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Unit 2 Independent Reading List
Suggestions for Independent Reading
This list, divided into the categories of Literature and Nonfiction/Informational Text, comprises titles related to the themes and content of the unit. For your independent reading, you can select from this wide array of titles, which have been chosen based on complexity and interest. You can also do your own research and select titles that intrigue you.
Unit 2: The Challenge of Utopia
Literature
Author Title Lexile
Ada, Alma Love, Amalia 940L
Asimove, Isaac I, Robot 820L
Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles: Something Wicked This Way Comes 820L
Budhos, Marina Ask Me No Questions 790L
Burg, Ann All the Broken Pieces 680L
Carlson, Lori Marie Red Hot Salsa N/A
Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street 870L
Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games 810L
Dayton, Arwen Elys Seeker 800L
Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpions 660L
Frank, Pat Alas, Babylon 870L
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land 940L
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World 870L
LeGuin, Ursula The Left Hand of Darkness 970L
Lu, Marie Legend 710L
Meyer, Marissa Cinder 790L
More, Thomas Utopia 1370L
O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried 880L
Orwell, George 1984 1090L
Orwell, George Animal Farm 1170L
Reinhardt, Dana A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life N/A
Roth, Veronica Divergent 700L
Salisbury, Graham House of the Red Fish 610L
Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1030L
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine 1070L
Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds 1040L
Westerfield, Scott Uglies 770L
Yancey, Rick The Fifth Wave N/A
Yang, Dori Jones Daughter of Xanadu 780L
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