Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Lexile Levels 1000-1400
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
Also available on OverDrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. Professor Arronax and his two companions, t...
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years...
The Bad Beginning
Snicket, Lemony.
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudel...
Ben and Me
Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.
Also available on Hoopla and RB Digital. Benjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, rec...
The Best School Year Ever
Robinson, Barbara, 1927-2013.
Also available on Hoopla. The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world,...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Dahl, Roald.
Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norw...
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible on Schindler
Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013, author.
Also available on OverDrive. The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former ...
Brian's Winter
Paulsen, Gary.
Also available on OverDrive. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's...
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
Child, Lauren.
Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she...
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the firs...
The Egypt Game
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a ...
Eight Cousins
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
Also available on OverDrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to...
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them : Character Guide
Kogge, Michael, author.
"Meet Newt, Tina, Queenie, Jacob, and many more in this comprehensive character guide..."-...
Hidden Figures : The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch our Nation into Space
Lee Shetterly, Margot, author.
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women...
The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives co...
The Incredible Journey
Burnford, Sheila, 1918-1984.
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. A doughty young Labrador retriever, a roguish bull terrie...
Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Also available on OverDrive. Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of Calif...
The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier
Murphy, Jim, 1947-
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G&quo...
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.
In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while ...
The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
Durbin, William, 1951-
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in wo...
Let's Pretend this Never Happened
Benton, Jim.
In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including ...
Love that Dog
Creech, Sharon.
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. A young student, who comes to love poetry through a perso...
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
MacDonald, Betty Bard.
Also available on OverDrive, From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues...
My Life in Dog Years
Paulsen, Gary.
Also available on OverDrive. The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places i...
The Phantom Tollbooth
Juster, Norton, 1929-
Also available on OverDrive, A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words ...
Saving Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Also available on OverDrive. Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor,...
Savvy
Law, Ingrid, 1970-
Also available on OverDrive. Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday ...
Spider Sparrow
King-Smith, Dick.
Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm, grows up to be mentally slower than other children but ...
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
Hopkinson, Deborah.
Also available on OverDrive, On April 15, 1912, the magnificent ocean liner the RMS Titanic stru...