# Mark Twain — books assigned in US schools

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

**Lexile range:** 950L–980L
**Grade span:** 5–12
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/mark-twain
**Wikipedia (entity):** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- Southern society
- adventure
- childhood
- civilization vs nature
- freedom
- friendship across race
- hypocrisy
- moral development
- moral growth
- slavery and freedom

## Genres

- Classic Fiction
- Literary Fiction

## Every Mark Twain title on file

- [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer](https://readinglist.school/book/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer) _(950L · Grades 5–8 · 1876)_
- [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://readinglist.school/book/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn) _(980L · Grades 10–12 · 1884)_

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