Rev. 3/10/14
GRADES 6-12 APPROVED ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS SUPPLEMENTARY BOOKLIST
Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges
Grades 6--8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12
Title
955-1155
1080-1305
1215-1355
Author
Grade
Level
Lexiles are just one component of text
complexity. Other components include
background knowledge, developmental
appropriateness and the structure of a text.
Lexile #
Notes
P indicates that the title is protected at a specific grade level and can only be used only in the grade listed.
Adventures of Ulysses
Evslin, Bernard
6-P
Alligators, The
Updike, John
6-P
Among the Volcanoes
Castaneda, Omar S.
6
820
And Now Miguel
Krumgold, Joseph
6
780
As the Night the Day
Nicol, Abioseh
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
Bad Characters
Stafford, Jean
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Billy
Kirtland, William
Black Star, Bright Dawn
O'Dell, Scott
6-P
Boy of the Painted Cave
Denzel, Justin
6-P
800
Cay, The
Taylor, Theodore
6-P
830
Chura and Marwe
unknown - folktale
6-P
Dragon's Milk
Fletcher, Susan
6-P
Dragonwings
Yep, Lawrence
6-P
870
Anchor Text Unit 2--Only use with Unit 2
Egypt Game, The
Snyder, Zelpha Keatly
6
1010
Anchor Text Unit 3--Only use with Unit 3
Gaston
Saroyan, William
6-P
Iceberg Hermit
Roth, Arthur
6-P
Julie of the Wolves
George, Jean Craighead
6-P
Kavik, the Wolf Dog
Morey, Walter
6-P
740
Landry News, The
Clements, Andrew
6-P
950
Publications
Last Great Snake, The
Steele, Mary Q.
6-P
Letting in the Jungle (from The Jungle Book)
Kipling, Rudyard
6-P
1080-1140
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
Lightening Thief, The
Riordan, Rick
6-P
740
Anchor Text Unit 3--Only use with Unit 3
Likely Place, A
Fox, Paula
6-P
600+D93
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The
Lewis, C.S.
6-P
940
Magic Jacket, The
de la Mare, Walter
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
6
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Anchor Text Unit 1--Only use with Unit 1
Anchor Text Unit 1--Only use with Unit 1
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
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Maniac Magee
Spinelli, Jerry
6-P
820
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
O'Brien, Robert
6-P
790
My Greatest Ambition
Lurie, Morris
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Mysteries of the Cabala, The
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Odysseus and the Cyclops
Richardson, I.M.
6-P
Pankration -The Ultimate Game
Blacklock, Dylan
6-P
Parsley Garden, The
Saroyan, William
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
Props for Faith
Hegi, Ursula
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
Raymond's Run
Bambara, Toni Cade
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
Secret Garden, The
Burnett, Francis Hodgson
6-P
Secret of the Yellow House, The
Aleksin, Anatoly
6-P
Shark Beneath the Reef
George, Jean Craighead
6
800
Sing Down the Moon
O'Dell, Scott
6
820
Soumchi
Oz, Amos
6-P
Spring Running, The (from The Jungle Book)
Kipling, Rudyard
6-P
Summer Book, The
Jansson, Tove
6-P
Summer of the Swans
White, E.B.
Superstitions
La Chapelle, Mary
This Place Has No Atmosphere
Danziger, Paula
Through the Tunnel
Lessing, Doris
6-P
Tracker
Paulsen, Gary
6-P
1010
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Lewis
6
1100
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
6-P
740
Tuck Everlasting
Babbitt, Natalie
6-P
770
Tweedledum & Tweedledee
(from Through the Looking Glass)
Twenty-One Balloons
Carroll, Lewis
6-P
Veldt, The
Bradbury, Ray
6-P
Walkabout, The
Marshall, James V.
6-P
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Kerr, Judith
White Umbrella, The
Jen, Gish
Wrinkle in Time, A
L'Engle, Madeleine
Across Five Aprils
6
820
970
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
1080-1140
DuBois, William Pene
6
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
820
6-P
6
Anchor Text Unit 3--Only use with Unit 3
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
690
Jr. Great Books - 1st sem.
890
Anchor Text Unit 1--Only use with Unit 1
Anchor Text Unit 1--Only use with Unit 1
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
1020
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
800
6
6-P
Jr. Great Books - 2nd sem.
6
740
Hunt, Irene
7-P
1100
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Twain, Mark
7-P
950
Bearstone
Hobbs, Will
7
780
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
Boyne, John
7-P
1080
Brian's Winter
Paulsen, Gary
7-P
1140
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Call of the Wild, The
London, Jack
7-P
1170
Child of the Owl
Yep, Lawrence
7
920
City of Ember
DuPrau, Jeanne
7-P
680
Contender, The
Lipsyte, Robert
7
760
Day No Pigs Would Die, A
Peck, Robert Newton
7-P
690
Deathwatch
White, Robb
7-P
990
Diary of Anne Frank (drama)
in grade 8 Anthology
Downriver
Goodrich & Hackett
7-P
Hobb, Will
7-P
760
D-Poems of Jeremy Bloom
Korman, Gordon
7
NP
Durango Street
Bonham, Frank
7
640
Endless Steppe, The
Hautzig, Esther
7-P
940
Farewell to Manzanar
Houston, Jeanne
7-P
1040
House on Mango Street, The
Cisneros, Sandra
7
870
Johnny Tremain
Forbes, Esther
7-P
840
Letters from Rifka
Hesse, Karen
7
660
Miracle Worker, The (Drama)
Gibson, William
7
NP
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Collier, James and Chris
7
770
No Promises in the Wind
Hunt, Irene
7-P
930
North to Freedom/I am David
Holm, Anne
7-P
980
Out of the Dust
Hesse, Karen
7-P
830
Anchor Text Unit 1--Only use with Unit 1
Red Kayak
Priscilla Cummings
7-P
800
Anchor Text Unit 1--Only use with Unit 1
Red Pony, The
Steinbeck, John
7
810
River, The
Paulsen, Gary
7-P
960
Road to Memphis, The
Taylor, Mildred
7
670
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor, Mildred
7-P
920
Shane
Schaefer, Jack
7-P
870
Sounder
Armstrong, William H.
7
900
Stargirl
Spinelli, Jerry
7-P
590
Winning
Brancato, Robin
7
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The
Speare, Elizabeth
7
850
Wonder
Palacio, RJ
7-P
790
Acorn People, The
Jones, Ron
8
720
April Morning
Fast, Howard
8
1050
Edgar Allan
Neufeld, John
8
760
Everybody's Got to Live Somewhere
McGuyer, Nadine
8
Flowers For Algernon
Keyes, Daniel
8-P
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Anchor Text Unit 3--Only use with Unit 3
Anchor Text Unit 3--Only use with Unit 3
NP
910
In the 9th grade anthology
Anchor Text Unit 2--Only use with Unit 2
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Giver, The
Lowry, Lois
8-P
760
Here at the Scenic Vu Motel
Wyss, Thelma Hatch
8
690
House of Dies Drear, The
Hamilton, Virginia
8
670
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Duncan, Lois
I, Juan de Pareja
de Trevino, Eliz. Borton
Izzy Willy Nilly
Anchor Text Unit 2--Only use with Unit 2
8
760
8-P
1100
Voigt, Cynthia
8
790
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Schmidt, Gary
8-P
1000
Nothing But the Truth
Avi
8-P
NP
Anchor Text Unit 3--Only use with Unit 3
Outsiders, The
Hinton, S.E.
8-P
750
Anchor Text-Unit 4-only use with Unit 4
Plague Year
Tolan, Stephanie
Save Queen of Sheba
Moeri, Louise
Shabanu
Sophie's World
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The
Bradley, Alan
8
Summer of My German Soldier
Greene, Bette
8
That Was Then, This is Now
Hinton, S.E.
8
780
To Be a Slave
Julius, Lester
8
1080
Westing Game, The
Raskin, Ellen
8-P
750
Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Aiken, Joan
8
1020
Words By Heart
Sebestyen, Quida
8
750
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Choi, Sook Nyul
8
840
Crazy Horse Electric Game
Crutcher, Chris
9-P
870
Ender’s Game
Card, Orson Scott
9-P
710
Five People You Meet in Heaven, The
Albom, Mitch
9-P
780
Good Earth, The
Buck, Pearl S.
9-P
1530
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
9-P
1200
Hiroshima
Hersey, John
9-P
1190
Hobbit, The
Tolkien, J.R.R.
9-P
1000
Hunger Games, The
Collins, Suzanne
9-P
810
Light in the Forrest, The
Richter, Conrad
9
870
Little Prince, The
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine
9-P
710
Lost Horizon
Hilton, James
9-P
1060
Lottery Rose, The
Hunt, Irene
9-P
1070
Odyssey, The
Homer
9-P
1050
Pigman, The
Zindel, Paul
9-P
950
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
9-P
NP
8
790
8-P
1070
Staples, Suzanne
8
970
Gaarder, Jostein
MS-P
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960
Challenge Program Only
Recommended for Honors, Unit 1 because of
length
800
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
Anchor Text Unit 4--Use only with Unit 4
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Taming of the Shrew, The
Shakespeare, William
9-P
NP
Recommended for Honors English 9
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lee, Harper
9-P
870
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
When The Legends Die
Borland, Hal
9
850
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,
The
Alexie, Sherman
10
Alas, Babylon
Frank, Pat
10-P
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
10-P
Alive
Read, Piers Paul
10-P
And Then There Were None
Christie, Agatha
10
570
Animal Farm
Orwell, George
10-P
1170
Dune
Herbert, Frank
Hound of Baskervilles, The
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Human Comedy, The
Saroyan, William
Into Thin Air
Julius Caesar
600
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
1/21/14 Note: Do Not Use Pending
Reconsideration
870
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
950
Anchor Text Unit 4--Use only with Unit 4
1160
Anchor Text Unit 1--Use only with Unit 1
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
10
800
10-P
1090
10
760
Krakauer, Jon
10-P
1320
Anchor Text Unit 1--Use only with Unit 1
Shakespeare, William
10-P
NP
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
Life of Pi
Martell, Yann
10-P
830
Anchor Text Unit 4--Use only with Unit 4
Long Way Gone, A
Beah, Ishmael
10-P
920
Recommended for Honors 10
Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Shakespeare, William
10-P
NP
Mouse the Roared, The
Wibberly, Leonard
10
NP
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare, William
10-P
NP
Never Cry Wolf
Mowat, Farley
10-P
1330
Anchor Text Unit 1--Use only with Unit 1
Once and Future King, The
White, T.H.
10-P
1080
Anchor Text Unit 4--Use only with Unit 4
Pearl, The
Steinbeck, John
10-P
1010
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
Princess Bride, The
Goldman, William
10-P
870
Anchor Text Unit 4--Use only with Unit 4
Secret Life of Bees, The
Kidd, Sue Monk
10-P
840
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
Separate Peace, A
Knowles, John
10-P
1110
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
Scarlet Pimpernel, The
Orczy, Emmuska
10
1140
Walk Across America, A
Jenkins, Peter
10-P
1020
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
11-P
990
As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William
11-P
870
Awakening, The
Chopin, Kate
11-P
911
Billy Budd
Melville, Herman
11-P
1450
Black Like Me
Griffen, John Howard
11-P
990
Anchor Text Unit 3--Use only with Unit 3
Bless Me, Ultima
Anaya, Rudolfo
11
840
Recommended for Honors/AP Lit
Cold Sassy Tree
Burns, Olive Ann
11-P
930
Crucible, The
Miller, Arthur
11-P
NP
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Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
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Death of a Salesman, The
Miller, Arthur
11-P
NP
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
11-P
1160
Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
11
890
Farewell to Arms, A
Hemingway, Ernest
11-P
730
Glass Menagerie, The
Williams, Tennesse
11-P
NP
Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
11-P
680
Great Gatsby, The
Fitzgerald, F.Scott
11-P
1070
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Craven, Margaret
11-P
1080
In Our Time
Hemingway, Ernest
11-P
story coll.
Intruder in the Dust
Faulkner, William
11-P
Jungle, The
Sinclair, Upton
11-P
1170
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
11-P
1200
My Antonia
Cather, Willa
11-P
1010
Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John
11-P
630
Old Man and the Sea, The
Hemingway, Ernest
11-P
940
Our Town
Wilder, Thornton
11-P
NP
Raisin in the Sun
Hansberry, Lorraine
11-P
NP
Red Badge of Courage, The
Crane, Stephen
11-P
900
Right Stuff, The
Wolfe,Tom
11
1110
Scarlet Letter, The
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
11-P
1420
Sound and the Fury, The
Faulkner, William
11-P
870
Spoon River Anthology
Masters, Edgar Lee
11-P
Tuesdays with Morrie
Albom, Mitch
11-P
830
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pirsig, Robert M.
11
1040
All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque, Erich Maria
12-P
830
Antigone
Sophocles
12-P
1090
Aeneid, The
Virgil
12
NP
Awakening, The
Chopin, Kate
12
960
Beowulf
Beowulf
Black Boy
Wright, Richard
12
Book of Sorrows
Wangerin Jr., Walter
12
Book of the Dun Cow
Wangerin Jr., Walter
12
Brat Farrar
Tey, J./MacKintosh, E.
12
Camber of Culdi
Kurtz, Katherine
12
Childhood's End
Clarke, Arthur C.
12
990
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
12-P
850
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton, Alan
12-P
860
12-P
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Proposed for Anchor Text Unit 4
Anchor Text Unit 1--Use only with Unit 1
Anchor Text Unit 1--Use only with Unit 1
In sophomore text-Recommended for AP English 12
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
950
Rev. 3/10/14
Divine Comedy, The (Inferno)
Alighieri, Dante
Doll’s House, A
Ibsen, Henrik
12
Education of Little Tree
Carter, F.& Strickland, R.
Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Henrik
12
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary
12-P
1170
From Where the Sun Now Stands
Henry, Will
12
950
Hamlet
Shakespeare, William
12-P
NP
Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph
12-P
1050
Iliad, The
Homer
12-P
1330
Johnny Got His Gun
Trumbo, Dalton
12-P
970
Joy Luck Club, The
Tan, Amy
12
930
King Lear
Shakespeare, William
12
NP
Lord of the Flies
Golding, William
12-P
770
Macbeth
Shakespeare, William
12-P
NP
Man Called Horse, A
Johnson, Dorothy M.
Man For All Seasons, A
Bolt, Robert
12-P
NP
Man’s Search for Meaning
Frankl, Viktor
12-P
NP
Mayor of Casterbridge, The
Hardy, Thomas
12-P
NP
Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz
12
1320
Mountain Man
Fisher, Vardis
12
Mythology
Hamilton, Edith
12-P
1040
Night
Wiesel, Elie
12-P
590
Oedipus the King
Sophocles
12-P
1090
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
12-P
900
Possibilities
Barker, Howard
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
12-P
1190
Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas
12
1040
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Stoppard, Tom
12-P
NP
Siddhartha
Hesse, Herman
12-P
1010
Sound of Waves, The
Mishima, Yukio
12-P
Stranger, The
Camus, Albert
12-P
Tempest, The
Shakespeare, William
12-P
NP
Things Fall Apart
Achebe, Chinua
12-P
890
Thousand Pieces of Gold, A
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
12
940
Working
Terkel, Studs
12
Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Emily
12-P
12-P
NP
12
890
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
Recommended for AP
Anchor Text Unit 2--Use only with Unit 2
12
12
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880
880
Anchor Text Unit 4--Use only with Unit 4
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Renaissance High School Approved Supplemental List
Title
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Author
Dai Sijie
Persopolis
Satrapi, Marjane
We
Zamyatin, Yevgeniy
Grade
Level
Honors 9 or 10
(determine inbuilding)
Honors
10-P
IB Eng. HL
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Lexile #
Recommended Course
(10th Honors)
(9th Honors)
(10th Honors)
IB Eng. HL
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