Lexile Reading Lists

Realistic Fiction – Stories that can be true to life but are mostly from the author’s imagination.

Endangered! – Eliot Schrefer – T Sch – 900
Dear Mr. Henshaw – Beverly Cleary – J Cle – 910
Blizzard’s Wake – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – T Nay – 910
Murder is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens – J Ste – 910
Summer Ball – Mike Lupica – T Lup – 910
Threatened – Eliot Schrefer – T Sch – 910
Jumper – Melanie Crowder – YA Cro – 920
From Norvelt to Nowhere – Jack Gantos – T Gan – 930
Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain – T Fiction– 930 (Classic)
Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 930
Storm Blown – Nick Courage – J Cou – 930
Iveliz Explains It All – Andrea Beatriz Arango – J Ara – 940
The Penderwicks at Pointe Mouette – Jeanne Birdsall – J Bir – 940
Ten Thousand Truths – Susan White – T Whi – 940
Pigman – Paul Zindel – T Zin – 950
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key – Jack Gantos – J Gan – 970
Mars Evacuees – Sophia McDougall – T McD – 970
Mr. Chickee’s Messy Mission – Christopher Paul Curtis – J Cur – 990
QB 1 – Mike Lupica – T Lup – 990 (sports)
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator – Jennifer Allison – T All – 1000
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You – Ally Carter – T Car – 1000
The Miserable Mill (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1000 (Absurdist Humor)
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens- Adult Fiction Dic – 1000 (Classic)
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell – T Ode – 1000
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories – Chris Crutcher – J Cru – 1010
The Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1010 (Absurdist Humor)
Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money – Christopher Paul Curtis – J Cur – 1010 (Realistic Fiction)
Haymeadow – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 1010
Love that Dog – Sharon Creech – J Cre – 1010
A Good Horse – Jane Smiley – T Smi – 1010
Egypt Game – Zilpha Snyder – J Sny – 1010
Under the Persimmon Tree – Suzanne Fisher Staples – T Sta – 1010
Best School Year Ever – Barbara Robinson – J Rob – 1020(Humor)
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 1020 (Adventure)
Sea Wolf – Jack London – Adult Fiction Lon – 1020 (Adventure)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken – J Aik – 1020
Brian’s Return – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 1030
The Grim Grotto (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1120 (Absurdist Humor)
The Reptile Room (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1040 (Absurdist Humor)
Gossip Times Three – Amy Goldman Koss – T Kos 1040
Call me Francis Tucket – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 1050
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson – Adult Fiction Ste and T Ste – 1060 (Thriller and Suspense/Classic)
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens – Adult Fiction Dic – 1070 (Classic)
Twenty-One Balloons – William DuBois – J DuB – 1070
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson – T Ste – 1070
Mudshark – Gary Paulsen – J Pau – 1080
The Vile Village (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1080 (Absurdist Humor)
Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle –Adult Mystery Doy – 1090 (Mystery)
Masters of Disaster – Gary Paulsen – J Pau – 1100 (Humor)
The Ersatz Elevator (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1110 (Absurdist Humor)
The Hostile Hospital (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1110 (Absurdist Humor)
Dear Dumb Diary: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened – Jim Benton – Series Dea – 1120 (Humor)
Brian’s Hunt – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 1120
Brian’s Winter – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 1140
The Austere Academy (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1120 (Absurdist Humor)
Call of the Wild – Jack London – T Lon – 1120 (Adventure)
The Carnivorous Carnival (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1120 (Absurdist Humor)
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain – T Twa – 1120 (Classic)
How to Grow Up and Rule the World – Scott Seegert – J See – 1140
The Slippery Slope (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1150 (Absurdist Humor)
The Wide Window (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1150 (Absurdist Humor)
Brian’s Hunt – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 1180
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze – Alan Silberbert – J Sil 1180
Eight Cousins – Louisa May Alcott – T Alc- 1260
Swiss Family Robinson – Johann Wyss – T Wys – 1260
Penultimate Peril (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1280 (Absurdist Humor)
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott – T Alc – 1300
Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford – Adult Fiction Bur and T Bur – 1320 (Realistic Fiction/Animal Adventure)
The Deerslayer – James Fenimore Cooper – Adult Fiction Coo– 1340 (Classic)
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe – Adult Fiction Def – 1360
The End (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket – J Sni – 1370 (Absurdist Humor)
Alida’s Song – Gary Paulsen – J Pau – 1460

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Fantasy – Made-up stories that have some elements that could not be true or could not happen in this world (e.g. fairies, talking animals)

Finding Serendipity – Anjelica Banks – J Ban – 900
City of Fire – Laurence Yep – T Yep – 900 (Adventure Fantasy)
Song of the Quarkbeast – Jasper Fforde – T Ffo – 920
Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien – Adult Fiction Tol – 920
Peter Pan – James M. Barrie – J Bar – 920
Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian – Eoin Colfer – T Col – 930
The Neverending Story – Michael Ende – T End – 930
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling – T Row – 940
Mountain of Bones – Christopher Krovatin – T Kro – 950 (zombies)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix– J.K. Rowling – T Row – 950
The Girl who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There – Catherynne Valente –
T Val – 950
Eldest – Christopher Paolini – T Pao – 970
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – J Car – 980
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows– J.K. Rowling – T Row – 980
Emerald City of Oz – L. Frank Baum – J Bau – 990
The Hobbit – J.R. R. Tolkien – Adult Fiction Tol and J Tol – 1000
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster – J Jus – 1000
Inheritance – Christopher Paolini – T Pao – 1010
Outcast of Redwall – Brian Jacques – T Jac – 1010
The Story of Owen – E.K. Johnston – T Joh – 1020
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz – L. Frank Baum – J Rio – 1020
The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley – T McK – 1030
Terror Cove – Christopher Krovatin – T Kro – 1050 (zombies)
Brisingr – Christopher Paolini – T Pao – 1050
Ozma of Oz – L. Frank Baum – J Bau – 1070
Pegasus – Robin McKinley – T McK – 1070
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne – T Ver – 1090
Tin Woodman of Oz – L. Frank Baum – J Bau – 1090
Downsiders – Neal Shusterman – T Shu – 1110
Magic of Oz – L. Frank Baum – J Bau – 1110
Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley – T McK -1120
Glinda of Oz – L. Frank Baum – J Bau – 1130
Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame – J Gra – 1140
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits – Robin McKinley – T McK – 1180
Rose Daughter – Robin McKinley – T McK – 1210
Dodger – Terry Pratchett – T Pra – 1210
Spindle’s End – Robin McKinley – T McK – 1230
Sword of Shannara – Terry Brooks – Adult Science Fiction Bro – 1240
Tales of Beedle the Bard– J.K. Rowling- T Row – 1290
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift – Adult Fiction Swi – 1330

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Science Fiction – A type of fantasy book that uses science and technology (e.g. robots, time machines)

Infinite Lives of Maisie Day – Christopher Edge – J Edg – 900
Time Traveling with a Hamster – Ross Welford – T Wel – 900
Journal of Curious Letters – James Dashner – T Das – 910
The Roar – Emma Clayton – T Cla – 910
Escape Velocity (H.I.V.E. Book 3) – Mark Walden – T Wal – 920
Zero Hour (H.I.V.E Book 6) – Mark Walden – T Wal – 920
Overlord Protocol (H.I.V.E Book 2) – Mark Walden – T Wal – 950
After Shock (H.I.V.E. Book 7) – Mark Walden – T Wal – 950
Journey to the Center of the Earth –Jules Verne – Adult Science Fiction Ver and T Ver– 960
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells – Adult Science Fiction Wel – 960
George and the Big Bang – Lucy Hawking – J Haw – 960
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet – Eleanor Cameron – T Cam – 970
Mars Evacuees – Sophia McDougall – T McD – 970
Game Over (Daniel X series) – James Patterson – T Pat – 980
Mortal Engines – Philip Reeve – T Ree – 990
Fever Crumb – Philip Reeve – T Ree – 1000
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – Adult Science Fiction Ada – 1000
A Darkling Plain – Philip Reeve – T Ree – 1000
Dreadnought – Mark Walden – T Wal – 1000
Watch the Skies (Daniel X series) – James Patterson – T Pat – 1010
Deadlock (H.I.V.E Book 8) -Mark Walden – T Wal- 1010
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne – T Ver – 1030
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson – T Ste and Adult Fiction
H.I.V.E Book 1 – Mark Walden – T Wal – 1040
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells – Adult Fiction Wel – 1070
Starcross – Philip Reeve – T Ree – 1150
Larklight – Philip Reeve – T Ree – 1170
War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells – Adult Fiction Wel – 1170

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Historical Fiction – Stories that take place in the past and are from the author’s imagination. They have some truth in them.

Come August, Come Freedom – Gigi Amateau – T Ama – 900
Calico Captive – Elizabeth George Speare – T Spe – 900
Drums – James Boyd – T Boy – 900
Geronimo – Joseph Bruchac – T Bru – 900
Code Talker – Joseph Bruchac – T Bru – 910
Rifles for Watie – Harold Keith – T Kei – 910
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry – Mildred Taylor – T Tay – 920
Winter Horses – Philip Kerr – T Ker – 930
Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder – J Wil – 930
Anne of Ingleside – L. M. Montgomery – T Mon – 940
Jump into the Sky – Shelley Pearsall – T Pea – 940
Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis – J Cur – 950
The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshall in the West – Gary Paulsen – T Pau – 950
Anastasia and her sisters – Carolyn Meyer – T Mey – 970
Parade of Shadows – Gloria Whelan – T Whe – 970
Pocahontas – Joseph Bruchac – T Bru – 970
Swallow’s Dance – Wendy Orr – T Orr – 980
Dangerous Skies – Suzanne Fisher Staples – T Sta – 990
Chronicles of Avonlea – L.M. Montgomery – T Mon – 990
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy – Gary D. Schmidt – T Sch – 1000
Under the Jolly Roger – L.A. Meyer – T Mey – 1000
The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis – T Cur – 1000
Anne of Avonlea – L.M. Montgomery – T Mon – 1020
The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs – Dylin Busby – J Bus – 1020
Perilous Gard – Elizabeth Pope – T Pop – 1020
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Karen Cushman – J Cus – 1030
The First Four Years – Laura Ingalls Wilder – J Wil – 1030
Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse – T Hes – 1040
In the Belly of the Bloodhound – L.A. Meyer – T Mey – 1040
Sink or Swim – Steve Watkins – T Wat – 1040
Forgotten Fire – Adam Bagdasarian – T Bag – 1050
Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis – J Cur – 1070
Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist – Margarita Engle – T Eng – 1070
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne – T Boy – 1080
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum – Mary Hooper – T Hoo – 1120
Audacity – Melanie Crowder – T Cro – 1120
Curse of the Blue Tattoo – L.A. Meyer – T Mey – 1120
Incident at Hawk’s Hill – Allan Eckert – J Eck – 1130
Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman – T Cus- 1170
Petals in the Ashes – Mary Hooper – T Hoo – 1190
Midwife’s Apprentice – Karen Cushman – T Cus – 1240
Frenchtown Summer – Robert Cormier – T Cor – 1380
The Rifle – Gary Paulsen – YA Pau – 1480

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Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
Biography – The author tells the story of a real person’s life.
Autobiography – The person tells the story of his/her own life.
Memoir – The author tells about an experience or a part of his or her life.

Born Just Right – Jordan and Jen Reeves – T-B Reeves – 900 (Autobiography)
John Paul Jones: The Pirate Patriot – Armstrong Sperry – J-B Jones – 900
Rosa – Nikki Giovanni – J-B Parks – 900
Who Was Mark Twain? – JB Twa – 910
The Lost Childhood – Yehuda Nir – T-B Nir – 920 (Memoir)
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany – Eleanor R. Garner – T 940.54 Gar – 940 (Memoir)
March Forward Girl – Melba Pattillo Beals – T-B Beals – 950
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune – Pamela S. Turner T-B Minamoto – 950
A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympics – Lori Alexander – J-B Guttmann – 960
My Survival: A Girl on Schindler’s List – T-B Finder – Rena Finder – 970 (Memoir)
Wangari Maathai: The Woman who Planted Millions of Trees – Franck Prevot – J-B Maathai – 970
Knots in my Yo-Yo String – Jerry Spinelli – J-B Spinelli – 980 (Memoir)
Game of my Life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing up Autistic – Jason McElwain – T-B McElwain – 980
Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh – Candace Fleming – T-B Lindbergh – 980
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America – Susan Campbell Bartoletti – T-B Typhoid Mary – 980
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up on and off the Court – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – T-B Abdul-Jabbar – 990
The Notorious Benedict Arnold – Steve Sheinkin – J-B Arnold – 990
Lincoln’s Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton – JB Pin – 990
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad – David A. Adler – T-B Tubman – 990
The Boy on the Wooden Box – Leon Leyson – T-B Leyson – 1000 (Memoir)
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice – Phillip M. Hoose – T-B Colvin – 1000
John McCain: An American Hero – John Perritano – T-B McCain – 1000
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille – Russell Freedman – J-B Braille – 1000
Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath – T-B Geronimo – 1010
House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery – Liz Roseberg – T-B Montgomery – 1010
Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator – T-B Shelley – 1010
Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature – George Sullivan – J-B Thu – 1010
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith – J-B Darwin – 1020
Making of a Navy SEAL – Brandon Webb – T-B Webb – 1020 (Autobiography)
Helen’s Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan – Marfe Ferguson Delano – J-B Sul – 1030
Hot Pink: The Life and Fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli – Susan Goldman Rubin – T-B Schiaparelli – 1030
The Rain wizard: The Amazing, Mysterious, True Life of Charles Mallory Hatfield – Larry Dane Brimner – T-B Hatfield – 1030
A Friend Called Anne – Jacqueline van Maarsen – J-B Frank – 1040
A Girl from Yamhill – Beverly Cleary – T-B Cleary – 1040 (Memoir)
Reaching for the Moon – Katherine Johnson – T-B Johnson – 1040 (Memoir)
Thomas Paine: Crusader for Liberty by Albert Marrin – T-B Paine – 1040
Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army – Georg Rauch – T-B Rauch – 1040 (memoir)
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women’s Rights – Deborah Kops – T-B Paul – 1050
Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse – Catherine Reef- T-B Nightingale – 1050
Let your Voice be Heard: the Life and Times of Pete Seeger – Anita Silvey – T-B Seeger – 1050
Rosalind Franklin: DNA Discoverer – Tom Streissguth – T-B Franklin – 1050
The Trouble Begins at Eight– Sid Fleischman – T-B Twain – 1050
Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northrup, Free Black Man – Judy Sladin – T-B Northrup – 1060
Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion – Russell Freedman – T-B Zaharias – 1060
Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century – Neal Bascomb – T 940.4 Bas – 1060
In Harm’s Way: JFK, World War II, and the Heroic Rescue of Pt 109 – Iain Martin – T-B Kennedy – 1060
Ski Soldier: A World War II Biography – Louise Borden – T-B Seibert – 1060
At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England – Walter Dean Myers – T-B Bonetta – 1070
Awesome Engineering: Fairground Rides – Sally Spray – J 791.06 Spr – 1070
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor – Sonia Sotomayor – T-B Sotomayor – 1070 (autobiography)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Russell Freedman – J-B Roosevelt – 1070
Babe Ruth: Legendary Slugger – David Fischer – J-B Ruth – 1080
Confucius: The Golden Rule – Russell Freedman – J-B Confucius – 1080
Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank – Adult Bio Frank and T-B Frank – 1080 (Memoir)
Four Perfect Pebbles – Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan – T-B Lazan – 1080 (Memoir)
General George Patton: Old Blood and Guts – Alden Hatch – J-B Patton – 1080
Going Solo – Roald Dahl – T-B Dahl – 1080 (Memoir)
The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver – Cheryl Harness – T-B Car – 1090
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and his Girl – Stacey O’Brien – Adult 589.9 OBr – 1090
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery – Russell Freedman – T-B Roosevelt – 1100
Sole Survivor – Ruthanne Lum McCunn – Adult Nonfiction 910.453 McC – 1100
Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer – Emily Arnold McCully – T-B Lovelace – 1110
The Girl who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science – Joyce Sidman – J-B Merian – 1110
My Own Two Feet – Beverly Cleary – T-B Cleary – 1110 (Memoir)
Steve Jobs: The Man who Thought Different – Karen Blumenthal – T-B Jobs – 1110
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings – Margarita Engle – T-B Engle – 1120
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman who Challenged Big Business and Won – Emily McCully – T-B Tarbell – 1120
Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop – Jan Greenburg – T-B Warhol – 1120
Good Brother, Bad Brother – James Cross Giblin – T-B Booth – 1130
Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life – Russell Freedman – T-B Graham – 1130
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man – Tonya Bolden – T-B Douglass – 1140
Mercy: The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA and Friend to Animals – Nancy Furstinger – T-B Bergh – 1140
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition – Jeanne Theoharis – T-B Parks – 1140
My Life in Dog Years – Gary Paulsen – T-B Paulsen – 1150 (Autobiography)
Rascal, a Memoir of a Better Era – Sterling North – T-B North – 1140 (Memoir)
Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville’s Famous Conjoined Twins – Sarah Miller – T-B Hil – 1150
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Courageous Spirit – Victoria Garrett Jones – J-B Roosevelt – 1150
The Wright Brothers: How they Invented the Airplane – Russell Freedman – J-B Wright – 1160
How Angel Peterson Got His Name – Gary Paulsen – T-B Paulsen – 1180 (Memoir)
King of the Mild Frontier – Chris Crutcher – T-B Crutcher – 1180 (Autobiography)
Unforgivable Blackness – Geoffrey C. Ward – Adult Biography Johnson – 1180
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights – Russell Freedman – T-B Anderson – 1180
Chewing the Cud – Dick King-Smith – J-B King-Smith – 1200 (Memoir)
Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original “Girl” Reporter, Nellie Bly – Deborah Noyes – T-B Bly – 1210
This Side of Wild – Gary Paulsen – T-B Paulsen – 1210 (Memoir)
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books – Gary Paulsen – T-B Paulsen – 1230
The Real Benedict Arnold – Jim Murphy – J–B Arnold – 1240
Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life & Work – Victoria Ortiz – T-B Ginsburg – 1250
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs – Gary Paulsen – T 798.8 Pau – 1280 (Memoir)
Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and his Homemade Nuclear Reactor – Ken Silverstein – T 621.48 – 1300
My Dog Skip – Willie Morris – Adult B Morris – 1380 (Memoir)
Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton Reveal’d – Mary Losure – T-B Newton – 1510

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Traditional Literature – Stories that are passed down orally from one group to another in history. This includes folktales, fairy tales, fables, legends, and myths from different cultures. (This does not include Classics, per se.)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Great Illustrated Classics) – J Series Gre – 940
American Tall Tales – Mary Pope Osborne – J 398.20973 – 970
D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls – Ingi and Edgar D’Aulaire – J 293.13 DAu – 1020
The Outlaws of Sherwood – Robin McKinley – T 398.22 Rob – 1020
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths – Ingi and Edgar D’Aulaire – J 292 DAu – 1070
The Sword in the Stone – Terrance White – Adult Fiction Whi – 1120
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle – J 398.22 Rob – 1260
Tales from Shakespeare – Charles and Mary Lamb – T 823 Lam – 1390
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights – Howard Pyle – J 398.22 Pyl – 1430

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Informational – Texts that provide factual information to readers.

Plastic Ahoy!: – Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Patricia Newman – J 636.7 New – 900
Duel! Burr and Hamilton’s Deadly War of Words – J 973.4 Fra – 910
Kids on Strike! – Susan Campbell Bartoletti – 331.892 Bar – 920
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers – Steve Sheinkin – T 973.7 She – 930
Save the Crash-Test Dummies – Jennifer Swanson – J692.2.Swa – 920
Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews – Ellen Levine – T 940.53 Lev – 950
Family Romanov – Candace Fleming – T 947.08 Fle- 950
Children of the Past: Archaeology and the Lives of Kids – Lois Miner Huey – J 930.1 Hue – 950
Boys who Challenged Hitler – Phillip Hoose – T 940.53 – 970
Fearless Felines: 30 True Tales of Courageous Cats – Kimberlie Hamilton – J 636.8 Ham – 970
Frenemies in the Family: Famous Brothers and Sisters who Butted Heads and had Each Other’s Backs – Kathleen Krull – J306.875 Kru 980
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School – T 793.332 She – 980
Red Madness – Gail Jarrow – T 616.3 Jar – 990
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team’s Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics – Daniel James Brown – T 797.123 Bro – 1000
Extreme Battlefields: When War Meets the Forces of Nature – Tanya Lloyd Kyi – T – 1000
First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth – Ian Lendler – J567.9 Len – 1000
Flesh and Blood so Cheap: the Triangle Fire and its Legacy – Albert Marrin – T 974.7 Mar – 1000
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazi’s Secret Code – Rebecca E.F. Barone – T 940.54 Bar – 1000
Chasing King’s Killer – James Swanson – 1010
We Must Not Forget – Deborah Hopkinson – T 940.53 Hop – 1010
Nazi Saboteurs: Hitler’s Secret Attack on America – Samantha Seiple – T 940.54 Sei – 1010
Children of the Wild West – Russell Freedman – J 978 Fre – 1010
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary – Gail Jarrow – T 614.51 Jar – 1010
The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa’s Great Herds – Sy Montgomery – 1010
Edward S. Curtis Chronicles Native Nations – Dob Nardo – T 970.1 Nar – 1020
Women Win the Vote: 19 for the 19th – Nancy Kennedy – J324.6 Ken – 1020
Puppy Love: True Stories of Doggy Devotion – Lisa M. Gerry – J 636.7 Ger – 1020
Vicksburg: The Battle That Won the Civil War – Mary Ann Fraser – J 973.7 Fra – 1020
Walk Across America – Peter Jenkins – Adult Nonfiction 917.305 Jen – 1020
Women with Wings: Women Pilots of World War II – Sharon Baker Moore – T 940.54 Moo – 1020
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust – Doreen Rappaport – T 940.53 Rap – 1030
Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease – Gail Jarrow – 1030
Day of Infamy – Walter Lord – Adult Nonfiction 940.54 Lor – 1030
No Better Friend: A Man, a Dog, and their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II – Robert Weintraub – T 636.7 Wei – 1030
Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom – Walter Dean Myers – T 973.0496 Mye – 1030
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia – Adult Nonfiction 305.42 Sas – 1030
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip through the Motown Sound – Andrea Davis Pinkney – T 781.644 Pin – 1030
They Lost Their Heads! What Happened to Washington’s Teeth, Einstein’s Brain and Other Famous Body Parts – Carlyn Beccia – J 920 Bec – 1030
Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Amazon Adventure – Samantha Seiple – T 918.1 Sei – 1040
Six Days in October – The Stock Market Crash of 1929 – Karen Blumenthal – T 338.5 Blu – 1040
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster – Deborah Hopkinson – T 910.916 Hop – 1040
Walking with the Great Apes – Sy Montgomery – Adult Nonfiction 599.08 Mon – 1040
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 – Susan Campbell Bartoletti – T 941.5081 Bar – 1040
Korean War – Shannon Baker Moore – T 951.404 Moo – 1040
Black and White Airmen – John Fleischman – T 940.54 Fle – 1050
Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story – Sandra Neil Wallace – T 919.8 Wal – 1050
Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time – Tanya Lee Stone – YA 371.822 Sto – 1050
Hitler Youth – Susan Campbell Bartoletti – T 943.086 Bar – 1050
Kennedy’s Last Days – Bill O’Reilly – T 973.922 ORe – 1050
Enough is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety – Michelle Roehm McCann – 1060
The Boy’s War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War– Jim Murphy – T 973.7 Mur– 1060
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine – Sally Walker – J 973.7 Wal – 1060
Sky Wolf’s Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge – Eldon Yellowhorn – TJ 970.004 Yel
Building the Book Cathedral – David Macaulay – Adult 726.6 Mac – 1070
Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People who are Helping to Protect our Planet – Harriet Rohmer – T 363.7 Roh – 1070
Long Road to Gettysburg – Jim Murphy – T 973.7 Mur– 1070
The Manhattan Project – Daniel Cohen – T 355.8 Coh – 1070
Power of Style – Christian Allaire – T – 1070
Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler’s Atomic Bomb – Neal Bascomb – T 940.54 Bas – 1070
Hidden Human Computers: Black Women of NASA – Sue Bradford Edwards – T 629.4 Edw – 1080
Herstory: 50 Women and Girls who Shook Up the World – Katherine Halligan – 1080
Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community – Lois Peterson – 1080
To Be a Slave – Julius Lester – T 973.7115 Les – 1080
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 – Larry Dane Brimner – T 323.092 Bri – 1080
Courage has no Color – Tanya Lee Stone – T 940.54 Sto – 1090
Rising Water: The Story of the The Thai Cave Rescue – Marc Aronson T 796.525 Aro – 1090
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote – Susan Zimet and Todd Hasak-Lowy – J 324.6 Zim – 1090
50 Animals That Have Been to Space – Jennifer L. Read – 1100
Belles of Baseball: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Nel Yomtov – T 793.357 Yom – 1110
The Borden Murders – Sarah Miller – T 364.1523 – 1100
Can Your Outfit Change the World? – Erinne Paisley – T 391.008 Pai – 1100
City : A Story of Roman Planning and Construction – David Macaulay – J 711 Mac – 1100
Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect us Today – Cynthia Levinson – T 342.73 Lev – 1110
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott – Russell Freedman – J 323.1196 – 1110
Growing up in Coal Country – Susan Campbell Bartoletti – J 331.3 Bar – 1110
Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science – Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring – T 616.027 Den – 1100
The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets – Sarah Miller – T-B Dionne – 1110
We Will Not be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolph Hitler – Russell Freedman – T 943.086 Fre – 1110
Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War – Albert Marrin – 1120
Animals Go to War: From Dogs to Dolphins – Connie Goldsmith – T 355.4 Gol – 1120
Cathedral – David Macaulay – J 726 Mac – 1120
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 – Claire Hartfield – T 305.8 Har – 1120
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee – David Treuer – T 970.004 Tre
Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Shetterly Lee – T 510.92 – 1120
Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances – Elizabeth Macleod – T 001.94 – 1120
Vietnam War Heroes – Allan Zullo – T 959.704 Zul – 1120
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 – Jim Murphy – T 614.5 Mur– 1130
The Great Fire – Jim Murphy – J 977.3 Mur– 1130
The Great Race: The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908 – Gary Blackwood – J 796.72 Bla – 1130
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball – George Will – Adult Nonfiction 796.357 Wil – 1130
Space Race: How the Cold War put Humans on the Moon – Matthew Brenden Wood – T 629.4 Woo – 1130
With a Little Luck: Surprising Stories of Amazing Discoveries – Dennis Fradin – J 509 Fra – 1130
World War I – Mary K. Pratt – 1130
Civil War Spies – Robert Grayson – 1140
Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging – Hannalora Leavitt – 1140
Muckrakers: Ida Tarbell Takes on Big Business – Valerie Boden – 1140
Navy SEAL Dogs: My Tale of Training Dogs for Combat – Mike Ritland – T 636.7 Rit- 1140
Now or Never! Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery – Ray Anthony Shepard – T 973.7 She – 1140
The Road to There: Mapmakers and their Stories – Val Ross – T 912.09 Ros – 1140
Saga of the Sioux – Dwight Jon Zimmerman – T 970.48 – 1140
Winter Dance – Gary Paulsen – Adult Nonfiction – 798.8 Pau – 1140
Young Patriot: the American Revolution as Experienced by one Boy – Jim Murphy –T 973.38 Mur -1140
Courage and Defiance : Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark – Deborah Hopkinson – T 940.53 – 1140
Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II – Sonia Purnell – J 940.54 – 1150
Mission Control, This is Apollo – Andrew Chaikin and Victoria Kohl – J 629.45 Cha – 1150
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 – Hoose – T 598.072 Hoo – 1150
Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great White Whale – Jim Murphy – T 639.28 Mur – 1150
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle – Madeleine Blais – Adult Nonfiction 796.323 Bla – 1150
Whale Quest – Karen Romano Young – 1150
Shackles from the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship – Michael Cottman – T 975.9 Cot – 1160
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever – Jim Murphy – 1170
Children of the Great Depression – Russell Freedman – J 973.917 Fre – 1170
Navajo Code Talkers – Nathan Aasang – T 940.54 Aas – 1170
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex – Nathaniel Philbrick – T 910 Phi – 1170
Trapped in Terror Bay: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Franklin Expedition – Sigmund Brouwer – T 910 Bro – 1170
Across America on an Emigrant Train – Jim Murphy – T 828 Mur– 1180
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds– Joy Adamson – Adult 599 Ada – 1180
Hothouse Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Importance of Carbon Neutrality – Stephanie McPherson -1180
It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Global Warming – Bridget Heos – T 363.73 Heo – 1180
Last of the Giants: The Rise and Fall of Earth’s most Dominant Species – T 591.68 Cam – 1180
The New Way Things Work – David MacAulay – Adult and T 600 Mac -1180
They Called Themselves the KKK – Susan Campbell Bartoletti – T 322.4 Bar – 1180
The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence – Marc Aronson – T 973.3 Aro – 1180
From Here to There: The Story of how we Transport Ourselves and Everything Else – H.P. Newquist – T 629.04 New – 1190
Stonewall Riots: The Fight for LGBT Rights – Tristan Poehlmann – T 306.76 Poe – 1190
Dark Game: True Spy Stories – Paul Janeczko – T 327.12 Jan – 1200
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – 1200
Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Laura Perdew – T 363.7 Per – 1200
Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men – Robert M. Edsel – T 940.53 Eds – 1200
Occupying Alcatraz: Native American Activists Demand Change – Alexis Burling – T 970.004 Bur – 1200
Why We Can’t Wait – Martin Luther King, Jr. – Adult Nonfiction 301.451 Kin – 1200
Invincible Microbe – Jim Murphy – T 616.9 Mur – 1200
Washington at Valley Forge – Russell Freedman – J 973.3 Fre – 1210
The War to End All Wars: World War I – Russell Freedman – T 940.3 Fre – 1220
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation – Martin Sandler – T 385 San – 1230
Tooth & Claw: The Dinosaur Wars – Deborah Noyes – T 560 Noy – 1230
Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die: The Complexities of Assisted Dying – Nikki Tate – T 179.7 Tat – 1240
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese-Americans During WWII – Sandler – T 940.53 San – 1240
Trench Warfare – Sue Bradford Edwards – T 940.4 Edw
In Defense of Liberty – Russell Freedman – T 342.73 Fre – 1270
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer – Adult 917.9804 Kra – 1270
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement – Rick Bowers – T 363.1196 Bow – 1290
Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and his Homemade Nuclear Reactor – Ken Silverstein – T 621.48 – 1300
Women Heroes of the American Revolution – Susan Casey – 1300
Kon-Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl – 910 Hey – 1310
Discovering Black America – Linda Tarrant-Reid – T 973.0496 Tar – 1370
T-Rex and the Crater of Doom – Walter Alvarez – 576.8 Alv – 1380
Dog in the Cave: The Wolves that Made us Human – Kay Frydenborg – T 636.7 Fry – 1400

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