# Cynthia Lord — books assigned in US schools

**3** books by Cynthia Lord appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Grade span:** 3–8
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/cynthia-lord
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- acceptance
- blind dogs
- disability
- friendship
- grandparent and child
- grandparents
- hispanic americans

## Genres

- Nonfiction
- Realistic Fiction

## Every Cynthia Lord title on file

- [Rules](https://readinglist.school/book/rules) _(Grades 4–7 · 2006)_
- [Rules](https://readinglist.school/book/rules-cynthia-lord) _(Grades 4–7 · 2006)_
- [A Handful of Stars](https://readinglist.school/book/a-handful-of-stars) _(Grades 3–8 · 2015)_

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_Generated from primary-source citations indexed on ReadingList.school. JSON API: https://readinglist.school/api/author/cynthia-lord · HTML view: https://readinglist.school/author/cynthia-lord._