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The Catalogue
Pick a bar to narrow the shelf. Every panel below follows the same filter — the two charts, the plot, and the list of books — and each bar says how many books choosing it would leave you with.
3815
books on the shelf
3815
filed under a genre
16
genres
6
with no recorded year
For the same counts drawn as figures, see Statistics.
6 of them record no publication year at all — show those books.
Titles by genre
Each bar counts the books of that genre which survive the year filter, so it says what picking that genre would leave you with. The 0 books filed under no genre at all are in no bar here.
Titles by year published
The whole timeline, back to the catalogue's oldest book. The bars widen as they go back, because equal-width bars across four thousand years would press everything before 1900 into a single pixel — where the statistics page leaves those books out of its chart and says so in the caption, the explorer has to be able to reach them, so its bars change width instead of stopping. Each bar counts the books of that era which survive the genre filter.
Two measures at a time
The books above, as dots. 230 of the 396 carry both measures and can be plotted; a book missing a measure has no place on that axis, so it is left off rather than drawn at zero. Each axis covers the middle 98% of what is shown, with 5 books outside the frame.
The dots outside your ranges are still drawn, faded, so that you can see what you are narrowing from; the bars above and the list below obey the ranges. 134 of the 396 books in view carry no measure on a ranged axis, so no range can place them — take the ranges off to see them.
Point at a dot to see which book it is, and where it sits on each axis. Click one to open that book's own page of neighbours — the same book, in the middle of a map, with the books closest to it around it.
The 253 books that match
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Lexile620LAR4.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile900LAR7.3AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile920LAR5.5
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AR2.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1140LAR7.2
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A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day by Andrea Davis Pinkney, 2016 BiographyLexile620LAR3.8
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AR2.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman, 2013 BiographyLexile1170LAR8.4AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1010LAR5.4AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1090LAR3.8AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life by Candace Fleming, 2003 BiographyLexile1000LAR8.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1100LAR8.3AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Black & White: The Confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor by Larry Dane Brimner, 2011 BiographyLexile1150LAR8.7AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile1100LAR7.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1030LAR7.4AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile960LAR7.1AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile930LAR6.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile830LAR4.9AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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AR5.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile760LAR5.8AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile750LAR5.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile990LAR5.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1150LAR6.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile980LAR6.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile890LAR5.9AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile920LAR5.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile850LAR5.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1060LAR7.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1000LAR6.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile890LAR7.6AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1100LAR6.0AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile1020LAR6.5AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile760LAR5.3AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile980LAR7.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile550LAR3.9AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile560LAR4.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile920LAR5.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1100LAR7.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile770LAR4.4AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile1120LAR6.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile970LAR5.2
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Lexile940LAR6.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile670LAR3.2AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile1410LAR12.8AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1080LAR7.3
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Lexile920LAR6.5AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum, 2006 BiographyLexile1090LAR7.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile750LAR4.5AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1220LAR8.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR7.6AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1030LAR7.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR6.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR8.0AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile950LAR6.8AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin, 2005 BiographyLexile1130LAR8.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1060LAR6.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile730LAR5.0
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Lexile1000LAR6.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1120LAR8.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile520LAR3.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile510LAR3.5AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1050LAR7.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile840LAR5.7AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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AR5.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile950LAR6.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR3.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile370LAR2.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1140LAR8.3AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin, 2023 BiographyLexile850LAR6.1AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile990LAR6.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton by Rebecca Bond, 2009 BiographyLexile1000LAR5.3AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison by Marfé Ferguson Delano, 2002 BiographyLexile1140LAR7.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1150LAR8.0AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy, 2012 BiographyLexile1200LAR9.5AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1000LAR7.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1010LAR6.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile980LAR6.9AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile980LAR7.2AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile790LAR4.6
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AR5.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1140LAR7.5AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka, 2008 BiographyLexile750LAR4.6
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Lexile1310LAR8.0AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1160LAR8.4AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1010LAR6.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1010LAR7.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile970LAR4.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1040LAR7.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR8.3AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1320LAR9.7AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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AR3.1AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile760LAR4.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile760LAR5.9AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile950LAR5.9AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile1050LAR8.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1190LAR7.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1130LAR8.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile650LAR3.7AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile730LAR4.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile550LAR3.7
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Lexile530LAR3.6
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Lexile1080LAR7.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile770LAR4.0AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin, 2015 BiographyLexile890LAR6.7AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man by Karen Blumenthal, 2011 BiographyLexile1200LAR8.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, & Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and... by Ann Bausum, 2007 BiographyLexile1180LAR9.2
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Lexile970LAR7.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More by G. Neri, 2024 BiographyAR5.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR8.0AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1080LAR8.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile500LAR3.5AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile750LAR5.0AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile680LAR4.5AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile840LAR5.5AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile960LAR6.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming, 2005 BiographyLexile1040LAR8.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1170LAR7.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile520LAR3.9AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1200LAR8.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR7.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile900LAR6.5AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile1090LAR8.0AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile910LAR6.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile970LAR7.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1030LAR6.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR8.4AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile850LAR5.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile950LAR7.2AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel Prize by Lori Alexander, 2025 BiographyAR6.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge, 2022 BiographyLexile990LAR6.6AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile1200LAR5.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong, 1998 BiographyLexile1090LAR7.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1020LAR7.4AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1080LAR8.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile790LAR4.6AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile1030LAR8.2AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile290LAR2.4AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1010LAR6.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile830LAR5.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile410LAR2.6AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1030LAR6.5AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR6.8
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Lexile530LAR3.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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AR7.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile930LAR6.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1110LAR8.2AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York by Amy Hill Hearth, 2018 BiographyLexile1120LAR7.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1060LAR6.7AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children by Kath Shackleton, 2019 BiographyLexile750LAR4.7AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile1050LAR6.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile920LAR5.6
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Lexile870LAR5.8AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery, 2012 BiographyLexile960LAR7.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes, 2016 BiographyLexile1210LAR8.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2015 BiographyLexile980LAR7.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile790LAR6.2AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson, 2013 BiographyLexile1000LAR7.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose, 2015 BiographyLexile970LAR7.1AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile790LAR4.4AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile990LAR6.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile880LAR6.3AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming, 2014 BiographyLexile950LAR7.2
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Lexile1230LAR6.2AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students by Suzanne Jurmain, 2005 BiographyLexile920LAR6.9AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile760LAR4.9
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Lexile860LAR5.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile420LAR3.2AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming, 2009 BiographyLexile980LAR7.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1030LAR7.8AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile900LAR6.4AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1000LAR6.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile760LAR4.4
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The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden, 2005 BiographyLexile950LAR6.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile640LAR3.2AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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Lexile1100LAR9.2AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1100LAR7.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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53 more match and are not listed here. Narrow the shelf with a bar above and they will come into view — the list is capped so that it stays a list.