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K |
1st | 2nd |
3rd | 4th |
5th | 6th |
7th |8th |
9th | 10th |
11th |12th
Click on the links above for a quick online
view of the CORE Literature lists. By each grade level title you'll
find a link to print a PDF version if you prefer.
CORE Literature
Guidelines
 The following are the CORE
literature titles for grades K-12. These titles may be used for
classroom instruction for the FIRST time at the grade level designated in
the list. This means that before the designated grade level, the book
will not be taught, read aloud, placed on a teacher-generated recommended
reading list, seen on a video, or used in a small group, large group, or
literature circle setting. If a student chooses a CORE literature for
independent reading during Reader's Workshop, the teacher may conference
with the student on that book. You do not need to purge CORE titles from
lower grade's current classroom libraries.
Kindergarten
(For a K-1 List in PDF)
|
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? |
440 |
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom |
530 |
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The Gingerbread Man |
450 |
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The Three Bears
|
470 |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
|
460 |
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First Grade
(For a K-1 List in PDF)
|
Alexander and the
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
970 |
|
Bread and Jam for Frances |
490 |
|
Frog and Toad |
160 |
|
The Great Kapok Tree |
670 |
|
Ira Sleeps Over |
310 |
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Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse |
540 |
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Swimmy
|
AD640 |
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Second Grade
(For a 2nd-5th
List in PDF)
|
A
Dinosaur Named After Me |
780 |
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Grandfather Tang's Story |
660 |
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Island of the Skog |
530 |
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Miss Rumphius |
680 |
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The Oxcart Man |
AD1130 |
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Sam, Bangs and Moonshine |
510 |
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Six Dinner Sid |
690 |
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Strega Nona |
660 |
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
700 |
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Thunder Cake |
630 |
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Too Many Tamales |
670 |
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Third Grade
(For a 2nd-5th
List in PDF)
|
Charlotte’s Web |
680 |
|
George’s Marvelous Medicine |
640 |
|
Indians of the Oaks |
|
|
Little House in the Big Woods |
930 |
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins |
910 |
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The Hundred Dresses |
870 |
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Ramona Quimby – Age 8 |
860 |
|
Random House Book of Fairy Tales |
810 |
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Stone Fox
|
550 |
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Fourth Grade
(For a
2nd-5th List in PDF)
|
Bandit’s
Moon |
690 |
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By the Great Horn Spoon |
730 |
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Carlota |
810 |
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Danny, Champion of the World |
770 |
|
Frindle |
830 |
|
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
1000 |
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Owls in the Family |
980 |
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Patty Reed’s Doll |
1040 |
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Riding Freedom |
720 |
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Shiloh |
890 |
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Fifth Grade
(For a
2nd-5th List in PDF)
|
Ben and Me |
1010 |
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The Fighting Ground |
580 |
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler |
700 |
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Holes |
660 |
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
|
730 |
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Maniac Magee
|
820 |
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My Brother Sam Is Dead |
770 |
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Night of the Twisters |
790 |
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Number the Stars |
670 |
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Sign of the Beaver |
770 |
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Stowaway |
830 |
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Summer of the Monkeys |
810 |
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
740 |
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Tolliver’s Secret
|
740 |
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Sixth Grade
(For a
6th-8th List in PDF)
|
Black
Pearl |
980 |
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Bridge to Terabithia |
810 |
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Call It Courage |
830 |
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The Cay |
860 |
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Dragonwings |
870 |
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Egypt Game |
1010 |
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Golden Goblet |
930 |
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Maroo of the Winter Caves |
840 |
|
Stranger Came Ashore |
1060 |
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Seventh Grade
(For a
6th-8th List in PDF)
|
Anna of Byzantium |
910 |
|
Beowulf |
790-1760 (depends on
version) |
|
Ghosts of Tokkaido Inn |
740 |
|
King of Shadows |
1010 |
|
The King’s Shadow |
940 |
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Legend of Tarik |
920 |
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The Outsiders |
750 |
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Proud Taste for Scarlet & Miniver |
770 |
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Samurai’s Tale |
960 |
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Shadow Spinner |
710 |
|
Shakespeare Stealer |
840 |
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Eighth Grade
(For
6th-8th List as a PDF)
|
Across Five Aprils |
1100 |
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Deathwatch |
990 |
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The Giver |
760 |
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Johnny Tremain |
840 |
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Murder on the Orient Express |
640 |
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Nothing But the Truth |
(No Lexile due
to book's format) |
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The Pearl |
980 |
|
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry |
920 |
|
Shades of Gray |
800 |
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Slave Dancer |
970 |
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To Be a Slave |
1080 |
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Tom Sawyer |
950 |
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Ninth Grade
(For a
9th-12th List in PDF)
|
The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes |
1080 |
|
Animal
Farm |
1170 |
|
Illustrated Man |
680 |
|
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream |
590? |
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Miracle Worker |
Not Rated |
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Of Mice and Men |
630 |
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Raisin in the Sun |
Not Rated |
|
Romeo and Juliet |
Not Rated |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
|
870 |
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Tenth Grade
(For a
9th-12th List in PDF)
| All Quiet on the Western Front |
830 |
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Antigone |
1090 |
|
A Place Where the Sea Remembers |
790 |
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A Separate Peace |
1110 |
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The Bean Trees |
900 |
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Fahrenheit 451 |
890 |
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The Joy Luck Club |
930 |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
1070 |
|
Lord of the Flies |
770 |
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Macbeth |
1350 |
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Oedipus |
1070 |
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The Sound of Waves |
Not Rated |
|
The Taming of the Shrew |
1340 |
|
Twelfth Night
|
Not Rated |
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Eleventh Grade
(For a
9th-12th List in PDF)
|
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn |
990 |
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Catcher in the Rye |
790 |
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The Crucible |
1320 |
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Death of a Salesman |
1320? |
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East of Eden |
700 |
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A Farewell to Arms |
730 |
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Farewell to Manzanar |
1040 |
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Franny And Zooey |
990 |
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The Grapes of Wrath |
680 |
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The Great Gatsby |
1070 |
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Inherit the Wind |
850 |
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My Antonia |
1010 |
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Red Badge of Courage |
900 |
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The Scarlet Letter |
1340 |
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Warriors Don’t Cry |
1000 |
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Welcome to the Monkey House
|
810 |
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Twelfth Grade
(For a
9th-12th List in PDF)
|
The Alchemist |
910 |
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Brave New World |
870 |
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Canterbury Tales |
1410? |
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Frankenstein |
1170 |
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Great Expectations |
1230 |
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Hamlet |
1390 |
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Jane Eyre |
210-890 (depends on
version) |
|
Man’s Search for Meaning |
1300 |
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1984 |
1090 |
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Othello |
1350 |
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Picture of Dorian Gray |
920 |
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A River Sutra |
1080 |
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Siddhartha |
1010 |
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Tale of Two Cities |
1130 |
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Things Fall Apart |
890 |
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Utopia |
1390 |
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Wuthering Heights |
880 |
Thanks to Linda Foote, Lois Koppel, Eric
March, Mary Maturo, and Jeannine Ugalde for compiling the Lexile scores for
our CORE literature lists.)
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Linda
Foote
Instructional Technology Specialist
Poway Unified School District
©2006
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