7th Grade Booklist | Indian Prairie Public Library District

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Eighth-grader Theo Rollins' growth spurt has Coach Mandrake trying to transform him into a basketball star, but training time is hurting the science club's chances of winning the "Aca-lympics," and being accused of stealing could mean Theo is off both teams.

2) Posted

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Anderson, John David

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When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.

3) Mini weapons of mass destruction: build implements of spitball warfare

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Austin, John

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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction

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PopularMechanics.com selection for one of The Best DIY and Home Improvement Books of 2009  We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and (of course) matches and barbeque lighters—troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an...

4) Hitler Youth: growing up in Hitler's shadow

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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

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The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world."--Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg,1933. By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5...

5) Bootleg: murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition

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Blumenthal, Karen

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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist 2012

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For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness,...

6) The raft

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Bodeen, S. A

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Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters. Fighting for her life, the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins.

7) Eighth grade bites

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Brewer, Z

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Chronicles of Vladimir Tod volume 1

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For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.

8) Anya's ghost

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Brosgol, Vera

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Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend wasn't one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-concious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend--even a dead one--is just what she needs. But Anya's new BFF isn't kidding...

9) Code talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

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Bruchac, Joseph

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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

10) Greetings from witness protection!

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Burt, Jake

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Thirteen-year-old Nicki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors' daughter in witness protection, but she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family's security comes from her own past.

11) The face on the milk carton

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Cooney, Caroline B

Series

Janie Johnson volume 1

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A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

12) The London Eye mystery

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Dowd, Siobhan

Series

Brilliance Audio on compact disc

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When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

13) The house of the scorpion

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Farmer, Nancy

Series

Thorndike large print young adult

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In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 140 -year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

14) Lily and Dunkin

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Gephart, Donna

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"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...

15) Girl code: gaming, going viral, and getting it done

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Gonzales, Andrea

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The teenage phenoms behind viral video game Tampon Run share the story of their experience at Girls Who Code and their rise to fame, plus a savvy look at starts-ups, women in tech, and the power of coding. This book includes bonus content to help you get started coding.

16) When friendship followed me home

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Griffin, Paul

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"Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in." -- Why bother making friends when they just end up leaving or hurting you somehow? Ben Coffin would prefer to stick with his favorite fictional characters, thank you very much. But that's before he meets Halley - yes, like the comet. Once Halley convinces Ben to write a book with...

17) The lab

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Heath, Jack

Series

Six of Hearts volume 1

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"Meet a sixteen-year-old superhuman: Agent Six of Hearts. He's the strongest, most effective agent in the Deck, a team of special agents fighting to uphold justice in a completely corrupt world. Six would be invincible... if not for a deadly secret. He's the product of an illegal experiment by the Lab-- a ruthless division of the corporation that controls his world. When the Deck begins to investigate the Lab, Six walks a tightrope between his two...

18) Girl in the blue coat

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Hesse, Monica

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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke - a 'finder' of black market goods - is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"-- Provided by publisher.

19) Wesley James ruined my life

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Honeybourn, Jennifer

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Sixteen-year-old Quinn looks to get even with her worst enemy and now co-worker, Wesley, but when she starts to fall in love with him she has to decide whether she she wants to get revenge or get the boy.

20) Sit, stay, love

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Howard, J. J

Series

Wish

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"When a cute pug named Potato is brought in to the shelter where Cecilia Murray volunteers, she knows he is the dog she's been waiting for. There's just one problem: Eric Chung - a popular, arrogant boy from school - adopts Potato first. What's worse, he hopes to train the little tater to become a show-dog superstar. So Cecilia sets out to sabotage Eric's plans. But the more time Cecilia spends with Potato and Eric, the more she questions everything...