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Check with your teacher for appropriateness of your selection and/or use the "five-finger method" described below.
Complete AR List '07-'08 in PDF format
(many pages--may be slow loading)
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If it is below grade-level, you need to have teacher approval.
1) Parent, please open the book to any page;
2) Find a word whose meaning you think your student may not know;
3) If indeed the student doesn't know the definition, that's a count of "one finger."
4) Proceed with the first three steps with other words, and if there is a total of "five fingers'" worth of words from that one page, the book may be too difficult at this point in time.
5) If there are two or three words, the chance is greater that the book is at an appropriate level for the student.
Teachers were asked to name five of their personal all-time AR favorite books. Here are some of their responses....
 Farewell to Manzanar |
 Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
 Death on the Nile |
 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
 Island of the Blue Dolphins |
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl |
 Sounder, by William Armstrong |
 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain |
 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Stevenson |
 Shane, by Jack Schaefer |
 The Crystal Cave |
 Killer Angels |
 The Hobbit |
 The Castle in the Attic |
 Call of the Wild |
 The Cay |
 A Day No Pigs Would Die |
 Hatchet |
 The Hiding Place |
 The Sign of the Beaver |
Farewell to Manzanar |
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
Death on the Nile |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
 Cold Sassy Tree |
 Animal Farm |
 Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl |
A Day No Pigs Would Die |
 Charlotte's Web |
 Albert Einstein: Young Thinker |
 Lord of the Flies |
 Fahrenheit 451 |
 The Beggars' Ride |
 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
 The ABC Murders |
Fahrenheit 451 |
 1984 |
 The Hound of the Baskervilles |
 Oliver Twist |
 Aliens ate my homework |
 The Black Pearl |
The Cay |
 Number the Stars |
 The Year My Parents Ruined My Life |
 The King's Shadow |
 Shabanu |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
 Catherine, Called Birdy |
 Holes |
 A Wrinkle in Time |
 My Side of the Mountain |
 The View From Saturday |
 Walk Two Moons |
 Wringer |
 Little Women series |
 Anne of Green Gables |
 Chronicles of Narnia series |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Holes |
Walk Two Moons |
 The Giver |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Diary of a Young Girl |
The Giver |
 To Kill a Mockingbird |
 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
 Jane Eyre |
 Pride and Prejudice |