1000L–1099L reading list
16 books in the 1000L–1099L Lexile band, assigned in US schools
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
Grades 4–7 · Lexile 1000L
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Grades 7–12 · Lexile 1000L
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
Grades 4–7 · Lexile 1000L
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
Grades 5–8 · Lexile 1000L
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
Grades 10–12 · Lexile 1010L
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
Lemony Snicket
Grades 4–7 · Lexile 1010L
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Grades 6–9 · Lexile 1010L
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Grades 5–8 · Lexile 1020L
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Grades 11–12 · Lexile 1070L
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Grades 10–12 · Lexile 1070L
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grades 10–12 · Lexile 1070L
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
Grades 8–12 · Lexile 1080L
