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Recommended Reading
The books on this page include titles in the WSU Libraries' collection, grouped by level, according to the text Reading Power by Jeffries and Mikulecky, and with the help of Wright State LEAP instructors. The level groupings are only suggestions. If you have questions about what reading level is appropriate for you, contact your LEAP instructor.
Some books are in Dunbar Library and some are located in the Educational Resource Center in Allyn Hall. Books in the Dunbar Children's Literature collection are on the 4th floor. Books in the Dunbar Popular Reading Collection are in the Group Study Room on the 1st floor. To determine if a book is currently available, click the book's title and check the availability in the catalog.
Easier Fiction and Nonfiction
The Giver by Call Number: PZ7.L9673 Gi 1993 (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 0395645662Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Holes by Call Number: PZ7.S1185 Hol 1998 (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 0374332665Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Homeless Bird by Call Number: PZ7.W5718 Ho 2000 (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 0060284544When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it
Julie of the Wolves by Call Number: PZ7.G2933 Ju1 (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 0060540958To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Call Number: PZ7.T21723 Ro (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 014034893XA black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
More Difficult Fiction and Nonfiction
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Call Number: PZ7.R79835 Har 1998 (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 0590353403Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
The House on Mango Street by Call Number: PS3553.I78 H6 2009 (Dunbar 3rd floor)ISBN: 0679734775For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Call Number: PS3553.H3469 P47 1999 (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 0671027344A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Call Number: PZ7.B73759 Sis 2003 (Dunbar Children's Literature 4th floor)ISBN: 0385730586During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Call Number: D810.J4 F7813 1993 (Educational Resource Center)ISBN: 0553296981A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland. (Nonfiction)
Readers
For more Readers, see the Popular Reading Collection in the Group Study Room or check the catalog for books with the local call number EASY.
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Call Number: Popular Reading Collection - EASY Level 3ISBN: 9781405881982
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