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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Grades 5-7

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Middle Ages
Topic
Midwives | Orphans
Geographic Region
Europe | United Kingdom
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award | Newbery | Newbery Medal | Other Awards
Format
Book

Midwife’s Apprentice

Author: Cushman, Karen

From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England. The girl known only as Brat has no family, no home, and no future until she meets Jane the Midwife and becomes her apprentice. As she helps the sharp-tempered Jane deliver babies, Brat–who renames herself Alyce–gains knowledge, confidence, and the courage to want something from life: “A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.” Medieval village life makes a lively backdrop for the funny, poignant story of how Alyce gets what she wants. A concluding note discusses midwifery past and present. A Newbery Medal book.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-6 Grade

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction

Topic
Animals | Mice, mouse or rats
Main Character
Animal
Award-Winning Book
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award | Newbery | Newbery Medal | Other Awards
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH #1)

Author: O'Brien, Robert C.Part of a Series: Rats of NIMH

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.

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Lexile/Reading Level
520L

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Humor

Topic
Accidents | Animals | Humor | Power | Squirrels | Super Heros
Main Character
Animal | Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
National Book Award for Children's Books | Newbery | Newbery Medal | Other Awards
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Author: DiCamillo, Kate

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format—a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell.

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Lexile/Reading Level
940L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1950s
Topic
Facing Fears | Physical Disabilities | Self-confidence | Shyness | Stuttering
Geographic Region
Tennessee | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book | Ebook

Paperboy

Author: Vawter, Vince

An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering, not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend’s paper route for the month of July, he knows he’ll be forced to communicate with the different customers, including a housewife who drinks too much and a retired merchant marine who seems to know just about everything.

The paper route poses challenges, but it’s a run-in with the neighborhood junkman, a bully and thief, that stirs up real trouble–and puts the boy’s life, as well as that of his family’s devoted housekeeper, in danger.

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Lexile/Reading Level
690L

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction

Topic
Animals | Culture and Traditions | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Wolves
Main Character
Animal
Award-Winning Book
Children's Crown Christian Book Award | Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book | Ebook

Runt

Author: Bauer, Marion Dane

DEEP IN THE Minnesota forest, where only the strong survive, four regular-sized pups—Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker—are pushed into the world. Then one last, very small pup is born into the wolf pack. He is called Runt.

From the very start, Runt struggles in the harsh wild world of the wolves. He tries learning along with his brothers and sisters, but makes serious mistakes. It’s hard pleasing his father, King, and the other wolves. If only Runt could prove himself to his powerful father and family. . . .

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Folklore | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War I
Date
1900s
Topic
Finnish Revolution | Military and Wars
Geographic Region
Europe | Finland
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book

Vaino: A Boy of New Finland

Author: Adams, Julia Davis

Book VainoTales and legends from Finland form the background to this story of a modern Finnish boy who is a student during the Finnish Revolution of World War I that freed that country from oppressive Russian rule.

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Folklore

Topic
Celtic | Short stories
Geographic Region
Europe | Ireland | Scotland | United Kingdom
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book

Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales

Author: Young, Ella

Book Tangle-Coated Horse“The Fionn Saga is one of the oldest and strangest of the Gaelic sagas: it is also one of the best remembered, for to this day in Gaelic speaking Scotland and in every part of Ireland Finn McCool is a household name. If there is a gulch anywhere he has leapt over it; if there is a huge boulder it is one that he cast once-upon-a-time as a stone; if there is a gap in a mountain-crest he has lifted the bit from it. He is “giant-big” in the minds of the old folk and the children. Story-tellers can recite long poems in intricate metre all abut Fionn and Usheen and Keeltya and the others.”
-from the author’s foreword.

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical | Realistic

Date
1900s
Topic
Courage | Facing Fears | Friendship | Hardships | Homesteading | Orphans
Geographic Region
South Dakota | United States - America
Main Character
Family
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book | Ebook

Jumping-off Place

Author: McNeely, Marion Hurd

In the early 1900s, four orphaned siblings, the eldest being seventeen, set out to fulfill their uncle’s dream of homesteading in Tripp County, South Dakota, and although they face drought, discomfort, and sabotaging squatters, new friends and inner strength help them carry on.

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Date
1800s
Topic
Courage | Culture and Traditions | Facing Fears | Family Relationships | Hardships | Homelessness and Poverty | Military and Wars
Geographic Region
Albania | Europe
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book

Pran of Albania

Author: Miller, Elizabeth

Book Pran of Albania“Pran is a daughter of the sturdy mountain tribes of Albania – old enough to be betrothed in accordance with the ancient tribal traditions.
This is the story of Pran and her life in the mountains and the refugee barracks at Skodra; of her friend, the laughing blue-eyed Nush and his secret; of her adventures in war times and peace, of her betrothal and the strange vow she takes.”

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
French Revolution
Date
1700s
Topic
Biography
Geographic Region
Europe | France
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book

Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland

Author: Eaton, Jeanette

Book Daughter of the SeineThis is a fictionalized biography of the French Revolutionary patriot and writer Jeanne Manon Roland de la Platiere (1754-1793), who became known simply by Madame Roland. She was the daughter of a Paris engraver who encouraged his daughter’s interest in music, painting, and literature. As a young girl, she told to her grand-mother: “I’ll call myself daughter of the Seine,” and as an adult she often said that the river was part of her soul. As a young woman she became interested in the radical ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau and the movement for equality. She shared these enthusiasms with her husband, whom she married in 1780. After the outbreak of the Revolution, she formed a salon of followers, who late became known as the Girondists. Under the constitutional monarchy, her husband became minister of the interior, a post he held after the monarchy was overthrown. Madame Roland both directed her husband’s career and influenced the important politicians of the period.

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What is my Child’s Lexile Measure?

GRADELEXILE
1st0-300L
2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
4th445-810L
5th565-910L
6th665-1000L
7th735-1065L
8th805-1100L
9th855-1165L
10th905-1195L
11th/12th940-1210L
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