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Level 1
By
Lisa Benjamin & Susan Blackaby
Item: 9781571288813
Readability Level: 1st Grade Readability
DRP Lexile Rating: Lexile: 430-460
Most frequent 950 words
Wild Places (content area: Earth and Space)
What are the hottest, coldest, highest, lowest, and biggest places on Earth? In this book you’ll visit deserts, ice fields, mountains, oceans, and rivers to find out.
Lexile: 430
This is Huge (content area: Living Things)
Huge Ice Age mammoths and modern-day Komodo dragons roam the pages of this book. Even they look small next to a fungus the size of 1,665 football fields!
Lexile: 440
Scary Jobs (content area: Careers)
Some people like to take risks. In this book you’ll meet workers who chase tornadoes, stand on erupting volcanoes, climb cell-phone towers, and even dive into raw sewage!
Lexile: 440
We Made It (content area: Technology)
How are the Great Pyramid, the Three Gorges Dam, and the International Space Station alike? The world’s best builders made these and other amazing structures.
Lexile: 440
Dying Times (content area: History)
When Dying Times come, the world changes. This book explores plagues, famines, cholera, and a killer flu — and how people tried to stop them from spreading.
Lexile: 460 |
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Level 2
By Lisa Benjamin
Item: 9781571288875
Readability Level: 2nd Grade Readability
DRP Lexile Rating: Lexile: 450-530
Most frequent 1,200 words
Earth Gets Weird (content area: Earth and Space)
Black holes and blue holes, chocolate hills and solar explosions. Earth and space have some real surprises!
Lexile: 520
Weird Science (content area: Living Things)
Scavengers, deep-sea monsters, and two-headed flatworms are just a few of the weird creatures, large and small, that live in our world. Beware of the eyelash mites!
Lexile: 490
Weird Jobs (content area: Careers)
Some people have weird jobs. In this book you’ll meet workers who design roller coasters, study garbage, make fake food, and act like aliens for a living!
Lexile: 530
Invented by Mistake (content area: Technology)
How are pacemakers, potato chips, penicillin, and Silly Putty alike? They — and many other inventions — were invented by mistake!
Lexile: 500
Final Resting Places (content area: History)
Readers visit famous and unusual tombs around the world, learning about the leaders who are buried in them — and their plans for the afterlife.
Lexile: 450
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Level 3
By Allison Lassieur & Paul Demko
Item: 9781571288936
Readability Level: 3rd Grade Readability
DRP Lexile Rating: Lexile: 560-600
Most frequent 1,200 words
Deadly Nature (content area: Earth and Space)
Tsunamis, climate-changing volcanoes, droughts, ice ages, and meteors that crash to Earth. Nature can do some damage!
Lexile: 560
Healers and Killers (content area: Living Things)
Bloodsuckers and box jellyfish, foxglove and “apples of death.” Nature has animals and plants that kill or heal — and sometimes do both!
Lexile: 590
Ready for the Worst (content area: Careers)
Nuclear disasters, plane crashes, cyber crime, killer viruses. When bad things happen, the people in this book get to work.
Lexile: 580
Robots (content area: Technology)
Robots have been around for 1,000 years. Today they take apart bombs, rescue wounded soldiers, perform surgery, and even jog with people!
Lexile: 570
Turning Points (content area: History)
From the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, this book spans time and crosses the globe. The five conflicts described became turning points in history.
Lexile: 600
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