Start-to-Finish Publishing
Lexile Measures Based on
The Lexile Framework® for Reading
The Lexile Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to reading measurement, providing a
common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty. This allows educators and parents to quickly
estimate expected reading comprehension and monitor progress.
Start-to-Finish Library
Start-to-Finish Library Titles
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Abe Lincoln Speaks
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
After the Buffalo Jump: A Story of the Blackfoot Nation
Against All the Odds: George Washington and the Fight for
American Independence
Alcatraz, The Rock
Ali: The Greatest
Anne of Green Gables
Big Ben Is Dead
Black Beauty
The Black Death: A Story of the Plague
Border Crossing
Building Wings, How I Made it Through School
Call of the Wild
Captains Courageous
Charles Darwin: The Man Who Looked at Life
Christmas Carol, A
Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile
The Crossbow Mystery at Yellowstone Park
Death at Jamestown
Earthquake!
Edgar Allan Poe Collection
Fight for Your Life: The Story of Rubin Hurricane Carter
Flo Jo: The Story of Florence Griffith Joyner
For Liberty: A Story of the American Revolution
Foul Shot
Frankenstein
Frederick Douglass: A Hero for All Times
Gettysburg: Missing in Action
The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories by O. Henry
The Graveyard Mystery
Greek Myths I
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Lexile measure
540
930
510
390
750
760
790
270
470
500
450
480
810
360
670
780
820
810
300
590
370
670
720
370
850
540
860
590
470
580
780
790
200
680
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Start-to-Finish Library Titles
Lexile measure
Greek Myths II
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark *
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People
Home Run Heroes
Home Sweet Home?
Hurricane!
I Am Vallejo!
I Have a Dream: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Invisible Man
Jack London Collection
Jackie Robinson and the American Dream
Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzees of Gombé
The Japanese Americans: Prisoners at Home
Jim Thorpe: Athlete of the 20th Century
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Julius Caesar: A Play by William Shakespeare
The Jungle
Kidnapped
King Lear
King Tut's Tomb
Kings of the Nile
Tales from Africa
Tales from Japan
Tales from Mexico
Telltale Heart and Other Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, Short Stories by
Washington Irving
Liddy and the Volcanoes
Little Women
Lord Jim
Macbeth
The Man in the Iron Mask
Mark Twain Collection
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A *
Moby Dick, Part I
Moby Dick, Part II
The Mutiny on the Bounty
The Night of the Loch Ness Monster
Oedipus Rex: A Play by Sophocles
On Strike!: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Othello: the Moor of Venice *
The Prince and the Pauper
The Race Inside Me: The Story of Wilma Rudolph
690
600*
660
570
650
590
420
730
680
650
720
1030
590
780
620
760
730
630
470
500
760
620
650
700
830
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1070
600
380
430
420
740
450
590*
840
790
700
470
620
630
480*
420
790
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Start-to-Finish Library Titles
The Red Badge of Courage
Remembering Sweetness: Walter Payton and the Bears
Romeo and Juliet
Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter
Sacagawea: The Trip to the West
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Secret of Old Mexico
Silver Blaze
Space Voyage: Hitching a Ride Through the Solar System, A
The Story of Anne Frank
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tales from Homer: Stories from the Iliad and the Odyssey
The Three Musketeers
Thomas Jefferson: How Great Was He?
Treasure Island
The Tuskegee Airmen
What Gives You the Right? The Bill of Rights and You
When the Horses Are Gone: A Story of the Nez Perce Indian Tribe
Wilt Chamberlain: NBA Giant
Lexile measure
370
740
380
550
620
480
470
540
990
540
700
820
700
830
420
670
740
710
710
* Note: Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Lexile score 600), A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Lexile score 500) and Othello: the Moor of Venice (Lexile score 480)
While the sentence length for Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Lexile score 600), A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Lexile score 590) and Othello: the Moor of Venice (Lexile score 480) may be
short in passages of dialogue, and while many of the words in these retellings would appear
on high frequency lists, the sentence structure is more literary than Start-to-Finish Gold
Library Books, the cadence of the original author is more closely preserved and words are
used in more abstract and metaphorical ways. The following examples illustrate these points:
“Legs bear me up.” (Hamlet, p. 31)
“He who steals my purse steals trash, but he who steals my good name makes me poor
indeed.” (Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 55)
“My lord, beware of jealousy, the green-eyed monster.” (Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 55)
It is the recommendation of the Start-to-Finish editing team that when considering these
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Shakespeare books, that they be used for reading at a grade equivalency of 4 to 5 grade.
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Start-to-Finish Core Content
Start-to-Finish Core Content Titles
Adaptation and Change on the Galapagos Islands
Amazing Creatures of the Galapagos Islands
Ancient Egypt: A Land As Old As Time
The Awesome Power of Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Citizen Heroes
Daily Life in Ancient Greece
Discovering Ancient Greece
Fighting Back Against Hitler: Heroes of the Holocaust
Fighting for Freedom: African Americans in the Civil War
Free and Equal Brothers: The French Revolution
Giant Hurricanes and Tornadoes
The Holocaust: Hitler’s War on the Jews
How the U.S. Government Came to Be
Juan Ponce de Leon: Explorer of the Americas
Mummies! Unwrapping the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
Native Americans in the Time of Lewis and Clark
Power, Faith, and Blood in 16th-Century England
Robot Explorers on Mars
The Search for Life on Mars
Traveling Off the Map: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Understanding Volcanoes and Earthquakes
William Shakespeare and His Times
Women in the Civil War: In Battle and at Home
Women of the American Revolution
Lexile measure
950
830
960
800
820
770
830
750
830
870
870
910
870
860
850
890
890
890
890
880
930
920
810
830
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