7th Grade Core Novel List:

Adem's Cross (Kosovo)
The Diary of Anne Frank (Holocaust)

Extended Novel List:
Soldier Boys (just added)
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid 
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Bat 6
The Cage
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
The Devil's Arithmetic
Dragonwings
Edgar Allen
Eleven Seconds
Forbidden City
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Girl Who Owned a City
Of Nightingales That Weep
Something for Joey
Song of the Buffalo Boy
They Caged the Animals at Night