Leveled Book
List 
Author Ð
Last name, First name |
Illustrator Ð Last name, First name |
Title |
Level |
Award/Type |
Annotation |
Pages |
|
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
Raible, Alton |
The Egypt Game |
6.4 |
Newberry Honor |
It is only a game for
six children, until an oracle tells the truth and a murderer appears. |
215 |
|
Goodrich/Hackett |
|
The Diary of Anne Frank |
3.1 (but is generally read
in 6th grade for content comprehension) |
|
A young Jewish girl keeps a
diary during her time in hiding during WWII. |
174 |
|
Lisle, Janet Taylor |
|
Afternoon of the Elves |
5.0 |
Newberry Honor |
As Hillary works in the
miniature village allegedly built by elves in Sara-Kate's backyard, she
becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big,
gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother. |
122 |
|
Ullman, James Ramsey |
|
Banner in the Sky |
5.1 |
Newberry Honor |
Rudi's father had been
killed trying to climb the Citadel, a dangerous Swiss mountain. Now it is
Rudi's dream to make that climb. |
285 |
|
Sauer, Julia |
Lynd, Ward |
Fog Magic |
6.1 |
Newberry Honor |
Story of a Nova Scotia girl
for whom the fog blowing in from the sea had the power to transport her to
her own secret world. |
107 |
|
Yates, Elizabeth |
Unwin, Nora S. |
Amos Fortune, Free Man |
6.5 |
Newberry Medal |
This true story details the
life of an African prince who was captured by slave traders at age fifteen
and brought to America. At age sixty, he bought his freedom, then married and
started his own tannery business. |
181 |
|
McKinley, Robin |
|
The Hero and the Crown |
7.0 |
Newberry Medal |
A return to the kingdom of
Damar where the girl-warrior, Arien, wields the power of the Blue Sword. |
227 |
|
Kelly, Eric |
Domanska, Janina |
The Trumpeter of Krakow
|
7.1 |
Newberry Medal |
The legend of the Trumpeter
of Krakow endures as a fifteenth-century Ukrainian family maintains a vow to
keep Poland free from invasion. |
242 |
|
Borton De Trevi–o,
Elizabeth |
|
I, Juan de Pareja |
6.5 |
Newberry Medal |
After the slave Juan de
Pareja is willed to the great Spanish painter Vel‡zquez, their relationship
changes from master/slave to equal/friend. |
180 |
|
Du Bois, William PŽne |
|
The Twenty-One Balloons
|
6.8 |
Newberry Medal |
This tale relates the
incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman, who in 1883
journeys in a balloon across the Pacific Ocean, survives the volcanic
eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually rescued in the Atlantic Ocean. |
180 |