West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District



|Text Characteristics |Level |Examples of Titles at This Level |

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|more sophisticated plots | |Amelia Bedelia (Parish) |

|characters are developed throughout the texts | |B-E-S-T Friends (Giff) |

|events build upon each other | |Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the |

|dialogue is not always assigned | |Stolen Corn Popper (Adler) |

|more characters speaking | |The Dog That Stole Home |

|longer chapters and books | |(Christopher) |

|many conventions of text are introduced | |George and Martha (Marshall) |

|unusual formats | |Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion |

|complex sentences | |(Kline) |

|varied and smaller fonts | |A Long Way to a New Land |

|varied vocabulary | |(Sandin) |

| | |Oliver and Amanda’s Halloween |

| | |(Van Leeuwen) |

| |L |Pinky and Rex Go to Camp |

| | |(Howe) |

| | |The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Potter) |

| | |The Boy Who Turned Into a T.V. |

| | |Set (Manes) |

| | |Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla |

| | |My Dreams (Conford) |

| | |Whistle for Willie (Keats) |

| | |What a Trip, Amber Brown (Danziger) |

| | |Watch Out, Man-Eating Snake (Giff) |

| | |Tooter Pepperday (Spinelli) |

| | |Spoiled Rotten (DeClements) |

| | |Song Lee and the Hamster Hunt |

| | |(Kline) |

| | |Space Dog and Roy (Standiford) |

| | |The Schoolyard Mystery (Levy) |

| | |Salty Dog (Rand) |

| | |The Quilt Story (Johnston) |

| | |The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy |

| | |(Thayer) |

|Text Characteristics |Level |Examples of Titles at This Level |

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|longer chapter books with shorter chapters | |The Art Lesson (dePaola) |

|more complex themes | |Arthur and the Lost Diary |

|smaller print | |(Brown) |

|narrower word spacing | |Baseball Pals (Christopher) |

|expanded vocabulary | |The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room |

|interpretation and background | |(Giff) |

|information | |Blue Ribbon Blues (Spinelli) |

|needed for | |Can Do, Jenny Archer (Conford) |

|understanding | |The Drinking Gourd (Monjo) |

|character development | |Fish Face (Giff) |

|expanded and more complex plots | |Frankenstein Moved to the 4th |

|more text features | |Floor ((Levy) |

|vocabulary introduced to create feeling and mood | |I See Animals Hiding (Arnosky) |

|meaning depends on interpretation | |In Aunt Lucy’s Kitchen (Rylant) |

| |M |The Island of the Skog (Kellogg) |

| | |Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey |

| | |Business (Park) |

| | |Letting Swift River Go (Yolen) |

| | |The Littles (Peterson) |

| | |Marvin Redpost Class President |

| | |(Sachar) |

| | |Miss Rumphius (Cooney) |

| | |Arthur and the Big Blow-Up |

| | |(Brown) |

| | |Baseball Flyhawk (Christopher) |

| | |Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey) |

| | |Buttons for General Washington (Roop) |

| | |Chicken Soup With Rice (Sendak) |

| | |Civil War on Sunday (Osborne) |

| | |Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett) |

| | |Flat Stanley (Brown) |

| | |Freckle Juice (Blume) |

|Text Characteristics |Level |Examples of Titles at This Level |

| | | |

| | |26 Fairmount Avenue (dePaola) |

| | |Adios, Anna (Giff) |

| | |All Pigs are Beautiful (King-Smith) |

| | |Amber Brown Goes Fourth (Danziger) |

|longer books (100+ pages) | |Andy and Tamika (Adler) |

|chapters are 5-15 pages in length | |Be a Perfect Person in Just Three |

|complex and sophisticated themes | |Days! (Manes) |

|irony | |Berlioz the Bear (Brett) |

|interpretation is needed | |Birthday (Steptoe) |

|more demand on reader | |The Black Velvet Mystery (Keene) |

|challenging vocabulary | |Buffalo Woman (Goble) |

|variety of strategies needed to understand the plot | |Busybody Nora (Hurwitz) |

|help to understand the world | |Catwings (LeGuin) |

| | |The Chalk Box Kid (Bulla) |

| |N |The Curse of the Squirrel (Yep) |

| | |The Enormous Crocodile (Dahl) |

| | |Fly Homer Fly (Peet) |

| | |The Ghost of Popcorn Hill (Wright) |

| | |A Glass Slipper for Rosie (Giff) |

| | |Herbie Jones and Hamburger Head |

| | |(Kline) |

| | |Hey, Al (Yorinks) |

| | |How a Book is Made (Aliki) |

| | |I Was a Third Grade Science Project |

| | |(Auch) |

| | |Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig |

| | |(King-Smith) |

| | |Julian, Secret Agent (Cameron) |

| | |The Magic Finger (Dahl) |

| | |More Stories Julian Tells (Cameron) |

| | |The Mountains of Quilt (Willard) |

| | |Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters |

| | |(Steptoe) |

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|Text Characteristics |Level |Examples of Titles at This Level |

| | | |

| | |Jumanji (Van Allsburg) |

| | |Ramona the Brave (Cleary) |

| | |Sarah Plain and Tall (MacLachlan) |

| | |Boxcar Children mysteries (Warner) |

| | |Superfudge (Blume) |

| | |Sideways Stories From Wayside |

| | |School (Sachar) |

|longer books (50-200 pages) and chapters | |Skinnybones (Park) |

|sophisticated themes | |Aldo Ice Cream (Hurwitz) |

|interpretation | |Baby-Sitters Club mysteries (Martin) |

|multiple characters are developed | |Baseball Saved Us (Mochizuki) |

|themes | |Best Wishes (Rylant) |

|sophisticated and varied vocabulary | |Chocolate Fever (Smith) |

|highly complex sentence structure and punctuation | |The Case of the Dirty Bird (Paulsen) |

| |O |Class President (Hurwitz) |

| | |Earthquakes (Branley) |

| | |Firetalking (Polacco) |

| | |Flossie and the Fox (McKissack) |

| | |The Fortune-Tellers (Alexander) |

| | |The Kid in the Red Jacket (Park) |

| | |The King’s Equal (Paterson) |

| | |Knights in Shining Armor (Gibbons) |

| | |The Legend of the Bluebonnet |

| | |(dePaola) |

| | |Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire (Korman) |

| | |Mieko and the Fifth Treasure (Coerr) |

| | |Make a Wish, Molly (Cohen) |

| | |Owl Moon (Yolen) |

| | |Pippi Longstocking (Lindgren) |

| | |Sable (Hesse) |

| | |Seven Kisses in a Row (MacLachlan) |

| | |The Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles) |

| | |The Vicar of Nibbleswick (Dahl) |

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|Text Characteristics |Level |Examples of Titles at This Level |

| | | |

| | |Alvin Ailey (Pinkney) |

| | |Attaboy, Sam (Lowry) |

|variety of literary and informational texts | |The Battle for the Castle (Winthrop) |

|complexity of text structures | |The Best School Year Every |

|more text and complex ideas | |(Robinson) |

|books explore problems of adolescents | |The Bicycle Man (Say) |

|sophisticated vocabulary and language | |East of the Sun & West of the Moon |

|many longer descriptive narratives | |(Mayer) |

|texts must be read on literal and figurative levels | |Ellen Tebbits (Cleary) |

|longer, more complex texts | |Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective |

|sophisticated themes | |(Sobol) |

| | |Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl) |

| | |George Washington’s Breakfast (Fritz) |

| | |The Ghost Fox (Yep) |

| |P |A Girl Called Al (Greene) |

| | |Gooseberry Park (Rylant) |

| | |Grace’s Letter to Lincoln (Roop) |

| | |Howliday Inn (Howe) |

| | |The Hundred Penny Box (Mathis) |

| | |Knots on a Counting Rope (Martin) |

| | |The Lotus Seed (Garland) |

| | |Magic School Bus (Cole) |

| | |The Minpins (Dahl) |

| | |The Not-Just-Anybody Family (Byars) |

| | |One Day in the Desert (George) |

| | |Owls in the Family (Mowat) |

| | |Riding Freedom (Ryan) |

| | |Rosa Parks (Greenfield) |

| | |Shoebag (James) |

| | |Sideways Stories From Wayside |

| | |School (Sachar) |

| | |Skinny-Bones (Park) |

| | |Stone Fox (Gardiner) |

| | |Tar Beach (Ringgold) |

| | |Thank You, Jackie Robinson (Cohen) |

|Text Characteristics |Level |Examples of Titles at This Level |

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|very few illustrations | |Addy Saves the Day (American Girl) |

|cover only sells the book | |Aliens Ate My Homework (Coville) |

|almost all understanding from text | |All About Deer (Arnosky) |

|non-fiction illustrations very informative | |Anastasia Again! (Lowry) |

|complex sentence structure | |Beetlles, Lightly Toasted (Naylor) |

|themes for 3rd and 4th graders | |The Big Wave (Buck) |

|characters are memorable and prompt empathy for how they change| |Black Diamond: Story of the Negro |

|sophisticated humor | |Baseball Leagues (McKissack) |

|complex plot | |Bunnicula (Howe) |

|difficult vocabulary, sometimes other than English | |By the Shores of Silver Lake (Wilder) |

|mature themes | |The Cuckoo Child (King-Smith) |

| | |Dear Mr. Henshaw (Cleary) |

| | |The Disappearing Bike Shop |

| |Q |(Woodruff) |

| | |Exploring the Titanic (Ballard) |

| | |Farmer Boy (Wilder) |

| | |Fourth Grade Celebrity (Giff) |

| | |Fudge-a-Mania (Blume) |

| | |The Ghost Comes Calling (Wright) |

| | |The Girl Who Loved the Wind (Yolen) |

| | |Grandpa’s Face (Greenfield) |

| | |Help! I’m Trapped in an Alien’s Body |

| | |(Strasser) |

| | |Homer Price (McCloskey) |

| | |If You Grew Up With Abraham |

| | |Lincoln (McGovern) |

| | |James and the Giant Peach (Dahl) |

| | |Jim Ugly (Fleischman) |

| | |Just Juice (Hesse) |

| | |The Lemonade Trick (Corbett) |

| | |Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Atwater) |

| | |Orphan Train Children: Aggie’s |

| | |Home (Nixon) |

| | |Pedro’s Journal (Conrad) |

| | |Soup (Peck) |

|Text Characteristics |Level |Examples of Titles at This Level |

| | | |

| | |The 18th Emergency (Byars) |

| | |And Then What Happened, Paul |

|sophisticated vocabulary that requires understanding of | |Revere? (Fritz) |

|connotative shadings of meaning | |Arthur, For the Very First Time |

|texts include literary devices such as simile and metaphor | |(MacLachlan) |

|texts represent a range of themes in history | |Babe the Gallant Pig (King-Smith) |

|texts may deal with mature themes like family problems, war, | |Because of Winn Dixie (DiCamillo) |

|death | |Born to Trot (Henry) |

|readers must connect concepts/themes from historical/ | |The Bracelet (Uchida) |

|political events | |Brian’s Winter (Paulsen) |

|and information | |Bully of Barkham Street (Stolz) |

| | |The Cabin Faced West (Fritz) |

| | |The Castle in the Attic (Winthrop) |

| | |The Celery Stalks at Midnight (Howe) |

| |R |Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |

| | |(Dahl) |

| | |Charlotte’s Web (White) |

| | |Devil’s Bridge (DeFelice) |

| | |The Doll’s House (Godden) |

| | |Every Living Thing (Rylant) |

| | |Everywhere (Brooks) |

| | |The Family Under the Bridge (Savage |

| | |Carlson) |

| | |Fig Pudding (Fletcher) |

| | |Flight: The Journey of Charles |

| | |Lindbergh (Burleigh) |

| | |Frindle (Clements) |

| | |George Washington (Giblin) |

| | |The Great Kapok Tree (Cherry) |

| | |The Great Migration (Lawrence) |

| | |Hachet (Paulsen) |

| | |Iggie’s House (Blume) |

| | |The Indian in the Cupboard (Banks) |

| | |King of the Wind (Henry) |

Series that Grow:

Herbie Jones series by Suzy Kline (grows from N to O)

Martin Bridge series by Jessica Scott Kerrin (grows from L to N)

My Father’s Dragon series by Ruth Stiles Gannett (grows from L to N)

Amber Brown Series by Paula Danziger (grows from K to O)

Marty McGuire series by Kate Messner (grows from O to P)

Stink Series by Megan McDonald (grows from M to O)

Judy Moody Series by Megan McDonald (grows from M to O)

Clarice Bean series by Lauren Child (grows from O to R)

Dragon Masters series by Tracey West (grows from O to P)

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