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