Book Choices by Lexile
Mummies in the Morning – Osborne (Adventure, time travel, Ancient Egypt, 230)
Night of the Ninjas – Osborne (Adventure, Historical Fiction, 280)
Knight at Dawn – Osborne (Adventure, Historical Fiction, 310)
Blue Bay Mystery – Warner (Mystery, Vacation, 340)
Candor – Bachorz (Dystopias, brainwashing, 350)
Bad Hare Day – Stine (Horror, 380)
Black Eyed Suzie – Shaw (Realistic Fiction, Mental Illness, 380)
Upstairs Room – BIO REI (Holocaust, Biography, 380)
Anna is Still Here – Voss (Holocaust, Historical Fiction, 420)
Hanging on to Max – Bechard (Realistic fiction, teen parenting, 420)
Who was that Masked Man Anyway – Avi (WWII, Historical fiction, radio Programs, 420)
The Lighthouse Mystery – Warner (Mystery, 440)
Dead-End Job – Grant (Stalking, 440)
True (Sort of…) – Hannigan (Realistic Fiction, Friendship, 440)
Perfect Revenge – Denman (Fantasy, Magic, revenge, 450)
The Wild Kid – Mazer (Developmentally Delayed, Runaways, 450)
Bluish – Hamilton (Leukemia, School, 460)
Crazy Jack – Napoli (Fairy Tale Retelling, Fantasy, 460)
Kit’s Wilderness – Almond (Ghosts, historical fiction, 470)
Nine Doors – Grant (Orca, Games, friendship, 470)
Ninth Ward – Rhodes (Hurricane Katrina, Survival, 470)
Snowbound Mystery – Warner (Mystery, 480)
Beyond Repair – Peterson (Orca, realistic fiction, grief, 480)
Riley Park – Tulleson (Orca, death of friend, 480)
Virals – Reichs (Mystery, 480)
Fudge-a-Mania – Blume (Humor, 490)
Crackback – Coy (Football, verbal abuse, realistic fiction, 490)
Three Days – Napoli (Kidnapping, Italy, 490)
The Wish – Levine (Popularity, friendship, 490)
Between Shades of Gray – Septys (historical fiction, Lithuania, 490)
Spacer and Rat – Bechard (Space, science Fiction, 500)
Supernaturalism – Colfer (Fantasy, Orphans, Friendship, 500)
Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 – Evans (Thriller, adventure, Science Fiction, friendship, 500)
Don’t You Know there’s a War On? – Avi (Historical fiction, WWII, Teachers, 500)
Finding Buck McHenry – Slote (Historical Fiction, Negro Leagues, baseball, 500)
Whirlwind – Matas (historical fiction, WWII, 500)
Fight For Life – Anderson (Animal rescue, 510)
Names Will Never Hurt Me – Adoff (school, emotional problems, 510)
The Absent Author – Roy (1st in series, Mystery, 510)
I Heart You, You Haunt Me – Schroeder (Ghosts, Love, 510)
Milkweed – Spinelli (Holocaust, Historical Fiction, 510)
Say Yes – Coulumbis (Step-Mothers, Stealing, Missing Persons, 510)
Timmy Failure: Mistakes were Made – Pastis (Humor, Mystery, 520)
Something Like Fate – Colasanti (Romance, realistic fiction, friendships, 520)
One for the Murphys – Hunt (Foster Care, 520)
Silver – Mazer (Friendship, Molestation, 520)
Last Dance – McDaniel (Dance, Diabetes, Realistic Fiction, 520)
Dunk – Lubar (Amusement Parks, Clowns, 520)
Bull Rider – Halverson (Rodeos, 520)
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have – Zadoff (School football, 520)
Wolf Rider – Avi (Mystery, 530)
Gender Blender – Nelson (freaky Friday type switch between a boy and a girl, 530)
Sparrow Road – O’Conner (secrets, 530)
The Secret of Sarah Revere – Rinaldi (Historical fiction, spies, revolutionary war, 530)
A Boy at War – Mazer (WWII, Historical Fiction, Pearl Harbor 530)
Timescape – Liparulo (Time Travel, Horror, 530)
Battle of the Amphere – Evans (Science Fiction, 3rd in series, 530)
Catcher with a Glass Arm – Christopher (Baseball, 540)
The Bridge from Me to You – Schroeder (Football, Love, Secrets, 540)
Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters – Giles (Mystery, 550)
The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson – Williams (abuse, neglect, mental illness, RF, 550)
Explore – Goerzen (Juvinile deliquents, wilderness survival, 550)
Benched – Watson (Pranks, gangs, 560)
Wired – Brouwer (Snowboarding, 560)
Trickster – Anderson (Animals, Horses, 560)
Superfudge – Blume
(humor, 560)
Keep Holding On – Colosanti (Romance, Realistic Fiction, Poverty, Bullying, 560)
Revolution – Donnelly (Family, Diaries, Historical fiction, France, 560)
Crash – Spinelli (Realistic Fiction, Humor, Friendship, 560)
Drive-By – Ewing (Death, Gang Violence, 560)
Basketball (or something Like it) – Baskin (Realistic fiction, basketball, family, 570)
The Compound – Bodeen (Survival, Psychopaths, 570)
Heartland: Coming Home – Brooke (Horses, 570)
I Heart You, You Haunt Me- Schroder (Ghosts, Romance, 570)
Love, Ruby Lavender – Wilson (Realistic Fiction, Grandparents, Death, 570)
Love, Aubrey – LaFluer (Friendship, grief, letters, 570)
Center Court Sting – Christopher (basketball, 570)
Zach’s Lie – Smith (Drug Dealers, Witness Protection, 580)
Haunting at Home Plate – Pateneaude (Baseball, Ghosts, 580)
House of Dark Shadows – Liparulo (Horror, supernatural, 580)
Special Edward – Walters (School, underachieving, 580)
Crimson Rising – James (Science fiction, smuggling, 580)
Flyaway – Christopher (Illness, animals, 580)
Almost Home – Bauer (Homelessness, 590)
Heart to Heart – McDaniel (death, friendship, transplants, 590)
Freefall – Anhalt (friendships, peer pressure, death, 590)
Molly’s Fire – Carey (HF, WWII, 590)
Melting Stones – Pierce (Fantasy, magic, volcanoes, 590)
Incarceron – Fisher (Fantasy, dystopia, arranged marriages, prisons, 600)
Al Capone Does My Shirts – Choldenko (Prisons, family life, 600)
I So Don’t do Mysteries – Summy (Ghosts, mysteries, 600)
See You at Harry’s – Knowles (Realistic Fiction, restaurants, 600)
The Grimm Legacy – Shulman (Magic, adventure, 600)
Killer’s Cousin – Werlin (Murder, 600)
Nory Ryan’s Song – Giff (historical fiction, survival, Ireland, 600)
Incarceron – Fisher (Fantasy, prisons, 600)
Ruby Raven – Dahl (Mystery, 610)
Beekman’s Big Deal – DeGuzman (realistic fiction, 610)
Jackie & Me – Gutman (fantasy, baseball, time travel, 610)
Because of Winn-Dixie – DiCamillio (Realistic Fiction, dog, 610)
Rise of the Elgin – Evans (Science Fiction, 2nd in series, 610)
Storyteller – Giff (families, Revolutionary war, 610)
Watcher in the Woods – Liparulo (Horror, Kidnapping, 610)
Fresh Girl – Placide (Haitian – Americans, child sexual abuse, realistic fiction, 620)
Warp Speed – Yee (Bullying, popularity, 620)
The Last Olympian – Riordan (Fantasy, mythology, series, 620)
The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina – Lawrence (Ancient Rome, mystery, series, 620)
The Gardener – Boden (Science Fiction, experiments, 620)
Quince Clash – Alegria (Mexican Americans, quincenera, 620)
Alley of Shadows - Brezenoff (Ghosts, Robbers, 630)
Odysseus in the Serpent Maze – Yolen (Adventure, mythology, 630)
Ten – McNeil (Mystery, Horror, 640)
How Could you do it Diane? – Pevsner (Suicide, Family, 640)
The Son of Neptune – Riordan (Fantasy, series, mythology, 640)
Infinity – Kenyon (fantasy, zombies, supernatural, 640)
Falling Too Fast – Alegria (Mexican Americans, crushes, bands, 640)
8th Grade Super Zero – Perkovitch (Middle School, homelessness, volunteering, 640)
The bridge to Neverland – Barry (Series, Peter Pan, long, 640)
After the Dancing Days – Rostlowski (WWI, injury, 650)
The Running Dream – Van Draanen (serious injury, amputees, running, 650)
Thunder over Kandahar – McKay (friendship, Afghan war, 650)
All Good Children – Austen (Science fiction, identity, 650)
The Wolf Princess – Constable (Russia, mystery, wolves, princesses, 650)
Where I Belong – Cross (Somalis, fashion, kidnapping, 650)
Bull Rider – Williams (Rodeos, 650)
Best Shot in the West – 978 McKissack (Non Fiction, African American cowboys, 650)
Red Pyramid – Riordan (Fantasy, mythology, series, 650)
Ne Second chances – Alegria (Mexican Americans, 650)
Fire Horse Girl – Honeyman (Chinese Americans, astrology, 660)
The Great Wide Sea – Herlong (Family problems, grief, adventure, survival, Realistic Fiction, 660)
Midnight Magic – Avi (Ghosts, 660)
They Never Came Back – Cooney (Mystery, 660)
The Merchant of Death – MacHale (Fantasy, time travel, magic, series, 660)
Closed for the Season – Hahn (Murder mystery, 670)
Words in the Dust – Reedy (Afghanistan, cleft palate, literacy, 670)
The Returning – Hinwood (War, 670)
Paralyzed – Rud (eBook, football, 670)
The One – Cass (Fantasy, series, 670)
Rotten – Northrup (friendship, Rottweilers, 670)
Poppy – Avi (Fantasy, survival, 670)
Yesterday’s Child – Levitin (Murder, Mystery, 680)
Charlotte’s Web – White (fantasy, classic, spiders, pigs, farms, 680)
Flygirl – Smith (Aviators, WWII, female pilots, African Americans, 680)
My Life in Pink & Green – Greenwald (Family problems, cosmetics, 680)
Nightmarys - Poblocki (Curses, supernatural, horror, 680)
Crossing the Line – Alegria (Mexican Americans, high school, 680)
Overboard – Fama (Survival, boat sinking, 690)
Wild Man Island – Hobbs (Survival, dogs, caves, 690)
One Came Home – Timberlake (Historical Fiction, sharpshooters, missing persons, 690)
Dark Life – Falls (science fiction, thieves, underwater life, 690)
Mark of Athena – Riordan (Fantasy, Mythology, series, 690)