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Reserved Novel List The list of books below are Recommended for Novel Study Instruction.

These books were added by teacher recommendation and correlation to the Wonders Curriculum.

3rd Grade

Original List Wonders Recommendation*

Unit Suggested Novels Genre 3.1 The Boxcar Children #1 Realistic Fiction

The Stories Julian Tells Realistic Fiction

Benjamin Banneker: Pioneering Scientist Biography

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares Informational Text

3.2 Tops and Bottoms Trickster Tale

Summer Party Realistic Fiction

A Big Cheese for the White House Informational Text

Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chines New Year Informational Text

3.3 First Flight Historical Fiction

Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington Biography

Sarah, Plain and Tall Historical Fiction

So You Want to Be President Informational Text

3.4 Stone Fox Realistic Fiction

Bat Loves the Night Informational Text

Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel Realistic Fiction

Gray Wolves Informational Text

3.5 Cam Jansen: The Green School Mystery Mystery

The Lighthouse Family: The Storm Fantasy

Medieval Feast Informational Text

Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women's

Rights Biography

3.6 The Boxcar Children: The Hurricane Mystery Realistic Fiction

Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon Informational Text

Amos and Boris Fantasy

Moonshot: The flight of Apollo 13 Informational Text

*Some correlated books are not full length novels

• The Boxcar Children (Any) • Bunnicula • Camp Ghost Away • Chalk Box Kid • The Chocolate Touch • Double Fudge • Flat Stanley • Freckle Juice • How to Eat Fried Worms • Magic Treehouse (3.0 to 3.9) • The One in the Middle is the

Green Kangaroo • Ramona and Beezus • Ramona Quimby, Age 8 • Ramona the Brave • Secret Identity • Stone Fox • Super Fudge • Tales of the Fourth Grade

Nothing • Weird Schools Books (3.0 to

3.9) • The Talented Clementine



4th Grade


Unit Suggested Novels Genre

Beauty 4.1 M.C. Higgins The Great Realistic Fiction

Because of Winn Dixie The Accidental Hero Fiction

The BFG Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Non - Fiction

Celery Stalks At Midnight 4.2 Because of Winn Dixie Non - Fiction

Charlotte's Web The Cricket in Times Square Fantasy

The Chocolate Fever A River Ran Wild Non - Fiction

Clementine 4.3 The Houesof Dies Drear Realistic Fiction

Dear Mr. Henshaw Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Himh Fantasy

Escape for Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Who Was Jackie Robinson Biography

The Hundred Dresses 4.4 The Moon and I Non - Fiction

The Hundred Penny Box Project Mulberry Realistic Fiction

The Mouse and the Motorcycle Riding Freedom Realistic Fiction

Mr. Popper's Penguins 4.5 The borrowers Afield Fantasy

Night of the Twisters The Little Prince Fantasy

Sarah, Plain and Tall Ellis Island Non - Fiction

Shiloh 4.6 Miracles on Maple Hill Historical Fiction

Shoeshine Girl The Birchbark House Historical Fiction

Skinny Bones The Forever Forest Non - Fiction

Staying Nine

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Tiger Rising

The Whipping Boy

The BFG




5th Grade


Unit Suggested Novels Genre

A Lion to Guard Us

Al Capone does my Shirts

Because of Mr. Terupt

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Blood on the River

Bridge to Terabithia

Bud, Not Buddy

Found

Frindle

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

George Washington's Socks

Holes

The Indian in the Cupboard

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe

Locomotion

Loser

Love that Dog

Maniac Magee

Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

No Talking

Sign of the Beaver

Summer of the Swans

The Tales of Despereaux

5.1 The Secret Garden Novel

Lady Liberty Narrative Nonfiction SeeSaw Girl Historical Fiction

5.2 Masterpiece Historical Fiction

Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? Biography

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Historical Fiction

5.3 Frindle Realistic Fiction

So You Want to be an Inventor Expository Text

All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank Expository Text

5.4 Granny Torrelli Makes Soup Realistic Fiction

The Mouse and The Motorcycle Fantasy

We are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball

Informational Nonfiction

5.5 Alice's Adventure in Wonderland Fantasy

Bud, Not Buddy Historical Fiction

Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights Expository Text

5.6 No Talking Realistic Fiction

The Midnight Fox Realistic Fiction

My Librarian Is a Camel Informational Text


Reserved Novel List – Draft Revision The list of books below are reserved for whole class novel study instruction.

Books were added by teacher committee recommendation and correlation to StudySync curriculum.

6th Grade Title Lexile Level StudySync Unit

A Long Way From Chicago 750L

Becoming Naomi Leon

Boy Who Carried Bricks, The

Brian’s Winter 1140L City of Ember, The 680L

Esperanza Rising False Prince, The

Freedom Walkers, The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Unit 4 anchor

Hatchet 1020L Unit 1 anchor Hoot 750L

James and the Giant Peach 870L

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life 770L Lightning Thief, The 740L Unit 2 anchor

Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Number the Stars 670L

Old Yeller 910L Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Unit 3 anchor

Story of My Life, The (Helen Keller) Unit 1 alternate

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio 890 Tuck Everlasting 770L

Upstairs Room, The 380L Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, The 1000L

Wonder 790 L




A Day No Pigs Would Die 690L

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 970L

An American Plague 1130L Blizzard (Non-Fiction) 500L

Book of Merylyn, The Cay, The 860L

Cheaper By the Dozen 890L

Christmas Carol, The (drama) Clay Marble, The 860L

Crash 560L Devil’s Arithmetic, The 730L

Dogsong 930L Dying Detective, The

Ella Enchanted 670L Unit 2 alternate

Far North 820L Farewell to Manzanar 1040L

Flight 116 is Down 710L Four Perfect Pebbles 1080L

Freak the Mighty 1000L Unit 2 or 4 alternate Glory Field, The 800L

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Unit 3 anchor

Hoops 740L

House of Dies Drear 670L Unit 3 alternate In My Father’s House 640L

Incredible Journey, The 1320L King of Mulberry Street, The 560L

Merchant of Venice 1380L

7th Grade Continued Title Lexile Level StudySync Unit

Monsters are Due on Maple Street, The (drama)

Out of My Mind 700L

Peter and the Starcatchers 770L

Phineas Gage: True Story about Brain Science 1030

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 920L Seedfolks 710L

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens Shark Beneath the Reef 800L

Tangerine 680L Tears of a Tiger

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle 740L

Tunes for Bears to Dance To 840L Walk Two Moons 770L

Where the Red Fern Grows 700L Wrinkle in Time, A 740L




Across Five Aprils 1100L Unit 3 alternate

American Folklore and Legends

Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary 1030L Unit 2 alternate Back There

Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The 1080L Unit 2 alternate Buddha Boyd 1090L

Call of the Wild, The 1110L

Chains 780L Diary of Anne Frank, The 1080L Unit 2 anchor

Dragonwings 870L Durango Street 640L

Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy 1000

Flowers for Algernon 910L Forged By Fire 820L

Giver, The 760L

Hobbit, The Homecoming 570L

Hound of the Baskervilles, The 1090L I, Juan de Pareja 1100L

Iliad, The 1330L

Incantation 730L

Legend 710L

Let Me Hear You Whisper Man Who Was Poe, The 600L

Monster 590L-670L Nothing But the Truth 950L

Outsiders, The 750L


Pearl, The 1010L

Pigman, The 950L

Prince and the Pauper, The 1170L Schwa Was Here, The 790L

Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods, The 790L So Far from the Bamboo Grove 730L

Sticks and Stones HL430L Swallowing Stones 820L

Taking Sides 750L

Taming of the Shrew 1340L That Was Then, This Is Now 780L

Things Not Seen 690L Travels with Charley 1010

Trojan War, The 930L

Tulsa Burning 690L Ultimate Gift, The

White Fang 970L Witch of Blackbird Pond, The 850L




A Comedy of Errors

Alas Babylon 870L

Angela’s Ashes, A Memoir Unit 4 alternate Animal Farm 1170L-1370L

Counte of Monte Cristo, The 570-830L Freedom Writer’s Diary, The Unit 3 anchor

Great Expectations 1230L

Hiding Place, The 900L Joy Luck Club Unit 3 anchor

I Am Malala 830L Unit 1 alternate Miracle Worker, The

My Antonia 1010L Odyssey, The 1050L Unit 2 anchor

Old Man and the Sea, The 940L

Rebecca 880L Robinson Crusoe 1360L

Romeo and Juliet Unit 4 anchor Scarlet Pimpernel, The 1140L

Speak Unit 1 alternate Tale of Two Cities, A 990L

Time Machine, The 860L

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A 810L Twisted

War of the Worlds 1170L-1270L Westside Story: A Novelization Unit 4 alternate

When the Legends Die 850L

Where the Lilies Bloom 920L




All Quiet on the Western Front 830L Unit 4 alternate

Antigone 1570L Unit 2 alternate

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 710L Bleachers

Book Thief, The 730 Unit 4 alternate Brave New World 870

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1080L

Cry, the Beloved Country 860L Don Quixote

Fahrenheit 451 890L Unit 2 alternate House on Mango Street, The 870L

Glass Menagerie, The 1350L Grapes of Wrath, The 680L

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

In Cold Blood 1040L Julius Caesar Unit 4 alternate

Les Misérables 990L Lesson Before Dying, A 750L

Midsummer Night’s Dream 590L Mythology 1040L-1360L

Night 570L-590L Unit 4 anchor

Oedipus Rex Unit 1 alternate One Day in the Life of Ivan Demisovich 900L

Our Town Separate Peace, A 1110L

Shane 870L

Siddhartha 1010L Silas Marner 1300-1330L

Tartuffe

10th Grade Continued Title Lexile Level

Things Fall Apart 890L

To Kill a Mockingbird 870L

Tuesdays with Morrie 830L




Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The 990L Unit 2 anchor

Bartleby the Scrivener

Benito Cereno Billy Budd 1450L

Catch 22 1140L Crucible, The 1320L Unit 1 alternate

Daisy Miller 850L

Death of a Salesman 1320L Unit 3 alternate Eric 810L

Ethan Frome 1160-1200L Farewell to Arms, A 730L Unit 3 alternate

Glass Castle, The 1010 Great Gatsby, The 1070L Unit 3 anchor

House of the Seven Gables, The 930L-1320L

Hunger Games, The 810L Illustrated Man, The 680L

Into the Wild Jungle, The 1170L

Life on the Mississippi 1090L Life of Pi 830L

Moby Dick 1200L-1240L Unit 2 alternate

Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, The Of Mice and Men 630L-1300L

Raisin in the Sun, A 1400L Unit 3 alternate Road, The Unit 3 alternate

Red Badge of Courage 900L

Saint Iggy 1190 Scarlett Letter, The Unit 1 anchor

Sound and the Fury, The 870L


Sun Also Rises, The 610l

Tales of the Madman Underground 1040

Turn of the Screw 1140L Twelve Angry Men

Way to Rainy Mountain, The 890L

11th Grade AP Lang Bless Me, Ultima 840L Housekeeping

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1070L Into the Wild

Invisible Man, The 950L Sound and the Fury, The 870L

Their Eyes Were Watching God 1080L Unit 3 alternate

Things They Carried, The 880L Unit 3 alternate

Reserved Novel List The list of books below are reserved for whole class novel study instruction.



A Long Way Gone 920

Anthem 880L

Beowulf (an Old English translation) 1190L Unit 1 anchor Candide 1110L Unit 3 alternate

Canterbury Tales, The 800L Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The 1180

David Copperfield

Doll’s House, A 700L Frankenstein 1040L-1170L

Grendel Unit 1 alternate Gulliver’s Travels 1210L Unit 3 anchor

Hamlet 1390L Unit 2 anchor Heart of Darkness 1020L Unit 3 alternate

I Am the Messenger 640

Idylls of the King 1260L Importance of Being Earnest, The 1390L

Ivanhoe 1410L Jane Eyre 840-890L Unit 4 alternate

King Lear 1420L

Le Morte D’Arthur

Lord of the Flies 770L

MacBeth 1320L Mayor of Casterbridge, The 1090L

1984 1090L Unit 2 alternate Oliver Twist 1000-1060L

12th Grade Continued

Title Lexile StudySync Unit Once and Future King, The 1080L

Othello 770L-1620L Paradise Lost 1460L

Passage to India, A 950L Unit 3 alternate Picture of Dorian Gray 920-970L

Pride and Prejudice HL580L-1550L

Unit 4 anchor

Pygmalion 1340L

Secret Sharer, The 1350L Streetcar Named Desire

Twelfth Night 1040L Utopia 1390L

Wuthering Heights 880L Unit 4 alternate

12th Grade AP Literature Atonement

Beloved 870L

Brothers Karamazov, The 1010L-1150L Ceremony 890L

Cold Mountain 1210L Conversations at Curlow Creek

Crime and Punishment 850L-990L East of Eden 700L

Henry IV, Part I

Henry V 1550L Kite Runner, The 840L Unit 3 alternate

Madame Bovary 1030L-1150L Metamorphosis

Notes from the Underground 1340L Obasan 990L

Oedipus the King 1340L

Peace Like a River 900L Persepolis

Plague, The 440L-480L Poisonwood Bible 1070L

12th Grade AP Literature Continued

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1120L

Prometheus Bound 1170L Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Song of Solomon 870L Waiting for Godot

Wide Sargasso Sea

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