Title Author Lexile Word Count
SERIES 6
Fiction
The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas 770L 1,968
The Hero of the Story Lemony Snicket 980L 5,943
Mother Nature’s Youngest Daughter Keah Brown 820L 4,362
What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? Avi 580L 3,315
Amicae Aeternum Ellen Klages 780L 3,010
Miss Awful Arthur Cavanaugh 760L 4,879
Moving On Jeanette Ingold 930L 3,511
The Shining Red Apple Morley Callaghan 830L 1,488
The Day-Off Chair Deborah Ellis 770L 1,432
The Stolen Party Liliana Heker 670L 2,035
Nonfiction
The Omnivore’s Dilemma (excerpt) Michael Pollan 880L 2,711
SWISH: A Basketball Story Joseph Bruchac 940L 2,050
\’in-glish\ Christina Tang-Bernas 620L 636
Tarantula Heaven Sy Montgomery 1000L 3,841
All-Ball Mary Pope Osborne 750L 2,099
Little Things Are Big Jesús Colón 1120L 808
Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir Laurie Colwin 910L 1,520
The Storm (excerpt) Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin 910L 3,210
Poetry
Eating Poetry Mark Strand NA* 112
At work with my father Eve L. Ewing NA* 425
SERIES 7
Fiction
The Friday Everything Changed Anne Hart 1260L 3,310
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Rod Serling 680L 6,918
I Go Along Richard Peck 690L 1,812
The Necklace Guy de Maupassant 890L 2,846
How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium Matt de la Peña 790L 4,612
The Lie Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 780L 4,469
Twenty-Seven Days Jenny Kaczorowski 560L 3,544
Two Kinds Amy Tan 820L 4,593
The Red Room H. G. Wells 1100L 3,634
How Auto-Tune Saved My Life Brendan Halpin 750L 7,459
Nonfiction
The Secret Life of Bees Carl Zimmer 1030L 2,356
I Am Malala (excerpt) Malala Yousafzai 820L 1,916
The Matthew Effect (excerpt) Malcolm Gladwell 1050L 3,593
Texts from Strangers Megan Stielstra 860L 976
How Rats Became an Inescapable Part of City Living Emma Marris 1130L 2,770
Names/Nombres Julia Alvarez 990L 1,417
Quiet Power (excerpt) Susan Cain 1010L 2,318
Friends of the Hide (excerpt) Timothy Egan 1240L 1,952
Poetry
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears Mohja Kahf NA* 493
Boy at the Window Richard Wilbur NA* 124
SERIES 8
Fiction
The Other Side of the Reservoir MH Rowe 760L 1,611
Eraser Tattoo Jason Reynolds 690L 2,598
The Doll’s House Katherine Mansfield 750L 2,781
Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads David Almond 550L 3,577
The Pose Anwar Khan 830L 1,488
A Hundred Hundred Daisies Nancy Kress 620L 4,202
Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird Toni Cade Bambara 850L 2,634
Batrachophiles and Batrachophobes Miguel de Unamuno 990L 1,790
You Debbie Urbanski 720L 2,603
The Veteran Stephen Crane 890L 1,841
Nonfiction
Dining with the Snakes (excerpt) Jared Diamond 1230L 2,275
The Test (excerpt) Ned Vizzini 690L 1,524
Cause of Death: Selfie Kathryn Miles 1210L 3,515
Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read Julie Beck 1090L 1,503
Where Did You Get That Name? (excerpt) Baratunde Thurston 830L 1,122
Why Mathematics Is a Language Anne Marie Helmenstine 1010L 832
Starvation Under the Orange Trees John Steinbeck 1090L 1,682
Everything Will Be Okay James Howe 570L 1,857
Poetry
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay NA* 130
Catalog Army Naomi Shihab Nye NA* 196

*Lexile measures are not applied to poetry.

Title Author Lexile Word Count
SERIES 6
Fiction
The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas 770L 1,968
The Hero of the Story Lemony Snicket 980L 5,943
Mother Nature’s Youngest Daughter Keah Brown 820L 4,362
What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? Avi 580L 3,315
Amicae Aeternum Ellen Klages 780L 3,010
Miss Awful Arthur Cavanaugh 760L 4,879
Moving On Jeanette Ingold 930L 3,511
The Shining Red Apple Morley Callaghan 830L 1,488
The Day-Off Chair Deborah Ellis 770L 1,432
The Stolen Party Liliana Heker 670L 2,035
Nonfiction
The Omnivore’s Dilemma (excerpt) Michael Pollan 880L 2,711
SWISH: A Basketball Story Joseph Bruchac 940L 2,050
\’in-glish\ Christina Tang-Bernas 620L 636
Tarantula Heaven Sy Montgomery 1000L 3,841
All-Ball Mary Pope Osborne 750L 2,099
Little Things Are Big Jesús Colón 1120L 808
Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir Laurie Colwin 910L 1,520
The Storm (excerpt) Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin 910L 3,210
Poetry
Eating Poetry Mark Strand NA* 112
At work with my father Eve L. Ewing NA* 425
SERIES 7
Fiction
The Friday Everything Changed Anne Hart 1260L 3,310
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Rod Serling 680L 6,918
I Go Along Richard Peck 690L 1,812
The Necklace Guy de Maupassant 890L 2,846
How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium Matt de la Peña 790L 4,612
The Lie Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 780L 4,469
Twenty-Seven Days Jenny Kaczorowski 560L 3,544
Two Kinds Amy Tan 820L 4,593
The Red Room H. G. Wells 1100L 3,634
How Auto-Tune Saved My Life Brendan Halpin 750L 7,459
Nonfiction
The Secret Life of Bees Carl Zimmer 1030L 2,356
I Am Malala (excerpt) Malala Yousafzai 820L 1,916
The Matthew Effect (excerpt) Malcolm Gladwell 1050L 3,593
Texts from Strangers Megan Stielstra 860L 976
How Rats Became an Inescapable Part of City Living Emma Marris 1130L 2,770
Names/Nombres Julia Alvarez 990L 1,417
Quiet Power (excerpt) Susan Cain 1010L 2,318
Friends of the Hide (excerpt) Timothy Egan 1240L 1,952
Poetry
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears Mohja Kahf NA* 493
Boy at the Window Richard Wilbur NA* 124
SERIES 8
Fiction
The Other Side of the Reservoir MH Rowe 760L 1,611
Eraser Tattoo Jason Reynolds 690L 2,598
The Doll’s House Katherine Mansfield 750L 2,781
Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads David Almond 550L 3,577
The Pose Anwar Khan 830L 1,488
A Hundred Hundred Daisies Nancy Kress 620L 4,202
Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird Toni Cade Bambara 850L 2,634
Batrachophiles and Batrachophobes Miguel de Unamuno 990L 1,790
You Debbie Urbanski 720L 2,603
The Veteran Stephen Crane 890L 1,841
Nonfiction
Dining with the Snakes (excerpt) Jared Diamond 1230L 2,275
The Test (excerpt) Ned Vizzini 690L 1,524
Cause of Death: Selfie Kathryn Miles 1210L 3,515
Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read Julie Beck 1090L 1,503
Where Did You Get That Name? (excerpt) Baratunde Thurston 830L 1,122
Why Mathematics Is a Language Anne Marie Helmenstine 1010L 832
Starvation Under the Orange Trees John Steinbeck 1090L 1,682
Everything Will Be Okay James Howe 570L 1,857
Poetry
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay NA* 130
Catalog Army Naomi Shihab Nye NA* 196

*Lexile measures are not applied to poetry.

Title Author Lexile Word Count
Great Books Roundtable Level 1 870L 46,003
Afternoon in Linen Shirley Jackson 740L 1,448
A Likely Place Paula Fox 630L 8,841
As the Night the Day Abioseh Nicol 880L 4,644
Gaston William Saroyan 770L 1,907
Rattlesnakes John Muir 1350L 1,390
Raymond’s Run Toni Cade Bambara 1280L 3,712
The Mountain Charles Mungoshi 860L 2,743
The Mysteries of the Cabala Isaac Bashevis Singer 770L 3,022
The Old Man of the Sea Maeve Brennan 900L 2,813
The Parsley Garden William Saroyan 1140L 2,570
The Veldt Ray Bradbury 600L 4,593
The Witch Who Came for the Weekend William Trevor 950L 2,847
Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing 870L 3,961
Throwing Snowballs Annie Dillard 880L 1,513
Great Books Roundtable Level 2 870L 45,374
Colter’s Way Sebastian Junger 1070L 2,444
Day of the Butterfly Alice Munro 960L 3,748
El Diablo de la Cienega Geoffrey Becker 760L 5,025
Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 830L 2,186
I Just Kept On Smiling Simon Burt 550L 3,055
Mercedes Kane Elizabeth McCracken 590L 4,401
Props for Faith Ursula Hegi 990L 3,603
Sandra Street Michael Anthony 900L 2,909
The Box House and the Snow Cristina Henriquez 780L 4,445
The Cat and the Coffee Drinkers Max Steele 1140L 5,038
The First Day Edward P. Jones 1060L 1,902
The White Circle John Bell Clayton 850L 2,872
The White Umbrella Gish Jen 560L 2,825
Wolf Loren Eiseley 850L 929
Great Books Roundtable Level 3 890L 51,092
Approximations Mona Simpson 650L 4,175
A Visit of Charity Eudora Welty 820L 2,297
Fellowship Franz Kafka 840L 310
Gryphon Charles Baxter 800L 6,511
How It Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston 950L 1,600
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr. 1120L 1,654
Star Food Ethan Canin 960L 6,860
Sucker Carson McCullers 870L 4,259
Superstitions Mary La Chapelle 820L 6,059
The Bet Anton Chekhov 1040L 2,833
The Destructors Graham Greene 760L 5,511
The Possibility of Evil Shirley Jackson 1090L 4,029
The Secret Lion Alberto Álvaro Ríos 1000L 2,502
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse William Saroyan 720L 2,489