Title | Author | Lexile | Word Count |
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Series K Consolidated | 620L | 7,772 | |
Series K, Volume One | 540L | 2,177 | |
Cornelius | Leo Lionni | 440L | 278 |
Big Wolf and Little Wolf | Nadine Brun-Cosme | 630L | 1,004 |
Jamaica’s Blue Marker | Juanita Havill | 460L | 895 |
The Stray Cat (poem) | Eve Merriam | NA* | 63 |
Series K, Volume Two | 530L | 2,948 | |
The Three Wishes | Margot Zemach | 750L | 685 |
Me First | Max Kornell | 410L | 619 |
The Fire Cat | Esther Averill | 470L | 1,644 |
Every Time I Climb a Tree (poem) | David McCord | NA* | 158 |
Series K, Volume Three | 750L | 2,647 | |
Screen of Frogs | Sheila Hamanaka | 810L | 928 |
Down the Road | Alice Schertle | 730L | 1,347 |
The Tin Forest | Helen Ward | 730L | 372 |
Where Would You Be? (poem) | Karla Kuskin | NA* | 105 |
Series 1 Consolidated | 640L | 9,766 | |
Series 1, Volume One | 710L | 2,944 | |
City Mouse and Country Mouse | Aesop | 950L | 756 |
Under the Lemon Moon | Edith Hope Fine | 520L | 1,238 |
Those Shoes | Maribeth Boelts | 680L | 950 |
The Land of Nod (poem) | Robert Louis Stevenson | NA* | 106 |
Series 1, Volume Two | 570L | 2,716 | |
Stone Soup | Marcia Brown | 530L | 1,080 |
The Big Orange Splot | Daniel Pinkwater | 650L | 754 |
The Mud Family | Betsy James | 500L | 882 |
Blue (poem) | Claudia Lewis | NA* | 59 |
Series 1, Volume Three | 630L | 4,106 | |
Skunny-Wundy’s Skipping Stone | Joseph Bruchac | 580L | 1,522 |
Best Friends for Frances | Russell Hoban | 650L | 1,646 |
Yoshi’s Feast | Kimiko Kajikawa | 690L | 938 |
Dinky (poem) | Theodore Roethke | NA* | 131 |
*Lexile measures are not applied to poetry.
Title | Author | Lexile | Word Count |
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Series 2, Book One | 790L | 14,150 | |
The Happy Lion | Louise Fatio | 910L | 980 |
Miss Maggie | Cynthia Rylant | 920L | 977 |
Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship | West Indian folktale as told by James Berry | 630L | 1,738 |
Catalog Cats/Our Garden | Ann Cameron | 610L | 1,582 |
Carlos and the Cornfield | Jan Romero Stevens | 850L | 1,469 |
The Wedding Basket | West African folktale as told by Donna L. Washington | 630L | 1,586 |
The Jade Stone | Chinese folktale as told by Caryn Yacowitz | 700L | 1,308 |
The Girl and the Chenoo | Native American folktale as told by Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross | 770L | 2,082 |
Jack and the Beanstalk | English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs | 990L | 2,428 |
Series 2, Book Two | 870L | 15,301 | |
Erandi’s Braids | Antonio Hernández Madrigal | 500L | 1,266 |
The Invisible Hunters | Nicaraguan folktale as told by Harriett Rohmer | 620L | 1,337 |
Fishing Day | Andrea Davis Pinkney | 690L | 1,611 |
Perfect Crane | Anne Laurin | 830L | 1,390 |
Hurricane Flowers | Ethel Pochocki | 880L | 1,642 |
My Great-Grandmother’s Gourd | Cristina Kessler | 770L | 2,017 |
The Wise Little Toad | Rosario Ferré | 1150L | 1,131 |
Doodle Flute | Daniel Pinkwater | 310L | 1,031 |
The Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams | 1110L | 3,876 |
Title | Author | Lexile | Word Count |
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Series 3, Book One | 790L | 17,104 | |
Boundless Grace | Mary Hoffman | 650L | 1,106 |
The Scarebird | Sid Fleischman | 550L | 1,517 |
Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat | Jennifer Armstrong | 790L | 2,164 |
The Gold Coin | Alma Flor Ada | 710L | 2,146 |
The Magic Listening Cap | Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko uchida | 830L | 1,847 |
The Mushroom Man | Ethel Pochcocki | 960L | 2,035 |
The Banza | Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein | 590L | 1,106 |
The Upside-Down Boy | Juan Felipe Herrerra | 640L | 1,187 |
The Ugly Duckling | Hans Christian Andersen | 900L | 2,428 |
Series 3, Book Two | 850L | 14,141 | |
White Wave | Chinese folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein | 610L | 1,270 |
Luba and the Wren | Ukrainian folktale as told by Patricia Polacco | 670L | 1,711 |
Basho and the River Stones | Tim Myers | 750L | 1,311 |
The Monster Who Grew Small | Joan Grant | 970L | 2,245 |
The Buffalo Storm | Katherine Applegate | 880L | 1,225 |
Pierre’s Dream | Jennifer Armstrong | 840L | 1,196 |
The Dream Weaver | Concha Castroviejo | 990L | 1,971 |
The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks | Georgian folktale as told by George and Helen Papashvily | 820L | 1,474 |
The Emperor’s New Clothes | Hans Christian Andersen | 940L | 1,717 |
Title | Author | Lexile | Word Count |
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Series 4, Book One | 790L | 17,588 | |
Thank You M’am | Langston Hughes | 800L | 1,348 |
Crow Call | Lois Lowry | 750L | 1,851 |
Fresh | Philippa Pearce | 680L | 3,487 |
Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser | Ukrainian folktale as told by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 920L | 1,753 |
On Sand Island | Jacqueline Briggs Martin | 870L | 1,420 |
The Green Man | Gail E. Haley | 820L | 1,591 |
Song of Hope | Peggy Duffy | 700L | 2,049 |
Jean Labadie’s Big Black Dog | French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson | 770L | 2,256 |
Thunder, Elephant, and Dorobo | African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman | 940L | 1,830 |
Series 4, Book Two | 780L | 18,173 | |
Tuesday of the Other June | Norma Fox Mazer | 750L | 3,460 |
Doesn’t Fall Off His Horse | Virginia A. Stroud | 820L | 2,504 |
The Cello of Mr. O | Jane Cutler | 750L | 1,499 |
The No-Guitar Blues | Gary Soto | 800L | 2,315 |
The Fire on the Mountain | Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau | 920L | 1,398 |
Ooka and the Honest Thief | Japanese folktale as told by I.G. Edmonds | 890L | 1,105 |
The Old Woman and the Wave | Shelley Jackson | 820L | 1,227 |
Letting Swift River Go | Jane Yolen | 900L | 1,074 |
The Apple and the Envelope | Herbert Montgomery | 630L | 3,578 |
Title | Author | Lexile | Word Count |
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Series 5, Book One | 770L | 18,451 | |
Charles | Shirley Jackson | 710L | 1,599 |
The Special Powers of Blossom Culp | Richard Peck | 780L | 2,565 |
The Peddler’s Gift | Maxine Rose Schur | 680L | 2,297 |
In the Time of Drums | Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson | 840L | 1,913 |
Learning the Game | Francisco Jiménez | 650L | 2,389 |
The Invisible Child | Tove Jansson | 670L | 2,847 |
The Coming of the Sufrman | Peter Collington | 780L | 2,796 |
All Summer in a Day | Ray Bradbury | 850L | 1,936 |
A Game of Catch | Richard Wilbur | 1040L | 1,444 |
Series 5, Book Two | 770L | 25,446 | |
Kamau’s Finish | Muthoni Muchemi | 710L | 2,046 |
Ghost Cat | Donna Hill | 550L | 3,438 |
The Hemulen Who Loved Silence | Tove Jansson | 830L | 3,832 |
The Enchanted Sticks | Steven J. Myers | 790L | 2,389 |
Kaddo’s Wall | West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog | 760L | 2,092 |
The Prince and the Goose Girl | Elinor Mordaunt | 930L | 4,642 |
A Bad Road for Cats | Cynthia Rylant | 710L | 1,558 |
Lenny’s Red-Letter Day | Bernard Ashley | 790L | 2,990 |
Through the Mickle Woods | Valiska Gregory | 650L | 2,447 |