Top 10 Trending Books For 7th Graders

Featuring popular books-turned-movies The Maze Runner and The Fault in Our Stars! For other grades, be sure to check out what kids are reading.

1. Looking for Alaska (John Green)

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Sixteen-year-old Miles's first year at a prep school includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

2. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy.

3. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)

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Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and, as they fall in love, they both wonder how they will be remembered.

4. City of Glass (Cassandra Clare)

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Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, where she uncovers important truths about her family's past. Book #3 of Mortal Instruments series.

5. I Funny: A Middle School Story (James Patterson)

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Jamie loves to tell jokes, but will he choke in the spotlight of a comedy contest, or worse, get the sympathy vote because of his wheelchair?

6. City of Ashes (Cassandra Clare)

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Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the changes in her life as she becomes more involved with the Shadowhunters and discovers some terrifying truths about her family and her boyfriend, Simon. Book #2 of Mortal Instruments series.

7. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story (Linda Sue Park)

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Eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family when the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, and he must walk with other Dinka tribe members in search of a safe haven.

8. Legend (Marie Lu)

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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover they have a common enemy. The plot contains graphic violence. Book #1 of Legend series.

9. Wonder (R.J. Palacio)

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Ten-year-old Auggie, born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school, where he endures taunts and bullying and struggles to be seen as just another student.

10. City of Bones (Cassandra Clare)

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Able to see demons and the Shadowhunters dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, Clary, age 15, is drawn into a bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed. Book #1 of Mortal Instruments series.