ESOL (Levels 5-8) book list
Level 5
- Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
- Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan
- Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
- The Canada Geese Quilt by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
Level 6
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- A Stone in My Hand by Cathryn Clinton
- The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman
- Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
- The Captive by Joyce Hansen
- The Old Man in the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
- Goodbye Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
- The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida
Level 7
- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- The Long Season of Rain by Helen Kim
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln
- Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- America Street by Anne Mazer
- Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Horseman Pass By by Larry McMurtry
- Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery
- Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The No. One Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- El Bronx Remembered by Nicholasa Mohr
- The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- Light Years by Tammar Stein
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez
- My Brother, My Sister and I by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
- So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
- The Wedding by Dorothy West
- The Barn Burner by Patricia Willis
Level 8
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
- Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
- Yellow Raft on Blue Water by Michael Dorris
- A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
- The Way West by A. B. Guthrie
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Color of Water by James MacBride
- Kaffir Boy in America by Mathabane
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Motor City by Bill Morris
- The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
- The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie