These books are suggesstions. You do not have to read them all.
For students going into the:

Seventh Grade:
Hostage by: Edward P. Myers
On the Way Home by: Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder
Homecoming by: Cynthia Voight
Dragonwings by: Laurence Yep
Running Out of Time by: Margaret Peterson Haddix
The One Who Came Back by: Joann Mazzio
Julie of the Wolves by: Jean Craighead Geoge
Missing May by: Cynthia Rylant
Shiloh by: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Across Five Aprils by: Irene Hunt
Island of the Blue Dolphins by: Scott O’Dell
The View from Saturday by E L Konigsburg
Holes by: Louis Sachar
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Hoot by: Carl Hiaasen
Bull Rider by: Marilyn Halvorson
Down a Dark Hall and Other Mysteries by the author: Lois Duncan
Slam! by: Walter Dean Myers
Alt ed by: Catherine Atkins
Redwall (series)
Locomotion by: Jacqueline Woodson
Inkheart by: Cornelia Funke
The Lost Years of Merlin (series)
Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes
Tangerine by: Edward Bloor
The Wanderer by: Sharon Creech
The City of Ember by: Jeanne Duprau
The People of Sparks by: Jeanne Duprau
Witness by: Karen Hesse
The Schwa was Here by: Neal Schusterman
Leonardo da Vinci by: Kathleen Krull