: Titian 

● Elizabeth Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond 

● Elizabeth Trevino: I. Juan D. Pareja: The Story of Velasquez and His Servant

● Elma Levinger: Galileo 

● Elma Levinger: Leonardo da Vinci 

● Emily Hahn: Mary Queen of Scots 

● Enid Bagnold: National Velvet 

● Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft: Ship Boy with Columbus 

● Eric Philbrook Kelly: The Trumpeter of Krakow 

● Eric Williams: The Tunnel 

● Eric Williams: Wooden Horse 

● Erich M. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front 

● Esther Averill: Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence 

● Eva Curie: Madame Curie 

● Eve Curie: Madame Curie 

● Felice Holman: Slake's Limbo 

● Felix Riesenberg: Balboa, Swordsman and Conquistador 

● Fred Gipson: Old Yeller 

● Geoffrey Trease: Sir Walter Raleigh 

● Gerald Durrel: My Family and other Animals 

● H. G. Wells: The Time Machine 

● Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie 

● Harold Lamb: Chief of the Cossacks 

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde 

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All Men 

● Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

● Harry Fosdick: Martin Luther 

● Heinz Sponsel: Copernicus Struggle and Victory 

● Helen Keller: Journal of Helen Keller 

● Helen Keller: The World I Live In 

● Howard Pyle: Champion of the Round Table 

● Howard Pyle: King Arthur and his Knights 

● Howard Pyle: Sir Lancelot and his Companions 

● Ingwe: Ingwe (Stories of the Akamba people of Kenya) 

● Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils 

● Irene Hunt: Up a Road Slowly 

● Irving Stone: Michelangelo 

● Irwin R. Blacker: Cortes and the Aztec Conquest 

● J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings (trilogy) 

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit 

● Jack London: Call of the Wild 

● Jack London: Sea-Wolf 

● Jacob Streit: Columban 

● Jacob Streit: Geron and Virtus 

● Jacques Lusseyran: And There Was Light 

● James Collier: Became a Winner 

● James Collier: The Teddy Bear Habit or How I 

● James Fisher: Shackleton 

● Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 

● Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain 

● Jeanette Mirsky: Balboa 

● Jeanette Mirsky: Discoverer of the Pacific 

● Jill Paton Walsh: Children of the Fox 

● Jim Kjelgaard: The Explorations of Pere Marquette 

● John Lewis: Martin Luther King 

● John Masefield: The Bird of Dawning 

● John Nechardt: Eagle Voice 

● John Steinbeck: The Pearl 

● Joy Adamson: Born Free 

● Katherine Paterson: The Master Puppeteer 

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) 

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) 

● Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass 

● Lloyd Alexander: Taran Wanderer 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Black Cauldron 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Castle of Llyr 

● Lloyd Alexander: The High King 

● Lloyd Alexander: The Truthful Harp 

● Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention 

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Men 

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Christopher Columbus 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Drake 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Marco Polo 

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Vasco da Gama 

● Louise S. Rankin: Daughter of the Mountains 

● Lynn Hail: Dog of the Bondi Castle 

● M. McKendrick: Ferdinand and Isabella 

● Madeleine L'engle: Meet the Austins 

● Madeleine L'engle: The Arm of the Starfish 

● Madeleine L'engle: The Young Unicorns 

● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica 

● Margaret A. Stanger: That Quail Robert 

● Marguerite Vance: Elisabeth Tudor 

● Marian King: Young Mary Stuart 

● Marilyn Sachs: A Summer’s Lease 

● Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper 

● Martin Luther King: Chaos or Community 

● Mary Stewart: Crystal Cave 

● May McNeer: Stranger in the Pines 

● McNeer-Ward: Martin Luther 

● Michal Rusinek: Land of Nicholas Copernicus (about astronomy)

● Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 

● Nancy Bona: A String in the Harp 

● Nancy Wilson Ross: Joan of Arc 

● Nina Brown Baker: Henry Hudson 

● Nina Brown Baker: Juan Ponce de Leon 

● Noah Brooks: The Story of Marco Polo 

● Norma Johnston: The Keeping Days 

● Norma Klein: Mom, the Wolfman, and Me 

● Paul Brickhill: Reach for the Sky 

● Peter Abrahams: Tell Freedom 

● Prince Madupe: I Was a Savage 

● Random House: EYEWITNESS BOOKS (Extensive series includes books on animals, minerals, plantlife, weather, human beings, etc.) 

● Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine 

● Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles 

● Regine Pernoud: The Story of Joan of Arc 

● Retold by Robin Lester: The Legend of King Arthur 

● Richard E. Byrd: Alone 

● Richard Peck: The Ghost Belonged to Me 

● Robert Falcon Scott: Scott's Last Expedition 

● Robert L. Stevenson: Kidnapped 

● Robert Newton Peck: Soup 

● Roger Duvoisin: The Four Corners of the World 

● Roger Greene: Tales of King Arthur 

● Ronald Syme: Balboa, Finder of the Pacific 

● Ronald Syme: Captain Cook, Pacific Explorer 

● Ronald Syme: Champlain of the St. Lawrence 

● Ronald Syme: Henry Hudson 

● Rosemary Harris: Bright and Morning Star 

● Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous 

● Rudyard Kipling: Kim 

● Ruth Cromer Weir: Marco Polo 

● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women 

● Seymour Gates Pond: Ferdinand Magellan, Master Mariner 

● Sidney Rosen: Doctor Paracelsus 

● Sidney Rosen: Galileo and the Magic of Numbers 

● Sidney Rosen: The Harmonious World of Johann Kepler 

● Susan Cooper: Dark is Rising 

● Silviu Craciunas: Lost Footsteps 

● T. E. Bethancourt: Instruments of Darkness 

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi in Two Worlds 

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi, Last of his Tribe 

● Theodore Taylor: The Cay 

● Theodore Taylor: Timothy of the Cay 

● Thor Heyerdahl: Kon-Tiki 

● Thor Heyerdahl: Ra 

● Tom Dooley: The Night They Burned the Mountain 

● Ursula Le Guin: The Farthest Shore 

● Ursula Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan 

● Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of EarthSea 

● Virginia Hamilton: The Great M. C. Higgins 

● Virginia Hamilton: The House of Dies Drear 

● Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

● Washington Irving: The Voyages of Columbus 

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: 40 Years for Labrador 

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: A Labrador Doctor 

● William Armstrong: Sounder 

● William Bixby: The Universe of Galileo and Newton 

● William James: Smoky, the Cowhorse 

● William Mayne: Earthfasts 

● Willo Davis Roberts: The View from the Cherry Tree 

● Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows 

● Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic