*Most Have a Lexile Score

Non-Fiction recommendations

(*most have a lexile score)

*students should comfortably read within 100 points above or below their recorded lexile score

·  A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova 690

·  The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain 760

By Peter Sis

·  Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman by Marc Nobleman 760

·  I will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives 790

By Caitlin Alifirenka

·  The Middle School Rules of Charles Tillman: “Peanut” 600?

By Sean Jensen

·  Knots in My Yo-yo String by Jerry Spinelli

·  Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

·  The Real Benedict Arnold by Jim Murphy

·  Harvesting Hope-The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull 800

·  Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker 790

By Patricia Hruby Powell

·  Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Ji Jang 780

·  Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

By Steve Sheinkin 920

·  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition 910

By William Kamkwamba

·  Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Pamela Turner 910

·  Rocket Boy: A Memoir by Homer Hickam Jr. 900

·  Dogsong by Gary Paulson 930

·  Rosa by Nikki Giovanni 900

·  Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart 930

By Candice Fleming

·  Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson 980

·  Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson 990

·  Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley 970

·  The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and the Churchill Club

By Phillip M. Hoose 970

·  Out of the Woods: A True Story of an Unforgettable Event 990

By Rebecca Bond

·  Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion by Russell Freedman

·  Do Not Open: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Best-Kept Secrets

By John Farndon

·  A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids: Understanding Climate Change and What You Can Do About It by Jullie Hall

·  Almost astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream 980

By Tanya Lee Stone

·  Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 1080

·  I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai 1000

·  Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science 1030

By John Fleischman

·  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M.Hoose 1000

·  We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March 1020

By Cynthia Levinson

·  Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem 1190

By Rosalyn Schanzer

·  Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding by Linda Liukas

** There are too many appropriate biographies and autobiographies of amazing people written for young readers that I cannot list them all. Please take your child to your local public library or our school library, where there is a section just for biographies and autobiographies. The librarians are wonderfully helpful too.