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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by  Eric Carle

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by  Eric Carle

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Grade Level: K-3
This picture book is about a very hungry caterpillar who loves eating. He eats apples, pears, strawberries, cake, ice-cream cone, pickle, cheese, lollipop, cupcake, and many more. The caterpillar gets a stomachache from eating so much and the next morning the caterpillar is not hungry anymore. The caterpillar spins a cocoon around himself and stays in it for two weeks. He comes out of the cocoon and he is a beautiful butterfly. The text complexity of this book is slightly complex. The sentences and vocabulary are familiar and the illustrations directly support the text. This book would be good to use in a science lesson to study butterflies or insects.
1.RL.KID.3 Using graphic organizers or including written details and illustrations when developmentally appropriate, describe characters, settings, and major events in a story using key details.

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Grade Level: K-3
This book is about a pig who likes to dress up, sing songs, and build sand castles. She also likes dancing, painting on the walls, and sometimes sleeping. This book is mostly slightly complex with the organization and vocabulary. The conventionality of this text is very easy to understand and is straightforward. This would be a book to talk about and introduce character traits.
2.RL.CS.4 Describe how words and phrases supply meaning in a story, poem, or song.

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Grade Level: K-2
This book is about how dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, big and small tacos. If you want a dragon to come to a party just have tacos but not salsa. Dragons do not like spicy salsa. This books text complexity is slightly complex. The vocabulary is familiar and the sentences are simple. This would be a good book to read-aloud and use for a literature circle lesson.
1.RL.KID.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Grade Level: K-3
This book is about a boy who wants to make his friend Gigi feel warm and comfortable. One day, all of his friends and neighbors come and make Wilson's plans come true. Everyone comes together to make Gigi happy. This would be a great book to talk about helping others and doing things for others in the community. This could also be used as a writing lesson and the students could share things they have done for others. The text complexity of this book is moderately complex.
1.FL.F.5 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

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Grade Level: 2-4
This book is a true story about an island in Denmark that conserves energy and generates their own. They do this by wind power and other sources. The story is told through through the text and then the sidebars offer additional information about energy, nonrenewable resources, and global warming. The text complexity of this book is moderately complex to very complex. The vocabulary could be considered vert complex depending on the reader and also the sidebars vocabulary could be confusing. This would be a great book to use in a science lesson.
2.LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, energy, and Dynamics

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Grade Level: K-3
In this book, a tiny cricket meets a big cricket and the big cricket chirps but the little cricket can't respond. The quiet cricket meets several insects throughout the book and he rubs his wings together each time he meets someone new and nothing happens, not even a sound. He never makes a sound until one day he meets a female cricket and he finally makes a sound. The text complexity for this book would be between slightly complex and moderately complex. The vocabulary is fairly simple but there are some compound sentences. This book would be a good book to introduce a science lesson that might be about insects or the sounds that animals make to attract others.
3.RL.KID.1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as a basis for the answers.

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Grade Level: K-4
This book is a about a hispanic family that is celebrating Christmas. A little girl named Maria helps her mother make tamales for the meal. When her mother leaves the kitchen Maria gets her mother's ring and tries it on. She looks down later on in the story and the ring is missing. She panics and thinks it landed in one of the tamales as they were making them. She and her cousins eat all of the tamales and it turns out her mother had the ring on her finger all along. This book could also be used during a reading lesson and the students could talk about what they have with their Christmas meal or a time when they were tempted to not tell the truth. The text complexity is moderately complex to very complex. The vocabulary could be a bit confusing for the younger children.
4.RL.KID.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing specific details in a text, such as character's thoughts, words, or actions.

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Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco

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Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco

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Grade Level: K-3
This book is about a little girl who has dyslexia and she never could read. She never could read until she met  Mr. Falker. He helped her overcome her reading disability and helped her believe in herself. This book is moderately complex with the use of its vocabulary and some compound sentences. The organization would also be considered moderately complex because she talks about being at home and then also at school and having to move schools. This would be a great read-aloud book and maybe even a writing prompt and have students talk about how they learned to read.
3.RL.KID.1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as a basis for the answers.

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Grade Level: K-2
This book is about Sam-I-Am and how he is trying to convince the narrator to try green eggs and ham. Most of the book is about him taking the narrator to different locations to try to get the narrator to try this deliciousness. At the end of the book the narrator gives in and tries green eggs and ham and ends up loving it. This books complexity is slightly complex. The vocabulary is simple and the sentences are mainly simple. This book could be useful if you tied in a writing lesson about food or trying new things.
K.RL.KID.3 With prompting and support orally identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.

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Grade Level: K-3
This book is about four women who are very good at math and contribute to space exploration. These women experience sexism, segregation, and racism but that doesn't stop them. This book's vocabulary at times could be very complex along with the sentence structure. The meaning could also be considered very complex. This book would be good to use with a social studies lesson about the civil rights movement or a science lesson with space.
3.RL.KID.3 Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

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Grade level: 9-12
This book is about Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. Mr. Carraway rents a small house beside Mr. Gatsby who lives in a giant mansion. Mr. Gatsby holds huge parties but remains hidden during them. Some events happen in the book and Gatsby ends up dead. The complexity of this book is very complex. The organization is very complex as the reader has to figure out the more complex characters. This book would be good to use for a high school reading lesson.
9-10.RL.KID.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development; provide an objective or critical summary.

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Grade Level: K-2
In the picture book, Peter wakes up and it has snowed outside. As he looks outside, snow covers up everything. After he eats breakfast, he eats breakfast he puts on his snowsuit. He watches a snowball fight, makes footprints in the snow, and exploring in his neighborhood. He tells his mother about all of his adventures and takes a hot bath and goes to bed. The text complexity of this book is slightly complex. The sentence structure and vocabulary would be familiar to a young reader. The illustrations directly support the text.
K.RL.KID.3 With prompting and support orally identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.

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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia 

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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia 

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Grade Level: 4-8
One Crazy Summer is about three girls who travel to Oakland during the summer to see their mother who left them at a young age. When the girls get to Oakland their mother tells them that she is sending them to a summer camp called Black Panther. Delphine and her two younger sisters face many obstacles while they are at the camp and with their mother such as discrimination, fear, and lack of a relationship with their mother. The text complexity of this book would be moderately complex and in some areas very complex.
5.RL.KID.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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Grade Level: 4-8
This book follows the life of a 12-year-old Josh Bell and his experiences during his seventh grade year of school. Josh has an identical twin brother named Jordan. They both love to play basketball just as their father did and Josh really wants to follow his father's footsteps. Things begin to change when Jordan gets a girlfriend and starts spending less time with Josh. Josh faces some obstacles in life and these obstacles lead to a restored relationship between the brothers. The text complexity of this book would be slightly complex to moderately complex. The vocabulary usage is pretty familiar but several themes are explored and could be hard to realize for younger readers.
3.RL.KID.1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as a basis for the answers.

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Grade Level: 4-8
This book is about a little boy named August who has a medical condition that causes his face to look deformed. August was homeschooled for a while until his mother decides he needs to experience the world. He is bullied because of his appearance and struggles to find real friends who will defend him against the bullies. This books complexity is between moderately complex and very complex. Some of the vocabulary may be very complex for the younger students. This would be a great read aloud in the classroom to shed light on the topic of bullying and being there for others when they feel like they don't fit in.
5.RL. KID.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a story, drama, or poem and explain how it is conveyed through the text; summarize the text.

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Grade Level: K-3
This book is about a kid who doesn't like to sit still. He always wants to go outside. There is a park near his home and he knows everything about that park. Rodney goes on a field trip and he gets to go to a real park. The complexity of this book is moderately complex. It uses compound sentences and multiple themes including diversity and nature. The illustrations support the text. This book could be used when talking about parks or even in a science lesson since many things in a park are part of science.
2.FL.F.5 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

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Grade level: K-2
This book is about a little llama who begins to fret when his mama leaves the room. He jumps, shouts, and hollers until his mama comes back. This book uses lots of rhyming. The text complexity for this book would be slightly complex.The sentence structure is primarily simple and the illustrations directly support the text.This book would be a very good read-aloud.
K.FFL.F.5 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

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Grade Level: 3-8
This book has several themes including friendship, home, and creativity. Ivan, the gorilla, lives at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall by the Video Arcade. He lives in his own domain. He is friends with Stella and Bob. Stella is an elephant and Bob is a stray dog. These three are soon joined by a baby elephant named Ruby who is supposed to bring in lots of business to the Mall. This book's complexity would be between moderately complex and very complex because of the vocabulary usage and the sentence structure. Several words in the text would be considered very complex if the text were read in a younger grade level classroom.
5.FL.VA.7a Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibility from a range of strategies.

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Grade Level: 4-8
This story is about a girl who lives with her family in Mexico on a ranch and she thinks that she will always have nice fancy dresses and servants until one day her and her mama have to flee to California due to a sudden tragedy. They live in an area that is a camp for Mexican workers and here she faces the struggle of hard working conditions, lack of acceptance, and financial issues. There is some Spanish language in this book and background knowledge of this book would be necessary for understanding the text. This book would be between moderately complex and very complex. This book talks about diversity, poverty, and discrimination so this book might be essential to use in a social studies lesson.
5.RL.CS.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
SSP.05 Develop historical awareness.

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Grade level: K-3
In this story, there is a pig named Wilbur, who becomes a pet to a little girl named Fern. Once Wilbur becomes too big to be a house pet any longer he is moved to The Zuckerman Farm. Upon getting to the farm, he meets a spider named Charlotte. This books tugs at human emotions as Wilbur's fate is often wishy-washy at times. The complexity of this book is moderately complex. The text structure is moderately complex because it the story switches back and forth between the farm and the fair.
2.FL.F.5 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.