Collection Analysis Report
for LGBTQ
This report provides data analyses into the titles on this list to help support your efforts to put the right book in each reader's hands.
This report is organized by Collection Analysis by Genre, Cultural, and Curricular Areas, Quantitative Measures, and Qualitative Measures.
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Collection Analysis by Genre, Cultural, and Curricular Areas
For the 23 books on this list, please find an analysis revealing the quantity of titles associated with genre, cultural, and curriculum classifications. Additionally, please find the "Not Represented" section where you can click to identify other titles to potentially add to this list.
We hope this collection analysis tool helps you achieve the variety and differentiation of books that you want for your reading opportunities.
(23 of 23 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (22 books)
- Realistic Fiction (16 books)
- Social Studies (15 books)
- Picture Book (14 books)
- Biography (2 books)
- Health (2 books)
- History (2 books)
- Nonfiction (2 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
- Spanish (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 16 of 23 titles that have known Lexile levels, below is the low, high, and average Lexile® for the books in this list. We hope these data points, along with the crosswalk to other measures, provide insights into the variety and differentiation of this collection.
Lexile® Average: 637 (Range: 380 - 1020)
Reading Level and Grade Band Crosswalk
Grade Band | Lexile® | ATOS | Degrees of Reading Power® | Flesch-Kincaid | Fountas & Pinnell | Reading Maturity | SourceRater |
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2-3 | 420-820 | 2.75-5.14 | 42-54 | 1.98-5.34 | I-P | 3.53-613 | 0.05-2.48 |
4-5 | 740-1010 | 4.97-7.03 | 52-60 | 4.51-7.72 | O-V | 5.42-7.92 | 0.84-5.75 |
6-8 | 925-1185 | 7.00-9.98 | 57-67 | 6.51-10.34 | U-Z | 7.04-9.57 | 4.11-10.66 |
Key: Purple highlight represents average.
Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]
Qualitative Measures (BETA)
For 10 of 23 titles that have known qualitative measurements, this graph reveals the aggregated low, high, and average qualitative measures for the books in this list. We hope this range of information shows the variety and differentiation of this collection.
Qualitative Text Complexity Ranges
= low and high range of submitted values = average of submitted values
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- Exceedingly
Qualitative measures for each title are determined by crowd sourced results from professional educators who complete the literary or informational text complexity rubrics. These are relatively new on TeachingBooks so only a small percentage of all the titles have currently been evaluated. Perhaps you can help?
Instructional Materials Summary
Below please find a summary of available multimedia texts and instructional materials that enrich and deepen the discussion of the titles on this list.
- 32 Videos
- 16 Book Readings
- 47 Lesson Plans
- Total of 358 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Anti-Defamation League's "LGBTQ". If you wish to see the curricular areas, genres, Lexile® and Qualitative measures, along with the collection of ready-to-use instructional materials, go online to TeachingBooks at: https://school.teachingbooks.net/QLUMJ52
10,000 Dresses
by Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray
- Grades Used: 1, 2
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, LGBTQ+, Transgender / Non-Conforming
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 1994
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Am I Blue?And Tango Makes Three
by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, and Henry Cole
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 2005
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- Grades Used: 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada), LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 380
- Year Published: 2012
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Daddy's Roommate
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1994
Donovan's Big Day
by Lesléa Newman and Mike Dutton
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1020
- Year Published: 2011
Families
by Susan Kuklin
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2006
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for FamiliesFrom the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
- Grades Used: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American, LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 1995
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
Gracefully Grayson
by Ami Polonsky
- Grades Used: 5, 6, 7
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Transgender / Non-Conforming, Gender, Women / Girls, LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 720
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
The Harvey Milk Story
by Kari Krakow and David C. Gardner
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
Heather Has Two Mommies
by Lesléa Newman and Laura Cornell
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 460
- Year Published: 1989
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Holly's Secret
by Nancy Garden
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2000
The House You Pass on the Way
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), Multiracial / Mixed Race, African American, LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 1997
I Am Jazz
by Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, and Shelagh McNicholas
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, LGBTQ+, Transgender / Non-Conforming, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
In Our Mothers' House
- Grades Used: k
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 750
- Year Published: 2009
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Jacob's New Dress
by Sarah Hoffman, Ian Hoffman, and Chris Case
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, LGBTQ+, Men / Boys, Transgender / Non-Conforming
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Melissa
by Alex Gino
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, LGBTQ+, Transgender / Non-Conforming
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, LGBTQ+, Men / Boys
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 530
- Year Published: 2014
My Princess Boy
by Cheryl Kilodavis and Suzanne DeSimone
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, Men / Boys, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
Stella Brings the Family
by Miriam B. Schiffer and Holly Clifton-Brown
- Grades Used: k
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Totally Joe
by James Howe
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, LGBTQ+, Men / Boys
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Totally JoeUncle Bobby's Wedding
by Sarah S. Brannen and Lucia Soto
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 530
- Year Published: 2008
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
by J. Patrick Lewis, Jim Burke, and R. Gregory Christie
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 660
- Year Published: 2012
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