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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think many books actually have a lexile that high. If you google lexile for popular high school English class fiction options, they still often fall around 1000 or lower, 800s, even. To Kill a Mockingbird, Cry the Beloved Country, Grapes of Wrath, Cather in the Rye, etc. are all lower than 1000.[/quote]

DP to add, many Diary of a Wimpy Kid books have a lexile around 1000 so actually higher than some of those books listed above that are not read until Highschool. It doesn't seem a useful metric for picking books to read.[/quote]

Huh, no! My kid loved those books. I generally do not control what my kid reads or force him to read certain books and not others. He reads everything from Big Nate, Calvin and Hobbes to City Spies, Ready Player One, Percy Jackson. Let your kid read it. I just had no idea that it actually has a high lexile score but we can also agree that a high lexile score really doesn't matter much or mean that it has more challenging content!

Is this implying that Diary of a Wimpy Kid is not very good reading material? I ask because DC has talked about wanting to read these.[/quote][/quote]

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