Seventh & Eighth Grade Student Edition 2018-2019 · 2018. 9. 26. · Imagine Schools Advanced Reading Challenge Grades 3-8 Imagine Schools Mission Statement: As a national family

Seventh & Eighth Grade Student

Edition

2018-2019

September 17, 2018

Dear Imagine Parents/Guardians and Students,

We invite you to participate in the eleventh, annual Imagine Schools NationalAdvanced Reading Challenge (ARC). This initiative is designed to challengestudents to choose high quality literature, to read as much and as often asthey are able, and to share their love for reading with peers and adults. TheARC promotes students “acquiring and owning” their education by “developingacademic and character habits to increase learning opportunities” and“becoming independent, self-directed learners.” (pp. 20-21, Imagine SchoolsAcademic Excellence Framework).

Our research shows that students who participate in the ARC also improvetheir academic learning gains in reading and mathematics. Many students,who are successful academically, need encouragement to take risks, to developperseverance, and to venture out into the world of ideas and knowledge. Webelieve that one of the best ways to become a life-long learner is to develop alove of reading. Each year we survey teachers about the ARC. Their responsesinclude:

I enjoy seeing students challenge themselves and develop a love for reading.

I love motivating the students to read and watch them thrive!

The Advanced Reading Challenge is open to Imagine Schools’ students ingrades 3-12 who are at or above grade level in reading, and who can assumeresponsibility for independent work beyond their class and homeworkassignments. The ARC book list is comprised of high quality, classic and award-winning books at or above grade level. The 25 books must come from thegrade level lists; however, there are two ways provided for students topersonalize their selection. Students can select up to three books that are noton the lists to read towards the challenge or students may read from listshigher than their grade level, but not below their grade level. Books selectedby students must have coordinator approval.

Grade-level book lists have been updated to provide more choices for students.We encourage students to select books in a purposeful way, either through anauthor study, series completion, or genre study. As was the case in past years,by accepting this challenge, students pledge to read each book and complete areflection about their book in order to certify their accomplishment. ImagineSchools will give a $50 Barnes and Noble Gift Card to each student who readsand reports on the designated number of books (25 for grades 3-8 and 15 forgrades 9-12) during the school year. These students will be recognizednationally by Imagine Schools. Last year, close to 2,000 Imagine Schools’students participated in the ARC, and 426 students were given awards forcompleting the challenge.

We hope that by taking on this challenge, students will stretch themselves asreaders and learners, enjoy some great new books, and model achievementand excellence for their friends and peers.

Sincerely,

Dr. Nancy Hall

Nancy Hall, Ph. DChief Academic OfficerImagine Schools

Imagine Schools Advanced Reading Challenge

Grades 3-8

Imagine Schools Mission Statement: As a national family of nonprofit public charter school campuses, Imagine Schools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary character.

Congratulations on your decision to challenge yourself through reading! We hope that by taking on this CHALLENGE, you will stretch yourself to accomplish more than you might have in an ordinary year, enjoy some great new books, and model achievement and excellence for your friends and peers.

Your Role as a Student: 1. Sign the commitment form to read the designated number of books (25 for grades 3-8) not previously

read. These books must come from the Advanced Reading Challenge grade level list. a. However, you may choose books from a list on a higher grade level. So, you may read “up” on the

lists but not down (you cannot choose books from a lower grade level list). b. Also, you can choose up to three books on your own to count towards the challenge. These books

must be appropriate, challenging and approved by your Advanced Reading Challenge Coordinator or classroom teacher.

c. In addition, you can listen to up to 3 books towards the challenge on tape or CD. Your local library should have some of your ARC books in an audio version.

d. 25 projects might seem like a lot but 6 of those can be AR quizzes and any of them can be oral summaries. We just need to verify that you actual read the book. See project ideas later in this packet.

2. Prepare a reading portfolio in which a table of contents with a list of books read and all corresponding projects are stored/showcased (*see attached table of contents)

3. Participate in school initiated activities (e.g., after school book club to present projects, etc.) as designated by your school of attendance.

4. Submit all materials upon completion to your school’s Advanced Reading Coordinator.

Helpful Adults: Advanced Reading Challenge Coordinator: This person will receive guidelines from the Imagine Schools’ office and will help you with the expectations and materials needed to complete the reading challenge. He/she will sign off on your projects, help you select books and may hold meetings to share information with you and your parents, answer questions that you might have along the way, and will find ways to help you complete this challenge.

Teachers: Your teachers should be able to help you get started, help you select just the right books, share information with your parent/guardian, remind you of deadlines, and help you make contact with the Advanced Reading Challenge Coordinator throughout the school year.

Parent/Guardian: Your parent or guardian should talk with you about the expectations of the Advanced Reading Challenge and support you by signing the reading contract, helping you find books (at the public library if needed), and asking you about the books you are reading and projects you are completing. Your parent/guardian may participate as an audience for your book summaries, discussions, and project presentations at school or home.

Librarian/Media Specialist: Your school librarian or media specialist can help you find books in your school library or identify books on the reading lists that are in the public library collection.

Imagine Schools

Advanced Reading Challenge

Important Dates

Tuesday, April 23, 2019: All student portfoliosmust be turned in to your Advanced ReadingChallenge Coordinator.

StartMonday, September 17, 2018: All studentsparticipating in the challenge should return theircontract to the ARC Coordinator by the last weekin September at the latest.

End

Suggested Pacing Guide

2018 - 2019

Congratulations on taking the Advanced Reading Challenge! Use this schedule as a guideline to pace your reading & project completion. Try to keep on or ahead of schedule.

ALL twenty-five books and projects are due before April 23, 2019. Happy Reading!


ARC BOOK AND PROJECT # STARTING ENDING

SIGN CONTRACT & BOOK 1 9.17.18 9.23.18

BOOKS 2 & 3 9.24.18 10.7.18

BOOKS 4 & 5 10.8.18 10.21.18

CATCH UP WEEKS 10.22.18 11.4.18

BOOKS 6 & 7 11.5.18 11.18.18

BOOKS 8 & 9 11.19.18 12.2.18

BOOKS 10 & 11 12.3.18 12.16.18

BOOKS 12 &13 12.17.18 12.30.18

ARC BOOK AND PROJECT # STARTING ENDING

BOOKS 14 & 15 12.31.18 1.13.19

BOOKS 16 & 17 1.14.19 1.27.19

BOOKS 18 & 19 1.28.19 2.10.19

CATCH UP WEEKS 2.11.19 2.24.19

BOOKS 20 & 21 2.25.19 3.10.19

BOOKS 22 & 23 3.11.19 3.24.19

BOOKS 24 AND 25 3.25.19 4.7.19

CATCH UP WEEKS 4.8.19 4.28.19

Oral Kinesthetic Written Visual Graphic Technological

One-Person Show

Puzzle Story It’s All in the Mail

Posting Postcards

The “What” Chart 3-W’s

Glog

Tell –Along Boards

Trading Cards Quotable Quotations

Quilt Mapping the Way

Prezi or PowerPoint

Presentation

The Press Conference

Can a Character

To Market, To Market

Artistic Timelines

Recipe for a Good Book

Book Blog Entry

Book Club Culture Kits Fast Fact Cards Crayon Conversations

The Plot Chart Cartoon

Point of Decision

Rolling the Dice

Catch the News

Story Tree Top Ten List Short Video clip Summary

Now Hear This Tangram Tales Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Caricature Double Bubble

Book Character Avatar

Imagine Schools Advanced Reading Challenge

Creative Responses to Literature Projects for (Grades 3-8) After reading each book from the ImagineSchools Advance Reading Challenge list, create a new entry in your Reading Portfolio Table ofContents (*see attached). Then choose a way to present your understanding of the book you justread. Use the table below and pages that follow for ideas. Include each finished project in yourportfolio to share with your class and/or ARC Club. If your finished project is not written, be sure totake a photograph or include notes from an oral presentation so that there is record of what you havedone for each book. You may also use up to six Accelerated Reader Quizzes with a passing rate of90% as evidence that you read the book. Keep a print out of an AR quiz or provide notes on thequiz to count as a project to keep in your portfolio. Keep all finished projects organized neatly inyour portfolio. Remember, the goal of this challenge is to enjoy some great new books and help yourfriends to enjoy them too! Think of the best way to share what you liked about this book and whatwould be interesting to other readers.

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lCreative Responses to Literature Descriptions

1. One-Person Show: Perform a monologue, pretending you are the main character (or another significant character) in your book.

2. Tell-Along Boards: Use puppets and art to create a Tell-Along Board to later use during storytelling—to retell the most important parts of the story or book you read.

3. The Press Conference: Pretend you are the main character in your book and hold a press conference to answer your classmates’ prepared questions.

4. Book Club: Participate in a book club discussion with other students and/or teachers in your school who are reading the same book.

5. Point of Decision: List important decisions made by book characters and explain what happens in the story as a result of those decisions.

6. Now Hear This: Write a 2 to 3-minute radio advertisement persuading the public that they should buy and read this book.

1. Puzzle Story: Discuss the story and then create a puzzle board, including pictures and a discussion of the story. Then pass on to others who read the story.

2. Trading Cards: Create trading cards of favorite figures in your story. You might use a pattern from a popular sports team.

3. Character Can or Case: Take a gallon coffee can or small suitcase and decorate it to represent a character in your book. Insert strips of events, problems, or challenges characters faced and/or overcame throughout the story.

4. Culture Kits: Create a kit containing items representative of other culture described in the book you read.

5. Rolling the Dice: Create scenes from the book on the sides of oversized dice. One dice depicts the beginning of the book and the other focuses on the scenes at the end of the book.

6. Tan gram Tales: Tan grams are ancient Chinese puzzles. Storytellers use the puzzle pieces, called tans, when they tell stories. You can create a Tan gram Tale in many ways: a) Use your tans to create a puzzle that looks like or represents your character. b) use your tan grams to make a puzzle that looks like the event or place where the majority of action takes place. c) Use your tans to make a puzzle that looks like something from the ending of your book. *Ask your teacher or an art teacher for an example of a tan gram if you need help.

Kinesthetic


Written

1. It’s All in the Mail: Write and address two friendly letters to characters in your book.

2. Quotable Quotations: Identify important quotations made by different book characters, and explain why each quotation is important in the story.

3. To Market, To Market: As a literary agent, write a letter to the publishing company designed to persuade them to publish this book.

4. Fast Fact Cards: Share information from nonfiction books by creating sets of Fast Fact Cards. Create a minimum of 10 cards.

5. Catch the News: Create a news report that highlights your story’s main characters and events.

6. Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Write a letter to the author asking questions about the book and/or what it is like to be an author.

1. Posting Postcards: Pretend you are a character from your book and create postcards to send to their classmates.

2. Quilt: Create pictures of different scenes and stitch them together to make a quilt.

3. Artistic Timelines: Students visually sequence events and create time lines.

4. Crayon Conversations: Draw highlights from your book as you retell the story.

5. Story Tree: Create a story tree like a family tree highlighting main ideas in the branches and supporting details in the leaves.

6. Caricature: Create a caricature that emphasizes the main characters’ personality with an appropriate background.

Visual


Creative Responses to Literature Descriptions

Graphic

1. The “What” Chart (3W’s): List information about a topic you’re interested in under three headings. “What I know already.” “What I want to know” and “What I’ve learned from reading.”

2. Mapping the Way: Create maps or plot routes in the form of a map. Create a key to clearly show the symbolism.

3. Recipe for a Good Book: Follow a recipe format to put the main idea (dish) and the supporting ideas (ingredients) on an index card and decorate with the tasty delight.

4. The Plot Chart (SWBS): Identify plot elements and write them on a Plot Chart.

5. Top Ten List: Create a Top Ten List of the things you learned from this book.

6. Double Bubble: Create a Thinking Mapping comparing the book to another book you have read.

1. Glog: Create your own interactive blog or “glog” at www.glogster.com. Find creative ways to share your glog with others.

2. Prezi Presentation: Create a PowerPoint or Prezi Presentation at prezi.com. with information about your favorite parts of the book, a summary of the book, and other interesting information. Be sure to present your new creation to your ARC club or classmates, family or friends!

3. Book Blog Entry: Create a book blog and complete an entry about a book you’ve read towards the ARC. Include a summary of the book and your personal reaction to the book in your entry. You can create a free blog at www.blogger.com. Share your blog with friends, your ARC club, or your class!

4. Cartoon: Using a tool like Creaza www.creaza.com or Piki Kids www.pikikids.comcreate a cartoon version of the book.

5. Short Video Clip Summary: Using a tool like Powtoons at www.powtoons.com or Animoto at www.animoto.com

6. Book Character Avatar: Create an avatar for a book character using a tool such as http://avachara.com/avatar/

Technological


Creative Responses to Literature Descriptions

http://www.glogster.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.creaza.com/

http://www.pikikids.com/

http://www.powtoons.com/

http://www.animoto.com/

http://avachara.com/avatar/

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Advanced Reading Challenge (ARC) Rubric

Rating Portfolio Criteria Rating Understanding Rating Presentation

Projects display a

variety of creative

approaches. Student

utilizes a specific

project type a maximum

of three times.

Student

demonstrates a clear

knowledge of main

ideas and themes;

evident in all

projects.

Student work

exemplifies an

effective editing

process. The project

is free from

grammatical or

spelling errors that

would hinder their

message.

Student selects texts from the prescribed

booklists according to

rules of the ARC (or

receives approval for 2-

3 choice books).

Student demonstrates a deep

understanding of

themes, events, and

details in the text;

evident in all

projects.

Student graphics and pictures support and

extend their

message.

Parents, teachers or

ARC leaders may

provide guidance but

reading and project

completion must be student’s own work.

Student interprets

symbols, phrases and

sentences to

understand meaning

of text; evident in all projects.

Student effectively

presents portfolio

projects to peers,

parents, and

teachers.

Student includes a

completed cover page

with each title, type of

creative response, date

completed, and

confirmation signature.

Student analyzes text

to express

relationships between

actions, characters,

events or ideas;

evident in all

projects.

Student work

depicts the sequence

of events, an

engaging visual

appearance, and

clear and organized

format.

Students explain their

thinking in their own

words – no plagiarized

excerpts from book

reviews or internet

articles.

4 = Advanced Mastery

3 = Mastery

2 = Nearing Mastery

1 = Emerging

Students who receive a rating of 1 or 2 in

a select area will revise their portfolio to

meet the expectations of that area.


Imagine Schools

Imagine Schools

Advanced Reading ChallengePortfolio Table of Contents Grades 3-8

Name ___________________________________ Grade_______ Teacher__________________

# Title of Book Author Genre Type of Creative

Response ProjectDate

Adult’sInitials

to confirm

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Goal Setting

Get in the game: READ!

Imagine SchoolsAdvanced Reading Challenge

Set monthly goals for reading:

MONTH # of BOOKS LEXILE OR ATOS LEVEL

September:

October:

November:

December:

January:

February:

March:

April:

Title Author ATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

The White Darkness McCaughrean, Geraldine 5.5 850L

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Frank, Anne 6.5 1080L

The Story of My Life Keller, Helen 6.8 1090L

Rosa Parks: My Story Parks, Rosa with Jim Haskins 6.2 970L

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of the Japanese American

Family

Uchid, Yoshiko 8.2 1280L

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom Lowery, Lynda Blackmon 5.1 0780L

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution Bober, Natalie S. 8.4 1130L

Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend

Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor

Brimmer, Larry Dane 8.7 1150L

Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin

Franklin

Byrd, Robert 7.7 1050L

Madame Curie: A Biography Curie, Eve 1060LThe Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco

Manzano

Engle, Margarita 6.3

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Freedman, Russell 7.8 1100L

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus

Boycott

Freedman, Russell 7.7 1110L

Lincoln: A Photobiography* Freedman, Russell 7.7 1040L

Trotsky: A Graphic Biography Geary, Rick

Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist Greenburg, Jan & Jordan,

Sandra

7.6 1110L

Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John 8 1060L

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith Heiligmann, Deborah 7.6 1020L

Claudette Calvin: Twice Towards Justice Hoose, Phillip 6.8 1000L

The Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl Kherdian, David 5.7 990L

Hillary Clinton, Do All the Good You Can Levinson, Cynthia 7.7 970L

Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary Myers, Walter Dean 8 1050L

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps Warren, Andrea 6.1 820L

Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury, Ray 4.8 820L

The Warrior Heir Chima, Cinda Williams 5.3 730L

The Hobbit Tolkien, J R. R. 6.6 1000L

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J.R.R. 6.1 860L

The Return of the King Tolkien, J.R.R. 6.2 920L

The Two Towers Tolkien, J.R.R. 6.3 810LJourney to the Center of the Earth Verne, Jules 9.9 1040L

Advanced Reading Challenge Book List Grades 7& 8

ADVENTURE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

BIGRAPHY

FANTASY

Tangerine Bloor, Edward 4.3 680L

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Boyne, John 5.8 1000L

Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua 6.2 890L

Sense and Sensibility Austin, Jane 8.4 1180L

National Velvet Bagnoid, Enid 5.5 700L

The Shakespeare Stealer Blackwood, Gary 5.2 840L

Tiger Eyes Blume, Judy 4.1 650L

The Killer's Tears Bondoux, Anne-Laure

Translated by Y. Maudet

5.3 760L

The Bridge Over River Kwai Boulle, Pierre

The Good Earth Buck, Pearl S. 6.8 1530L

The Alchemist Coehlo, Paulo 6.4 910L

12 Again Corbett, Sue 4.9 800L

Skin Deep Crane, E. M. 5.2 770L

The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen 8 900L

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Crutcher, Chris 5.2 920L

Elijah of Buxton Curtis, Christopher Paul 5.4 1070L

Gym Candy Deuker, Carl 4.6 710L

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 9.2 880L

The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 8.3 840L

The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged) Dumas, Alexandre 8.8 930L

City of Ember DuPrau, Jeanne 5 680L

Silas Marner Eliot, George 9.7 1300L

The Skin I'm In Flake, Sharon G. 4.1 670L

The Adventures of Robin Hood Green, Roger Lancelyn 9 1110L

The Big Sky Guthrie, A.B. 960L

A Raisin in the Sun Hansberry, Lorraine 5.5

The Outsiders Hinton, S. E. 4.7 750L

The Monkey's Paw Jacobs, W.W. 6.5 420L

Reaching Out Jimenez, Fransisco 6.1 910L

Kim Kipling, Rudyard 7.7 940L

The Primrose Way Koller, Jackie 5.5 890L

A Ring of Endless Light L’Engle, Madeleine 5.2 810L

Inherit the Wind Lawrence, Jerome & Robert

E. Lee

8.2 850L

To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper 5.6 870L

Through the Looking Glass Lewis, Carroll 7.6 890L

The Call of the Wild London, Jack 8 990L

White Fang, Unabridged London, Jack 4.7 970L

Gathering Blue Lowry, Lois 5 680L

The Giver* Lowry, Lois 5.7 760L

The Princess and Curdie, Unabridged MacDonald, George 8.4 1120L

GENERAL FICTION

Title Author ATOS

Level

Lexile

Level


Title Author ATOS

Level

Lexile

Level


The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano Manzano, Sonia 4.6 720L

A Corner of the Universe Martin, Ann M. 4.5 750L

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida Martinez, Victor 6.1 1000L

The Necklace Maupassant, Guy de 5.5

Summer of the Mariposas McCall, Guadalupe Garcia 5.4 840L

Fallen Angels Myers, Walter Dean 4.2 650L

Z is for Zachariah O’Brien, Robert 5.6 820L

The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy, Baroness 8 1140L

The Learning Tree Parks, Gordon 5 860L

Freak the Mighty Philbrick, Rodman 5.5 1000L

Bullyville Prose, Francine 5.8 960L

The Golden Compass Pullman, Philip 7.1 930L

Criss Cross* Rae Perkins, Lynne 5.5 820L

The Yearling Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan 5 750L

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Riggs Ranson 5.7 890L

Picture Me Gone Rosoff, Meg 4.8 HL780L

Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand, Edmond 7.6 1010L

The Little Prince Saint-Exupery, Antoine 5 710L

Heidi (Unabridged) Spyri, Johanna 8.2 1000L

The Pearl Steinbeck, John 7.1 1010L

The Prince and the Pauper, Unabridged Twain, Mark 9.5 1170L

Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 3.2 970L

Paperboy Vawter, Vince 5.1 940L

Around the World in 80 Days Verne, Jules 4.3 1070L

The Kingdom by the Sea Westall, Robert 680L

Belle Prater's Boy White, Ruth 4.4 760L

The Mouse That Roared Wibberley, Leonard

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms (Unabridged) Wiggins, Kate Douglass 5.5 1190L

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Wilder, Thornton 3.9

Swiss Family Robinson (Unabridged) Wyss, Johann 9.7 1190L

Animal Farm Orwell, George 7.3 1370L

Ghandi: A Manga Biography Ebine, Kazuki 4.1 550L

American Born Chinese Yang, Gene Luen 3.3 530L

Little Men Alcott, Louisa May 7.9 1300L

Little Women Alcott, Louisa May 8.1 1260L

Charlotte Forten: A Black Teacher in the Civil War Burchard, Peter

Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi Chotjewitz, David

Translated by Doris Orgel

5 740L

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist Engle, Margarita 6.7 1070L

Soldier Boys Hughes, Dean 5.4 790L

Day of Tears Lester, Julius 4.8

The Things They Carried O’Brien, Tim 5.6 880L

Under the Blood-Red Sun Salisbury, Graham 4 640L

My Family for the War Voorhoeve, Anne C.

Translated by Tammi Reichel

6.2 900L

GRAPHIC NOVEL

HISTORICAL FICTION

GENERAL FICTION

Title Author ATOS

Level

Lexile

Level


A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Beah, Ishmael 6.1 920L

The Mythology of North America Bierhorst, John

Mythology Hamilton, Edith 8.2 1040L

The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural McKissack, Patricia 4.6 730L

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood Barakat, Ibtisam 5.8 870L

Through My Eyes Bridges, Ruby 5.9 860L

The Maze Runner (Book #1 in Series) Dashner, James 5.3 770L

The Red Scarf Girl Ji-Li Jiang 5.5 780L

Snow Falling in Spring Moying, Li 7.1 1020L

I Know What You Did Last Summer Duncan, Lois 4.7 760L

Locked in Time Duncan, Lois 6.5

The Twisted Window Duncan, Lois 6.2 950L

Two Minute Mysteries Sobol, Donald 5.6 820L

More Two Minute Mysteries Sobol, Donald 5.6 800L

Tell Them We Remember: the Story of the Holocaust Bachrach, Susan 8.7 1190L

Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest of El Dorado Aronson, Marc 8.2 1030L

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-

1850

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell 8.1 1040L

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow Bartoletti, Susan Campbell 7.8 1050L

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the

Holocaust

Bitton-Jackson, Livia 4.8 720L

Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 Blamenthal, Karen 7.9 1040L

Blacklisted Brimner, Larry Dane 1230L

Strike: The Farm Workers Fight for their Rights Brimmer, Larry Dane 85

Shakespeare: The World as Stage Bryson, Bill

Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of

the Past

Deem, James M. 8.3 1180L

Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America Deem, James M. 9.1 1190L

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain

Science

Fleishman, John 7.4 1030L

We Will Not Be Silent: How the White Rose Student

Resistance Movement Defied Adolf Hitler


The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson

and the Struggle for Equal Rights


The War to End All Wars: World War I Freedman, Russell 9.1 1220L

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the

Birth of the FBI

Grann, David 8.8 1160L

Extreme Athletes Guillian, Charlotte 7.1 1150L

All Creatures Great and Small Herriot, James 6.8 990L

Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor

B95

Hoose, Phillip 7.9 1150L

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster Hopkinson, Deborah 7.4 1040L

Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance Levine, Ellen 7.2 890L

Fault Line in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights

and the Flaws that Affect Us Today

Levinson, Cynthia and

Stanford

8.8 1110L

Watch Out for Flying Kid! How Two Circuses, Two

Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build

Community

Levinson, Cynthia 6.8 930L

LEGENDS AND MYTHS

MEMOIR

MYSTERY

NON-FICTION

Title Author ATOS

Level

Lexile

Level


NON-FICTION

The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game Lewis, Michael 7.2 880L

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became

Possible…on Schindler's List

Leyson, Leon 7 1000L

A Night to Remember Lord, Walter 7 950L

Issac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd Losure, Mary 6.9 1010L

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction Macaulay, David 7.3 1120L

The Building Of Manhattan Mackay, Donald A. 1240L

Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience during

World War II

Marrin, Albert 8.2 1050L

Invincible Louisa Meigs, Cornelia 8 1150L

The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the

Constitution

Monk, Linda 1340L

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of

the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Murphy, Jim 9 1130L

Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America Murphy, Jim 7.6 1080L

The Great Fire Murphy, Jim 7.6

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting Murphy, Jim 8.2 1160L

The Book of Blood Newquist, H.P. 8.6

The Elephant Scientist O'Connell, Caitlin & Jackson,

Donna

8.4 1260L

Puffins Quinlan, Susan 6.2 960L

The Case of the Monkeys That Fell from the Trees: And

Other Mysteries in Tropical Nature

Quinlan, Susan 7 1000L

The Case of the Mummified Pigs and Other Mysteries in

Nature

Quinlan, Susan 8.4 1210L

Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance

During the Holocaust

Rappaport, Doreen 7.4 1030L

Jackie's 9 Robinson, Sharon 7.3 1040L

Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed

America

Robinson, Sharon 7 1030L

Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries,

Deductions, and Debates

Rubalcaba, Jill & Peter

Robertshaw

7.6 1010L

Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice Rubin, Susan Goldman 7.1 980L

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem Schanzer, Rosalyn 7.8 1190L

Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's

Olympics

Schapp, Jeremy

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most

Dangerous Weapon

Sheinkin, Steve 6.9 920L

Chasing King's Killer Swanson, James 7.6 1010L

Chasing Lincoln's Killer Swanson, James 7.5 980L

Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune Turner, Pamela S. 7.2 950L

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries

of H.L. Hunley

Walker, Sally M. 8.2 1060L

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial

Maryland

Walker, Sally M. 9 1140L

Title Author ATOS

Level

Lexile

Level


Voices from the Fields Atkin, S. Beth 5.4 850L

To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey

of the Donner Party

Brown, Skila 5.1

The Miracle Worker Gibson, William 5.2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Alexie, Sherman 4

Ten Little Indians Alexie, Sherman 5.7

Speak Anderson, Laurie Halse 4.5 690L

Thirteen Reasons Why Asher, Jay 3.9 550L

Nothing But the Truth Avi 3.6

The House on Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra 4.5 870L

The Oxbow Incident Clark, Walter 5.4 890L

Son of a Gun De Graaf, Anne 4.7 700L

Who am I without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the

Boys in their Lives

Flake, Sharon G. 4 650L

Brothers in Arms Langan, Paul 4.1 610L

The Glory Field Myers, Walter Dean 5

Rascal North, Sterling 7.1 1140L

After Tupac and D Foster Woodson, Jacqueline 4.7 750L

Behind You Woodson, Jacqueline 4.1 720L

Feathers Woodson, Jacqueline 4.4 710L

Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales Asimov, Isaac

Ship Breaker Bacigalupi, Paolo 4.4 690L

The Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray 6.2 740L

Enders Game Card, Orsen Scott 5.5 780L

When the Tripods Came Christopher, John 5.2 760L

The Hunger Games (Book #1) Collins, Suzanne 5.3 810L

Catching Fire (Book #2) Collins, Suzanne 5.3 820L

Mockingjay (Book #3) Collins, Suzanne 5.3 800L

2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur 9 1060L

The House of the Scorpion* Farmer, Nancy 5.1 660L

Twilight Meyer, Stephanie 4.9 720L

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Books that are highlighted have been added to the ARC list during the 2018-2019 School Year.

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