1. Outcome: I can find a great book to
read within my Lexile Range. I can use
the OPAC to help me.
2. • A quiet tale of friendship
endures. Chester Cricket,
Tucker Mouse and Harry
Cat meet at a newsstand
in a New York subway
station when a lonely little
boy, Mario Bellini, finds
the cricket in a pile of
trash. He decides to keep
Chester as a pet, and a
series of adventures
follow; Lexile 780
3. • Set in the early 1900s,
Tom Fitzgerald, aka "The
Great Brain," is of the
"Tom Sawyer" ilk. He is a
shrewd and wily kid with
a keen ability to earn a
penny. Nevertheless, his
intelligence ends up
saving the day when he
and his younger brother
get lost in Skeleton Cave.
Lexile 840
4. • Jenna learns that she is a
princess found as a baby by
the man she believed was her
father and now she and
Septimus, who was taken at
birth by the midwife, are being
threatened by the evil wizard,
DomDaniel who intends to
finish off the entire royal line.
Lexile 640
5. • Twelve-year-old Jake sets off on an
adventure through the Old West,
accompanied by Jim Ugly, his
father's part-mongrel, part-wolf
dog, in an attempt to find out what
really happened to his missing
father, Sam. Lexile 710
6. • Detective Chet Gecko and his
associate, Natalie Attired, take
a case tailing what they think is
a cheating boyfriend but are
instead led to a school mystery
that involves blackmail and
robots. Lexile 580
7. • Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan,
finds a book that reveals significant
secrets about Atherton, the strictly
divided world on which he lives,
even as geological changes
threaten to shift the power structure
that allows an elite few to live off
the labor of others. Lexile 950
8. • A young student, who comes to
love poetry through a personal
understanding of what
different famous poems mean
to him, surprises himself by
writing his own inspired poem.
Lexile 1010 : 95 pages
9. • Twelve-year-old Greg, who has
always been good at
moneymaking projects, is
surprised to find himself teaming
up with his lifelong rival, Maura,
to create a series of comic books
to sell at school. Lexile 840
10. • The noisy fifth grade boys of
Laketon Elementary School
challenge the equally loud fifth
grade girls to a "no talking"
contest. Lexile 820
