These texts were specifically chosen by Booksource to support seventh grade-level instruction based on the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. The range of selected texts includes poetry and drama (RL.7.4 and RL.7.5), texts that lend themselves to the study of story elements (RL.7.3), historical fiction accounts covering the same time periods to allow for comparisons across texts (RL.7.9), and multiple nonfiction texts that deal with similar topics to allow for comparisons across texts (RI.7.9).