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Search for Texts by Reading Level

This page is designed to help readers from two particular reading levels, Youth and Young Adult, find texts that are accessible to them.  To find additional texts, please refer to one of the other categories located in the navigation bars at the top and the bottom of this page.

Please choose from one of the reading level categories below.

To read a critical summary of each text, click on the title of the work.

Youth
Beginning Youth Readers/Read-Aloud Books
Bentley, Nancy.  I've Got Your Nose!.
Donohue, Dorothy.  Big and Little on the Farm.
Epstein, Vivian Sheldon.  The ABCs of What a Girl Can Be.
Hobbs, Will.  Beardream.
---.  Howling Hill.
Lund, Jillian.  Way Out West Lives a Coyote Named Frank.
Mills, Claudia.  Gus and Grandpa.
Nagda, Ann Whitehead.  Dear Whiskers.
Stevens, Janet.  Coyote Steals the Blanket:  A Ute Tale.
---.  How the Manx Cat Lost Its Tail.
---.  Tops and Bottoms.
Stevens, Janet and Susan Stevens Crummel.  My Big Dog.

Advanced Youth Readers
Avi.  Midnight Magic.
Bogue, Lucille.  Blood on the Wind:  The Memoirs of Flying Horse Mollie, A Yampa Ute, Based upon the History of Colorado's Famous Meeker Massacre.
Creel, Ann Howard.  A Ceiling of Stars.
---.  Water at the Blue Earth.
Epstein, Vivian Sheldon.  The History of Colorado Women for Young People.
---.  History of Women for Children.
Finley, Mary Peace.  Soaring Eagle.
Friggens, Myriam.  Tales, Trails, and Tommyknockers:  Stories from Colorado's Past.
Jackson, Helen Hunt.  Nelly's Silver Mine.
Peters, Julie Anne.  The Stinky Sneakers Contest.
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Young Adult
Danneberg, Julie.  Women Artists of the West:  Five Portraits in Creativity and Courage.
Dean, Lou.  Angels in Disguise:  A True Story.
Hanley, Victoria.  The Seer and the Sword.
Lyon, Suzanne.  Lady Buckaroo:  A Western Story.
Peters, Julie Anne.  Keeping You a Secret.
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Page last updated
April 23, 2004

For page information please contact
Dr. Rita Jones RitaJones@lum.albertson.edu