# Florida B.E.S.T. Standards — ELA reading list

**7** books referenced by Florida B.E.S.T. Standards — ELA, a state-standards curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) are the Florida Department of Education standards that replaced the Florida Standards from 2021. Florida withdrew from Common Core; its ELA exemplars, statutory mandates such as Holocaust education (§1003.42, F.S.) and district summer-reading lists are cited here under B.E.S.T., with the source document named on every row.

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## Florida B.E.S.T. Standards — ELA reading list

- [Because of Winn-Dixie](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-winn-dixie) by Kate DiCamillo _(610L · Grades 3–5)_
- [Julius Caesar](https://readinglist.school/book/julius-caesar) by William Shakespeare _(Grades 9–11)_
- [Night](https://readinglist.school/book/night) by Elie Wiesel _(590L · Grades 9–12)_
- [Number the Stars](https://readinglist.school/book/number-the-stars) by Lois Lowry _(670L · Grades 4–7)_
- [The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-lightning-thief) by Rick Riordan _(740L · Grades 4–7)_
- [The Outsiders](https://readinglist.school/book/the-outsiders) by S.E. Hinton _(750L · Grades 7–9)_
- [To Kill a Mockingbird](https://readinglist.school/book/to-kill-a-mockingbird) by Harper Lee _(870L · Grades 7–10)_

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