In this novel, a boy imprisoned in a concentration camp and the son of a Nazi commandant develop an unlikely friendship.

If you're crazy enough to want diabetes and cavities, go ahead and stick your dollar in the vending machine. Then read the informational text by Los Angeles Times reporter Karen Kaplan: "Another study highlights the insanity of selling junk food in school vending machines." Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: So Much to Buy, Facts About Marketing to Children, Responsible Marketing, Marketing to kids, America the Not-So-Beautiful, the insanity of selling junk food, Ain't I a Woman?, Remarks to the U.N., Failure to Ban, It's Perverse, But It's Also Pretend, Screen Time?

The alliterative title calls to mind Richard Wright's "Black Boy." Both are memoirs by African-American men who started off mischievous and grew up to become award-winning writers. But as the excerpt from "Bad Boy" shows, Walter Dean Myers is less focused on racial identity and more concerned with connecting to young adult readers. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Road Not Taken, Choices, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Dust Tracks on a Road, Bad Boy, Why Couldn't I Have Been Named Ashley?, Phaethon, Daedalus and Icarus, Arachne, The Lion, the Fox, and the Stag, A Note from the Author, creation myths