Vocabu-Lit | GRADES 2–12

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Grade 2

from Frog and Toad Together, Lobel
from Just Fishing with Grandpa, Mayer & Mayer
from Manners Can Be Fun, Leaf
from Poppleton Everyday, Rylant
from Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Lionni
from The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Scieszka
from Superfudge, Blume

Grade 3

from The Chocolate Touch, Skene Catling
from Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Cleary
from Sarah, Plain and Tall, MaLachlan
from The Cay, Taylor
from My Life in Dog Years, Paulsen
from The Hundred Dresses, Estes
from The Islander, Rylant
from The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Bellairs
from Captain Grey, Avi
from The Whipping Boy, Fleischman

Grade 4

from Charlotte's Web, White
from The Pinballs, Byars
from Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt
from The View from Saturday, Konigsburg
from James and the Giant Peach, Dahl
from Soccer Scoop, Christopher
from Rivers, Hurwitz
from In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bao Lord
from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, O'Brien
from Harriet the Spy, Fitzhugh
from The Grey King, Cooper
from You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, Fritz

Grade 5

from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor
from Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi
from Hatchet, Paulsen
from Abel's Island, Steig
from Maniac Magee, Spinelli
from A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle
from Ella Enchanted, Carson Levine
from Shades of Gray, Reeder
from The Family Under the Bridge, Savage
from "The Speckled Band," Connan Doyle
from From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Konigsburg
from Call It Courage, Sperry
from To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
from Ben and Me, Lawson
from Backwater, Bauer
from The Great Gilly Hopkins, Paterson

Grade 6 (Book F)

from The Wind In the Willows, Grahame
from The Sign of the Beaver, Speare
from Walk Two Moons, Creech
from The Incredible Journey, Burnford
from My Life with the Chimpanzees, Goodall
from a speech by Chief Joseph
from The Endless Steppe, Hautzig
from Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Taylor
from The Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass

Grade 7 (Book G)

from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
from Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Goodall with Berman
from The Red Pony, Steinbeck
from Catherine, Called Birdy, Cushman
from The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
from Yo!, Alvareaz
from Durango Street, Boham
adapted from Black Beauty, Sewell
from Chapters: My Growth as a Writer, Duncan

Grade 8 (Book H)

from "The Bishop's Candlesticks," Hugo
from "The Standard of Living," Parker
from Innocents Abroad, Twain
from "The Lesson of the Birds," A Pawnee Tale
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou
from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family, Uchida
from Silent Spring, Carson
from Tracks, Erdrich
from the Inaugural Address, Kennedy

Grade 9 (Book I)

from The Story of My Life, Keller
from Warrior Lessons: An Asian American
Woman's Journey into Power, Eng
adapted from "The Outcast of Poker Flat," Harte
from The Long Season of Rain, Kim
from"The Richer, the Poorer," West
from To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
from A Girl Named Disaster, Farmer
from Twenty Years at Hull-House, Addams
adapted from The Call of the Wild, London

Grade 10 (Book J)

from The Yosemite, Muir
from Falling Leaves: The True Story of an
Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Mah
from The Joy Luck Club, Tan
from Cranford, Gaskell
from Black Ice, Cary
from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
from a speech by John N. Mitchell
from The Chimes, Dickens
from The House with the Green Shutters, Brown

Grade 11 (Book K)

from a speech by Richard M. Nixon
from In My Place, Hunter-Gault
from Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, Johnson & Smith
from Spring in Mesopotamia, Layard
from "The Blue Hotel," Crane
from "The Three Strangers," Hardy
from The Haunted and the Haunters, Bulwer-Lytton
from Tracks, Erdrich
from "The Sculptor's Funeral," Cather

Grade 12 (Book L)

from Cry, the Beloved Country, Paton
from A Circle of Quiet, L'Engle
from "An Essay of the Principle of Population," Malthus
from "The White Silence," London
from "Machiavelli," Macaulay
from In Our Place, Hunter-Gault
from A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Tuchman
from Report From Part One, Brooks
from Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy

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