Passage Readability Chart
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| Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes | 6 |
| Miss Hickory | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | 6 |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | 6 |
| Here's to You, Rachel Robinson | Judy Blume | 6 |
| Cheat the Moon | Patricia Hermes | 6 |
| The Lottery Rose | Irene Hunt | 6 |
| Old Yeller | Fred Gipson | 6 |
| On the Far Side of the Mt | Jean Craighead George | 6 |
| Blowfish Live in the Sea | Paula Fox | 6 |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 6 |
| Tom's Midnight Garden | A. Philippa Pearce | 6 |
| Onion John | Joseph Krumgold | 6 |
| After the War | Carol Matas | 6 |
| Henry and Ribsy | Beverly Cleary | 6 |
| Many Waters | Madeleine L'Engle | 6 |
| M.C. Higgins the Great | Virginia Hamilton | 6 |
| I Had Seen Castles | Cynthia Rylant | 6 |
| Tucker's Countryside | George Selden | 6 |
| The BFG | Raold Dahl | 6 |
| Miracle’s Boys | Jacqueline Woodson | 6 |
| Briar Rose | Jane Yolen | 6 |
| Amos Fortune Free Man | Elizabeth Yates | 6 |
| A Solitary Blue | Cynthia Voigt | 6 |
| Coraline | Neil Gaiman | 6 |
| Summmer of My German Soldier | Bette Green | 6 |
| Cassie Binegar | Patricia MacLachlan | 6 |
| Behind the Bedroom Wall | Laura E. Williams | 6 |
| Homer Price | Robert McCloskey | 6 |
| Strong Bow | Morgan Llwyelyn | 6 |
| Our Only May Amelia | Jennifer L. Holm | 6 |
| When She Was Good | Norma Fox Mazer | 6 |
| The Art of Keeping Cool | Janet Taylor Lisle | 6 |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | 6 |
| The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander | 6 |
| Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | 6 |
| The Black Stallion | Walter Farley | 6 |
| Red Scarf Girl | Ji-Li Jiang | 6 |
| Harry Potter | J. K. Rawling | 6 |
| Banner in the Sky | James Ramsey Ullman | 6 |
| Captains Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | 6 |
| A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeleine L'Engle | 6 |
| Crash | Jerry Spinelli | 6 |
| Summer of My German Soldier | Bette Green | 6 |
| The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | 6 |
| The Wanderer | Sharon Creech | 6 |
| The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson | 6 |
| Timeline | Michael Chrichton | 6 |
| Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | 6 |
| The Apprentice | Pilar Molina Llorente | 7 |
| Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | 7 |
| The Moorchild | Eloise McGraw | 7 |
| Sons From Afar | Cynthia Voight | 7 |
| Parrot in the Oven | Victor Martinez | 7 |
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | 7 |
| Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | 7 |
| River Boy | Tom Bowler | 7 |
| House Made of Dawn | M. Scott Momaday | 7 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 7 |
| Hatchett | Gary Paulsen | 7 |
| Brian’s Winter | Gary Paulsen | 7 |
| The Night Flyers | Elizabeth McDavid Jones | 7 |
| Ben and Me | Norma Klein | 7 |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | 7 |
| Have Spacesuit Will Travel | Robert Heinlein | 7 |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl | 7 |
| Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary | 7 |
| Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | 7 |
| The Girl Who Knew Tomorrow | Zoa Sherburne | 7 |
| Gentle Ben | Walt Morey | 7 |
| A String in the Harp | Nancy Bond | 7 |
| Danny Champion of the World | Roald Dahl | 7 |
| Blue Willow | Doris Gates | 7 |
| The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare | 7 |
| You Must Kiss a Whale | David Skinner | 7 |
| A Bell for Adano | John Hersey | 7 |
| The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli | 7 |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | 7 |
| The Thief Lord | Cornelia Funke | 7 |
| The Black Pearl | Scott O'Dell | 7 |
| Journey Outside | Mary Q. Steele | 7 |
| Daughter of the Mountains | Louise Rankin | 7 |
| A Walk to Remember | Nicholas Sparks | 7 |
| The Notebook | Nicholas Sparks | 7 |
| Boy | Roald Dahl | 7 |
| Belle Prater’s Boy | Ruth White | 7 |
| Ring of Endless Light | Madeleine L’Engle | 7 |
| Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | 7 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 7 |
| Dancing Carl | Gary Paulsen | 7 |
| Star Split | Kathryn Lasky | 7 |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | 7 |
| Troy | Adele Geras | 7 |
| Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry | 7 |
| The White Stag | Kate Seredy | 7 |
| Thimbles | David Wiseman | 7 |
| The Magician's Nephew | C.S. Lewis | 7 |
| The Swiss Family Robinson | Johann Wyss | 7 |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | 7 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 7 |
| Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | 8 |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | 8 |
| The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper | 8 |
| The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | 8 |
| Laughing Boy | Oliver La Farge | 8 |
| Words by Heart | Ouida Sebestyen | 8 |
| Dicey's Song | Elizabeth Voight | 8 |
| Slave Dancer | Paula Fox | 8 |
| Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George | 8 |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 8 |
| Missing May | Cynthia Rylant | 8 |
| The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo | 8 |
| Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt | 8 |
| The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald | 8 |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | 8 |
| The Watsons Go To Birmingham | Christopher Paul Curtis | 8 |
| Jonah the Whale | Susan Shreve | 8 |
| Stuart Little | E.b. White | 8 |
| The Flawed Glass | Ian Strachan | 8 |
| Canyons | Gary Paulsen | 8 |
| The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | 8 |
| The Egypt Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 8 |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 8 |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | 8 |
| The Sword in the Stone | T.H. White | 8 |
| The Fifty-First Dragon | Heywood Hale Broun | 9 |
| The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | 9 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry | Mildred Taylor | 9 |
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | 9 |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | 9 |
| Rascal | Sterling North | 9 |
| The Cay | Theodore Taylor | 9 |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien | 9 |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Steven Crane | 9 |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 9 |
| The Fixer | Bernard Malamud | 9 |
| Ann Halam | 9 | |
| The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley | 9 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 9 |
| Dragons in the Waters | Madeleine L’Engle | 10 |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | 11 |
| The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | 11 |
| Contact | Carl Sagan | 12 |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 12 |