12th grade Great Lakes Great Books Award reading list

About the 12th grade Great Lakes Great Books Award reading list

Great Lakes Great Books Award is the Great Lakes Great Books Award framework. ReadingList tracks 11 titles referenced by Great Lakes Great Books Award at the 12th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. The framework is published at michiganreading.org.

At the 12th grade level — the 9-12grade band — students are high-school readers, with the curriculum focused on close reading, literary analysis, and rhetoric for AP, IB, and college work. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 900L to 1300L. A single Great Lakes Great Books Award classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.

Unlike a state reading list, a Great Lakes Great Books Award list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 12th grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Great Lakes Great Books Award expects.

How to use this list: treat the Great Lakes Great Books Award titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 12th gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.