Treasury · Merit

Deep Roots Grade

A grade-by-grade book list, with the grade each book is filed under kept alongside it.

117 books in the catalog stand on this list.

A reader aged

23 of these books cover age 8. The 22 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• Aesop’s Fables by Jerry Pinkney, 2000 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 760L
  also on TJEd Early Recommended
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• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1961 · ages 7–10 · Lexile 790L · AR 6.0 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on The Good & The Beautiful
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• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 1877 · ages 8–12 · Lexile 1010L · AR 7.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Beautiful Feet, Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1942 · ages 8–9 · Lexile 580L · AR 3.9 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
  also on Davidson Gifted, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban, 1964 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 490L · AR 3.4 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
  also on NY Public Library
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• Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry, 1963 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 880L · AR 5.6 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Beautiful Feet
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• Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol, 1963 · up to age 10 · Lexile 610L · AR 4.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Davidson Gifted, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Freddy The Detective by Walter R. Brooks, 1998 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 830L · AR 5.5 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on The Good & The Beautiful
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• Lentil by Robert McCloskey, 1940 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 890L · AR 4.8 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1935 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 600L · AR 5.3
  also on Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton, 1967 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 580L · AR 4.4 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater, 1938 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 910L · AR 5.6 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
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• Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, 1912 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 480L · AR 5.2
  also on The Good & The Beautiful, TJEd Early Recommended
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• Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, 1985 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 660L · AR 3.4 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, Newbery Award, The Good & The Beautiful
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• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh, 1952 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 590L · AR 3.5 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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• The Borrowers by Mary Norton, 1953 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 780L · AR 5.3 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
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• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh, 1954 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 610L · AR 3.9 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Beautiful Feet, The Good & The Beautiful
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• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli, 1949 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 920L · AR 6.2 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Beautiful Feet, Newbery Award, The Good & The Beautiful
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• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, 1950 · ages 8–13 · Lexile 940L · AR 5.7
  also on Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library, The Good & The Beautiful, Time Magazine 1923-2005, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare, 1983 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 770L · AR 4.9 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Halsted - Best Friends, The Good & The Beautiful
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• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois, 1947 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 1070L · AR 6.8 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Mensa Kids, Newbery Award
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• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, 1975 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 980L · AR 4.9
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• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, 1926 · ages 5–9 · Lexile 790L · AR 4.6 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library, TJEd Early Recommended
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