Independent Reading Suggested Books for Challenging Authority: The Giver
Additional Texts by the Author
- A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry (800L)
- Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
- Gathering Blue (Giver Quartet) by Lois Lowry (680L)
- Gooney Bird (series) by Lois Lowry
- Just the Tates! (Series) by Lois Lowry (690L)
- Looking Back: A Book of Memories (Autobiography) by Lois Lowry (900L)
- Messenger (Giver Quartet) by Lois Lowry (720L)
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (670L)
- Son (Giver Quartet) by Lois Lowry
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (740L) *
- Divergent (Series) by Veronica Roth **
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (780L) **
- Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling *
- Legend by Marie Lu (710L) **
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding **
- Matched (Series) by Ally Conde (680L) **
- Shadow Children (Series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix **
- The City of Ember (Series) by Jean DuPrau (680L) *
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (660L) **
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (810L) **
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer **
- The Maze Runner (Series) by James Dashner (770L) **
- The Mortal Instruments (Series) by Cassandra Clare **
- The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi (760L) *
- Time Snatchers (Series) by Richard Unger (710L) *
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld **
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman **
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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