Curio Class
Grade 7
150 stories, poems and plays that fit grade 7.
Short stories
63 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Martian Odyssey
Stanley G. Weinbaum
A Pail of Air
Fritz Leiber
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Retrieved Reformation
O. Henry
A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle
After Twenty Years
O. Henry
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Beyond Lies the Wub
Philip K. Dick
The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew 3)
Carolyn Keene
The Cabuliwallah
Rabindranath Tagore
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
The Cosmic Express
Jack Williamson
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster
The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield
The Eyes Have It
Philip K. Dick
The Final Problem
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew 2)
Carolyn Keene
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
The House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys 2)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
Kaa's Hunting
Rudyard Kipling
The Last Leaf
O. Henry
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
Little Fuzzy
H. Beam Piper
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
Mowgli's Brothers
Rudyard Kipling
The Musgrave Ritual
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew 4)
Carolyn Keene
The Open Window
Saki
Partners in Crime (selected stories)
Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates (selected stories)
Agatha Christie
The Ransom of Red Chief
O. Henry
The Red-Headed League
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
Rocket Summer
Ray Bradbury
The Runaway Skyscraper
Murray Leinster
The Sargasso of Space
Edmond Hamilton
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew 1)
Carolyn Keene
The Secret of the Old Mill (Hardy Boys 3)
Franklin W. Dixon
Silver Blaze
Arthur Conan Doyle
Smoky, the Cow Horse
Will James
The Story-Teller
Saki
The Three Questions
Leo Tolstoy
Tiger! Tiger!
Rudyard Kipling
Toomai of the Elephants
Rudyard Kipling
The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys 1)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Eric P. Kelly
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
Vanka
Anton Chekhov
White Fang
Jack London
The White Seal
Rudyard Kipling
Year of the Big Thaw
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Youth
Isaac Asimov
Zero Hour
Ray Bradbury
Poems
36 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
A narrow fellow in the grass
Emily Dickinson
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Barter
Sara Teasdale
The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe
The Creation
James Weldon Johnson
Dream Variations
Langston Hughes
Dreams
Langston Hughes
Eldorado
Edgar Allan Poe
Fire and Ice
Robert Frost
Fog
Carl Sandburg
I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson
I, Too
Langston Hughes
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
W. B. Yeats
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
Mother to Son
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
The Pasture
Robert Frost
Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rainbow Gold (selected poems for young readers)
Sara Teasdale (editor)
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
The Stolen Child
W. B. Yeats
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale
There is no frigate like a book
Emily Dickinson
The Tiger
William Blake
The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman
Myths, fables and folk tales
8 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Padraic Colum
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Arabian Nights (Lang)
The Children of Odin: Norse myths
Padraic Colum
The Fisherman and the Genie
Arabian Nights (Lang)
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde
The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
Arabian Nights (Lang)
The Snow Queen
Hans Christian Andersen
Chapter books and novels
38 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
At the Earth's Core
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys 9)
Franklin W. Dixon
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Hunting for Hidden Gold (Hardy Boys 5)
Franklin W. Dixon
Key Out of Time
Andre Norton
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land That Time Forgot
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The Mark of Zorro
Johnston McCulley
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle
The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys 4)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
The Mystery of Cabin Island (Hardy Boys 8)
Franklin W. Dixon
Plague Ship
Andre Norton
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret of the Caves (Hardy Boys 7)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Shore Road Mystery (Hardy Boys 6)
Franklin W. Dixon
Space Tug
Murray Leinster
Star Born
Andre Norton
Star Hunter
Andre Norton
Star Surgeon
Alan E. Nourse
Starman's Quest
Robert Silverberg
Storm Over Warlock
Andre Norton
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
The Time Traders
Andre Norton
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Plays
1 titles · Parts for the whole class.True stories
4 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.Nothing matches yet. The first stories are still on the reading desk.