| 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.
