2000s books assigned in 10th grade
US schools assign 62 books written in the 2000s to 10th grade students, spanning 530L–840L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- Titles
- 62
- Written
- 2000–2009
- Lexile range
- 530L–840L
- States assigning
- 1
The list — 2000s, 10th grade
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Rather listen? Kids who struggle with the print versions often finish the assigned books by listening.
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- A Curse Dark as GoldElizabeth C. Bunce
- A Life in the WildPamela S. Turner
American Born ChineseGene Luen Yang · 530L- An American PlagueJim Murphy
- Ashley BryanAshley Bryan
ChainsLaurie Halse Anderson · 780L- Children of the Great DepressionRussell Freedman
Claudette ColvinPhillip Hoose- Commodore Perry in the Land of the ShogunRhoda Blumberg
- Darkness Over DenmarkEllen Levine
Day of TearsJulius Lester- DevilishMaureen Johnson
- Dust to EatMichael L. Cooper
- FIREBOATMaira Kalman
- Flash BurnoutL. K. Madigan
- Flora SegundaYsabeau S. Wilce
Going BovineLibba Bray- GracelingKristin Cashore
- Hold StillNina LaCour
How I Live NowMeg Rosoff- In the Belly of the BloodhoundL. A. Meyer
- Into the WildSarah Beth Durst
Jellicoe RoadMelina Marchetta- Laura Ingalls WilderTanya Lee Stone
Show all 62 titles
- Leon's Story · Leon Walter Tillage
- Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer · Robert Byrd
- Life as We Knew It · Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Looking for Alaska · John Green
- Madapple · Christina Meldrum
- Marching For Freedom · Elizabeth Partridge
- Me, the Missing, and the Dead · Jenny Valentine
- Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness · Scott Westerfeld
- Mystery Fish · Sally M. Walker
- Peace, Locomotion · Jacqueline Woodson
- Peeps · Scott Westerfeld
- Savvy · Ingrid Law
- Space Station Science · Marianne J. Dyson
- Stormwitch · Susan Vaught
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian · Sherman Alexie
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox · Mary E. Pearson
- The Amethyst Road · Louise Spiegler
- The Bomb · Theodore Taylor
- The Double Life of Pocahontas · Jean Fritz
- The Everafter · Amy Huntley
- The Hotel Under the Sand · Kage Baker
- The King of Attolia · Megan Whalen Turner
- The Kite Runner · Khaled Hosseini
- The Knife of Never Letting Go · Patrick Ness
- The Land · Mildred D. Taylor
- The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler · James Cross Giblin
- The Lincolns · Candace Fleming
- The Longitude Prize · Joan Dash
- The River Between Us · Richard Peck
- The Strongest Man in the World · Nicolas Debon
- The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición · Margarita Engle
- The Tequila Worm · Viola Canales
- The White Darkness · Geraldine McCaughrean
- Things Not Seen · Andrew Clements
- Unwind · Neal Shusterman
- Upon the Head of the Goat · Aranka Siegal
- Vintage · Steve Berman
- We Are the Ship · Kadir Nelson
Most-assigned 2000s authors in 10th grade
Scott Westerfeld (2) · Jim Murphy · Ashley Bryan · Laurie Halse Anderson · Russell Freedman · Phillip Hoose
Common questions
- How many 2000s books are assigned in 10th grade?
- 62 books written between 2000 and 2009 appear on 10th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- What Lexile range do these 2000s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 2000s titles assigned in 10th grade run from 530L to 840L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.