# Animal Farm

**Author:** George Orwell
**Lexile:** 1170L
**Grade range:** Grades 7–10
**Age range:** 12–16
**First published:** 1945
**Page count:** 112
**Genre:** Allegorical Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780452284241`
**ISBN-10:** `0452284244`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/animal-farm
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Animals on a British farm overthrow their human owner and establish a cooperative state run by the pigs, led by Napoleon. As the regime consolidates, its revolutionary principles are rewritten and its dissenters disappear. Orwell's short allegory of the Russian Revolution is widely assigned at middle- and early high-school level alongside propaganda and rhetoric units.

## Themes

- revolution and power
- propaganda
- language and thought
- class and labor
- corruption
- allegory

## Content notes

- political violence
- animal cruelty
- execution

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 12+

## Where this book is assigned

### AP English Literature & Composition

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: AP Lit representative text — allegory unit](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 8th grade · Texas — [source: TEKS grade 8 commonly taught text](https://tea.texas.gov/)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Common Core aligned summer-reading list — rising 9th grade](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 9-10 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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