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Virginia Readers' Choice
Booked by Kwame Alexander (author talking about book)
Lexile: 750
Verse, Sports
Lexile: 750
Verse Novel, Sports
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
Lexile:760
Realistic Fiction
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
Lexile: 830
Fantasy
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Lexile: 770
Mystery
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Lexile: 740
Realistic Fiction
Quarterback Season by Fred Bowen
Lexile: 690
Sports
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Lexile: 700
Realistic Fiction
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Lexile: 670
Science Fiction
The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
Lexile: 770L
Realistic Fiction
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Lexile: 580
Historical Fiction
How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg
Lexile: 950
Nonfiction
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of WWII by Joseph Bruchac
Lexile: 910
Historical Fiction
Lexile: NP
Verse Novel, Historical Fiction
All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg
Lexile: 680
Verse Novel
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone
Lexile: 820
Historical Fiction
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Lexile: 600
Historical Fiction
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko
Lexile: 580
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 800
Fantasy
Free Baseball by Sue Corbett (monotone voice)
Lexile: 800
Sports
Graphic Novel
Lexile: 700
Adventure
London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Lexile: 640
Mystery
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Lexile: 890
Adventure, Historical
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Lexile: 700
Realistic Fiction
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Lexile: 630
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 750
Historical Fiction
Last Shot by Michael Feinstein
Lexile: 760
Sports
Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Lexile: 790
Mystery, Historical Fiction
On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming
Lexile: 720
Fantasy
Lexile: 670
Verse Novel, Realistic Fiction
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Lexile: 730L
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 640
Realistic Fiction
Space Case by Stuart Gibbs (little cheesy)
Lexile: 750
Mystery
Lexile: 740
Mystery
Lexile: 760
Holocaust
Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green
Lexile: 870
Realistic Fiction
Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald
Lexile:
Sports, Realistic Fiction
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Lexile: 790
Historical Fiction
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Lexile: 850
Fantasy
Lexile: 680
Realistic Fiction
Operation Yes by Sara Lewis Holmes (full screen ad)
Lexile: 730
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 610
Verse Novel
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose
Lexile: 970
Non-fiction
BULU-African Wonder Dog by Dick Houston (on the long side)
Lexile: 700
Nonfiction
One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (ad at the beginning)
Lexile: 520
Realistic Fiction
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Lexile: 440
Graphic Novel
La Linea by Ann Jaramillo (proper noun capitalization errors)
Lexile: 650
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 990
Nonfiction
Lexile: 800
Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by e.l. konigsburg (typo)
Lexile: 840
Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction
Lexile: 740
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 730
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 730
Humor, Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 1070
Fantasy
Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence (voice is difficult to hear over the music)
Lexile: 640
Historical Fiction
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
Lexile: NP
Histocial Fiction, Novel in Dialogue
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
Lexile: 680
Historical Fiction
The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
Lexile: 1000
Non-fiction
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lia
Lexile: 800
Historical Fiction
Lexile: 690
Realistic Fiction, Romance
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Lexile: 550
Historical Fiction
A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Lexile: 770
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 740
Science Fiction, Dystopian
Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish
Lexile: 680
Horror
All the Answers by Kate Messner
Lexile: 720
Fantasy
Lexile: 790
Science Fiction
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
Lexile: 890
Historical Fiction
Zero Tolerance by Claudia Mills
Lexile: 670
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 780
Historical Fiction
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lexile: 810
Historical Fiction
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lexile: 710
Fantasy, Adventure
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo (5 books)
Lexile: 630
Fantasy
Lexile: 960
Realistic Fiction
Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink by Tod Olson
Lexile: 880
Non-fiction
Two Truths and a Lie by Ammi-Joan Paquette
Lexile: 1010
Non-fiction
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Lexile: 720
Realistic Fiction
The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck
Lexile: 750
Humor
Lexile: 790
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 710
Fantasy
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (full screen ad)
Lexile: 920
Historical Fiction
All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall (student made)
Lexile: 1000
Realistic Fiction
The Seventh Most Impotant Thing by Shelley Pearsall
Lexile: 760
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 780
Sports
The Red Bandanna: Young Reader's Adaptation
Lexile: 980
Non-fiction, Biography
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Lexile: 740
Science Fiction
The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick
Lexile: 800
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 600
Realistic Fiction
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
Lexile: 760
Historical Fiction
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Lexile: HL360L
Realistic Fiction
Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
Lexile: 740
Fantasy, Adventure
Lexile: 680
Multi-Genre, Suspense
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
Lexile: 830
Realistic Fiction
The Eighth Day by Dianne K. Salerni
Lexile: 730
Adventure
Lexile: 900
Realistic Fiction
Bomb-The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Lexile: 920
Nonfiction
When the Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton
Lexile: 810
Historical Fiction
Lizzy Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Lexile: 1000
Historical Fiction
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
Lexile: 850
Historical Fiction
Orbiting Jupiter By Gary D. Schmidt (spelling error)
Lexile: 740
Realistic Fiction
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Lexile: 990
Historical Fiction
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Lexile: 770
Humor, Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 760
Adventure
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith (passage reading)
Lexile: 680
Historical Fiction
Lexile: 650
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 510
Historical Fiction
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Lexile: 750
Science Fiction
Lexile: 400
Graphic Novel
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan (voice, little dry)
Lexile: 820
Realistic Fiction
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
Lexile: 680L
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 860
Realistic Fiction
Lexile: 720
Historical Fiction
Surviving Antarctica by Andrea White
Lexile: 670
Science Fiction, Adventure
Lexile: 630
Historical Fiction
You'll Like it Here (Everybody Does) by Ruth White
Lexile: 720
Science Fiction
Lexile: 640
Realistic Fiction
Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee (typo)
Lexile: 650
Sports
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lexile: 580
Historical Fiction
Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Lexile: 690
Science Fiction, Adventure
Matched by Ally Condie (full screen ad at beginning)
Lexile: 680
Science Fiction
Among the Hidden by Margarent Petersen Haddix
Lexile: 800
Science Fiction
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draaen
Lexile: 650
Realistic Fiction
Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
Lexile: 740
Realistic Fiction
First Light by Rebecca Stead (pop up ad)
Lexile: 760
Science Fiction
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Lexile: 750
Historical Fiction
Under the War Torn Sky by L. M. Elliott
Lexile: 640
Historical Fiction
