Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark by SeaStar Books

They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost (and the whole Track series) by Jason Reynolds Meanwhile, the friends and family they were forced to leave behind must contend with a disinformation campaign that’s determined to pretend nothing is wrong-even as deadly radiation spills into the air. Two young siblings flee the Chernobyl disaster with their parents, but the Communist party is on their heels. For the people of Pripyat, it will be far too late. It will expel radiation across their town for nine days before it’s finally contained.

Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride. Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he’s fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop.Īlina’s best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. You will notice that a few are a little bit longer, I ran this list by my students, of course, and they insisted that some of these books deserved to be on it despite their length because they didn’t “feel or read long.”Īlina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union’s proud nuclear cities. So here are some of the many incredible books that my 7th graders keep passing around for reading and also that were recommended by people online. I have purposefully left graphic novels off of here because they deserve their own list, frankly. Perhaps like me, you also have younger teens who are requesting these books, so I thought pulling a list together might be helpful. And don’t be fooled by their “shorter” page count these books carry a punch. The books that are getting passed around from kid to kid as fast as I can book talk them. The book that manages to suck us in and keep us enthralled in less or around 200 pages.

One of the most popular requests in our 7th-grade classroom this year has been for the “short” book, in fact, just this morning a student asked me for another short amazing read.

Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark by SeaStar Books