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 (700L)
- Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet) by Lois Lowry (680L)
- Gooney Bird (series) by Lois Lowry (660L)
- Just the Tates! (series) by Lois Lowry (690L)
- Looking Back: A Book of Memories by Lois Lowry (900L)
- Messenger (The Giver Quartet) by Lois Lowry (720L)
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (670L)
- Son (The Giver Quartet) by Lois Lowry (720L)
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (740L) *
- Divergent (series) by Veronica Roth (HL700L) **
- Ender's Game (series) by Orson Scott Card (780L) **
- Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling (880L) *
- Legend (series) by Marie Lu (HL710L) **
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding (770L) **
- Matched (series) by Ally Condie (HL680L) **
- The City of Ember (series) by Jeanne DuPrau (680L) *
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (660L) **
- The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins (810L) **
- The Lunar Chronicles (series) by Marissa Meyer (790L) **
- The Maze Runner (series) by James Dashner (HL770L) **
- The Mortal Instruments (series) by Cassandra Clare (HL710L) **
- The Search for WondLa (series) by Tony DiTerlizzi (760L) *
- The Shadow Children (series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix (800L) **
- Time Snatchers (series) by Richard Unger (710L) *
- Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld (770L) **
- Unwind (series) by Neal Shusterman (HL740L) **
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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