Books from the 1940s
12 titles written between 1940 and 1949 assigned in US schools
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey
Grades K–3 · Lexile 730L
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Grades 11–12
The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes
Grades 3–5 · Lexile 870L
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Grades 7–10 · Lexile 1170L
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Grades 9–12 · Lexile 950L
Stuart Little
E.B. White
Grades 3–5 · Lexile 920L
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Grades 11–12
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Grades 7–10 · Lexile 1080L
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Grades 6–9 · Lexile 1010L
My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Grades 2–4 · Lexile 990L
1984
George Orwell
Grades 9–12 · Lexile 1090L
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Grades 11–12
