Collection Analysis Report
for Battle of the Books 2021-2022, Gr. 6-8
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 24 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.
(24 of 24 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (22 books)
- Social Studies (8 books)
- History (7 books)
- Nonfiction (6 books)
- Realistic Fiction (6 books)
- Adventure (5 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (5 books)
- Biography (4 books)
- Historical Fiction (4 books)
- Mystery (4 books)
- Health (3 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Graphic Novel (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
- STEAM (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
- Spanish (1 books)
- Sports (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 23 of 24 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: 772 (Range: 310 - 1180)
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 |
9-10 | 1050-1335 | 9.67-12.01 | 62-72 | 8.32-12.12 | Z+ | 8.41-10.81 | 9.02-13.93 |
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 24 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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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.
- 61 Videos
- 37 Book Readings
- 67 Lesson Plans
- Total of 500 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Wichita Public Schools's "Battle of the Books 2021-2022, Gr. 6-8". 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/QL4B4DK
The Ambrose Deception
by Emily Ecton and Gilbert Ford
- Genres: Adventure, Mystery
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 2018
Artemis Fowl
Book 1 of the Artemis Fowl Series
- Genres: Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 2001
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Artemis FowlChasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1010
- Year Published: 2018
Class Action
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 720
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Class ActionCounting by 7s
- Grades Used: 7, 8
- Cultural Experiences: Multiracial / Mixed Race
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
by John Hendrix
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Graphic Novel
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 980
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Exceedingly Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
The False Prince
by Jennifer A. Nielsen Jennifer A. Nielsen
Book 1 of the Ascendance Series
- Grades Used: 5, 6, 7
- Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 2012
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Harbor Me
- Grades Used: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global), Immigrant / Refugee, Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada), Multiracial / Mixed Race
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Lifeboat 12
by Susan Hood
- Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Lifeboat 12The Magician's Nephew
Book 6 of the Chronicles of Narnia
- Genres: Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 1955
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Book 1 of the Merci Suárez Trilogy
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Moon Over Manifest
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Mystery
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 800
- Year Published: 2010
The Night Diary
- Grades Used: 6
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Asian, Asian (Global), Immigrant / Refugee, Muslim, South Asian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly 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
The Not-So-Boring Letters of Private Nobody
- Genres: Mystery, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2018
Nowhere Boy
- Genres: Adventure, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Middle Eastern, Muslim
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Nowhere BoyOne Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2017
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.
by Tom Rinaldi
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 2016
The Ruins of Gorlan
by John Flanagan John Flanagan
Book 1 of the Ranger's Apprentice Series
- Grades Used: 5
- Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Sounder
by William H. Armstrong and James Barkley
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 900
- Year Published: 1969
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for SounderStolen Girl
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 680
- Year Published: 2019
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Stolen GirlTo the Moon!: The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship
by Jeffrey Kluger and Ruby Shamir
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 1180
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for To the Moon!The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Genres: Mystery
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 310
- Year Published: 2018
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: Moderately Complex
Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld Scott Westerfeld
Book 1 of the Uglies Series
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 2005
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: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
- Grades Used: 8
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education, Social Studies
- Lexile: 980
- Year Published: 2017
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Slightly Complex
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