The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

CharacterScore 73

Suggested Ages: 9 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 5.3 (RC): 5.7 (Lexile): 910

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

CharacterScore 80

Suggested Ages: 11 to 17
Reading Levels (AR): 3.5 (RC): 3.5 (Lexile): 600L
Newbery award winner

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

CharacterScore 67

Suggested Ages: 10 to 16
Reading Levels (AR): 4.50 (RC): 5.70 (Lexile): 690L

All Their Names Were Courage by Sharon Phillips Denslow

CharacterScore 80

Suggested Ages: 9 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 5.2

All You Need for a Beach by Alice Schertle

CharacterScore 83

Suggested Ages: 4 to 8
Reading Levels (AR): 2.3

All-American Girl by Meg Cabot

CharacterScore 70

Suggested Ages: 16 to 18
Reading Levels (AR): 5.9 (RC): 6.2 (Lexile): 880

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

CharacterScore 85

Suggested Ages: 11 to 99
Reading Levels (AR): 9.0 (Lexile): 1130L
Newbery, National Book Award award winner

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

CharacterScore 74

Suggested Ages: 9 to 14
Reading Levels (AR): 4.8 (RC): 5.9 (Lexile): 800
ALA Best Book for Yo award winner

Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

CharacterScore 100

Suggested Ages: 9 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 6.5 (RC): 5.8 (Lexile): 1090L
Newbery award winner

The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1 by Jonathan Stroud

CharacterScore 68

Suggested Ages: 16 to 18
Reading Levels (AR): 5.9 (RC): 4.8 (Lexile): 800L

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

CharacterScore 39

Suggested Ages: 17 to 99
Reading Levels (AR): 5.2

Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

CharacterScore 50

Suggested Ages: 16 to 99
Reading Levels (AR): 5.1 (RC): 5.7 (Lexile): 700L
IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choice (WINNER) award winner

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume

CharacterScore 81

Suggested Ages: 11 to 14
Reading Levels (AR): 3.6 (RC): 4.7 (Lexile): 590L

Arena by Karen Hancock

CharacterScore 89

Suggested Ages: 16 to 99
2003 Christie Award Winner award winner

Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz

CharacterScore 76

Suggested Ages: 9 to 14
Reading Levels (AR): 5.0 (RC): NA (Lexile): 680

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

CharacterScore 68

Suggested Ages: 11 to 16
Reading Levels (AR): 5 (RC): 6.2

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

CharacterScore 70

Suggested Ages: 10 to 14
Reading Levels (AR): 5.7 (RC): 6.2 (Lexile): 770

Assassin (Lady Grace Mysteries) by Patricia Finney

CharacterScore 80

Suggested Ages: 8 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 5.8

The Au Pairs by Melissa De La Cruz

CharacterScore 29

Suggested Ages: 99 to 99
Reading Levels (AR): 4.7 (RC): 5.4 (Lexile): 800L

Back in Black, an A-List novel by Zoey Dean

CharacterScore 48

Suggested Ages: 99 to 99

Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman

CharacterScore 82

Suggested Ages: 8 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 4.2 (RC): 4.5 (Lexile): 690L

Beyond the Deepwoods (Edge Chronicles #1) by Paul Stewart

CharacterScore 73

Suggested Ages: 8 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 4.9 (RC): 4.2 (Lexile): 720L

Beyond the Valley of Thorns: The Land of Elyon Book 2 by Patrick Carman

CharacterScore 91

Suggested Ages: 9 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 6.2 (RC): 6 (Lexile): 1000L

The BFG by Roald Dahl

CharacterScore 75

Suggested Ages: 6 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 4.8 (RC): 5.8 (Lexile): 720L
Federation of Childr award winner

Black Cat by Christopher Myers

CharacterScore 82

Suggested Ages: 4 to 8
Reading Levels (AR): 3.6 (RC): 2.6 (Lexile): NP
King award winner

Blonde Ambition by Zoey Dean

CharacterScore 42

Suggested Ages: 18 to 99
Reading Levels (AR): 4.9

The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander

CharacterScore 85

Suggested Ages: 9 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 5.8 (RC): 5.5

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

CharacterScore 76

Suggested Ages: 7 to 10
Reading Levels (AR): 3.9 (RC): 3.2 (Lexile): 490

Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci

CharacterScore 73

Suggested Ages: 16 to 18
Reading Levels (AR): 3.8 (RC): 4.2 (Lexile): 600L
2006 ALA Best Book for Young Adults award winner

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

CharacterScore 85

Suggested Ages: 9 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 4.6 (RC): 6.1 (Lexile): 810
Newbery award winner

Bully For You, Teddy Roosevelt! by Jean Fritz

CharacterScore 89

Suggested Ages: 12 to 15
Reading Levels (AR): 6.8 (RC): 6.8 (Lexile): 980L

By My Brother's Side by Tiki and Ronde Barber

CharacterScore 90

Suggested Ages: 5 to 11
Reading Levels (AR): 2.8

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

CharacterScore 81

Suggested Ages: 10 to 18
Reading Levels (AR): 8 (RC): 7.3

The Capture by Kathryn Lasky

CharacterScore 88

Suggested Ages: 9 to 17
Reading Levels (AR): 4.8 (RC): 4.5 (Lexile): 730L

The Cat Who Walked Across France by Kate Banks

CharacterScore 84

Suggested Ages: 4 to 8
Reading Levels (AR): 3.6

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

CharacterScore 38

Suggested Ages: 15 to 99
Reading Levels (AR): 4.7 (RC): 8.1 (Lexile): 790L

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

CharacterScore 82

Suggested Ages: 7 to 11
Reading Levels (AR): 4.8 (RC): 5.90 (Lexile): 810

Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo

CharacterScore 84

Suggested Ages: 10 to 15
Reading Levels (AR): 4.9 (RC): 5.4 (Lexile): 770L

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

CharacterScore 74

Suggested Ages: 9 to 13
Reading Levels (AR): 5.4 (RC): 5.6 (Lexile): 770L
Bluebonnet Nominee award winner

The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston

CharacterScore 81

Suggested Ages: 9 to 12
Reading Levels (AR): 5.3 (RC): 4.9 (Lexile): 880L
ALA Notable award winner

The Clique by Lisi Harrison

CharacterScore 50

Suggested Ages: 12 to 14
Reading Levels (AR): 4.9 (RC): 5.5 (Lexile): 790L
CO Blue Spruce YA 2005-2006 award winner

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

CharacterScore 78

Suggested Ages: 11 to 18
Reading Levels (AR): 6.4