2000s books assigned in 9th grade
US schools assign 144 books written in the 2000s to 9th grade students, across 22 states, spanning 530L–840L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
Most widely assigned from the 2000s
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · on 23 reading lists
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- Titles
- 144
- Written
- 2000–2009
- Lexile range
- 530L–840L
- States assigning
- 22
The list — 2000s, 9th grade
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A Curse Dark as GoldElizabeth C. Bunce
A Hat Full of SkyTerry Pratchett
A Life in the WildPamela S. Turner
A Room on Lorelei StreetMary E. Pearson
AfterFrancine Prose
Almost AstronautsTanya Lee Stone
American Born ChineseGene Luen Yang · 530L
An American PlagueJim Murphy
An American PlagueJim Murphy
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal SnoggingLouise Rennison
AshMalinda Lo
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's SongAshley Bryan
Breathing UnderwaterAlex Flinn
BrooklynColm Tóibín
Bucking the SargeChristopher Paul Curtis
ChainsLaurie Halse Anderson · 780L
Children of the Great DepressionRussell Freedman
City of BonesCassandra Clare
Claudette ColvinPhillip Hoose
Commodore Perry in the Land of the ShogunRhoda Blumberg
Copper SunSharon Draper
Cracker The Best Dog in VietnamCynthia Kadohata
Dairy QueenCatherine Gilbert Murdock
Darkness Over DenmarkEllen Levine
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- Day of Tears
- Define "Normal"
- Devilish
- Dooby Dooby Moo
- Dust to Eat
- Eragon
- Fat Kid Rules The World
- Fathers and Sons
- FIREBOAT
- Firegirl
- Flash Burnout
- Flora Segunda
- Full Tilt
- Going Bovine
- Graceling
- Hanging on to Max
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- High Heat
- Hold Still
- Home of the Brave
- Hope Was Here
- How I Live Now
- Ice
- Impulse
- In the Belly of the Bloodhound
- Into the Wild
- Jellicoe Road
- Jenny of the Tetons
- Leon's Story
- Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer
- Letters from a Slave Girl
- Life as We Knew It
- Looking for Alaska
- Lord of the Deep
- Madapple
- Marcelo in the Real World
- Marching For Freedom
- Mary, Bloody Mary
- Me, the Missing, and the Dead
- Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness
- Milkweed
- Mississippi Trial, 1955
- My Sister's Keeper
- Nation
- Night Hoops
- Peace, Locomotion
- Peaches
- Peeps
- Perfect
- Perfect Chemistry
- Rapunzel's Revenge
- Savvy
- Schooled
- Sea of the Dead
- Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
- Shattering Glass
- Shiver (Shiver, Book 1)
- Small Steps
- Sold
- Some of the Kinder Planets
- Son of the Mob
- Space Station Science
- Stormwitch
- Stuck in Neutral
- Team Moon
- Tending to Grace
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- The Amethyst Road
- The Book Thief
- The Boxer
- The Boxes
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- The Brimstone Journals
- The Compound
- The Double Life of Pocahontas
- The Everafter
- The Fire Eaters
- The First Part Last
- The Folk Keeper
- The Glass Castle
- The Hotel Under the Sand
- The House Next Door
- The Hunger Games
- The Intruder
- The Jamie and Angus Stories
- The King of Attolia
- The Knife of Never Letting Go
- The Land
- The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
- The Lincolns
- The Longitude Prize
- The Lovely Bones: A Novel
- The Maze Runner
- The River Between Us
- The Schwa was Here
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
- The Secret Life of Bees
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- The Strongest Man in the World
- The Supernaturalist
- The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición
- The Tequila Worm
- The True Meaning of Smekday
- The Voice That Challenged a Nation
- The Wall
- The Wall
- The White Darkness
- Things Not Seen
- Thirteen Reasons Why
- True Believer
- Twilight
- Uglies
- Unwind
- Upon the Head of the Goat
- Vintage
- We Are the Ship
- What I Saw and How I Lied
- Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror
- Zoe's Tale
Most-assigned 2000s authors in 9th grade
Neal Shusterman (3) · Scott Westerfeld (3) · Terry Pratchett (2) · Mary E. Pearson (2) · Jim Murphy (2) · Russell Freedman (2)
Common questions
- How many 2000s books are assigned in 9th grade?
- 144 books written between 2000 and 2009 appear on 9th 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 9th grade run from 530L to 840L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.
- Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?
- 22 states assign at least one 2000s title at 9th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.