| Title | Author | Lexile |
| Sadako | Eleanor Coerr | 630 |
| Zlata's Diary - A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic | 640 |
| No Pretty Pictures - A Child of War | Anita Lobel | 750 |
| Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up | Jon Scieszka | 750 |
| The Tarantula in My Purse | Jean Craighead George | 830 |
| Kids On Strike! | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | 920 |
| Phineas Gage…True Story about Brain Science | John Fleischman | 1030 |
| Blizzard | Jim Murphy | 1080 |
| Freedom Riders | Ann Bausum | 1090 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Russell Freedman | 1100 |
| Extreme Animals - the Toughest Creatures on Earth | Nicola Davies | 1100 |
| An American Plague - Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Jim Murphy | 1130 |
| Maritcha - Nineteenth-Century American Girl | Tonya Bolden | 1190 |
| Bill Peet: an Autobiography | Bill Peet | 1190 |
| Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser | 1240 |
| World Trivia - The Book of Fascinating Facts | Michael Smith | NP |
| Eat This Not That - For Kids | David Zinczenko | NP |
| Middle School - the Real Deal | Juliana Farrell & Beth Mayall | NP |
| Boy: Tales of Childhood; and Going Solo | Roald Dahl | NP |
| So You Want to be President? | Judith St. George | NP |
| Star Wars - the Complete Visual Dictionary | David West Reynolds | NP |
| Exploratopia | Pat Murphy | NP |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings | Shel Silverstein | NP |
| Strike a Pose - the Planet Girl Guide to Yoga | Karen Birkemoe & Heather Collett | NP |
