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Lexile scores represent an approximate reading level. This level does not account for appropriateness of content for a particular grade or reading level. All selections by students should be approved by the parent. Lexile 550 560 570 570 580 590 590 590 590 600 600 600 600 610 610 620 620 630 630 630 640 640 640 640 650 650 650 660 660 660 670 670 670 670 680 680 680 690 690 690 700 700 700 700 700 700 710 710 710 710 Recommended Reading List for Grades 4-12 Title Third and Fourth Grade = about 500-800 When Jeff Comes Home Sarah, Plain and Tall * If You Come Softly And Then There Were None Ghost Boy Night Searching for David's Heart: A Christmas Story Shattering Glass Stargirl Killer's Cousin Ordinary People Pistachio Perscription The Pinballs Killer Angels, The Sun Also Rises * MC Higgins the Great Justin and the Best Biscuits In the World * Homecoming Of Mice and Men Sadako and the thousand Paper Cranes * A Taste of Blackberries Kid in the Red Jacket Sweetgrass The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks * Brave, The * Fallen Angels How to Eat Fried Worms Cut Holes Miracles' Boys *Color Purple, The Long Way From Home Monster Monster Gathering Blue Grapes of Wrath, The Speak And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Kim/Kimi Remembering the Good Times * Children of the River * Native Son Bunnicula The Hundred Penny Box * Where the Red Fern Grows Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear * * Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Dicey's Song Jurassic Park Mrs. Mike Author Catherine Atkins Patricia MacLachlan Jacqueline Wood Agatha Christie Iain Lawrence Elie Wiesel Cherie Bennett Gail Giles Jerry Spinelli Nancy Werlin Judith Guest Paula Danziger Betsy Byars Michael Shaara Ernest Hemingway Virginia Hamilton Mildred Pitts Cynthia Voight John Steinbeck Eleanor Coerr Delores Buchanan Smith Barbara Park Jan Hudson Nancy McArthur Robert Lipsyte Walter Dean Myers Thomas Rockwell Patricia McCormick Louis Sachar Jacqueline Woodson Alice Walker Wartski Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers Lois Lowry John Steinbeck Laurie Halse Anderson Thomas Rivera Irwin Richard Peck Linda Crew Richard Wright Deborah and James Howe Sharon Bell Mathis W. Rawls Linsy Namioko Ernest Gaines Cynthia Voight Michael Crichton Benedict & Nancy Freedman Lexile scores represent an approximate reading level. This level does not account for appropriateness of content for a particular grade or reading level. All selections by students should be approved by the parent. 710 720 720 720 720 720 730 730 730 730 730 730 740 740 740 740 740 740 750 750 750 750 750 750 750 750 760 760 760 760 760 760 760 770 770 770 770 770 770 770 770 770 770 780 780 780 790 790 790 790 The Skates of Uncle Richard Blood and Chocolate Body of Christopher Creed Burning Up Killing Mr. Griffith Mouse Rap, The Apprentice, The Breaking Boxes Farewell to Arms, A Friends, The Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs * In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson * * Hoops * Join-In: Multiethnic Anthology After the First Death After the First Death Hold Fast Invitation to the Game * Lesson Before Dying, A * Slam! Colin Powell: Straight To The Top * Misty of Chincoteague Smack The Trumpet of the Swan The Westing Game Yearling, The * Contender, The Friendship and the Gold Cadillac * Give the Boy a Gun Give the Boy a Gun Lisa Bright and Dark Night Shift Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver Help Wanted: Short Stories About Young People Working Lord of the Flies My Brother Sam is Dead Nightjohn Sign of the Beaver * Soulfire The Chocolate Touch Tuck Everlasting Wave, The * Bearstone That Was Then This Is Now The Borrowers * Big Wave, The * Place Where Sea Remembers, A Catcher in the Rye, The Famous All Over Town Carol Fenner Annette Klause Carol Plum-Ucci Caroline Cooney Lois Duncan Walter Dean Myers Pilar Molina A.M. Jenkins Ernest Hemingway Rosa Guy Jamie Gilson Bette Boa Lord Walter Dean Myers Donald Gallo, ed. Robert Cormier Robert Cormier Kevin Major Hughes Ernest Gaines Walter Dean Myers Rose Blue & Corinne Naden Marguerite Henry Melvin Burgess E. B. White Ellen Raskin Marjorie Rawlings Robert Lipsyte Mildred Taylor Todd Strasser Todd Strasser John Neufeld Stephen King Donald Gallo, ed. E.L. Konigsburg Anita Silvey, ed. William Golding James Collier/Chris Collier Gary Paulsen Elizabeth George Speare Louis Hewett Patrick S. Catling Natalie Babbitt Todd Strasser Will Hobbs S.E. Hinton Mary Norton Pearl S. Buck Sandra Benitez J.D. Salinger D. Santiago Lexile scores represent an approximate reading level. This level does not account for appropriateness of content for a particular grade or reading level. All selections by students should be approved by the parent. 790 790 790 800 800 800 800 800 800 810 820 820 820 820 820 820 820 820 820 830 840 840 840 840 840 840 850 850 850 850 850 850 850 860 860 860 860 860 860 870 870 870 870 870 870 870 870 870 870 870 880 Izzy, Willy-Nilly Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH No Easy Answers Fifth and Sixth Grade = about 800-1000 * Glory Field, The * Summer of My German Soldier * Walkabout Doing Time: Notes From the Underground Homeless Bird The Great Gilly Hopkins Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde * Clover * Sing Down the Moon Chocolate War, The Citizen of the Galaxy Howard's End Someone Like You Swallowing Stones Swallowing Stones Z for Zachariah Summer of the Swans * Bless Me Ultima For Whom the Bell Tolls Jane Eyre Johnny Tremain Slave Day Strider A Swiftly Tilting Planet Child Called It Inherit the Wind Slaughterhouse-Five Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World The Witch of Blackbird Pond When the Legends Die * Cry the Beloved Country * Julie of the Wolves * The Learning Tree Master Puppeteer, The The Cay The Mouse and the Motorcycle * House on Mango Street, The * Ishi, Last of His Tribe * Light in the Forest * Song of Solomon * To Kill A Mockingbird Alas, Babylon Brave New World James and the Giant Peach Shane So Much to Tell You We All Fall Down * Brian Piccolo: A Short Season Cynthia Voight Robert C. O'Brien Donald Gallo, ed. Walter Dean Myers Bette Greene James Marshall Rob Thomas Gloria Whelan `Katherine Paterson Robert Louis Stevenson D. Sanders Scott O'Dell Robert Cormier Heinlein E.M. Forster Sarah Dessen Joyce McDonald Joyce McDonald Robert O'Brien Betsy Byars Rudolfo Anaya Ernest Hemingway Charlotte Bronte Esther Forbes Rob Thomas Beverly Cleary L'Engle Dave Pelzer Jerome & Lee Lawrence Kurt Vonnegut Paul Lee Elizabeth George Speare Hal Borland Alan Paton Jean Craighead George G. Parks Katherine Paterson Theodore Taylor Beverly Cleary Sandra Cisneros Theodora Kroeber Conrad Richter Toni Morrison Harper Lee Pat Frank Aldous Huxley Roald Dahl Jack Schaeffer John Marsden Robert Cormier Jeannie Morris Lexile scores represent an approximate reading level. This level does not account for appropriateness of content for a particular grade or reading level. All selections by students should be approved by the parent. 880 880 880 880 880 880 880 890 890 890 890 890 890 890 900 900 900 900 900 900 900 910 910 910 920 920 920 920 920 920 920 930 930 930 940 950 950 950 950 950 960 960 970 970 970 970 970 970 980 980 980 980 Anthem Jacob Have I Loved Jacob, Have I Loved Leaving Home Stranger, The Things They Carried Wuthering Heights * Beardance * Things Fall Apart Day They Came to Arrest the Book, The Dragon of the Lost Sea Fahrenheit 451 Gathering of Flowers, A: Stories About Being Young in America Things Fall Apart * Nectar in a Sieve * One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Day No Pigs Would Die, A Dubliners, The Red Badge of Courage, The Sounder * The Enormous Egg * Flowers for Algernon Dear Mr. Henshaw Old Yeller Bluest Eye, The Child of the Owl City of Gold and Lead, The Dreamland Legend on Tarik, The Stuart Little Where the Lillies Bloom Canyons Grey King, The No Promises in the Wind Old Man and the Sea, The * Black Boy Adventures of Tom Sawyer Passage to India, A Pigman, The Where the Heart Is * Awakening, The Slake's Limbo * Picture Bride A Jar of Dreams * Bless the Beasts and Children Rosa Parks: My Story * Tales Mummies Tell You Don't Know Me Confession of a Teenage Baboon Ironman Space Challenger: the Story of Guion Bluford * The Black Pearl Ayn Rand Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson David French Albert Camus Tim O'Brien Emily Bronte Will Hobbs Chinua Achebe Nat Hentoff Lawrence Yep Ray Bradbury Joyce Thomas, ed. Achebe Kamala Markandaya Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Robert Newton Peck James Joyce Stephen Crane William Howard Armstrong Oliver Butterworth Daniel Keyes Beverly Cleary Fred A. Gipson Toni Morrison Lawrence Yep John Christopher Sarah Dessen Myers E. B. White Vera & Bill Cleaver Gary Paulsen Susan Cooper Irene Hunt Ernest Hemingway R. Wright Mark Twain E.M. Foster Paul Zindel Billie Letts K. Chopin Felice Holman Yoshiko Uchida Yoshiko Uchida Glendon Swarthout Rosa Parks Patricia Lauber David Klass Paul Zindel Chris Crutcher Jim Haskins & Kathleen Benson Scott O'Dell Lexile scores represent an approximate reading level. This level does not account for appropriateness of content for a particular grade or reading level. All selections by students should be approved by the parent. 990 990 990 990 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1010 1010 1010 1010 1020 1020 1030 1030 1040 1040 1040 1040 1040 1050 1050 1050 1050 1050 1050 1060 1070 1070 1070 1080 1080 1080 1080 1080 1090 1090 1090 1100 1100 1110 1110 1110 1110 1120 1130 1130 1130 1130 * Crime and Punishment * Obasan Adventures of Huck Finn, The Childhood's End Seventh and Eighth Grade = about 1000-1150 * Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Freak the Mighty Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit, The Island of the Blue Dolphins Brothers Karamazov, The Go Ask Alice Pearl, The Throwing Shadows Portrait of a Lady Shoeless Joe * Go Tell It On the Mountain Madame Bovery * Farewell to Manzanar * Kaffir Boy Babe the Gallant Pig In Cold Blood Working Days * Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom * Heart of Darkness * Parallel Journeys * Uncle Tom's Cabin * Winesburg, Ohio Malcom X: Any Means Necessary * Invisible Thread, The * I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Great Gatsby, The The Story of Women who Shaped the West * * Their Eyes Were Watching God * To Sir With Love Hard Times Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Voyage of the Frog 1984 Gulliver's Travels Woodsong Across Five Aprils Eleanor Roosevelt Candide Lost Garden One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Separate Peace, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Odyssey, The Pudd'nhead Wilson Tale of Two Cities Up A Road Slowly Fyodor Dostoyevski Joy Kogawa Mark Twain Arthur C. Clarke Ann Petry Rodman Philbrick Douglas Adams J.R.R. Tolkien Scott O'Dell Fyodor Dostoyevski Anonymous John Steinbeck E.L. Konigsburg Henry James W.P. Kinsella James Baldwin Gustave Flaubert Jeanne Houston Mark Mathabane Dick King-Smith Truman Capote Anne Mazer, ed. Walter Dean Myers Joseph Conrad Eleanor Ayer, et al. Harriet Beecher Stowe Sherwood Anderson Walter Dean Myers Yoshiko Vehida M. Angeou F. Scott Fitzgerald Mary Virginia Fox Thomas Rivera E.R. Braithwaite Charles Dickens Frederick Douglass Gary Paulsen George Orwell Jonathan Swift GaryPaulsen Irene Hunt Russell Freedman Francois Voltaire Lawrence Yep K. Kesey John Knowles James Joyce Homer Mark Twain Charles Dickens/Bantam Irene Hunt Lexile scores represent an approximate reading level. This level does not account for appropriateness of content for a particular grade or reading level. All selections by students should be approved by the parent. 1140 Catch 22 NP NP NP Ninth-Twelfth Grade = about 1150-1500 Moves Make the Man, The Wizard of Earth Sea, The Ethan Frome Tess of the DiUrbervilles Animal Farm Call of the Wild, The Catherine Called Birdie Frankenstein Pride and Prejudice Moby Dick Great Expectations * Color of Water, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Pygmalion Scarlet Letter, The Walden Secret Sharer, The Hamlet Utopia Billy Budd NP = not prose; this item is not Lexiled American Dream - Zoo Story As You Like It Beowulf NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP NP Canterbury Tales Crucible, The Death of a Salesman Doll's House, A Fences Glass Menagerie Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear King Lear Macbeth Merchant of Venice, The Midsummer Night Dream, A Othello (Glasgow) Our Town Out of the Dust Piano Lesson Raisin in the Sun, A Romeo and Juliet St. Joan Street Car Named Desire, A Tartuffe Tempest, The Twelfth Night Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts 1150 1150 1160 1160 1170 1170 1170 1170 1190 1200 1230 1240 1340 1340 1340 1340 1350 1390 1390 1450 Joseph Heller Bruce Books Ursula K. LeGuin Edith Wharton Thomas Hardy/Signet George Orwell Jack London Karen Cushman Mary Shelley Jane Austin Herman Melville Charles Dickens James McBride Victor Hugo George B. Shaw Hawthorne Henry David Thoreau Joseph Conrad Shakespeare Thomas Moore Herman Melville Edward Albee Shakespeare England in Literature/Anonymous G. Chaucer Arthur Miller Arthur Miller Henrik Ibsen August Wilson Tennessee Williams Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare/Folger Shakespeare Shakespeare (Folgers) Shakespeare Shakespeare Thornton Wilder Karen Hesse August Wilson Lorraine Hansberry Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Tennessee Williams Jean Moliere Shakespeare Shakespeare Samuel Beckett Lexile scores represent an approximate reading level. This level does not account for appropriateness of content for a particular grade or reading level. All selections by students should be approved by the parent.
