Best Adventure Books for 7th Grade

Seventh graders who want a story that keeps moving will find it here. Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion, set in a future country between the United States and Mexico, follows a boy cloned from a powerful drug lord as he tries to escape the life planned for him, and it won the National Book Award. Hatchet and Holes offer classic survival and mystery, while The Penderwicks and Kwame Crashes the Underworld round out the page with lighter fare. Every book here carries a major award or honor.