Our students at Pine View School for the Gifted all read above their normal grade level. This can make finding appropriate and interesting books a challenge. We maintain this list of High Lexile books for your reference. Books marked as Young Adult are in the secondary school section of the library. Elementary students may check these out with a note from a parent. Links are provided so our visitors can learn more about the books and their appropriateness.

NOTE: The titles with in front, are newly added to the list and new to our library in 2012/2013 school year.

Historical fiction:

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Civil War period) for grades 4-8; 1100L
• Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery 1020L (sequel to Anne of Green Gables 990L)
• The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman, set in an 1800s California mining camp 1030L 
• The Black Canary by Jane Louise Curry 1020L, set in 1600s London
• Call me Francis Tucket by Gary Paulsen 1050L, set in the Wild West (ages 9 and up)
• Cezanne Pinto by Mary Stolz, Civil War, 1020L (Middle Grades)
• Dawson's Down (Tales of the RAF) by Don Patterson, WWII, 990L
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis 1070L, Newbery Honor Book, a Canadian town in the 1840s settled by escaped American slaves
• Fighter Escort (Tales of the RAF) by Don Patterson, WWII, 990L
• Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier 1380L (Young Adult)
• Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert 1200L
• King of Shadows by Susan Cooper 1010L
• Lady Grace mysteries (time of Queen Elizabeth I) by Grace Cavendish 

• Listening for the Crack of Dawn by Donald D. Davis (North Carolina, 1950s) 1060L (Young Adult)
• The Midwife's Apprentice by K. Cushman 1240L
• Montmorency : Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Update 1100L (Young Adult)
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, Tudor England, Middle Ages 1170L
• Return to Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert 1230L
• Royal Diaries: Anacaona, Golden Flower: Haiti 1940 by Edwidge Danticat 1080L
• Royal Diaries: Elisabeth, The Princess Bride by Barry Denenberg 1150L
• Royal Diaries: Lady of Palenque, Flower of Bacal by Anna Kirwan by 1070L
• Royal Diaries: Weetamoo, Heart of the Poassets by Patricia Clark Smith
•  Scramble by Don Patterson, WWII in England 1040L
• The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff - Middle Ages 1240L
• Soldier's Heart: a story of the Civil War by Gary Paulsen 1000L (Young Adult)
• Sword Song by Rosemary Sutcliff (Vikings) 1210L (Young Adult gr 7 and up)
• Tropical Secrets : Holocaust refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle 1170L (Young Adult)
• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield 1000L
• Victory by Susan Cooper 1010L
• The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed by Heather Vogel Frederick 1020L
•  War Horse by 1010L
• The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 1000L
• Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer 1000L
•  Wicked Will 990L (Shakespearean England - 16th century)

Fantasy/Adventure:

• The Boggart by Susan Cooper 1030L
• The Boggart and the Monster by Susan Cooper 1020L
• Brisingr by Christopher Paolini 1050L
• Capt. Hook : the adventures of a notorious youth by J. V. Hart 1020L
• Cats of the Clans by Erin Hunter 1120L (this is a version for younger grades, not the middle school version)
• Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley 1230L
• Fly Trap by Frances Hardinge 1000L
• Golden & Grey : an unremarkable boy and a rather remarkable ghost by Louise Arnold 1000L
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling 1030L
• Hatching magic by Ann Downer 1080L
• Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley 1120L
• The H.I.V.E. series by Mark Walden
  • Higher Institute of Villainous Education 1040L
  • The Overlord Protocol 1010L
• The Heroic misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III series by Cresside Cowell
  • How to be a pirate 990L
  • How to cheat a dragon's curse 1040L
  • How to speak dragonese 980L
  • How to train your dragon 990L
  • How to twist a dragon's tale 1070L
• Hugo Pepper by Paul Stewart 1110L
• Incredible Journey by Carl Burger 1320L
• Larklight, or, The revenge of the white spiders! by Philip Reeve 1170L
• Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography - 1270L
• Letters from the corrugated castle : a novel of gold rush California, 1850-1852 by Joan W. Blos.
• Listening for the Crack of Dawn by Donald D. Davis 1060L (Young Adult)
• Little Cricket by Jackie Brown 1010L
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic by Betty MacDonald 1070L
• Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood, Book 1 of Incorrigle chldren of Ashton Place 1000L
• Orphan of Awkward Falls by Keith Grave 950L
• Pure Dead series by Debi Gliori
  • Pure Dead Batty 1090L
  • Pure Dead Brilliant 1110L
  • Pure Dead Magic 920L
  • Pure Dead Trouble 1110L
  • Pure Dead Wicked 1020L
• Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley 1210L (Young Adults, gr. 6 to 10)
• Savvy by Ingrid Law 1070L
• Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (books range from 1010 to 1370)
• Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage
  • Flyte 950L
  • Physik 1030L
  • Queste 940L
  • Syren 960L
• Sword Song by Rosemary Sutcliff 1240L (Young Adult)
• Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling 1290L (short story collection)
•  Thirteenth Child: Frontier Magic, Book 1 by Patricia C. Wrede 1010L (Young Adult)
•  Tunnels by Roderick Gordon 990L
• Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly 1200
• The Rifle by Gary Paulsen 1480L (Young Adult)
• Unlikely Exploits: The Fall of Fergal by Philip Ardagh 1090L
• Unlikely Exploits: Heir of Mystery, or, Four legs good by Philip Ardagh 1060L
• Wizardology : the book of the secrets of Merlin by Dugald A. Steer, 1180L

Science Fiction:

• Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Addams 1080L (Young Adult)
• Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein 1050L (Young Adult)
• The Seems: Glitch in Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler 1060L
• The Seems: Split Second by John Hulme and Michael Wexler 1030L (on order)

Mystery:

The Enola Holmes mystery series by Nancy Springer, about Sherlock Holmes young sister, grades 4-7:

• The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Nancy Springer 1080L
• The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer 1020L
• The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer 1020L
• The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan by Nancy Springer 1100L

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator series by Jennifer Allison, grades 4-7

• Gilda Joyce: the Dead Drop 960L
• Gilda Joyce: the Bones of the Holy 880LGilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator 1000L
• Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake 1000L
• Gilda Joyce: the Ghost Sonata 990L

The Lady Grace mysteries (time of Queen Elizabeth I) by Grace Cavendish
          (books in series include: Assassin 910L, Betrayal 910L, Conspiracy 980L, Feud 960L)

Realistic/Contemporary fiction:

•  39 Clues: Black Book of Buried Secrets by Mallory Cass 1010L
• 100 Days and 99 Nights by Alan Madison 970L (Lower Grades)
• All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall 1000L [Fantasy]
• Abigail Iris : The One and Only by Lisa Glatt and Suzanne Greenberg 1040L - 3rd-grader
• The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson 1020L
• Brian's Hunt by Gary Paulsen 1180L (Young Adult)
• Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen 1140L
• Clarice Bean Spells Trouble by Lauren Child 1040L
• Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now by Lauren Child 1120L
• The Crossing by Gary Paulsen  (Young Adult) 1150L
• Dancing Carl by Gary Paulsen 1150L
• Dear Dumb Diary series of books by Jaimie Kelly 940L to 1120L
• Do the Math: the writing on the wall by Wendy Lichtman 1050L (Young Adult)
• Do the Math: secrets, lies, and algebra by Wendy Lichtman 1050L (Young Adult)
• Downsiders by Neal Shusterman 1110L (Young Adult)
• The Foxman by Gary Paulsen 1090L
• Grace series (written for 2nd graders, but at high lexile!)
• Harris and me : a summer remembered by Gary Paulsen 1060L
• The Island by Gary Paulsen 1050L (Young Adult)
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 1020L
• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron 1010L
• A Horse of her Own by Annie Wedekind 1040L
• Milo : sticky notes and brain freeze written and illustrated by Alan Silberberg 1180L
• Nicholas by Rene Goscinny 1070L
• Mr. Wellington by Robert Andrew Parker 1010L
• The Night the White Deer Died by Gary Paulsen 1250L
• Nim's Island by Wendy Orr 1000L
• Pieces of Georgia by Jen Bryant 1160L (Young Adult)
• The Pirates of Turtle Rock by Richard W. Jennings 1210L (Young Adult)
• Saving Shiloh by Reynolds 1030L
• The Secret Twin by Denise Gosliner Orenstein 1050L (Young Adult)
• Tracker by Gary Paulsen 1010L
• The Trap by John Smelcer 1100L (Young Adult)
• Treasures of Weatherby by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 1060L
• Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt 1130L (Newbery Medal winner)
• The Vacation by Polly Horvath 1040L
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen 1170L
• Woodsong by Gary Paulsen 1090L

Classic Children's Literature:

• Birds' Christmas Carol by K. Wiggin 1200L
• Just So Stories (Books 1 & 2) - R. Kipling 1060L
• Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge 1020L
• Call of the Wild by Jack London 1120L
• Hitty by R. Field 1180L
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 1300L (also from Alcott: Little Men 1260; Jo's Boys 1210; Eight Cousins 1260; An Old Fashioned Girl 1290)
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 1170L
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by K. Wiggin 1190L
• Swiss Family Robinson by J. Wyss 1260L
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 1070L
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by J. Verne 1030L
• Wind In the Willows by K. Grahame 1140L

Modern Classics:

• 1984 by George Orwell 1090L
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1100L (Young Adult)
• Mutiny on the Bounty 1080L (Young Adult)

Biographies:

• Abraham Lincoln and the second American Revolution by James M. McPherson 1430L
• Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy, biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1180L
• All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot, autobiography, 1070L
• Every Living Thing by James Herriot, autobiography, 1000L
• A girl named Faithful Plum : the true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream by Richard Bernstein Biography, 1080L
• Lincoln, in his Own Words edited by Milton Meltzer 1140L
• Lives of the Musicians : Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull 1010L (Grades 3-6)
• Lives of the Writers : Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull 1070L (Grades 3-6)
• Longitude : the True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel 1360L (Upper Grades)
• Make Way for Sam Houston, 1010L
• Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, 1060L
• A Young Patriot : the American Revolution as Experienced by one Boy by Jim Murphy 1140L (grades 5 to 8)
• Zora : The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin 1110L (grade 4-8)

Other Non-Fiction Books (book-length):

• 1776 by David McCullough 1300L (Upper Grades)
• Black Indians : a Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz 1130L (Grades 6 and up)
• The Cat Who Came For Christmas Cleveland Amory 1230L
• Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg 1070L (Newbery Honor Book)
• Four Days to Glory : Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland by Mark Kreidler 1180L (Upper Grades)
• Ghost liners : exploring the world's greatest lost ships by Robert D. Ballard, 1100L
• Guinea Pig Scientists : Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine by Leslie Dendy 1100L
• The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander 1180L (Upper Grades)
• I'll Pass for your Comrade : Women Soldiers in the Civil War by Anita Silvey 1130L (Middle Grades)
• Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Peter Nelson 1260L (Upper Grades)
• Lincoln's Flying Spies : Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps by Gail Jarrow, 1060L
• Moonbird : A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose, a wildlife book, 1150L
• My Dog Skip by Willie Morris 1380L (Upper Grades)
• Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez 1280L (Upper Grades)
• People Who Care by Michael Pollard 1040L
• The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro. 1020L
• Ship by David Macaulay 1250L
• Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World : the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong 1090L (Young Adult)
• A Short Walk around the Pyramids & Through the World of Art 1110L (Grades 5-8)
• T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez 1380L (Upper Grades)
• Trapped : how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean desert by Marc Aronson 1070L
• The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson 1150L  

Non-Fiction Books (picture books):

• 1621 : a new look at Thanksgiving by Catherine O'Neill Grace and Margaret M. Bruchac 1040L
• Bill the Boy Wonder : The Secret Co-Creator of Batman by Marc Tyler Nobleman 970L
• Celebritrees : Historic and Famous Trees of the World by Margi Preus, 1020L (Grades 2-4)
• Cleopatra by Diane Stanley 1000L
• Frontier Home by Raymond Bial 1140L
• How the Second Grade got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty by Nathan Zimelman, 1070L (ages 5 to 8)
• Monarchs [butterflies] by Kathryn Lasky 1050L
• My season with penguins : an Antarctic journal by Sophie Webb, 1040L
• Penguins at home : gentoos of Antarctica written and photo-illustrated by Bruce McMillan 100L
• Sluggers : Twenty-Seven of Baseball's Greatest by George Sullivan, 1120L
• Stranded at Plimoth Plantation, 1626 by Gary Bowen, 1010L