Lynda Mullaly Hunt — assigned in US schools

Lynda Mullaly Hunt in the US-school canon

Lynda Mullaly Hunt contributes 2 titles to the US-school assigned-reading corpus tracked by ReadingList. Lynda Mullaly Hunt's books are assigned across grades 4 through 8, with Lexile measures spanning 550L to 550L. Within this canon, One for the Murphys and Fish in a Tree are Lynda Mullaly Hunt's most-cited titles across state ELA framework documents and AP/IB syllabus audits — they appear on multiple state Department of Education reading lists and in Common Core Appendix B exemplar references.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt's assigned-reading footprint clusters around recurring themes — bullying, disability, friendship, working primarily in Middle Grade Fiction. State ELA frameworks tend to pair Lynda Mullaly Hunt with reading-skill anchors that reward students for tracking how character development, narrative voice, and historical setting interact — exactly the kind of multi-layered analysis that AP English Literature and IB Language A: Literature reward in their May exams. Below, each title links to its specific curriculum citations: which state cites it, at which grade, under which standards strand.

For parents and teachers researching Lynda Mullaly Hunt for the first time, the practical question is usually grade placement and theme fit. Use the Lexile range (550L to 550L) as a first filter: a Lexile measure 100-200L above a student's current reading level is the typical instructional sweet spot for guided classroom reading, while a measure at or below the student's level supports independent reading. Theme fit matters at least as much: Lynda Mullaly Hunt's books pair well with thematic-unit teaching in the cross-references above.