
Seventh Grade
Seventh grade is where most families first wonder whether they are qualified. You are. What you need is one math book instead of three, a way to find the piece that is missing underneath, and books your child will not put down. All three are on this shelf.
How to use it: ninety minutes, four days a week, math first. The reading is the year's real work. A seventh grader who reads two thousand pages has done language arts, whatever the workbook says.
The whole year in one place: The Whole Year: 7th Grade. For the kid who reads fast: The Hunger Games Shelf.
Shop our Seventh Grade products below
Weird But True 4: Expanded Edition: 350 Outrageous Facts
Weird But True! Human Body: 300 Outrageous Facts about Your Awesome Anatomy
Weird But True 8: Expanded Edition: 350 Outrageous Facts
Weird But True! Expanded Edition: 350 Outrageous Facts
Weird But True! Know-It-All: Weather & Natural Disasters
Weird But True! Gross: 300 Slimy, Sticky, and Smelly Facts
Weird But True! Ocean: 300 Fantastic Facts from the Deep Blue Sea
Weird But True! Sharks: 300 Fin-Nomenal Facts to Dive Into
Weird But True! Dinosaurs: 300 Dino-Mite Facts to Sink Your Teeth Into
Weird But True! Animals: 300 Outrageous Facts about Wacky Wildlife
Emi and the Rhino Scientist
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Expedition / Survival
Why it works: Terri Roth's search for a wild Sumatran rhino and her work with Emi at the Cincinnati Zoo give conservation a face, a place, and a difficult goal. Rhino biology matters because saving the species depends on it.
Island of the Blue Dolphins: An Instructional Guide for Literature
The Wild Out Your Window
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Story / Adventure
Why it works: The Wild Out Your Window gathers Sy Montgomery's season-by-season newspaper essays into fifty invitations to meet nearby plants, birds, animals, and insects firsthand. Humor, lore, and personal encounters turn an ordinary backyard into a recurring field destination rather than a catalog of species.
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Expedition / Survival
Why it works: Kathryn Lasky and Christopher Knight follow canopy scientist Meg Lowman as she uses slings, walkways, and climbing systems to reach an ecosystem most people never see. Photographs and the field journey make rainforest layers, organisms, research questions, and access methods part of one scientist's working expedition.

