Scholastic's Book Wizard is another good tool. You can search by title, similar books, and levels (Grade Level Equivalency, DRA, Guided Reading or Lexile). You can also refine the searches by Interest Level, Theme/Subject, Genre, Series, and Language. I did a search for 1130-1300 and came up with 2057 books that included books ranging from the Oxcart Man to Pride and Prejudice. Refining it to an Interest Level of 6th - 8th grades, gave me 1101 hits with books like the Series of Unfortunate Events, Brian's Winter, Catherine Called Birdy to name a few.

Mary Rice
Head of Youth and Teen Services
Milford Public Library
330 Family Dr
Milford MI 48381
(248) 684-0845 ext. 403
mrice@milfordlibrary.info

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From: "Amelia Nolan" <anolan@sjcity.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:09pm
To: "michlib-l@mcls.org" <michlib-l@mcls.org>
Subject: [Michlib-l] Lexile level and reading counts

Help! Has anyone else discovered an easy way to help parents with this conundrum of lexile level books that also have reading count quizzes?
Today I had a mom come in who had a sixth grade son who was at a high reading level (lexile 1130-1300) and she was looking for books. I had a really hard time finding titles for her that were still housed in the children's section.
I pulled a bunch of novels that I consider higher reading level and then looked them up on the lexile website and many weren't even listed. The ones I did find (they were all nf), the mom would have to turn around and see if these particular titles had quizzes available.

Has anyone figured out a more streamlined way of doing this or do you depend on the school librarian/teacher to pass out lists of titles and levels that have quizzes?

Thanks for any advice!

Amy Nolan

Children's Librarian

St. Joseph Public Library

269-983-7167