Cooper, Susan
- The Boggart, 1030L
- Boggart and the Monster
Cowell, Cressida
- How to be a Pirate 990L
- How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse 1040L
- How to Speak Dragonise 980L
- How to train your dragon by Cressida Cowell 990L
- How to twist a dragon's tale 1070L
Hart, J.V.
- Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth 1020L
- The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books
McKinley, Robin
- Dragonhaven, 1230 L
- The Hero and the Crown 1120L
- Rose Daughter 1210L
Paolini, Christopher
- The Eragon series starts in the 750s and ends in the 1000s, plus they're great reading.
Rowling, J.K.
- Tales of Beedle the Bard 1290L
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 1030L
Sage, Angie
Snicket, Lemony
- Series of Unfortunate Events range from 1010 to 1370
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| The Boy in Striped Pajamas |
| Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called “Out-With,” Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. (Lexile 1080) |
The Rifle by Gary Paulsen 1480L (Young Adult)
Science Fiction:
Mystery:
Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. 1010 L When Melanie Ross and April Hall begin to play the Egypt Game, everyone thinks it's just a game until strange things begin happening to the players. Has the Egypt Game gone too far?
Realistic/Contemporary fiction:
Animal stories
Burger, Carl
Hunter, Erin
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CArter 1000L
Classic Children's Literature:
| Birds' Christmas Carol by K. Wiggin 1200L |
| Just So Stories (Books 1 & 2) - R. Kipling 1060L |
| Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge 1020L |
| Call of the Wild by Jack London 1120L |
| Hitty by R. Field 1180L |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 1300L (also from Alcott: Little Men 1260; Jo's Boys 1210; Eight Cousins 1260; An Old Fashioned Girl 1290) |
| The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 1170L |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by K. Wiggin 1190L |
| Swiss Family Robinson by J. Wyss 1260L |
| Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 1070L |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by J. Verne 1030L |
| Wind In the Willows by K. Grahame 1140L |
Modern Classics:
| 1984 by George Orwell 1090L |
| Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1100L (Young Adult) |
| Mutiny on the Bounty 1080L |
Non-Fiction Books (book-length):
Ghost liners : exploring the world's greatest lost ships by Robert D. Ballard, 1100L
| * | 1776 by David McCullough 1300L (Upper Grades) |
| Abraham Lincoln and the second American Revolution by James M. McPherson 1430L |
| * | Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy, biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1180L |
| * | All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot, autobiography, 1070L |
| * | Black Indians : a Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz 1130L (Grades 6 and up) |
| The Cat Who Came For Christmas Cleveland Amory 1230L |
| * | Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg 1070L (Newbery Honor Book) |
| * | Every Living Thing by James Herriot, autobiography, 1000L |
| Four Days to Glory : Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland by Mark Kreidler 1180L (Upper Grades) |
| NEW! | A girl named Faithful Plum : the true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream by Richard Bernstein Biography, 1080L |
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| Guinea Pig Scientists : Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine by Leslie Dendy 1100L |
| The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander 1180L (Upper Grades) |
| I'll Pass for your Comrade : Women Soldiers in the Civil War by Anita Silvey 1130L (Middle Grades) |
| Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Peter Nelson 1260L (Upper Grades) |
| NEW! | Lincoln's Flying Spies : Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps by Gail Jarrow, 1060L |
| * | Lincoln, in his Own Words edited by Milton Meltzer 1140L |
| * | Lives of the Musicians : Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull 1010L (Grades 3-6) |
| * | Lives of the Writers : Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull 1070L (Grades 3-6) |
| Longitude : the True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel 1360L (Upper Grades) |
| Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World : the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong 1090L (Young Adult) |
| * | Make Way for Sam Houston, 1010L |
| My Dog Skip by Willie Morris 1380L (Upper Grades) |
| Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez 1280L (Upper Grades) |
| * | People Who Care by Michael Pollard 1040L |
| The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro. 1020L |
| * | Ship by David Macaulay 1250L |
| A Short Walk around the Pyramids & Through the World of Art 1110L (Grades 5-8) |
| * | T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez 1380L (Upper Grades) |
| NEW! | Trapped : how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean desert by Marc Aronson 1070L |
| * | Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, 1060L |
| * | The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson 1150L |
| * | A Young Patriot : the American Revolution as Experienced by one Boy by Jim Murphy 1140L (grades 5 to 8) |
Non-Fiction Books (picture books):
don't forget the short, picture books in the non-fiction category. These usually provide great, interesting overviews of complex subjects; fantastic for visual learners. These high-lexile books should not be overlooked!
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| NEW! | Celebritrees : Historic and Famous Trees of the World by Margi Preus, 1020L (Grades 2-4) |
| * | Cleopatra by Diane Stanley 1000L |
| Frontier Home by Raymond Bial 1140L |
| * | How the Second Grade got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty by Nathan Zimelman, 1070L (ages 5 to 8) |
| * | Monarchs [butterflies] by Kathryn Lasky 1050L |
| * | My season with penguins : an Antarctic journal by Sophie Webb, 1040L |
| * | Penguins at home : gentoos of Antarctica written and photo-illustrated by Bruce McMillan 100L |
| * | Sluggers : Twenty-Seven of Baseball's Greatest by George Sullivan, 1120L |
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Stranded at Plimoth Plantation, 1626 by Gary Bowen, 1010L/TD>
Echo, Esperanza Rising, Icebreaker, Three Times Lucky, So Be It, The Boys Who Challenged Hitler (NF), Like a River, Brown Girl Dreaming (memoir), Out of the Dust, Enchanted Air (memoir), Fever 1793, The War That Saved my Life, The Thing About Jellyfish, Flunked (it's fairy tales so kind of magical), The Princess Bride, Old Wolf, The Secret Garden, Cheating for the Chicken Man, Bud Not Buddy, Elijah of Buxton, Nest, Half a World Away, The View From Saturday, Listen Slowly, Egg & Spoon, Rain Reign, The Year We Sailed the Sun, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, The Wolf Wilder,
Ben Franklin's Almanac Fleming, Candace 1000 7.2 10 921 FRA
Beyond the Valley of Thorns Carman, Patrick 1000 6.0 14 FIC CAR
Bill Pickett Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy Pinkney, Andrea Davis 1000 5.9 2 921 PIC
Cat Who Went to Heaven Coatsworth, Elizabeth 1000 6.6 4 FIC COA
Cleopatra Stanley, Diane 1000 5.7 3 921 CLE
Daughter of the Mountains Rankin, Louise 1000 6.8 11 FIC RAN
Freak the Mighty Philbrick, Rodman 1000 6.3 10 FIC PHI
Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator Allison, Jennifer 1000 6.4 12 FIC ALL
Hobbit, The Tolkien, J.R.R. 1000 8.1 21 FIC TOL
Island Of The Blue Dolphins O’Dell, Scott 1000 5.5 12 FIC ODE
Island Scrapbook Wright-Frierson, Virginia 1000 5.7 2 577.52 WRI
John James Audubon Anderson, Peter 1000 6.8 3 921 AUD
Mighty, The Philbrick, Rodman 1000 6.3 9 FIC PHI
Miserable Mill, The Snicket, Lemony 1000 6.6 9 FIC SNI
My Prairie Year Harvey, Brett 1000 4.8 3 921PLA
One-Eyed Cat Fox, Paula 1000 5.7 5 FIC FOX
Phantom Toolbooth, The Juster, Norton 1000 5.4 10 FIC JUS
Picabo Street: Downhill Dynamo Dippold, Joel 1000 7.2 4 921 STR
Robin's Country Furlong, Monica 1000 5.6 8 FIC FUR
Starplace, The Grove, Vicki 1000 5.1 11 FIC GRO
Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 Curtis, Christopher Paul 1000 5.5 12 FIC CUR
Ben and Me Lawson, Robert 1010 4.5 3 FIC LAW
Black Beauty Sewell, Anna 1010 6.4 14 FIC SEW
Haymeadow Paulsen, Gary 1010 6.9 9 FIC Pau
King Of Shadows Cooper, Susan 1010 7.5 12 FIC COO
Love That Dog Creech, Sharon 1010 4.9 4 FIC CRE
Mr. Chickee's Funny Money Curtis, Christopher Paul 1010 5.4 9 FIC CUR
Nest Stop Neptune Experiencing the So Jenkins, Alvin 1010 7.1 4 523.2 JEN
Outcast of Redwall Jacques, Brian 1010 7.3 21 FIC JAC
Outcast of Redwall, The Jacques, Brian 1010 7.3 21 FIC JAC
Pearl, The Steinbeck, John 1010 5.4 7 FIC STE
Running Scared Dygard, Thomas J. 1010 5.8 9 FIC DYG
Tracker Paulsen, Gary 1010 6.5 5 FIC PAUVoyage On The Great Titanic White, Ellen Emerson 1010 5.4 9
Best School Year Ever Robinson, Barbara 1020 5.4 6 FIC ROB
Case of the Missing Marquess Springer, Nancy 1020 7.1 10 FIC SPR
D is for Democracy Grodin, Elissa 1020 6.5 4 320.973 GRO
Exploding Ants Settel, Joanne 1020 6.3 4 591.5 SET
Hans Brinker Or Silver Skates Dodge, Mary Mapes 1020 7.5 19 FIC DOD
Hatchet Paulsen, Gary 1020 6.3 10 FIC PAU
Haunt Fox Kjelgaard, Jim 1020 5.8 11 FIC KJE
Perilous Gard, The Pope, Elizabeth M. 1020 6.1 19 FIC POP
Pushcart War, The Merrill, Jean 1020 6.7 10 FIC MER
Saving Shiloh Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 1020 5.5 10 FIC NAY
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Verne, Jules 1030 8.1 23 FIC VER
Ballad of Lucy Whipple Cushman, Karen 1030 5.5 11 FIC CUS
Blue Sword, The McKinley, Robin 1030 6.9 23 FIC MCK
Boggart, The Cooper, Susan 1030 6.9 12 FIC COO
Brian’s Return Paulsen, Gary 1030 5.3 7 FIC PAU
First Four Years, The Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1030 5.3 7 FIC WIL
Happily Ever After Quindlen, Anna 1030 5.2 3 Short-FIC QUI
Harry Potter & Half Blood Prince Rowling, J.K. 1030 6.5 34 FIC ROW
I, Houdini Banks, Lynne Reid 1030 5.9 8 FIC BAN
Pedro's Journal Conrad, Pam 1030 5.5 3 FIC CON
Phineas Gage Fleischman, John 1030 7.5 6 921 GAG
Pigs Might Fly King-Smith, Dick 1030 6.1 7 FIC KIN
Pocket Babies Collard III, Sneed B 1030 7.4 6 599.2 COL
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robins Robinson, Sharon 1030 7.4 6 921 ROB
Rachel Carson: Voice For… Wadsworth, Ginger 1030 6.4 6 921 CAR
Rilla Of Ingleside Montgomery, L.M. 1030 6.7 23 FIC MON
Schernoff Discoveries, The Paulsen, Gary 1030 5.9 6 FIC PAU
Steven Spielberg Powers, Tom 1030 6.8 5 921 SPI
Stormy Kjelgaard, Jim 1030 6.5 10 FIC KJE
Thomas Jefferson Harness, Cheryl 1030 5.2 3 921 JEF
Babe: The Gallant Pig King-Smith, Dick 1040 5.8 6 FIC KIN
Blues Singers Lester, Julius 1040 4.9 4 920 LES
Bone from a Dry Sea Dickinson, Peter 1040 7.9 14 FIC DIC
Chemistry Newmark, Ann 1040 8.1 6 540 NEW
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble Child, Lauren 1040 4.3 8 FIC CHI
Dakota Dugout Turner, Ann 1040 3.4 2 E TUR
Farewell To Manzanar Wakatsuki, Jeanne 1040 7.8 11 921 HOU
Gay-Neck: Story of a Pigeon Mukerji, Dhan Gopal 1040 5.5 8 FIC MUK
How to Cheat a Dragons Curse Cowell, Cresida 1040 7.6 8 FIC COW
Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale Kellogg, Steven 1040 3.9 2 398.2 KEL
Reptile Room, The Snicket, Lemony 1040 6.4 9 FIC SNI
Sports Great John Elway Fox, Larry 1040 6.2 5 921 ELW
Big Cats Simon, Seymour 1050 4.6 2 599.75 SIM
Call Me Francis Tucket Paulsen, Gary 1050 5.5 6 FIC PAU
Encore For Eleanor Peet, Bill 1050 6.1 2 E PEEa
Graveyards Of The Dinosaurs Tanaka, Shelley 1050 4.9 4 567.9 TAW
Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Bartoletti, Susan Campell 1050 7.8 10 943.086 BAR
Island, The Paulsen, Gary 1050 7.2 13 FIC PAU
John Muir, America's First Enviroment Lasky, Kathryn 1050 6.1 4 921 MUI
Journey Of The Red Wolf Smith, Roland 1050 6.6 4 599.74 SMI
Lightning Simon, Seymour 1050 4.9 3 551.563 SIM
Mr. Revere And I Lawson, Robert 1050 6.8 8 FIC LAW
My Brother Louis Measures Worms Robinson, Barbara 1050 5.2 8 FIC ROB
O Is For Orca Helman, Andrea 1050 3.5 2 428.1 WOL
Rabbit Hill Lawson, Robert 1050 5.4 6 FIC LAW
Snow Baby, The Kirkpatrick, Katherine 1050 8.6 6 921 PEA
Tall Tale America Blair, Walter 1050 6.5 19 398.2 BLA
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1050 7.5 40 FIC STO
Ancient China Sherman, Josepha 1060 7.8 6 931 SHE
Ancient China (DK Eyewitness) Cotterell, Arthur 1060 6.9 5 931 COT
Bearskin Pyle, Howard 1060 3.5 3 FIC PYL
Boy’s War Murphy, Jim 1060 7.8 6 973.7 MUR
Day We Walked On The Moon, The Sullivan, George 1060 6.3 4 629.45 SUL
Dinosaurs Walked Here Lauber, Patricia 1060 5.3 3 560 LAU
Glitch in Sleep, The (The Seems) Hulme, John 1060 9.5 14 FIC BUL
Gray Wolf, Red Wolf Hinshaw, Dorthy 1060 6.1 3 599.74 PAT
Iceberg Hermit, The Roth, Arthur 1060 5.9 12 FIC ROT
Incredible Journey Of Lewis… Blumberg, Rhoda 1060 6.7 5 973.4 BLU
Invisible Thread Uchida, Yoshiko 1060 5.5 9 921 UCH
Journal Sean Sullivan Durbin, William 1060 5.7 7 FIC DUR
Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard 1060 6.9 9 FIC KIP
Poison Dart Frogs Dewey, Jennifer Owings 1060 5.5 2 597.8 DEW
Remarkable, Rough-Riding Life Harness, Cheryl 1060 9.5 7 921 ROO
Science In Ancient China Beshore, George 1060 7.1 3 509.51 BES
Stranger Came Ashore, A Hunter, Mollie 1060 4.9 10 FIC HUNVolcano & Earthquakes Van Rose, Susanna 1060 6.5 5 551.2 VAN
Wrapped for Eternity… Pace, Mildred M. 1060 7.1 9 393 PAC
American Revolution Bliven, Bruce Jr. 1070 5.9 7 973.3 BLI
Around The World In 80 Days Verne, Jules 1070 8.5 15 FIC VER
At Her Majesty’s Request Myers, Walter Dean 1070 6.2 8 921 BON
Aung San Suu Kyi Stewart, Whitney 1070 8.5 6 921 AUN
Boy Who Owned The School, The Paulsen, Gary 1070 5.2 5 FIC PAU
Commodore Perry In The Land Of Blumberg, Rhoda 1070 6.9 6 952 BLU
Elijah of Buxton Curtis, Christopher Paul 1070 7.5 17 FIC CUR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedman, Russell 1070 6.9 9 921 ROS
Henry Hudson (Groundbreakers) Manning, Ruth 1070 6.9 4 921 HUD
Hook, Line and Seeker Arnosky, Jim 1070 6.2 7 799.1 ARN
Journal Of James Edmond Pease Murphy, Jim 1070 6.8 10 FIC MUR
Libby on Wednesday Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 1070 6.1 13 FIC SNY
Little Lord Fauntleroy Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1070 6.4 14 FIC BUR
Lives Of The Writers Krull, Kathleen 1070 6.9 5 920 KRU
Lottery Rose Hunt, Irene 1070 7.7 11 FIC HUN
Louisa May Alcott Ruth, Amy 1070 7.5 5 921 ALC
One More River To Cross Haskins, Jim 1070 6.6 11 920 HAS
Reluctant Dragon, The Grahame, Kenneth 1070 4.4 4 FIC GRA
Robert Louis Stevenson Shirley, Angelica 1070 5.8 7 921 STE
Sneeze! Sly, Alexandra 1070 7.8 2 612.2 SIY
Terrible Times Ardagh, Philip 1070 5.9 8 FIC ARD
Tiger Woods: American Master Edwards, Nicholas 1070 7.3 7 921 WOO
Time Machine, The Wells, H.G. 1070 7.1 9 FIC WEL
Twenty-One Balloons, The Du Bois, William Pene 1070 5.7 9 FIC DUB
West To A Land Of Plenty Murphy, Jim 1070 4.8 11 FIC MURAnne Frank-Diary Of Young Girl Frank, Anne 1080 5.9 21 940.54 FRA
Blizzard! Murphy, Jim 1080 7.1 8 974.7 MUR
Christmas Carol, A Dickens, Charles 1080 8.6 8 FIC DIC
Connecticut Yankee In King… Twain, Mark 1080 5.1 27 FIC TWA
Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs Bausum, Ann 1080 7.9 5 921 AND
Emily Dickinson: Singular Poet Dommermuth-Costa, Carol 1080 7.6 6 921 DIC
Fly By Night Hardinge, Frances 1080 7.4 24 FIC HAR
Hatching Magic Downer, Ann 1080 5.2 6 FIC DOW
I Heard The Owl Call My Name Craven, Margaret 1080 8.9 10 FIC CRA
Mary Cassatt Streissguth, Tom 1080 8.9 6 921 CAS
Meet the Austins L'Engel, Madeleine 1080 6.8 14 FIC LEN
Neil Armstrong Connolly, Sean 1080 6.1 4 921 ARM
One Fine Day Hogrogian, Nonny 1080 3.4 2 E HOG
Saint George And The Dragon Hodges, Margaret 1080 5.9 3 398.2 HOD
Snow Dog Kjelgaard, Jim 1080 6.8 12 FIC KJE
Tell Me Again About-Night Curtis, Jamie Lee 1080 3.9 2 E CUR
To Be A Slave Lester, Julius 1080 8.6 8 326 LES
Uranus Simon, Seymour 1080 5.1 2 523.4 SIM
Urban Roosts Bash, Barbara 1080 4.5 2 598.2 BAS
Voyage Of The Frog Paulsen, Gary 1080 6.3 8 FIC PAU
Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates, Elizabeth 1090 5.8 9 921 FOR
Boy: Tales Of Childhood Dahl, Roald 1090 6.4 10 921 DAH
Dancing Carl Paulsen, Gary 1090 6.9 7 FIC PAU
Foxman Paulsen, Gary 1090 6.4 7 FIC PAU
Land I Lost, The Quang, Huynh 1090 6.9 7 921 HUY
Little Tricker The Squirrel… Kesey, Ken 1090 4.5 3 E KES
Michael Jordan Brenner, Richard J. 1090 3.2 3 921 JOR
Ordinary Princess Kaye, M.M. 1090 6.5 7 FIC KAYShipwreck at the Bottom of the World Armstrong, Jennifer 1090 6.5 10 919.8 ARM
Tikki Tikki Tembo Mosel, Arlene 1090 3.7 2 398.2 MOS
To Space And Back Ride, Sally 1090 5.1 4 629.45 RID
Woodsong Paulsen, Gary 1090 7.2 9 |
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